MUMBAI, Nov 25:Filmmaker Karan Johar, who will presenting the upcoming “2.0” for the Hindi speaking audience, said the crossover in Indian cinema should happen internally.
During a press conference on Saturday, Karan said he is happy to have collaborated on “2.0” and “Baahubali”, which he had also presented, but he cannot claim the credit for vision, creativity and execution of these two movies.
When asked if the success of “Baahubali” and “2.0” will pave way for more pan-India films, the filmmaker said, “Crossover in cinema should happen internally in India. We keep talking about crossover and that our films going out of the country but the true crossover is like ‘Baahubali’. It’s a film made in Telugu which worked very well in North, West and East, everywhere.”
“‘2.0′ has that vision of working within the country. We have to encourage those crossover movements. Films in all languages, whether it’s Marathi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu or Malayalam, has to work all across (the country). That is the true vision. This is quintessential crossover movement phenomenon that needs to be encouraged and leveraged,” he added.
The “Ae Dil Hai Mushkil” filmmaker does agree that south cinema is ahead of Bollywood in terms of budget and technology.
Karan credits filmmakers in south for encouraging the crossover movement and believes it should happen in Hindi cinema as well.
“South industry has been a pioneer of this movement of meeting narrative and technology for like decades. (PTI)
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