Set for simultaneous release on Friday on over 2,000 screens worldwide, including 200 in North America, Kites, starring Hrithik Roshan and Mexican star Barbara Mori, may well open the global movie market to Indian films.
“If Kites does even five percent well of what we have thought, well, we have opened the door, not for me and my film, but for many young filmmakers in India,” producer Rakesh Roshan – and Hritik’s father – told IANS in an phone interview from New York.
“They have good ideas, but they are not as good as producers because they are scared that ‘No, no, this will not work’,” he said. “So once you have a bigger territory globally and have an audience to see it, then you can take a chance to make a film like that.
So how did Rakesh Roshan think of Kites? To make a film to release globally “I thought the best story to pick up is a love story. And when kites fly they don’t know who is holding the string – an Indian, an American or a Mexican”. The Mexican kite girl and the Indian boy “don’t speak each other’s language and still they fall in love and we show that language is no barrier. Love has no language”.
Roshan thinks Kites will do well among non-Indian audiences too. “My gut feeling is that whenever you go out in a different path and make a film and make it honestly and put your heart and soul in it, audiences do accept it.”
With many Bollywood films tackling unusual subjects, Roshan thinks Indian audiences have “grown up”. “What has happened till now is that most of the filmmakers underestimated the audience. They feel, ‘No, they will not understand’. But I feel today’s generation is far ahead than what we think.” Roshan, who has for once handed over the directorial reins of a film starring his son to another director, said: “It just happened on the spur of the moment.”
He liked Basu’s Gangster and wanted him to make a film with Hrithik. Basu thought Rakesh Roshan was joking when he asked him to direct the movie “because I have nothing to prove. The only thing is we have to make a good film for Hrithik. It’s my banner. So either I direct it or you direct it.”
Roshan thinks Kites will do well among non-Indian audiences too. “My gut feeling is that whenever you go out in a different path and make a film and make it honestly and put your heart and soul in it, audiences do accept it.”
With many Bollywood films tackling unusual subjects, Roshan thinks Indian audiences have “grown up”. “What has happened till now is that most of the filmmakers underestimated the audience. They feel, ‘No, they will not understand’. But I feel today’s generation is far ahead than what we think.” Roshan, who has for once handed over the directorial reins of a film starring his son to another director, said: “It just happened on the spur of the moment.”
He liked Basu’s Gangster and wanted him to make a film with Hrithik. Basu thought Rakesh Roshan was joking when he asked him to direct the movie “because I have nothing to prove. The only thing is we have to make a good film for Hrithik. It’s my banner. So either I direct it or you direct it.”
And does he see Hrithik crossing over to Hollywood? “I haven’t made this film to launch him in Hollywood. I have made the film to show the global world how good an actor he is,” Roshan said. “And if a good character or a good role comes to him by a good director… doing an Indian film or doing a Hollywood film is one and the same thing.”
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