EXCLUSIVE: The New Directors I Am Working With Will Never Be Able To Make Films Like The Directors Of Yore – Salman Khan

Salman Khan is one of the biggest superstars of Bollywood. He has worked with numerous directors right from the beginning of his career. In a career spanning more than three decades, the actor has worked in multifarious genres! As they say, the directors are the captain of the ship and they are the ones to decide the flow of a particular film because the directors have to monitor every aspect of the film!

Right from Sooraj Barjatya to Subhash Ghai to Rajkumar Santoshi to the recent Ali abbas Zafar and Kabir Khan. However, Salman somehow feels there is no difference between the directors of yore and the current crop of directors he has been working with. Having said that, he also feels that the newer lot is lack of a particular aspect that the older directors were well-equipped with. And that is the 'experience'.  The superstar asserts he has worked with wonderful directors earlier on in his career and he loves to work with them even now. As a matter of fact, he is indeed still working with some of them. Quipped he, “There’s no difference at all. I worked with some really great directors earlier, I am working with them now as well. So, there is no difference. They have narrated their scripts to me, I have liked those scripts so I did them. They have all been super nice to me.”

The Dabangg 3 actor also feels the films that were made back then, were very different in the terms of style and treatment and that the newer directors will not be able to make the kind of films the older directors used to make. He averred, “The films were different back then, today films are different. These new guys will not be able to direct those kinds of films and the older guys still, will be able to direct the kind of films that are being made these days because of the kind of experience they have.”

The actor feels all the older directors are very talented and that somewhere he is working in the industry with the same old instincts he had while working with the yesteryear filmmakers. Salman further contended, “I have worked with Subhash ji (Subhash Ghai) and a lot of other people. I still think Mr Subhash Ghai, Rajkumar Santoshi, all these people are very talented. The cinema that I am doing is their kind of cinema.

The actor who is known to not mince his words further revealed that the younger bunch of filmmakers don’t like working with the filmmakers of yore because apparently, they don’t like their style of filmmaking. He affirmed, “The younger generation is slightly sceptical about working with them because of the YO factor that has come in now with the cooler directors. Their films too are doing well, so basically, everyone needs to update and grow and then let go!”

Well, we at Desimartini.com feel only a filmmaker like Sooraj Barjatya understood Salman and loved the soul in him and the feeling was mutual. Sooraj could make Salman use his eyes like no one else. Salman’s body language, his mannerisms and gestures would be completely different.

The way director Rajkumar Santoshi brought out the comic element in Salman is etched in the minds of the viewers of Andaz Apna Apna and stored there for posterity! Unfortunately, the newer crop of directors just banked on the “BHAI” factor and continues to do so, which is unfair to Salman Khan. We feel that the actor in Salman is not being used fully! But as long as that’s what the audience is lapping up, nothing else is required. Isn’t it?

So, folks, what do you have to say about this? Did you love the naughty yet sweet Prem in Hum Aapke Hai Koun or the shy and good-natured Prem in Hum Saath Saath Hain or did you like him more in films like Dabangg, Wanted and Kick?