Bipasha says nobody watches art films

Actor wants to do good roles in mainstream films.

KOLKATA: Observing that art films have no takers, popular Bollywood actor Bipasha Basu has decided to stick to entertaining roles in mainstream cinema.

The 34-year-old tried her luck with art films as she featured in Shob Charitro Kalponik and Pankh.

“As an actor, I want to do good roles — and I want to do good roles in entertaining films. I don’t want to do good roles in art house cinema, which no one is going to watch,” Bipasha told reporters on Monday.

“I have done that in a particular year. I was only trying to do artistic films and I really worked hard on them, but nobody watched them except me,” she added. “So I want to do films where I entertain people — where people will come to the theatre and yet I have scope for performing as well.”

In the city to promote her upcoming horror flick Aatma, Bipasha clarified that she is not shunning art house movies.



“I never said that I won’t be doing any art films,” said Bipasha. “At this moment, I am focusing on films which will earn money and at the same time, films I will get to perform in.”

And the actor was on the back foot when media bombarded her with questions related to her previous comment “nobody watches art films”.

“The division between art and mainstream cinema is shrinking. Things are changing and audiences are opening out to watch all kinds of films. So it is actually moving to better times now,” she explained.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 13^th, 2013.

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