Naseeruddin Shah: I have discovered my love for the family because of Ratna

by PRIYA GUPTA

Film actor and director Naseeruddin Shah PHOTO/Wikipedia

Naseeruddin Shah exudes so much aura that it is difficult to not be taken in by that. The saving grace is that he looks down while he talks and that helped me start my conversation without being conscious.

Were you not able to do commercial cinema or did you not want to do it?

Well, there is a lot of it that I don’t want to do, but there is some that I did feel like doing and did, quite a lot in fact, but I was never at ease, never at home in those kind of films, never felt tested. I was cast in the role that was convenient to cast me in, but they were never challenging roles, be it Karma or Tridev, which are my two big successes. I am not particularly fond of either film. The films I love are films like Masoom, Jalwa and The Dirty Picture.I am not averse to commercial cinema and the most gorgeous film ever made is Mughal-E-Azam, followed by Pyaasa and Guide as a close third.These are my favourite films and not a Satyajit Ray film. I love Raju Hirani’s films and am eagerly awaiting his next one. I like Farah Khan’s films, but didn’t like her last one Tees Maar Khan at all. I loved Queen, Gangs of Wasseypur Part 1, Dev.D, Paan Singh Tomar .These are the kinds of films that we should make as they use commercial form that our audience is addicted to, and we cannot get away from that, much as I may dislike it. I would happily see a Raju Hirani, Anurag Kashyap or Ritesh Batra’s new film. I am not a snob that I am made out to be.

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