Amol Palekar: Box office result shouldn’t be the only yardstick to judge a film’s quality
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Amol Palekar: Box office result shouldn’t be the only yardstick to judge a film’s quality

The Hindu  

Amol Palekar, actor-director of Hindi and Marathi cinema, said he cannot relate to the current trend of films being judged based on their box office numbers. Speaking at The Hindu Lit for Life Dialogue at Christ in Bengaluru, the filmmaker said a box office result isn’t the ultimate yardstick to analyse a movie. Money is important, but it’s not everything when you talk about a work of art,” he said, during the session ‘A Life in Cinema’, hosted by author and columnist Balaji Vittal. Mr. Palekar said filmmakers must offer something new to the current generation.

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