‘Superstars should do content-based cinema’

Actor Brijendra Kala, known for his comic roles in PK and Jab We Met, feels top stars in Bollywood should try their hands at content-based films so that the divide between mainstream and off-beat cinema decreases.
Brijendra said a lot of character-actors like him do script-driven movies, which go unnoticed due to lack of star presence. He thinks the audience will become more receptive to such films if popular actors start doing them.
“I feel the top stars of the industry should do off-beat films. Why don’t they try a ‘Paan Singh Tomar’? Cinema will improve if the superstars do even one such film out of the 10 commercial movies they usually star in.
“Big production houses should make such cinema with stars. These stars will also get to know about this kind of cinema,” Brijendra told PTI during a visit here.
Praising superstar Aamir Khan, Brijendra said he is one such actor, who balances his career with a good mix of commercial and substance cinema. “Aamir is that one superstar, who keeps doing films with diverse subjects.
He is a different star altogether. He keeps break-ing his own records,” he said. Brijendra said he has enjoyed being a part of critically-acclaimed movies like ‘Ankhon Dekhi’ and ‘Paan Singh Tomar’ more than the big-budget films. “It feels nice that people remember characters-actors like us even in the small roles that we do in big, commerical films.(PTI)