INTERVIEW : SHYAM BENEGAL

"There’s a dearth of great, original ideas"

Posted: Sunday, Sep 07, 2008 at 0001 hrs IST
Updated: Sunday, Sep 07, 2008 at 0001 hrs IST

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Gold the most preferred investment

: And the young people have the opportunity to make films of their choice.

Do you wish things were different during your earlier film-making days?

Everything was worth it. I don’t regret a thing. Everything I went through was very important for one’s development. The good thing now is films are being made on sub-cultures too and are proving to be successful, this was unthinkable even ten years ago.

You are talking about films like Rock On...

Yes. And Aamir. Would you have thought Rock On would be a hit even a decade ago. Films like Aamir couldn’t have been made because there were no avenues for such films.

What are you working on next?

Well, it also happens to be a comedy — BIG Pictures is producing it.

What about the musical Chamki?

It’s in the works. It’s not always easy to do a big project because you don’t know who you are going to people it with. One downside of the industry doing well is that artists are now tied to projects two years in advance.

The film industry is doing phenomenally well, what are the hitches?

We have the technology the world has. None of our films look Third World anymore — the special effects, sound track, design, quality of pictures, images are as smart as anywhere in the world. But the biggest challenge is the dearth of great, original ideas. We need a young way of looking at the world....

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