Vyjayanthimala

"Today’s dancers are not dignified. There’s a lot of talent but they are getting ample help. In our time you had to get the steps right, the words right and the movement right. Otherwise you had to sta…"

"My dances were not like today’s, which have progressed with an Indian and Western combination or fusion which has become repetitive. You cannot tell one dance from the other. Everyone wants to be Mich…"

"I don’t know if I am wrong, but singing slightly out of sur is also in vogue these days. And these pelvic movements and gestures are too much for me."

"That's because I simply carried on dancing, . It was my first love, and thanks to my taskmaster of a grandmother , I had never stopped my Bharata Natyam."

"The need of the hour is to get people to talk to each other and to clear the air. I don't approve of fusion in art, but I definitely approve of it in the field of politics."

"I think I was born to dance. That’s what my grandmother told me. So it was always in my system."

"I poured my heart and soul into the role of Chandramukhi. In my view, hers was the greater character . One scene that will forever be etched in my memory is the one in which Devdas takes leave of Chan…"

"aAs a creative artiste dedicated to a spiritual art form I was deeply pained by the communal violence in Gujarat."