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We live in an age where the Kardashians are famous for making a porn video. You get yourself work and then they come after you – this happens in Hollywood too. They are looking out for someone who is already coming in with their own success – whether it be studios taking on a project or managers and agents taking on an actor. Do you think you might have lost out on work because of that? They probably fear an out of sight, out of mind situation. Looks like this year too will go the same way.ĪLSO READ – CHOREOGRAPHER GANESH ACHARYA ON HOW COOLIE NO.1 CHANGED HIS LIFEĪ lot of actors now talk about the importance of visibility – whether it’s through social media or brand endorsements. The past year has been one of those where I’ve worked my ass off. I could have a year that I’m lazy and a year where I work my ass off. I’m never the same person in any given year, I’m constantly changing. You should ask him now if he still sticks by it. I don’t know about the talented part but I can be lazy. Producer/director Aanand L Rai, who’ve you’ve worked with in Raanjhanaa, Happy Bhag Jayegi and now Zero, has called you a lazy, talented actor. We need that to continue growing into other areas of storytelling. Now at least they may not be stars and but they’re not conformist either. Oh yes! When I see a Nawaz do well I’m like ‘yay thank god’ at least we can have a community of actors who don’t conform to the mainstream because before this all we had is conformist stars. Today you have actors like Rajkummar Rao and Nawazuddin Siddiqui who are products of the indie world and they managing to get eyeballs for the kind of movies they do. When I see a Nawaz do well I’m like ‘yay thank god’ at least we can have a community of actors who don’t conform to the mainstream because before this all we had is conformist stars. It would still not be easy but possibly easier than 10 years ago. It would still be an old school traditional Bollywood producer who would ironically more than a studio take a chance or people willing to stick it out and stay true to their creativity. But even then it wouldn’t be the studio executive who would get them green lit. So making a Manorama Six Feet Under or Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! wouldn’t be any easier today? Trust me they weren’t behind those off beat films, but when they do well, they try taking credit for it. Even if they make off beat films they are pretty much still suits behind the desk.
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They do not have the vision to see a creative person, they can only see a businessman.ĪLSO READ – WE HAVE MANY SIMILARITIES: IRANIAN AUTEUR MAJID MAJIDI ON HIS FIRST INDIAN FILM BEYOND THE CLOUDS They entertain you when you’re already making money, when you’re already a winning proposition. And yes, their opinion was it was too arty farty to have ever been made into a film. I was not pitching it to studios as such – I was pitching it to friends and colleagues. You said then when you were pitching Dev D a lot of people said that these kind of films were great for Europe, but no one in India would watch it. But there are a lot more people supportive of it today than they were in 2007-2009. In fact, I pretty much got Dev D developed so one still has to create the kind of work one wants to do. When I was making Dev D and Oye Lucky it was tough to come by those scripts. There is a lot of originality and experimentation going on today than back when I started. I’m also doing a Tamil film that’s bang in the middle! So maybe centre right? So my work can either be centre right or centre left. It’s slightly more in the mainstream side in the way that Happy Bhag Jayegi and Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara was.
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I try and do the middle of the road film – neither is it sell-out formula, nor is it isolatingly artistic. As they say, if at first you don’t succeed, try again. You’ve constantly reiterated that you’re not cut out for mainstream Bollywood – it has to be a little left of centre for you to be interested in a film.