As a veteran in Bollywood, whats your opinion of the film industry in 2005?
Bollywood is in a process of evolution today. There are so many young filmmakers who are coming in with their own ideas and their own concepts. Both filmmakers and audiences are bored with the formulaic approach and they’re all looking for something new in cinema. So the search for finding that new element is making this a very exciting time to be in Bollywood. There are films being made without music. Films are shorter, though I still make them three hours long. And I think the advent of multiplexes is the best thing to have happened to India. Why do you say that? Because it means that there is scope for new and more subjects. It means more choice and more audiences will be pulled out to go watch movies. Pulled out to go watch movies? Isn’t there a huge problem of piracy in India? Yes there is. But, the complete cinematic experience is still something that audiences enjoy and if it’s a good film, then they still go out to watch it. There’s a lot of labelling in Bollywood movies – comm
