Subhash Ghai opens up on star crisis in Bollywood
Legendary director and showman Subhash Ghai is acknowledged for making movies like Ram Lakhan, Khalnayak, Pardes and Taal.
In a recent interaction, with the media, the prolific filmmaker and director with Midas Touch, Subhash Ghai opened up on this issue and explained how excessive analysis and the growing emphasis on the business aspect of filmmaking have brainwashed actors.
The dearth of superstars in the Hindi film industry in the current generation is evident to both audiences and filmmakers.
He pointed out that instead of focusing on their craft, actors today are more concerned with making money, building their brand, and other financial factors.
The filmmaker emphasized how important this was for performances. He shared, they never used to call actors by their name on the set but, would call them by their character’s name. We would called Anil Kapoor ‘Lakhan’ and Jackie Shroff ‘Ram’ on the sets of Ram Lakhan. They did this because when they shoot for the film for a year or 9 months, they get into that character, and the whole film’s team knows them by their character’s name.
Characters are the most important thing in making a good story because they are telling the story.”
The actor would be surrounded by talent managers who would read the script. How will you understand how the character will look on the screen by reading the script? They should ask the actors to pick a scene and act and judge whether they can do it or not.”
He further stated that the presence of talent managers has worsened the situation. “The actors make their talent managers sit in these meetings, and it is because those talent managers will bring in money, deciding what all brands fit into that project. The managers also decide what kind of an image the actor will have in the project. Just to judge that, they are in the meeting. This practice wasn’t there earlier, and they were also superstars. They just had secretaries.
Subhash Ghai cited examples of 80s actors are still superstars like Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, Akshay Kumar, Aamir Khan, and others. It is because they have come from that culture. In 10 years, who all became stars? No one except Ranbir Kapoor.
News Edit KV Raman
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