Choreographer and filmmaker Farah Khan has proposed a new way to deal with people who typecast Bollywood films. In an interview with IANS, she said that those who criticise the films ought to be given the severest of punishment – watch boring movies.
According to Farah Khan, who has directed movies like Om Shanti Om and Happy New Year, boring films include foreign films as opposed to masala-heavy Bollywood films.
“This will be a constant factor… These people should be made to watch French or Polish cinema. Their punishment should be that they should be made to watch boring films for their whole life,” the director of Tees Maar Khan (2010) was quoted saying.
Khan also expressed frustration with the way some people viewed and(particularly Indians) labelled Bollywood films with less regard.
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“Whenever I go abroad, (I see) the love they have for Bollywood. They love our films, songs and dances. These people (criticising Bollywood) should look at the industry from outsiders’ perspective. For us, Bollywood has become ghar ki murgi (an expression used when a item/thing/person owned by a person loses its value after the owner gets bored of it/him/her),” she said.
Farah Khan’s last release as director was the critically panned Happy New Year.