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Bollywood’s mediocrity angers Vidhu Vinod Chopra |
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To cleanse your palate of any non-crap that comes out of Kareena Kapoor's mouth, here's a gentle reminder of intelligent Bollywood. Vidhu Vinod Chopra, director and writer, who has as many hits as well as flops under his belt is doing great professionally, but is angry.
“When I look at the mediocrity of Indian cinema, when I look at some rubbish being made and people hailing it because it is touching 100 crores, I get angry,” he says. For Chopra, box office numbers are not what make a film great, and  though he feels he has been successful enough to retire already, he keeps making movies for the sake of his art. This is why he is disappointed in Sanjay Leela Bhansali, who produced recent release Rowdy Rathore.
“I am not happy about it,” says Chopra of Sanjay Leela Bhansali's change of pace. “He has worked with me for eight years…But again, I can't be judgmental; I don't know what kind of rejection he had to go through when he made Guzaarish. He told some interviewer that you never came here after Guzaarish, you're here now - and he's right. Maybe this is some kind of revenge he's taking on the mediocrity that exists.”
In light of his statements, it is unsurprising that Vidhu Vinod Chopra has a free-wheeling attitude towards cinema, although he is very clear on the rules of making cinema. “On the day Munna Bhai MBBS released, the first show hardly sold,” he says, recalling how sad Raj Kumar Hirani had been about it all. “I gave him eleven thousand rupees and said, yeh picture toh gayi, jaa, agli bana, yeh uska signing amount hai. That's how I have approached cinema. And that's how I will.”
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