EXCLUSIVE: Manoj Bajpayee on Bollywood facing criticism for box office failures: Cinema can never die

For quite some time now, Bollywood movies like Shamshera, Samrat Prithviraj, Laal Singh Chaddha, Raksha Bandhan and more have been performing extremely low at the box office. None of them has even crossed the 100-crore mark apart from Gangubai Kathiawadi, Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 and JuggJug Jeeyo. Seeing this, movie buffs consider that Bollywood is doomed as it is in a dry spell right now. Speaking about Bollywood facing heavy criticism and multiple box office failures, actor Manoj Bajpayee states that Cinema cannot die. 

During an exclusive interview with Bollywood Bubble, the Family Man actor who has delivered diverse and incredible films in the past said, “That’s completely unnecessary. sometimes we make too much out of a bad phase. Cinema cannot die, Hindi cinema will not but yes, it will course correct itself and it will again come back into its normal self. But yes, the pre-pandemic phase will not be there. Some new interesting exciting phases you’ll see in the cinema in the years to come.” 

 

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When asked if Bollywood is lacking somewhere, to which, he added, “Nothing, we don’t lack in anything. we have been entertaining the audience for so many years, so many decades, it’s just needed some course correction and I think people are intelligent enough some new directors are coming some fine actors are coming they there are always, you should always believe and trust the generation to come that they will they’ll hoist the flag higher and higher.”

Meanwhile, Manoj Bajpayee has now become a narrator for a docu-series The Secrets of Kohinoor. It is a story about multiple rulers and their insatiable desire for the Kohinoor. Helmed by Neeraj Pandey, the docu-series is currently streaming on Discovery+.

Watch Manoj Bajpayee in the exclusive interview here:

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