Don’t know if we’ve lost songdance culture in films: Saif
Actor Saif Ali Khan feels that there was a time when music acted as a catalyst in making a film successful, but he’s not sure if the formula still works in Bollywood.
The 47-year-old actor, who has delivered musical hits in films such as Hum Tum (2004), Salaam Namaste (2005) and Cocktail (2012), says that the experimental phase that Bollywood is going through has somewhat diluted the significance of song-and-dance routine.
“As we have grown or changed, there is less and less songs. I don’t know if it is a good thing (or not)... In the outskirts of India and rural areas, and in cabs, people listen to Hindi music a lot. I think part of hero’s charm is to sing songs. I don’t know if we have lost that culture (or not),” Saif said at the launch of Swagpur Ka Chaudhary song from his upcoming film Kaalakaandi. “When we do a film, we need music to promote it and make it more interesting,” he added.
In 2016, Saif did two films, Rangoon and Chef, and both did not do as good as expected at the box office. Talking about the year gone-by, the actor said, “It wasn’t particularly great, but I learned a lot about acting and worked with lot of wonderful people, who taught me new things... I’m a changed actor to what I was when I was doing Phantom (2015)... I have managed to keep abreast and move with the current style and it is the greatest thing I could have achieved.”