Shah Rukh Khan’s Pathaan director Siddarth Anand BASHES people for calling it ‘pale imitation of Hollywood’

Recently, this was addressed by director Siddharth Anand. Comparisons, according to him, are "inevitable."

The action extravaganza starring Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan has become one of the most successful Hindi movies ever. John Abraham and Deepika Padukone play significant parts in the Siddharth Anand-directed film. In the high-octane actioner, SRK, who plays a spy in the movie, is shown pulling off life-threatening manoeuvres. Although the picture garnered favourable reviews, it was also contrasted with Hollywood productions.

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In a recent interview, Siddharth discussed the reasons behind comparisons between Hollywood movies and Pathaan. He said to Gulf News, "That’s inevitable when you make a film that’s beyond the conventions of Bollywood films. You’re instantly compared to Hollywood, which obviously has better infrastructure, better technology, and huger budgets. It will always seem like we’re trying to imitate that, but our limitations are much more. We also have ambitions, our directors have the ability to mount films, but we’re limited by reach because our films are made in one language, which is Hindi. Our revenues are directly proportional to the budgets we can afford."

"I have to admit, I haven’t watched more than two MCU films. I’m not a fan of that genre. I’ve seen a couple of them. My son is a huge fan, and he’s an encyclopedia. He briefs me and keeps me up to date. I have to run my scripts and my sequences past him, and he’ll say, ‘No, dad, this is in that film. No, you can’t do this, this has already been done.’ I’m like, ‘What the hell do I do?’ So, I take ideas from him on how to manoeuvre things around. I think I should get on the bandwagon and start watching those films, so that there’s no overlap," stated the director.

Pathaan, meanwhile, has raked in a total of Rs 667 crore worldwide in just eight days.