Farah Khan on movies these days: I feel people get scared to make big musicals

Farah Khan is known for her big masala blockbusters that does record-breaking business at the box office. She has some really great movies under her name like ‘Om Shanti Om’, ‘Happy New Year’ and ‘Main Hoon Na’. She recently opened up about her views on the kind of movies that are being made.

The director was speaking at Big Cine Expo where she was honoured for her work. She said that she likes all kinds of movies, but it’s not necessary that she makes them. “I may not be capable of making those movies. A lot of directors enjoy my movies but they may not want to make those films. Love for cinema cannot be for only a certain type of films. I am a foodie for cinema,” she said.

She said that she makes movies that pleases a wide range of people. She said, “My sensibilities are such that I make Pan-Indian films which would run from B centre to A plus (tiers). That’s a difficult thing to do because you have to please one billion people. It’s easy to make a film that pleases 10,000 people.”

During the event, she also spoke to reporters and said that in today’s day and age, people are scared to make musicals. She said, “I feel people get scared to make these big musicals because right now the situation is such that it’s said, ‘Don’t do this, critics will cut it. Don’t do that, that will happen.’”

She added, “Maybe Rohit and I are the last two who want to make the movies that we used to watch as kids and the ones that we still remember, the ones that were happy films. I try to make a small film every time but no one lets me do that.”

She praised director Rohit Shetty and said, “You can’t say there’s no content in event films. Rohit makes films that are completely enjoyable. They have a social message, they’re not vulgar. The same goes for me. It’s just that we like to make larger-than-life films, the trend of which is fading away slowly.”

 

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