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Don't
underestimate our audiences : Priyanka Chopra
By Joginder Tuteja
“Isn’t it surprising that whenever there is a Hollywood film playing, we go all ga ga over it, especially when it follows an unconventional narrative? We ask each other when they can do it, why can’t we? We are so much in awe of their cinema,” Priyanka told IANS. “However, when it comes to our own movies, we try to play safe stating that we are doing this for our audiences. Come on guys, it’s the same audience we are catering to, so why not give them something really new and different to relish? “Frankly speaking, I don’t like it at all when we keep making such statements as so and so film doesn’t require audiences to wear a thinking cap,” she said. The actress asks a series of questions regarding the intelligence of the audiences. “My question is — why should we underestimate the intelligence of Indian audiences? Why do we believe that they want everything on a platter? Why don’t we make a cinema-going experience so exciting and engrossing for them that they actually go on to exclaim ‘wow’?” the actress said. Releasing Friday, “Kaminey” is a dark thriller that revolves around gangsters, rebel soldiers, rogue politicians and crooked cops. Directed by Vishal Bharadwaj, it features Shahid Kapoor in a double role. Priyanka observes that while good films are working, bad films, despite top star casts and huge budgets, are being rejected by the audience. “It’s as simple as that —
garbage in, garbage out,” she said. “Thankfully India is changing for the
better and there are some brilliant films being made today.”
(Joginder Tuteja can be contacted
at joginder_tuteja@rediffmail.com)
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