Ismail Merchant

Name: The Proprietor
ISBN: 9781557043061

Producer

1936-12-25

Books by Ismail Merchant

My Passage from India

A Filmaker's Journey from Bombay to Hollywood and Beyond
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Ismail Merchant's Florence

Filming and Feasting in Tuscany
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The Proprietor

The Screenplay and the Story Behind the Film
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We have gotten some terrible reviews at times but if we depended on the judgment of the studios or critics, we never would have made more than one movie.
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A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it's all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture, which is what Hindi films are, uses Urdu, it's not going to diminish.
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Urdu can not die out because it has very strong roots in Persia. The language itself is not only just the language of the Muslims, but it's also the language of the Hindus.
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