Actor Rajkummar Rao attended MAMI Film Festival on Saturday in Mumbai. While interacting with media, Rao stated that increase in number of films screens is one of the major reason that content driven cinema is being accepted by the audience.
When asked Rajkummar whether as an actor he is witnessing any change while working in films industry, he said, “Definitely, there is a change. Now audience is keen to watch realistic stories and characters. Mass connect of realistic films has been increased but I feel earlier also we used to make good movies when filmmakers like Hrishi Da (Hrishikesh Mukherjee), Vimal Roy sir, Shyam Babu (Shyam Benegal) and Govind Nihalani sir used to make content driven films but that wasn’t able to reach the audience because at that time, cinema screens were less in numbers and now, number of film screen has been increased in our country in form of multiplex cinema so it is one of the reason that content driven films are being accepted by audience as people have the option to watch various kind of films”
Talking about attending MAMI Film Festival, Rao said, “It’s a really big platform for films especially in my life. My film ‘Shahid’ and ‘Aligarh’ has been screened at MAMI and now my upcoming film will also screened at MAMI so I share very old association with MAMI. I am very happy that we have festival like MAMI and that too in our own city like Mumbai and its is continuing every year which is fantastic”
Recently, legendary writer Salim Khan made statement that there is lack of good script in the Hindi films, reacting to that, Rao said, “Finally, our writers are getting their due and I hope it continues. They are major part of filmmaking because films are meant for storytelling. Now, we have many good writers in the industry but in future also good writer should come in the industry with good scripts”
When asked Rao about his Diwali plans, rao said, “This will be working Diwali for me as my film ‘Fanney khan’s shooting is in going on”
Rajkummar Rao has delivered some really good performances in year 2017 and people are now considering him as the next big thing in Bollywood so, when asked Rao whether it is tough to retain stardom, Rao said, “I feel we should only concentrate on acting because I feel becoming a star depends on destiny but becoming an actor is something which is in your hand and for that you have to work hard so I always try to work hard and be an actor first”
Recently, Rao’s film Newton nominated in at The Oscars as India’s official entry in foreign film category, to that, he said, “I am very happy. It’s a great honor and I feel very privileged. It’s quite overwhelming to get nominated at such big platform”
Rajkummar next will be seen in Shaadi Mein Zaroor Aana with Kriti Kharbanda. It directed by Ratna Sinha. It will release on 10th November.
He will also be seen in Hansal Mehta’s Omerta, which was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival and last but not the least, ALTBalaji’s web series – Bose that marks his debut into the digital space.
