change in perception of the global audience’s view on Indian cinema. In a
new interview, Anurag said that ‘any kind of originality, on what is
original to them impacts them’. Anurag also said that the mainstream Hindi
films ‘stopped being original’.
Anurag also praised filmmaker SS Rajamouli and his film RRR. Talking about
the film’s song Naatu Naatu, Anurag said that it is ‘incredibly’ hard to
pull off. Lauding Rajamouli, he said that filming such a song requires
‘vision, courage, and nerves of steel’. Naatu Naatu has been nominated in
the Best Original Song category at the 95th Academy Awards. Anurag also
added that had the ‘west’ watched Rajamouli’s Eega (2012), he would have
been ‘celebrated much before’.
Anurag said, “They have liked films from India for a very long time. But
they like one kind of a film. There was a time Indian films released
worldwide. Awara, Disco Dancer, everybody singing Jimmy Jimmy. You go to
Africa, you go to Arab countries, India has a very massive impact of the
mainstream. Somewhere within our mainstream, we stopped being original. Our
mainstream started to become cheap copies of Hollywood action movies or
something else”.
