Supriya Pathak

I was quite old school and religious, keeping all my fasts and would prefer to spend my time in temples.

What is more important today for the audience is to have different kinds of content. They like variety, they like different kinds of stories, different kinds of entertainment.

Everyone is making the same kind of shows, about underworld and things like that. So I am hoping somebody breaks this trend, else we will again enter the same grind.

All the work that I have done is the type I would want to watch. If I can't watch it myself how can I expect people to watch it?

The shows being made nowadays are very similar, very regressive. We are talking about the type of '60s, '70s kind of films, and similar stories are being shown on TV today. Only rehashed and glossy. It does not interest me.

When I was told that we are doing another series of 'Kichidi' my reaction was indeed as if the wish, of not only me but the audiences who loved watching the show, was fulfilled again.

In fact I watch Netflix these days for something light.

People tell me Especially while we are stressed out, we watch just one episode of 'Kichdi' and immediately feel de-stressed.'

I definitely hope and pray everyone has this kind of a married life - contented and happy.

Working with good actors is a pleasure as acting is all about reacting.

In my free time, I read a lot, watch shows, listen to music, cook, write short stories and spend time with my grandchildren.

I would love to be part of every film that's good.

I enjoy working very much, I am not choosy.

He is my son and very dear to me, and that's the only emotion I had for him from day one. I don't know any other way to live this relationship. I also have a lovely daughter-in-law, who is such a beautiful person and the best thing in the world is my granddaughter Misha. She is the most precious gift I have got from Shahid.

My parents were both very social and would have parties at home all the time.

My mother had always been a working woman and so she would drop me to my mama's house everyday for the whole day since it was close by.

Give me anything that is chewable, and I will chew on it.

On TV, you get stuck with one character and people remember you for that. I'm not happy with that.

I enjoy performing different roles. I never want to get stuck with one character.

I would love to do something that is negative.

I really am fond of my grandchildren.

Though my mother gave me the first break, I didn't want to become an actor. I wanted to dance.

The most charming thing about theatre is that you get an instant reaction from the audience.

As an actor, I get into the mind space of many women and I don't have to take many births for that.

I got an opportunity to play all kinds of women - that has been the satisfying aspect of my career.

I was never interested in the quantity of films or the glamorous side of cinema.

In fact, I have seen four kinds of weather in a single day.

In Scotland, where we were shooting in June and July the weather was so unpredictable. We would start the shoot on a bright, sunny day and within an hour it would turn cloudy and start raining heavily.

I can't give 20 days a month to a show.

Films have become much more professional. It is now a secure place for people.

I heard a lot of very good things about Sanjay Leela Bhansali from my mother when she worked with him in Devdas. I also love the films that he makes so I was very excited when I was offered 'Ram-Leela.'

There is so much of stress in our day to day life and Hansa is stress buster. So yes! I miss playing Hansa and she will always be close to my heart.

I really miss playing Hansa. I just love her.

In all these years, I've witnessed how beautifully Hyderabad has grown.

I thought 'Bobby Jasoos' was an extremely interesting film.

I am not familiar with Telugu, Tamil or Malayalam and tend to feel they are foreign languages to me.

I've mostly worked in Hindi and occasionally Gujarati, which is my mother tongue.

There was no pressure of working with names like Shashi Kapoor, Rekha, Amrish Puri and A.K. Hangal because I was familiar with all of them, courtesy my mother.

My father Baldev Pathak was a Punjabi, and mother, Dina Pathak, a Kathiawadi Gujarati.

My daughter told me that she wants to become an actor even before she learnt to speak properly.

Being an actors' family, we generally didn't think about any other profession.

I really feel that Shahid and me, we share a relationship which is so much more than just a mother and son kind of relationship.

Being in the profession of acting, we would like our work to be watched by people. That's the reason why we work and if it is not seen, it is upsetting.

I feel that cinema, if made entertainingly with a certain meaning, reaches out to a lot more people. It makes them aware of issues or things that help people to understand what's around them.

Every time I get a role of a mother, I try to find a different area, person or milieu where I can put the mother That's always exciting.

I know that I play a mother all the time, but different kinds of mother.

Honestly, I don't understand this concept of daughter-in-law. For me, she is my daughter as well as her own mother's daughter.

I am very happy as a mother-in-law. I have a lovely daughter-in-law.

My daughter-in-law is like my daughter.

Being a grandmother is an out-of-the-world feeling.