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 …

- Ismail Merchant

The mixture of the Trinidadian people and the Indian people has caused a new culture to emerge.

- Ismail Merchant

It's about a father and daughter and the daughter's friend and her relationship with her current husband.

- Ismail Merchant

Well, I am from India and I wanted to make films in English for the international market in India. So that was really the main thing, and then of cou…

- Ismail Merchant

Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.

- Ismail Merchant

It's about a young man who has climbed to fame and he discovers that his writing and the relationship with his wife are really more important for him…

- Ismail Merchant

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 …

- Ismail Merchant

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 mo…

- Ismail Merchant