Is the absence of stars a virtue in “Raaz”?
It is one aspect of my film. I could’ve made the same film with big stars. But because there are no stars in the film I get the full credit. “Raaz” was an experiment within a genre. It worked without stars. Tips claims a lot of the credit of the success of “Raaz” goes to its music… But there are other Tips albums in the market. Why aren’t they selling as well as “Raaz”? I agree Tips promoted the music very well. But there had to be something inherently right about the music for people to go out and buy it. By the way, “Raaz” has been declared an A1 hit. How hard did you work on the special effects? Quite hard, considering we didn’t have too much of a budget for them. I had to cut corners in a lot of places to accommodate the special effects. We had to pay an astronomical sum for every minute. So in all I could have only five minutes of special effects in the film. Do you think cutting corners actually affects a film’s box-office performance? It didn’t affect “Raaz”. Nobody walks away
