pratik on b'wood's box-office lull: it's a cyclic thing, will settle down
India, May 28 -- The Hindi film industry is struggling to rake in the moolah at the box office, and actor Pratik Gandhi, whose recent release, Phule, too faced a similar challenge, sees it as an imminent phase. "Any industry will come to that flash point once, where innovation will happen and things will change for good. It will settle down and will again go up to that flash point. So, it's a cyclic thing that will keep happening," he says.
The actor prefers to look at the positive side of it though, crediting the presence of different mediums and kinds of work. "It is a good time to be an artiste, as there are so many avenues. Even if you have a story for a short film, you have an audience for that, because there is a platform to showcase it. Earlier, it used to be a problem, as you didn't have a medium to show it. Now you have such opportunities. So, it is a great time to be an artiste, a writer, director or anybody," he says.
However, Pratik acknowledges that while getting work might not be difficult, the main challenge lies in bagging big, commercial Bollywood outings. "It is very difficult to breakthrough in the mainstream industry. It's highly competitive, as there are so many actors. Apart from that, it's very difficult for anyone coming from out of the industry, who doesn't know anybody. You don't know whom to approach, who to meet or ask for work. You don't even know where to go and give an audition," he says....
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