Audience should be entertained: Salman
11 Aug 2012 8:30 AM IST
With four back-to-back blockbusters and expectations from his next release Ek Tha Tiger, Salman Khan still appears oblivious to pressure and says that whatever a film’s fate, the audience is always right and must be entertained.
Following Wanted, Dabangg, Ready and Bodyguard, all of which crossed the Rs 100 crore mark at the Bollywood box office, Salman is now ready with Ek Tha Tiger that releases on 15 August.
He isn’t nervous because all he wants to do is to entertain.
‘I don’t feel the pressure. If a film doesn’t do well, it doesn’t do well. Let’s see in the next film... (Whatever it is), audience is always right,’ Salman, looking relaxed in a white T-shirt.
‘When I hear the script, I just want to be entertained. so that the audience should be entertained — be it in romance, action, drama or any kind of entertainment,’ he said.
In his over two decade career, Salman has dabbled in all genres. But right now, the 46-year-old, who is recovering from a flu, admits he doesn’t know what will click with the audience.
‘It is the passion, my job and. I like my job, it’s my hobby and I enjoy doing it,’ he said. ‘There is always a gut feeling [that] the script sounds superb, and so we go for it.’
Salman is the rare star who has reopened the doors for single screens in today’s multiplex culture. But he says that he doesn’t believe in the masses and classes culture.
‘I only believe that it is about being in your comfort zone.... There is no question of mass or class. One cannot afford multiplexes because single screen tickets are cheaper,’ he said.
He is also one of the few Bollywood actors to have revived the old charm of a theatre full of cheering, whistling and hooting audiences. He brushes it off, saying he’s just plain lucky.
‘I’m just a simple person. Logon ne sarr pe chada diya hai [People have made me a star]. [I am] just being lucky. It’s just that I am in the right place at the right times, and many a times I have been in the wrong place at a wrong time,’ said the actor.
Following Wanted, Dabangg, Ready and Bodyguard, all of which crossed the Rs 100 crore mark at the Bollywood box office, Salman is now ready with Ek Tha Tiger that releases on 15 August.
He isn’t nervous because all he wants to do is to entertain.
‘I don’t feel the pressure. If a film doesn’t do well, it doesn’t do well. Let’s see in the next film... (Whatever it is), audience is always right,’ Salman, looking relaxed in a white T-shirt.
‘When I hear the script, I just want to be entertained. so that the audience should be entertained — be it in romance, action, drama or any kind of entertainment,’ he said.
In his over two decade career, Salman has dabbled in all genres. But right now, the 46-year-old, who is recovering from a flu, admits he doesn’t know what will click with the audience.
‘It is the passion, my job and. I like my job, it’s my hobby and I enjoy doing it,’ he said. ‘There is always a gut feeling [that] the script sounds superb, and so we go for it.’
Salman is the rare star who has reopened the doors for single screens in today’s multiplex culture. But he says that he doesn’t believe in the masses and classes culture.
‘I only believe that it is about being in your comfort zone.... There is no question of mass or class. One cannot afford multiplexes because single screen tickets are cheaper,’ he said.
He is also one of the few Bollywood actors to have revived the old charm of a theatre full of cheering, whistling and hooting audiences. He brushes it off, saying he’s just plain lucky.
‘I’m just a simple person. Logon ne sarr pe chada diya hai [People have made me a star]. [I am] just being lucky. It’s just that I am in the right place at the right times, and many a times I have been in the wrong place at a wrong time,’ said the actor.
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