National-award winning director Bhaskar Hazarika says his brief stint in Bollywood left him with the memorable lesson that there is no respect for writers in the biggest film industry of the country.
Bhaskar, who made the award-winning horror anthology "Kothanodi" in 2015 and is now creating waves with "Aamis", also has writing credit for the forgettable Abbas-Mustan thriller "Players".
This, the director explained, was at a time when he was trying hard to make his work count in Bollywood, which remained largely unmoved by original, daring ideas.
"In Bollywood, there's no respect for writers. I'm not saying this out of angst, this is a fact. They don't value writing. People here treat writing as a hobby," Bhaskar told PTI.
The director said interesting content will happen only if one empowers the writers. "Otherwise you'll get the same rehashed ones in different formats. That's started hurting me."
The director said he finds the concept of taboo exciting because "almost all of us have at least entertained that thought, if not acted upon it."
"It can be as simple as a Gujarati guy who eats an omelet to rebel or a Muslim guy who says he's turning vegetarian much to the discomfort of his parents. You want to take small chances to rebel against the society, sometimes they can become destructive."
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