Vicky Kaushal on Bollywood films failing at the box office: The audience has clearly told us ‘acchhi picture banao’
Vicky Kaushal is completely happy about lastly performing the standard Bollywood ‘naach-gaana’ in Govinda Naam Mera. The actor who is understood for his intense roles has delivered an out-and-out masala entertainer for the primary time in his profession. The actor has achieved a collection of movies the place his honest performing chops and critical alternative of tales and characters have received hearts of audiences and critics alike.
On this interview with indianexpress.com, Vicky talks about how he landed in Govinda Naam Mera, a movie he calls “enjoyable concoction” and exhibits his love for dance. The actor additionally provides his two cents on how the box-office recreation has modified because the Covid-19 pandemic and why he thinks it’s straightforward to determine if a movie will work higher on the box-office.
Vicky calls Govinda Naam Mera a enjoyable concoction, a movie that he desires the audiences to not take significantly and simply snicker after all of the ache and loss everybody has gone by way of all through the pandemic. He says, “I’m so grateful that I’ve entered into this concoction, as a result of I nonetheless keep in mind Shashank speaking concerning the movie for the primary time, it was earlier than the second section of the Covid-19 pandemic. He stated that we’re residing in such terrified occasions the place persons are so scared and the whole lot you’re watching (on OTT) can also be so gritty and critical, let’s make individuals snicker, let’s try to give them time. I used to be offered to that thought within the first place.”
Vicky himself needed a break from the sort of critical cinema he was doing till final 12 months. “Additionally, I used to be popping out of some critical cinema with Uri: The Surgical Strike, Bhoot and Sardar Udham. As an actor, even I used to be hungry to discover that aspect and have enjoyable on set. I play a correct loser in life, his spouse beats him, he’s obtained a girlfriend; his mom and even his baai doesn’t care about him. He has a best-friend and also you assume aisaa finest pal kisiko na mile, dushman ho usse acchha. There’s a don, there’s a hip-hopper, there’s a lawyer, sautela bhai, sauteli maa, there’s all kinds of confusion taking place on the identical time and there’s a homicide thriller concerned, all of that is served with humour on high of it. We simply need the viewers to have time and never take us significantly,” says Vicky.
Most of Vicky’s latest releases have been on streaming platforms, together with Govinda Naam Mera. On being requested if he accepts Bollywood is experiencing stress on the box-office and what this section means, Vicky says the viewers has clearly acknowledged that they wish to watch solely good movies in cinemas, it doesn’t matter what style it’s, or who the star or the language is.
“I believe good movies are working. Individuals, the truth is, have made it quite simple. Should you see the graph, they’ve made it so easy, that if the movie resonates with them, it doesn’t matter what the language, style or scale is, they are going to give it a whole lot of love. The viewers has made it quite simple, that humein image acchhi lagni chaahiye. You see a Bhool Bhulaiya (2), KGF (2) or RRR, Drishyam (2), none of them fall in the identical field, they’re neither the identical language, style nor the size, they didn’t even have the identical advertising and marketing plan. Even three 12 months in the past it was instantly proportional, app jitni advertising and marketing karoge, utni aapki movie chalegi, but it surely’s not like that anymore. Right now, if individuals like a movie, they simply take it up.”
“So, I believe we’re residing in occasions the place they’re clearly and easily instructed us that acchhi image banao, we’ll give all of it our love,” Vicky emphasises.
Whereas Vicky has had just one movie launch this 12 months, he’s fairly trying ahead to 2023 as he has 4 movie releases. “I’m very thrilling as a result of all by way of Covid I used to be taking pictures movies, there have been three 4 movies, out of which Govinda is first, then there’s one with Lakshmain Utekar sir with me and Sara in it, then there’s one movie with YRF, one other one with Dharma which Anand Tiwari has directed after which Sam Bahadur which I’m taking pictures proper now, all these movies are releasing in 23. I’ve been very excited to carry out these tales and I’m very excited to know the way persons are going to reply to these characters.”
2023 will probably be one more deciding think about Vicky’s trajectory, identical to 2018 was, the 12 months the actor was rediscovered. He says, “Final time I had a 12 months like that was 2018, after I had Love Per Sq. Foot, Raazi, Sanju, Lust Tales and Manmarziyaan, all of them got here in the identical 12 months. I get very excited when I’ve extra movies coming since you’ve been taking pictures again to again and taking part in completely different characters, so the thought that sooner or later persons are going to get to see this and I’m going to get by way of the check of them liking or not liking it’s a very thrilling.”
