Farah Khan says she can make potboilers better than anyone

Oct 27, 2014 NR

Riding on the wave of the record-breaking opening that her movie “Happy New Year” has got, director Farah Khan says she would do more potboilers and'll do them "better than a man".

“We live in a sexist country where women are put down, treated badly and told that they can’t do things that men do. Being a woman, numbers have come like this. Not only a woman director, but no male director has also got this kind of an opening. So, we should definitely celebrate it", she said.

Known for making fast paced films with oodles of romance, action, comedy and drama, the mother of three children doesn’t want to be “pressurised” by reviews.

“I don’t want to be pressurised by any critic who thinks that I should make certain type of movie, which is slow, boring and so-called sensitive and I shouldn’t be making this because this is a man’s territory. I will do it and do better than a man”, she said.

“It takes a lot to write a script that one billion people will accept and to make it big, funny and clean without having sexist jokes, bad language, or cheap humour."

"It’s very easy to please five critics, but very difficult to please the entire nation which is so diverse in its thoughts, behaviour and likes”, she added.

Farah's Diwali release “Happy New Year” collected Rs.108.86 crore from the biggest-ever opening weekend for an Indian movie. Click the Movie button below for more info:
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