A still from Student Of The Year.
Mumbai:
Filmmaker Karan Johar terms the minimal number of stars in the film industry as a "crisis."
At an event in Mumbai, Karan was asked about the few options filmmakers have, to cast in their films as far as stars are concerned.
"Yes, big problem. 100 movies to make and six of them only that can sell your movie. Suddenly you take anyone else and they say 'you won't get the budget otherwise.' Then the music won't sell, overseas won't sell, satellite won't sell and digital won't sell. Nothing sells then," said Karan.
"We're going through a crisis. There really are those many actors who are in trade parlance are viable, saleable. It is very limiting. We have very few movie stars and I hope the country starts loving more and more stars very soon. And gives them longevity as movie stars so that we can actually have the choice. The way that we used to love our movie stars up to the 1980s - that madness and insanity is definitely depleting with time," added Karan.
Karan has worked with superstars like Amitabh Bachchan, Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Kajol, Rani Mukerji and Kareena Kapoor. But then, he made Student Of The Year with newcomers Alia Bhatt, Varun Dhawan and Sidharth Malhotra - who have now established themselves in the industry.
"When I was making Student Of The Year, I used to feel very sad on the set. There was no star on that set ever. We definitely have to launch faces. We make films with big budgets. We have to sell them. We are producers at the end of the day. I'm not a corporate studio. I'm not funded internationally. I don't have that pool of wealth lying to take that chance with. I need to have a selling face and then work around it.
"When I made Student Of The Year, I took a chance. Fortunately, things worked out but it doesn't work like that always," he said.
Karan Johar's next film Ae Dil Hai Mushkil, stars Ranbir Kapoor, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Anushka Sharma.
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At an event in Mumbai, Karan was asked about the few options filmmakers have, to cast in their films as far as stars are concerned.
"Yes, big problem. 100 movies to make and six of them only that can sell your movie. Suddenly you take anyone else and they say 'you won't get the budget otherwise.' Then the music won't sell, overseas won't sell, satellite won't sell and digital won't sell. Nothing sells then," said Karan.
"We're going through a crisis. There really are those many actors who are in trade parlance are viable, saleable. It is very limiting. We have very few movie stars and I hope the country starts loving more and more stars very soon. And gives them longevity as movie stars so that we can actually have the choice. The way that we used to love our movie stars up to the 1980s - that madness and insanity is definitely depleting with time," added Karan.
Karan has worked with superstars like Amitabh Bachchan, Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Kajol, Rani Mukerji and Kareena Kapoor. But then, he made Student Of The Year with newcomers Alia Bhatt, Varun Dhawan and Sidharth Malhotra - who have now established themselves in the industry.
"When I was making Student Of The Year, I used to feel very sad on the set. There was no star on that set ever. We definitely have to launch faces. We make films with big budgets. We have to sell them. We are producers at the end of the day. I'm not a corporate studio. I'm not funded internationally. I don't have that pool of wealth lying to take that chance with. I need to have a selling face and then work around it.
"When I made Student Of The Year, I took a chance. Fortunately, things worked out but it doesn't work like that always," he said.
Karan Johar's next film Ae Dil Hai Mushkil, stars Ranbir Kapoor, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Anushka Sharma.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
