OTT Not Succesful Of Altering Bollywood “Eternally”: Rakesh Roshan

New Delhi:

OTT platforms will not be able to altering Bollywood “perpetually”, celebrated actor-cum-director Rakesh Roshan has stated, indicating the grit with which the Hindi movie business has survived all challenges up to now, together with some black swan occasions like Covid-19. 

Talking at NDTV’s “India By the Eyes of Its Icons” sequence, Mr Roshan stated: “You may by no means say perpetually. When video got here, many individuals thought the identical, however it didn’t change Bollywood.” 

Drawing from his a long time of expertise within the business, Mr Roshan’s remarks had been in response to a query on whether or not know-how and OTT platforms have the potential to alter Bollywood perpetually.

Mr Roshan agreed with iconic author Salim Khan that lack of highly effective story-telling is proving to be the Bollywood business’s Achilles heel.

He additionally stated “packaging a narrative” is equally important and that this “healthful packaging” is one thing that isn’t present in movies made nowadays.

The south Indian business nonetheless makes “healthful” films and know-how is offering it the “type of edge that’s wanted to maintain viewers hooked to cinemas right now”, the distinguished film-maker stated. 

On the evolving artwork of film making and decisions of the viewers, Mr Roshan stated: “Film making is in An between territory. In a decade from now, both it will probably evolve into a totally new route the place our films can be seen as too outdated or it will probably return to a larger-than-life cinema that we used to make however is right now being substituted by a wave of real-life films.”