IANS Exclusive: Anant Mahadevan on Bollywood Criticism | Shahid Kapoor | Favorite Project - video Dailymotion

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Mumbai: In an exclusive interview with the filmmaker where he shares his dream collaboration, defends Shahid Kapoor against criticism, and discusses his favorite project. He expressed admiration for a potential co-star, praised Shahid's talent, and revealed a standout film.    #AnantMahadevan #LaapataaLadies #TheStoryteller #Phule #Challenges #ExclusiveInterview #LifeLessons #Trending #BollywoodNews #BollywoodGossips #BollywoodUpdates #BollywoodNews #Bollywood #Bollywoodcelebrity #BollywoodHindiNews #ians

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00:00In today's time, Rajkumar Rao is a very sensible actor, very nice actor. I'd like to work with him.

00:10Vicky Kaushal is a very hardworking actor. I'd like to work with him.

00:15And there are some other good actors who are not that well known but they are very, very good actors.

00:22So I'd like to work with them.

00:24I recently discovered an actor, Hansal Mehta discovered him, Aditya Rawal.

00:31Aditya Rawal is Paresh Rawal's son.

00:33Now according to me, he is the next star.

00:36If you give him good films.

00:40So I had told people about Shahid that he is the next star.

00:46Go for him.

00:48So it's a question of actually seeing the ability of an actor or not the name or the fame or the positioning of an actor.

00:56So these are the names I think I'd like to work with.

01:00The press people, the trade people in particular, some exhibitors also.

01:18I will never forget that.

01:20Because they thought that Shahid has become a threat now to the stars.

01:24Because he dances like Bijli, he is a very good actor, he has everything.

01:29So don't let him go ahead.

01:31So because of that they damaged the film.

01:33So from that time, I felt that antagonism, that professional envy.

01:42At that time, all the people who were reigning, they all felt that

01:46I believe when Hrithik Roshan came, there was a movement that don't let him go ahead, he is a threat.

01:54Here, even as a director, a lot of people feel that I am a threat.

02:00Because they feel that if we allow him, if we give him footage, if we give him publicity,

02:07he will make something which can be better than ours.

02:12You talked about popular cinema.

02:15The so-called pioneers of offbeat cinema, the messiahs here,

02:22they also have a big clique, they also have a big gang

02:26who are busy boycotting people like me.

02:29Because they don't want it.

02:32I am not qualified enough to come for a Wim Wenders press conference.

02:37They won't call me.

02:39Their 5-10 people are filmmakers.

02:42I am not a filmmaker.

02:43Why? You know, everyone knows.

02:46There are only 10 people who are our symbols of filmmaking.

02:52The great kings of filmmaking.

02:54I am nothing.

02:56So don't take this man's films ahead, don't distribute his films.

03:01Don't call this man here.

03:03We have such important things.

03:05I am not asking anyone to call me for a premiere.

03:08I don't go to parties, I don't go to premieres.

03:10When filmmakers like Wim Wenders come,

03:13or there is a retrospective of a great filmmaker,

03:16I am not worthy of being invited.

03:25As a director, I will say that

03:28I have a habit that when I make a film,

03:33when I make the next film,

03:35I deliberately try to make a better film than that film.

03:40Because I want to grow as a director.

03:44I don't need to prove anything.

03:47So after the second film, I want to do a better job than the third film.

03:50I mean, the concept should be better than that.

03:53I have already made 15 films.

03:55And every time I think, what should I do that is better than this?

03:59Better than this? Better than this?

04:01I think the last two films that I have made,

04:04Bitter Sweet, which is about sugarcane workers,

04:09in Beed, the women sugarcane workers,

04:12that is a Marathi film, Kadugol,

04:15they are being tortured.

04:17There is a racket going on.

04:19When they have a menstrual cycle every month,

04:24they are not able to work for four days.

04:26And the sugarcane cutting season is only for six months.

04:30So what will they do for the remaining six months?

04:32They will have to earn enough money to sustain themselves for six months.

04:36So if you go for four days every month,

04:39six into four is twenty-four days,

04:41which is almost a month.

04:43So you lose that much money.

04:45You don't get a salary.

04:47So some doctor from Patna,

04:50I don't know where this racket started from,

04:53he came and sat in Beed,

04:55and told them that there is a very simple solution.

04:59You do a hysterectomy.

05:01Hysterectomy means to remove the uterus.

05:04So all your problems will be solved.

05:07There will be no menstrual cycle.

05:09Even if someone tries to rape you,

05:12nothing will happen to you.

05:14You won't be pregnant.

05:16This is a very heart-wrenching thing.

05:21And a lot of women have done this.

05:24So I made a film on this, Bitter Sweet.

05:27I think I have come somewhere as a filmmaker.

05:35Although I am very unsatisfied with myself.

05:41Because when I watch international films,

05:43when I watch master's films,

05:45and when I watch such good foreign films,

05:48I feel that I have so many shortcomings,

05:51that I have to overcome them.

05:53But people don't allow you to overcome them.

05:56If I take a subject like that,

05:59which they make,

06:01a subject of India, not an old subject,

06:04people don't listen to it.

06:06We are not interested in this kind of thing.

06:09Bring something else.

06:11So it's tough.

06:14But these are the two films,

06:16Bitter Sweet and Storyteller,

06:19which have been extremely satisfying for me.

06:22Although Sindhu Ta Sabkaal gave me four national awards,

06:25or Dr. Rakhma Bhai was a big film.

06:28But as a director, I think I have grown with these two films.

06:31I am never happy with my performances.

06:34They are people with big hearts.

06:37But I am in search of a role,

06:40in which I can turn myself inside out.

06:44And do it.

06:46Purnaya Pandit was a lifetime role.

06:49In that, I got a whole journey of 25-60 years.

06:55That way, I was very satisfied with that.

06:58But otherwise, I am still waiting for the good role.

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