Shah Rukh Khan, Karan Johar and Juno Chopra have come together to produce the upcoming thriller, 'Ittefaq'. Now, while Bollywood is known for its romance, it's also a fact that thrillers have never really been the mainstay of commercial Hindi cinema. Filmmaker Karan Johar recently spoke to us about why thrillers have never made all the buzz in the commercial Hindi cinema.
Karan said, “It's because of the way we tell our stories and the fact that what we make is mainstream entertainment. We are used to integrating song and dance sequences to our stories. A thriller is supposed to be pacy and keep the audience on the edge of their seat. We like blending music because that's our viewing habit. We make fewer thrillers because we don't conform to the real format of a thriller."
He further continued, "We even have an interval. In fact, when Abhay Chopra, the director, wrote the film, he didn't write it with an interval. I asked where are we going to break for an interval? We like to escalate the film and then stop, and then we have to re-escalate the film from that point. That's why a lot of our films suffer from the second-half phenomena. Eight out of 10-second halves are weak because of the interval. Nobody in any teaching course around the world will account for how to handle an interval in movies. It's only Hindi cinema that breaks the narrative and that's another problem with the thriller genre. It was a big challenge that even we faced.”
(Also read: Is Sridevi upset with Karan Johar for the delay in daughter Janhvi's debut?)Well, let's see how 'Ittefaq' does at the box office. Stay tuned for more updates.
