The audience loves watching masala films, and I love to make what the audience likes. I also think it is easy to make a masala film.
What's very important for me is that I want family audiences - all kinds of audiences - to watch my films, and the more people who watch the movies, the better. So I want to be part of popular cinema.
I'm a fan of commercial films.
In terms of popular cinema, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is as near perfection as I can think of.
I never planned my movies. I never selected subjects to win the National Award. I did films that made the masses happy.
I never had a desire to leave mainstream Hollywood. And still don't think that I've left mainstream Hollywood.
Every actor's deepest desire is to reach a huge audience. So, I don't look down upon commercial cinema... there's a beauty in it that you understand sooner or later.
Let me be very frank. I make films keeping within the mainstream and my cinema is popular cinema. I love it this way.
There is no such thing as serious cinema in India.
I don't read the reviews because they're too horrible and the reviewers have not been big supporters of mine over the years, probably because I make these big populist movies and they hate it.
People think the effort is less in popular commercial cinema, but that's not true.
With superheroes and comics and fantasy and sci-fi being absolutely the popular currency in cinema, it's like people have said in endless magazines, it's the revenge of the geeks and all that. There's some truth in that.
