“The moment there’s a foreigner in a film it gives a novelty to the script. We make regional films and we need to hype our films.”

—  Arin Paul

Tolly-ho! on The Telegraph, Calcutta http://www.telegraphindia.com/1081128/jsp/entertainment/story_10173848.jsp(2008)

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