A long time after went to watch Hindi movie called “Bullet
Raja”. That too from Tigmanshu Dhulia...The director who has created a space
for himself through movies like “Paan Singh Tomar”, Saheb Biwi and Gangster
series. The hope for movie was high as it was sent in UP heart land, with some
good actors and Tigmanshu’s past history with good movies. Did the movie live
upto its expectation.....NO and why? That is what the title of this write up,
which is “Why Hindi Movie Directors crumble when working with stars”.
This is always been a mystery for me that the good Hindi
movie directors fail miserably when working with stars; this is truly not the
case with directors in other language. Just because you have a star you don’t need
to be in pressure to deliver to his Image. I see a star pressure on Dhulia
which can be clearly seen in “Bullet Raja”. Unnecessary songs, a love story with
no connection, a Nami heroine just because you have a star as hero, story made
to glorify the hero and in process screwing the entire movie. I see the
supporting cast delivering much better than the main cast of the movie. What
Hindi film stars have been missing is the calibre of acting which some of their
support artists do so gracefully to a level much higher than the stars themselves.
And directors of new genre like Dhulia should understand this.
This movie with likes of Manoj Bajapai or Irfaan Khan or
even Jimmi Shergill would have been much well developed and matured. But the
product is out and with a star..may be that is how the cookie crumbles in Hindi
movies and that is how a director crumbles when he works with a star.
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