Quotes

The AAP from the beginning made it clear that they were about changing policy and not being a symbol of purity in a corrupt world.

Here is an entirely banal idea that I think has the potential to change the world: Take evidence seriously. Taking evidence seriously does not mean privileging numbers over all other forms of knowledge - theories, narratives, images. Nor does it mean the kind of radical skepticism that questions everything to the point where no action is possible.

For me, psychologically, I am very much an Indian.

I think when I say my county, it is always India.

My parents were not poor, I mean we were a very average middle-class family of academics, but my grandfather happened to have built house literally next to one of Kolkata's largest slum.

When I was a graduate student, I actually took a course in development economics and I thought it was the most boring thing in the world.

I was trained as an economic theorist; my job at MIT was as an economic theorist. At some level that's still part of my identity.

You have to take it seriously that the economy is in crisis.

You don't boost growth by cutting taxes, you do that by giving money to people.

We need to learn to work with political systems that are not perfect instead of taking the view: let's first fix the politics, then we'll fix the rest.

Sometimes economists are right, and sometimes economists are wrong.

Most economies have a fair amount of tax evasion, depending on how their data systems are.

10 Endradhukulla' is a thriller and the characters are all on the run. The film travels from South India traversing through the North, to the mountains where the climax takes place. Mine is a different kind of character; he is very suave and stylish and only later it is discovered that he is not what he looks like.

My mother is very fond of cooking and whenever I am home she ensures that I eat the best food prepared by her, because of which I gain a lot of weight.

Personally, I believe that playing the lead antagonist is always better than a character artiste, whose weightage isn't much.

Eventually, after the hero and heroine, it is the antagonist who comes with the most anticipation in any film.

I'd have gone berserk if I hadn't met Sargam Singh, an actress who soon became my wife. Within a year of our marriage our daughter Ameli was born. Sargam gave up her career to look after me and our daughter.

I have learnt the hard way that neither success nor failure last forever.

Sandalwood is a force to reckon with. People from all over are investing time and money here because the films have good reach and reap good rewards as well.

Karthi is such a wonderful human being. He is always focused towards improvisations and keeps working on it.

I think once you get noticed as an actor you get roles irrespective of the characters you portray.

I have always tried to portray each role as differently as possible.

I had zero connection to Bollywood or movies when I started out. I worked in theatre for eight years where luckily Makarand Deshpande mentored me, helped me to improve my body language and voice modulation.

It is a big deal to play the antagonist in a Rohit Shetty film.

Gulaal' gave me a chance to channelise my restlessness into a character that had layers of complexity.