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…"

"If any screen actress of recent times had ruled the film scene with the sway and swagger of a fabled queen it was surely Vyjayanthimala, the volatile, vibrant and the most gorgeous star of Hindi scree…"

"Danseuse extraordinaire, Vyjayanthimala's greatest legacy to cinema is that today it is de rigeur for every girl who enters the Hindi film industry to be an accomplished dancer. Yet there was more to …"

"She says she was the only south Indian actress who could speak Hindi without a South Indian accent, at the time."

"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…"

"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."