Sanjay Dutt Aims to Bring Heroism Back to Bollywood With Three Dimension Motion Pictures (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comNaman Ramachandran Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt (the Munna Bhai franchise, “Vaastav,” “Khal Nayak”) is launching production company Three Dimension Motion Pictures with a view to bringing back the golden age of heroism to the industry.Dutt cites the recent pan-Indian box office success of South Indian film “Pushpa” and the films of “Baahubali” filmmaker S.S.
Rajamouli as examples of the vanished larger-than-life heroism in Bollywood.“We’re trying to get back what we had, what the South Indian films are doing now,” Dutt tells Variety. “When we entered the film industry, we started off with the heroism, the heroic roles, the mass love and everything, and I just saw that stopping.
And I am trying to revive that.” Dutt, 62, the son of respected actors turned politicians Sunil and Nargis Dutt, debuted with “Rocky” (1981), in an era where leading men of mainstream Indian cinema were written as a complete heroic package.
In the Bollywood of today that genre is reduced to a niche, or a “little gap” as Dutt describes it.“What Denzel Washington and Kevin Costner and Mel Gibson are doing in Hollywood – I think that little gap is missing here.
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