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Some producer–directors would tell R.D. Burman - “The tunes that Nasir sa’ab had shortlisted, he wouldn’t have used each one of them. You must have given him 20/25 tunes which he liked, of which he must have selected five or seven. Give us the rest. We will take them.” People trusted his music sensibilities to this extent.
-Javed Akhtar

...in Husain's words, ‘Nafrat mohabbat ki pehli seedhi hai’
Dear author, kripya doosri seedhi pe chadhe , aadhi se zyada book beet chuki :P

‘In Indian cinema, what will happen is not in doubt but how it will happen is what leaves one curious.
Like in classical music, when someone sings a raga, one knows the raga but what one savours is how it will be actually elaborated upon.’