Independent films and directors bring fame to India but they don’t get enough support once they return home from festival rounds, says actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui, who believes that movies by Anurag Kashyap, Payal Kapadia, and Neeraj Ghaywan have done more to crack the international market than the big Bollywood projects.
According to Siddiqui, indie filmmakers depict characters from the streets and corners of India and reach audiences beyond just the diaspora.
“A lot can happen if such (independent) films are supported. We dismiss them as festival films. They get limited release and the makers of such films don’t get any support. But these are the films that bring fame to our country,” the actor told PTI in an interview here. PTI
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