Today’s Directors
There was time when we had star directors in bollywood. Guru Dutt, Mehboob Khan, Bimal Roy, Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Raj Kapoor, Manoj Kumar are to name a few. But today people are more concerned about who stars in the film. No body wants to watch films without stars. No matter if these stars are staring in films of directors who are first timers. Tashan is one such example. People are waiting for the film to hit the screen only for its star cast. Similarly Abbas Mastan played safe by casting Saif Ali Khan, Akshay Khanna, Anil Kapoor, Bipasha Basu, Katrina Kaif and Sameera Reddy in their film. Bimal Roy could make Devdas with Motilal and still make a hit film but nobody would have wanted to watch Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Devdas without Shah Rukh Khan, Ashwariya Rai and Madhuri Dixit.