MUMBAI: Veteran Bollywood actor Naseeruddin Shah has said that Indian cinema shouldn’t be remembered just for only one kind of cinema. In his more than 4 decades career so far, the actor doesn’t want the people shouldn’t end up seeing only one kind of cinema – “Salman Khan Films”.
During an interaction with a leading news agency, the actor said,”I consider it my responsibility to take part in such films. All my serious works are a representative of their times. Cinema will survive. These films would be seen 200 years later.
“People should know what the India of 2018 was like. They shouldn’t end up seeing only Salman Khan films 200 years later. India is not like that. Cinema is for posterity,” he adds.
According to Hindustan Times, the Ishqiya was all praises for the Indian cinema. “I feel that cinema can’t change society or bring a revolution”.
“I’m also not sure of cinema as a medium of education. Documentaries can be educative, not feature films. People see them and forget. The only serious function films can serve is to act as a record of their times,” Shah said.
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The 68-year-old actor said that he is always keen to work with youngsters. “I am totally for first timers. I always hear them seriously. I have done so many films with first-timers and I’ve e never regretted it,” he says.