I was glad she didn't single out me she was wise enough to know that it's the larger industry that supports it. "She asked me what happened to the movement. He recalled once he was put on a magazine cover and called the "face of indie cinema" by a journalist, but years later when he bumped into the scribe, the culture of parallel cinema had not picked up. When asked if he believes the indie cinema movement has improved from what it was earlier, Abhay said, "It's the same stage same individuals every now and then with their hard work and effort have managed to come up with one product here, one there. Every year, as more and more capitalist we get, the more risk-averse people are going to get. "It is very difficult to have a parallel formula against the mainstream one. My desire was to put something parallel to the formula," Abhay said.Ībhay says due to the obsession with chasing box office numbers, people are becoming averse to taking risks, and hence it is more difficult for off-beat films to co-exist with huge commercial projects. It's difficult to stick to really going against formula when formula has always been around and here to stay. "It's difficult to stick to the programme I started with.
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I didn't know how to tell people that 'Hey it's not as if I don't want to take a risk, but it's damn hard to do it'." "People accepted me for taking risks, so, I didn't want to stop taking risks because I would disappoint the very base that I have. The 40-year-old Aisha star said with time it got extremely difficult for him to do the kind of films he believed in. Post his debut in Imtiaz Ali's Socha Na Tha, Abhay worked in off-beat films like Dev D, Manorama Six Feet Under, Road, Movie and Ek Chalis Ki Last Local. But if a government support came in, with the thought that let's have a variety of representations across communities and idea, that is something our governing body needed to do," he said. "The mainstream industry is perfectly fine where they are. While it would be ideal for the mainstream industry to give that support, they don't have to give it necessarily." "When the government supported NFDC (National Film Development Corporation of India), there was this little spark because there was some security, some guarantee of film release. "Even if that much was there, it would support a parallel movement, but that did not happen," Abhay told PTI in an interview.Īccording to the Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara actor, the government support would've at least given independent filmmakers some surety of their film release. Even if not the industry, if there was government support like they did with the NFDC from the 70s to the 80s." You can't keep doing that when there is no support whatsoever. "You have to live through it, make your own sacrifices. The actor says working in off-beat films requires artists to make lot of sacrifices and hence a support is necessary.