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Karan Johar Says Bollywood Is Facing 'Director Crisis' For Action Films: 'There Isn't Anyone'
Karan Johar further argued that the Bollywood filmmakers need to go back and make films they are best at - romantic dramas.
Over the last few years, we have seen several Bollywood filmmakers trying their luck with the mass action genre movies. However, unfortunately, not all these action films have worked well at the box office. Recently, Karan Johar explained that it is primarily because Bollywood is facing a 'director crisis" when it comes to action movies.
The filmmaker was talking to Suchin Mehrotra on The Streaming Show podcast when he was asked if Bollywood has a director crisis when it comes to big-scale event films, as most such films are made by directors from the south. To this, KJo responded by saying, 'It is a director crisis. You can't think of more than a name or two. There isn't anyone, because that entire generation spent their time watching a different kind of Hindi cinema, nurtured on a different kind of cinema. Globalisation, the Shah Rukh Khan phenomenon, stories shot outside the country, they love all that, but haven't been able to do that front-footed testosterone cinema. They have never known it. Now, they can't learn it. So, they emulate it and fall flat on their face."
Karan Johar further argued that the Bollywood filmmakers need to go back and make films they are best at – romantic dramas. 'We don't have the directors to mount those kinds of films. So, if we can't, then thank God for Saiyaara. This, we can do. When I met Mohit Suri, he told me that all the filmmakers from the south called him, and it was so gratifying to know, because we are the ones calling them. We are always picking up the phone, telling them how incredible their films are. We do one thing well, so let's do that. Let's go back to our storytelling," he added.
Interestingly, Karan Johar's last directorial was also a romantic drama – Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani. Released in 2023, the film starred Alia Bhatt and Ranveer Singh in the lead and was widely loved by all.
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