Sharad Kelkar, who shot fame with his amazing work in Bollywood, starting from Goliyon Ki Rasleela… Ram Leela to Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior, has recently expressed his fear that how South films might overshadow Bollywood.
He said, “I am scared that it (South cinema) might overshadow Bollywood. We are forgetting our roots here. We are too much into a different zone altogether. There are a lot of different subjects. But the expectations of people from Hindi films are Bollywood masala films. Such masala films are not being made.”
He added that Bollywood is making more subject-based movies now, saying, “And in Covid-19 times, people are watching a lot of content on OTT platforms. So, (for them) to watch something different, we have to give them something different. More massy and more commercial, more entertaining and larger than life,”
He concluded, “I have never cried after watching my film so much in public. When I saw the cast and crew at the screening of Tanhaji, I started crying like a child. A lot of media and fraternity people were also there. During the interval, Kajol hugged me and said ‘What a fantastic job you’ve done!’. I have never cried so much,” as quoted by India Today.
