Bollywood is ‘selling stars’ while south film industry is ‘telling stories’: Anupam Kher

Actor Anupam Kher, who’s celebrating the success of Karthikeya 2, not too long ago shared his two cents on why south Indian movies are doing higher than Hindi movies. Kher stated that filmmakers within the south are concentrating on telling tales versus Bollywood which appears to be extra centered on packaging a movie round a film star.

Kher advised ETimes, “I feel over there, I’m not differentiating between the 2 however I feel (their) cinema is related as a result of they aren’t aping Hollywood. They’re telling tales, over right here we’re promoting stars.”

The Kashmir Recordsdata actor stated that movies are primarily made for



the viewers, and the second anybody begins trying down on these shoppers, it’s a slippery slope. “You make issues for shoppers. The issue begins while you begin trying down on shoppers saying, ‘We’re doing you a favour by making an amazing movie. Now you might be watching an amazing movie.’ Greatness is achieved by a collective effort and that I’ve learnt by doing movies in Telugu, Tamil, and I’m going to do a Malayalam movie,” he stated.

Anupam Kher’s upcoming movies embrace Sooraj Barjatya’s Uunchai, which additionally stars Amitabh Bachchan, Boman Irani and Parineeti Chopra. He may also be seen as Jayaprakash Narayan in Kangana Ranaut’s Emergency.