From Aamir Khan doing a ‘Dangal’ to Salman Khan breaking stereotypes with ‘Sultan’, Bollywood superstars have started experimenting with roles on screen, and director Ahswiny Iyer Tiwari believes the reason for this shift is the realisation that cliché will not sell any more.
Tiwari, who had young Swara Bhaskar playing a mother to a teenage girl in her first Bollywood directorial venture ‘Nil Battey Sannata’, says as a filmmaker she feels actors now have more options in terms of characters.
In Goa for the International Film Festival of India, the director says, “All the actors are aware about the shift in cinema. They all know that it is time to get into characters rather than just being themselves.”
Tiwari says actors like Varun Dhawan and Alia Bhatt are easily shifting through films like ‘Judwaa 2’ and ‘Humpty Sharma…’ to ‘Badlapur’ and ‘Udta Punjab’.
“They know what is working. We are in a very good state of Indian cinema because we can make all kind of movies. The actors have options in terms of roles. And we have a society which accepts them in different characters. It is commendable to see our actors working in such a manner.”
Tiwari is known for her slice-of-life cinema and her second film ‘Bareilly Ki Barfi’ received both critical and commercial success.
The director, whose next will revolve around the sports of ‘Kabaddi’, believes films, which were popular during the ‘70s and the ‘80s, have made a comeback as audiences now prefer to watch stories “about them”. – PTI
