At a time when films have change into all about field workplace collections, the Indian cinema wants Javed Akhtar again as a screenwriter, filmmaker Mani Ratnam mentioned on Wednesday.

Ratnam’s remarks come days after ”Animal” makers on X slammed Akhtar for critcising the Ranbir Kapoor-starrer. Akhtar is a rock-solid man who has set the writing within the Indian movie trade to a ”structured excessive normal”, Ratnam, 67, mentioned. ”Sir, I’ve a request, I feel we’d like you (Akhtar) again writing screenplay. It will assist us loads, particularly in these occasions once we simply speak about numbers. I feel we’d like Javed sahab,” he mentioned on the CNN-News18 Indian of the Year 2023 occasion right here.

Seventy-nine-year-old Akhtar, who can also be a lyricist, offered the Indian Of The Year Award (Entertainment) to Ratnam, who was accompanied by his actor-filmmaker spouse Suhasini Ratnam.

Akhtar, who together with former writing accomplice Salim Khan, is understood for penning movies resembling ”Zanjeer”, ”Deewar” and ”Mr India”, lately mentioned that the business success of movies with problematic scenes was a ”harmful” development.

While he did not point out the identify of ”Animal”, the screenwriter cited the instance of the movie’s controversial bootlicking scene that includes Ranbir and Triptii Dimri, who play Ranvijay and Zoya.

Directed by Sandeep Reddy Vanga, ”Animal” was one of the crucial divisive movies of 2023 for its poor portrayal of ladies, misogyny and graphic violence. The movie, nevertheless, has earned greater than Rs 900 crore on the ticket window.

In response to Akhtar’s remarks, the ”Animal” workforce on X tagged him and wrote: ”Writer of your calibre can not perceive the betrayal of a lover (Between Zoya & Ranvijay) then all of your artwork kind is large FALSE…” At the occasion, Ratnam additionally quipped that he’ll direct a movie in Hindi when Akhtar writes a script for him. The lyricist mentioned the filmmaker is related even in any case these years.

”World is a conveyor belt. People come and go. The movie trade can also be like a conveyor belt, but it surely strikes a bit quicker. Very few individuals flip this conveyor belt into one thing strong… an immovable stage. They stand underneath the limelight as others are coming and going,” Akhtar mentioned. ”Success stays with those that stay like somebody who attracts respect and admiration with their work… somebody who has introduced one thing that was not there,” he mentioned.

Akhtar mentioned the movie trade in Mumbai was ”complacent” and ”satisfied of our superiority” until Ratnam arrived.

”Suddenly, a director got here from Tamil Nadu slapped us exhausting on our face with the type of work we had by no means seen. It was unprecedented. We had been positive of our superiority and he made us really feel like illiterate youngsters,” he added.

Ratnam is subsequent set to work with Kamal Haasan in ”Thug Life”.

The director mentioned it took him nearly 4 many years to reunite together with his ”Nayakan” star as he did not have the appropriate script for Haasan.

Later, Ratnam offered the Youth Icon Award to music composer Anirudh Ravichander, identified for movies resembling ”Jawan”, ”Vikram”, ”Maari” and ”Vikram Vedha”.

The filmmaker, who’s credited with giving a break to AR Rahman with 1992’s ”Roja”, referred to as Ravichander a ”musical genius”.

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