Mumbai:
Bollywood superstar Anil Kapoor, who re-united with director Priyadarshan in Tezz after a gapof 14 years, says the filmmaker has a lot of potential in him but he hasn't realised it yet.
The 52-year-old actor worked with Priyadarshan first in the 1997 film Virasat and thinks that the filmmaker is oneof the best directors in the country.
"The problem with Priyadarshan is that he doesn't even know how good he is. I recently told him that he is not justone of the best directors in the country but also a filmmaker of international calibre. There are certain directors who justwant to work and he is one of them who just goes on and on making movies," Anil said.
The actor also said he doesn't mind that Priyadarshan made quite a few films sans him after Virasat and is happythat they have worked together again.
"He did come to me after Virasat as well. There were certain films that he had offered to me but we couldn't worktogether for certain reasons. However when he narrated me the idea of Tezz and also a little bit of its story, I felt thatI should do it. Moreover he told me that I didn't have the choice of saying 'no'. He categorically told me that only I could dothis role. He was of the view that with any lesser actor, the film won't work, so naturally I went ahead," he said.
Tezz released on April 27 but failed to create magic at the box office. The film also starred Ajay Devgn, Zayed Khan,Kangana Ranaut and Sameera Reddy in lead roles.
Anil has been in Bollywood for more than two decades now and has given hits like Ram Lakhan, Mr India, Tezaab,No Entry and Race.
The actor, whose Hollywood career took off after the Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire, was recently seen inTom Cruise starrer Mission Impossible 4. Anil's role in the film was too short, leaving his fans disappointed.
"You don't know how things would shape up when you consent to doing a film. These are chances that you have totake on an instinct. Sometimes you think that things would be right and director would deliver what he had promised.Then you start hoping that its action and overall production would go as per plans. Sometimes it works,sometimes it doesn't," Anil said.
The 52-year-old actor worked with Priyadarshan first in the 1997 film Virasat and thinks that the filmmaker is oneof the best directors in the country.
"The problem with Priyadarshan is that he doesn't even know how good he is. I recently told him that he is not justone of the best directors in the country but also a filmmaker of international calibre. There are certain directors who justwant to work and he is one of them who just goes on and on making movies," Anil said.
The actor also said he doesn't mind that Priyadarshan made quite a few films sans him after Virasat and is happythat they have worked together again.
"He did come to me after Virasat as well. There were certain films that he had offered to me but we couldn't worktogether for certain reasons. However when he narrated me the idea of Tezz and also a little bit of its story, I felt thatI should do it. Moreover he told me that I didn't have the choice of saying 'no'. He categorically told me that only I could dothis role. He was of the view that with any lesser actor, the film won't work, so naturally I went ahead," he said.
Tezz released on April 27 but failed to create magic at the box office. The film also starred Ajay Devgn, Zayed Khan,Kangana Ranaut and Sameera Reddy in lead roles.
Anil has been in Bollywood for more than two decades now and has given hits like Ram Lakhan, Mr India, Tezaab,No Entry and Race.
The actor, whose Hollywood career took off after the Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire, was recently seen inTom Cruise starrer Mission Impossible 4. Anil's role in the film was too short, leaving his fans disappointed.
"You don't know how things would shape up when you consent to doing a film. These are chances that you have totake on an instinct. Sometimes you think that things would be right and director would deliver what he had promised.Then you start hoping that its action and overall production would go as per plans. Sometimes it works,sometimes it doesn't," Anil said.
