Rajkummar Rao : (4)

" Winning in Berlinale, in Hong Kong, and then to get such an amazing response, reviews, and now to be India’s official entry for Oscars… My mother is right up there and keeping a check on me. Her blessings are always going to be with me, I know. " - Rajkummar Rao

" The kind of films I am doing are moderately budgeted and are with A-listers. " - Rajkummar Rao

" It’s a one-day story of a guy called Newton Kumar, and the backdrop is election: how the most powerful tool we have as citizens is vote but how we don’t utilise it. We really don’t give importance to it. It talks about democracy; it’s a satire, a black comedy. " - Rajkummar Rao

" People claim that no good actors came out of FTII after Naseeruddin Shah and Shabana Azmi. What they don’t know is that the acting course was closed for 26 years and reopened only in 2004. " - Rajkummar Rao