Hyderabad, November 15: Stressing that the film industry has to reorient itself to reflect the aspirations and needs of the children of the contemporary society, noted lyricist Gulzar today said that most of the Bollywood films are insensitive to aspirations of children.
“One could say that most of the films made in Bollywood are just childish even when they were made for adults, due to their lack of social perspective and insensitive to aspirations of children,” he said.
Gulzar was speaking at the Open Forum on the theme of “Is it time to redefine children’s cinema?” at the 16th International Children?s Film Festival here.
He said that the Indian film industry has still not realised the huge potential of the children?s films market and added, “Children films need original ideas and cannot be produced on borrowed thoughts and themes.
–Agencies