Abhishek Banerjee’s newest movie Stolen has been lauded by critics and filmmakers within the Hindi movie trade ever since its launch. Not too long ago, filmmakers like Anurag Kashyap, Vikramaditya Motwane, Kiran Rao, and Nikkhil Advani, together with Abhishek, sat down to discuss the movie and in addition share their views on the present state of affairs within the Hindi movie trade — the place huge actors are refusing to do small movies and are solely chasing field workplace numbers.
Chatting with Bollywood Hungama, Abhishek Banerjee recalled actor Aamir Khan’s mantra to strike a stability between industrial and artwork cinema. He mentioned, “I’ve heard Aamir Khan say that he does industrial movies in order that he could make movies that he desires to make. I’ve heard from people who if you’re part of industrial cinema, you can even be part of this cinema.” Anurag Kashyap promptly identified how the late actor Irrfan Khan would work on industrial movies however, on the identical time, choose up tasks by small and indie filmmakers to satisfy his inventive soul.
Kiran praised her ex-husband, and mentioned, “Aamir has labored with so many first-time filmmakers in his profession. I feel it takes a sure confidence to know that the movie and the fabric is basically thrilling and you’re keen to take that threat. Most stars are risk-averse.”
Anurag cited the instance of movies like Omkara and Haider, when huge stars like Ajay Devgn, Shahid Kapoor, and Saif Ali Khan took an opportunity with smaller movies. He mentioned, “What made individuals like Ajay Devgn and Saif Ali Khan do movies like Omkara? What made Shahid Kapoor do Haider?” Speaking concerning the present state of affairs, he mentioned, “There’s a notion that has been created on social media and advertising the place now everyone is competing to out-do one another to ship huge hits, so no one is basically wanting on the script anymore. They’re simply searching whether or not it will likely be successful.”
Abhishek additionally shared that even stars like Vinod Khanna had been a part of indie movies. Filmmaker Nikkhil Advani shared an fascinating trivia about celebrity Amitabh Bachchan and the way the actor made positive to do a movie with critically acclaimed filmmaker Hrishikesh Mukherjee. He mentioned, “I heard from someplace that Mr Bachchan made positive to do a Hrishikesh Mukherjee movie yearly.” Anurag went on to share that Rajesh Khanna really pursued Hrishikesh Mukherjee to solid him within the 1971 movie Anand. “That’s how actors had been,” he mentioned.