'Now that I have a new family, I cannot leave my old family behind.'

"If it is said Indians are argumentative, I will agree. But if it is said Indians are intolerant, I refuse to agree," said the president at the inaugural ceremony of the 'Namami Brahmaputra' festival in Guwahati.

'If we don't wake up and try all out to give audiences good content, they will move towards a new kind of cinema. We will become like Europe.'