Mumbai: Veteran filmmaker Suneel Darshan, finest recognized for movies like “Jaanwar”, “Ek Rishtaa” and “Mere Jeevan Saathi” within the nineties and 2000s, feels the idea of household leisure doesn’t exist in Hindi cinema anymore and provides that many stars have often tried overpowering the imaginative and prescient of their administrators
“The whole genre of family entertainment that holds moral values, conflicts, and differences of ideology has changed, and we do not get to watch family entertainment in Hindi cinema anymore. In fact, those who used to make out-an-out family drama entertainers, are probably not as respected in our film industry as those who would make an action film or a thriller,” Darshan tells IANS.
He factors at one other downside. “On one hand, there are stars who tend to overpower the vision of a film director and on the other, there are corporates and production houses, who are financially supporting the film who get in the way of creativity. We have to understand there is a difference between ‘content creation’ and ‘filmmaking’. Sure, we need to get the returns of the invested money within three days of theatrical release but what about the archival value of a film?” Darshan provides.
Recently, his 2001 household drama “Ek Rishtaa” starring Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar and Karisma Kapoor, was proven on tv. The director say in small cities the place TV remains to be part of house leisure, such movies are nonetheless watched.
Despite working with stars as Big B, Akshay and Karisma, Darshan couldn’t maintain within the altering occasions. He has his idea whereas explaining why.
“It is a complicated matter. You see, when an actor becomes a star, the corporate house will bank on the star. Therefore, they go by what the star wants. A director these days, is hired by production houses to serve them. But cinema used to be a director’s medium. It used to be a collaboration between writers and directors. Many times, I feel the very Indianness is missing from Hindi cinema, though that is not the case with Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam films. Corporatisation has happened there as well, but there the vision of the director is respected and not interfered,” he says.
He provides: “These days, in most films, all we get to see is highly Americanised stories with morbidity and negativity. Stories that are negative are served as ‘real’. Initially, corporate culture in our cinema brought a lot of money, production value and introduced new technology. But there are corporate agendas that interferes in storytelling, and since they invest money and according to them ‘stars pull the audience, many a time the original vision of the director is compromised because, as I said, a director can be ‘hired’. In the end, when a film is releasing and if it flops, it comes on the director though the world outside does not get to know who or how the vision of the director has been interfered with and controlled by others. The command has shifted from director to producer and stars. That is why film directors like Rajkumar Santoshi, including other makers of family entertainment, are not directing films anymore.”
Darshan’s final launch was the romantic drama “Ek Haseena Thi Ek Deewana Tha” in 2017. The movie, meant to launch his son Shiv Darshan, fared under expectations on the field workplace.
Is he planning a brand new undertaking any time quickly? “I am writing scripts and working on few subjects, and once normalcy surfaces I will look for a way to turn them into films. If no one is opening the door, I will even then find a way. There was a time I made film that redefined the career of actors. As a film director, I will again come back and tell stories,” he signed off.
