PUBLISHED ABOUT 4 HOURS AGO Is Hollywood a threat to the Indian film industry? Big B definitely thinks so

 

With huge Hollywood hits triumphing Bollywood releases in the box office, Amitabh Bachchan feels that this is a threat to take seriously.

According to Indian Express, Bachchan said, “We have to fight them. This is competition. We know that Hollywood is very powerful. Wherever it has gone, it has destroyed the local film industry. Be it United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain or Japan, everywhere they go they just take over and that’s what is happening here. So we have to fight. Competition is good,”

The upcoming TE3N's lead has been wary of this rise since his meeting with the chief of a giant production house in 1995.

“I have been on several holidays to the US. Every time I used to go there, all these big corporations like Warner Bros, Sony, Twentieth Century Fox used to send me letters saying they wanted to meet me. I used to ignore them. ‘Why would they want to meet me when they don’t even know me,’ I used to ask myself. Why are they sending me these letters?" says Bachchan, recollecting the encounter.

"I had a lawyer friend in New York and he used to say, ‘Why don’t you go and meet them. There is no harm.’ So I finally went and for more than an hour, the chief who I met spoke non-stop about the entire film industry of our country. He had every knowledge of how we do our films, how we produce them, the financials, the distribution, the actors who they are and what they do. I was shocked. I came back and asked my lawyer friend, ‘How did this happen?’ He said, ‘Mr. Bachchan go back home ,go back to your country because the Americans are coming. So get your house in order.'”

Bachchan is all for competition but claims that his prediction should have been taken seriously back in the day as he adds, "I predicted that in 1995 when I made ABCL (Amitabh Bachchan Corporation Ltd) that the Americans will come and they will have so much money that we will only be a drop in the ocean. So let’s get our house in order.”

 

 

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