Salman Khan: Small films should get fair chance

Salman Khan talks about small films.

Superstar Salman Khan feels India should aim to produce medal-winning athletes by encouraging sports and help the talented ones to unlock their potential through coaching.

Salman was speaking here last night at the music launch of ‘Khwaabb’, a sports drama film showcasing the struggle of our athletes. The album is available on Junglee Music.

“I have played all kind of sports in life like football, cricket, swimming, skating, riding, etc. I think sports in general should be encouraged, I feel such films will make you realize that there is no facility for training. If that is not there.. then how will they perform and then people say our guys are not winning Olympic medals. There is no encouragement. I think India should buck up,” Salman said.

The film is an intense journey set in the larger, bureaucratic world of Indian sports. It illustrates why a country with a population of 1.2 billion people cannot produce winners.

‘Khwaabb’ is the story of two such athletes and their struggle to succeed in the cutthroat, debauched and mired world of Indian sports.

  

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Ask him what facilities are required for sportsmen, Salman says, “I think equipments, coaching should be top of the line, quota for poor, these small things make huge encouragement and difference.”

Apparently, Salman, who is supporting the film, has made some changes in it.

“I have made changes.. Its just like the pace of the film, there was length issue so I trimmed it and made it fast paced, with background score. It is a nicely made film with a good intention,” the actor said.

Salman associated himself with a small film like this because he believes such movies do need encouragement.

“Small films are made with passion and love. These films don’t see light of the day. I feel these films need to be supported… our support makes a difference. Small films should get fair chance so that they get released,” he said.

The ‘Dabbangg’ Khan does plan to produce small films. He has launched a production house — Being Filmi — for this initiative.

Produced by Arjuna awardee Moraad Ali Khan, the film is directed by Zaid Ali Khan and features newcomers Navdip Singh and Simer Motiani in lead roles.

“If you are a sports lover, or a sportsperson or your kids play sports; I can assure you that Khwaabb will relate to some part of your own story. The story is truly entertaining and inspirational,” producer Moraad Ali said.

hyam Ramsay: People say the ghosts in my films were not scary

Patcy N in Mumbai

'People criticise me saying that the ghosts in my films sometimes wore canvas shoes and were not scary. That is true. In those days, we were not technically sound.'

'Films were made on a very low budget, so if there was a small defect, we would let it pass, and audiences often didn’t catch those defects.'

Shyam Ramsay tells us his 'horror' story.

The pioneers of horror cinema -- the Ramsays -- are making a comeback with yet another horror film, Neighbours.

And it’s themed on the topic of the day -- vampires.

Producer-director Shyam Ramsay talks to Patcy N about his new film, and also looks back at his classic scary movies that have made us associate his name with horror.

He also tells us just who the Ramsays are, how they got into the movie-making business and why sex is so important in horror movies.

Early days

My father F U Ramsay and his family came to Mumbai from Pakistan after Partition.

He financed a film called Shaheed-E-Azad Bhagat Singh in 1954. The film did well, and he wanted to make more films.

He made a historical drama called Rustom Sohrab (1963), with Prithviraj Kapoor, Premnath, Mumtaz and Suraiya.

In Prithviraj Kapoor-starrer Ek Nanhi Munni Ladki Thi (1970), all the Ramsay brothers, including me, assisted. I was 22 then.

In a robbery scene in the film, Prithviraj Kapoor steals an antique from a museum. He uses a face mask to disguise himself.

The mask was imported. It was so horrifying that the film’s publicity was based entirely on this one mask. Posters of the mask were made and published everywhere.

Before that, nobody had seen a horrifying face on the big screen. People went to the theatre just to see Prithviraj Kapoor in that scary mask.

That’s when we thought that if audiences love to watch such scary faces, why not make a full-fledged horror film?

I directed India’s first horror film, Do Gaz Zameen Ke Neeche (1972).

After that, we made approximately 32 films, and all of them were horror films.

Salman Khan not keen on doing small scale films

Bollywood superstar Salman Khan said on Thursday(January 23) he was interested in larger-than-life films and not in “small-scale” ones.
Salman Khan, whose potboilers ‘Wanted’, ‘Dabangg’, ‘Bodyguard’, ‘Ek Tha Tiger’ did well at Box Office, has also acted in films like ‘Phir Milenge’ among others. He will be doing a special song in his brother-in-law Atul Agnihotri’s home production film ‘Oh Teri’.
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“As an actor, I don’t want to do such kind of (small) films. If someone asks me to do such kind of films again then I might do a guest appearance in it. These are beautiful films but one will watch it on DVD or on TV but not go to theatre,” Salman Khan said at the trailer launch of ‘Oh Teri’.
The actor said he was happy doing larger-than-life stuff. “I will continue to do such films”, he added. The trailer of ‘Oh Teri’ will be played along with Salman Khan’s ‘Jai Ho’, which releases today.
“It (Oh Teri) is a lovely film. I liked the humour… the plot of this film. It is a relevant film in today’s time”, the actor said.
‘Oh Teri’, produced by Atul Agnihotri, stars Pulkit Samrat and Sarah Jane Dias in the lead. Salman Khan, known for launching newcomers like Katrina Kaif, Zarine Khan, Sonakshi Sinha, Daisy Shah to name a few, has given a break to actor Bilal.
“I believe in giving chance to newcomers but sometimes my choices have gone wrong too”, he quipped.

Shah Rukh ecstatic to be a superstar despite flop films

According to the Press Trust of India Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh has expressed his delight over still being considered the king of Indian film industry despite delivering several flops.

Khan made his acting debut in 1988 with super-hit Indian TV serial ‘Fauji’ and has since appeared in around 80 films in a career spanning more than two decades.

“It has been an amazing journey till now. It is fantastic time to be here,” Khan was quoted as saying by the Press Trust of India.

“I have done 70-80 films out of which 50 per cent are flops, still I am star… but those films are close to me.”

SRK, who has given several blockbuster hits most notably 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge', 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai', 'Kabhi Kushi Kabhi Ghum', 'Om Shanti Om' and 'Chennai Express', will next be seen in Farah Khan’s ‘Happy New Year’.

The film is slated to release on October 23rd, 2014. It will feature Deepika Padukone as the leading actress, while Abhishek Bachchan, Boman Irani, Sonu Sood and Vivaan Shah will be seen in supporting roles.