Shamshera, featuring Ranbir Kapoor in his first dual role as the titular character and his son Balli, was dropped on July 22 and opened to mixed and negative reviews. It was reportedly made on a big budget of Rs 150 crore yet only managed to collect near Rs 60 crore at the ticket windows as a result it became a box office failure.
Presently, in a new interaction, Anurag Kashyap has opened up on why the Karan Malhotra directorial failed and added that the period actioner, likewise featuring Sanjay Dutt, Vaani Kapoor, and Saurabh Shukla, Ronit Roy, and Ashutosh Rana among others, could have worked three years ago.
In a recent interaction with Galatta Plus, the director said, “In Bollywood, cinema is largely controlled by those people and that too second generation that has grown up in trial rooms. They have not lived life so the referencing is based on cinema. So what is not on screen can’t be cinema to them.”
Anurag concluded, “The biggest problem with YRF is that trial room effect. You take a story and you want to make a Pirates of the Caribbean out of it so it becomes Thugs of Hindostan. You take a story and you want to make Mad Max: Fury Road out of it, it becomes Shamshera. The same Shamshera would have worked three years back, at least much more than how it has worked on. Now, people are exposed to OTT.”
