EXCLUSIVE: Ashutosh Gowariker: I don’t think controversies are limited to historicals
| Feb 16, 2018, 12:04 IST
Filmmaker Ashutosh Gowariker believes that it’s not just historical movies and period films that are haunted by controversies. The director himself had faced protests over his 2008 film, ‘Jodhaa Akbar’.
While talking to us on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of his dream project, Ashutosh said, “It doesn't have to be a historical; I might make a contemporary film with a social issue that I want to discuss and raise questions about. Even that can get into a controversy. I don’t think that these controversies are limited to historicals. Anything which is issue-driven can face this kind of problem (resistance). I think filmmakers and writers should go out and make what they believe in. Otherwise, we will cease to be creative. Any art or cinema needs to grow. A thought needs to be taken ahead. The thought is the biggest thing. Thinking minds mulling over what’s happening in society and our lives are the ones who are able to create images or words in literature. For art, literature or cinema to grow, we need to have the freedom to tell what we want to.”
While talking to us on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of his dream project, Ashutosh said, “It doesn't have to be a historical; I might make a contemporary film with a social issue that I want to discuss and raise questions about. Even that can get into a controversy. I don’t think that these controversies are limited to historicals. Anything which is issue-driven can face this kind of problem (resistance). I think filmmakers and writers should go out and make what they believe in. Otherwise, we will cease to be creative. Any art or cinema needs to grow. A thought needs to be taken ahead. The thought is the biggest thing. Thinking minds mulling over what’s happening in society and our lives are the ones who are able to create images or words in literature. For art, literature or cinema to grow, we need to have the freedom to tell what we want to.”