“Filmmaking is a special ballgame now altogether. You'll upload your videos and get as many as 75 million hits. That’s not likely a figure you could even reach through theatres. There are just about 12,000 theatres in India. So filmmaking, I believe, is undergoing change and it's losing its iconic identity,” Kapur said here.
The acclaimed filmmaker made his directorial debut in 1983 with “Masoom”, and gradually helmed projects like “Bandit Queen”, “Mr.India” and “Elizabeth”.
He had no formal training in movie making, but says he had the “passion”.
“Making a movie was once a large thing in my times. It was about shooting on 35 mm, it was about collecting film stock to shoot anything, and about approaching distributors and theatres for screening the film.
“Today, if you wish to be a filmmaker, you'll just be one with a phone! You don’t need the infrastructure, you've gotten it ready in some form or the other… Luckily, there’s somebody who has given the infrastructure to the present generation within the type of technology. So use that,” he added.
Kapur motivated young, aspiring filmmakers on the ongoing 12th Osian’s-Cinefan Film Festival here Tuesday, to follow their passion for movies with a vengeance, and by taking advantage of all available resources.
“There is not any problem in creating a film. If in case you have a narrative to tell, you are able to do it despite the fact that you've got a phone which takes video, there’s no problem! But yes, if you would like your film to make Rs.100 crore, then you definately have a large problem,” said the 66-year-old. – IANS
