Amitabh Bachchan reveals regional industries have remade his films: “They just change the dressing, so that they look beautiful” : Bollywood News

Megastar Amitabh Bachchan recently talked about how regional cinema is way ahead of Hindi film industry. The actor was in the attendance of the Symbiosis Film Festival inauguration ceremony in Pune, organized by Symbiosis International.

Amitabh Bachchan reveals regional industries have remade his films: “They just change the dressing, so that they look beautiful”

The Brahmastra actor said, “Many times, the film industry comes under a lot of criticism and faces accusations that it is responsible for changing the morals of the country and the attitudes of the people. I’m sure Jaya (Bachchan), who has formally studied at the Institute (FTII), would endorse the fact that stories and films are created from experiences observed in nature, in the world, and in everyday life, and that becomes our inspiration.”

During the same speech, he added “Regional cinema has been doing very well. But when we talk to them, they say they are making the same kind of films that we do in Hindi. They just change the dressing, so that they look beautiful. A lot of the people I’ve met said, ‘We are remaking your old films; there’s Deewar, Shakti, and Sholay somewhere in all our stories.’ Malayalam and some of the Tamil cinema are authentic and aesthetic. This whole idea of pointing fingers at a particular region and saying that unki achhi chal rahi hain, humari nahin (they are better than us) is not right.”

Recalling how his father Harivansh Rai Bachchan would watch films on repeat, he added “Cinema in itself has its own power. During the last years of my father’s life, every evening he would watch a film on television on cassette. Many times, the films that he saw were repeated. I asked him every evening, ‘You have watched the film; don’t you get bored? What do you find in Hindi cinema?’ He said, ‘I’d get to see poetic justice in three hours. You and I will not get to see poetic justice in a lifetime.’ And that is the learning that cinema gives to all.”

On the work front, Amitabh Bachchan will next star in Kalki 2898 AD with Prabhas, Deepika Padukone, and Kamal Haasan. He will also make his Tamil film debut with Vettaiyan headlined by Rajinikanth.

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