It's Time To Make Content-Driven Films Mainstream

BHISHEK Banerjee balances it well. Last year, he reprised his role of the audience-favourite Jana in the rip-roaring Stree 2.

- KARTIK BHARDWAJ

BHISHEK Banerjee balances it well. Last year, he reprised his role of the audience-favourite Jana in the rip-roaring Stree 2. While the horror-comedy was in theatres, parallelly playing was the action-thriller Vedaa, in which Abhishek, contrastingly, essayed the role of a cruel antagonist. Now, he returns to the hinterland thriller genre with Karan Tejpal's debut directorial, Stolen. Most actors, once they smell big-budget, find it tough to go back to their more indie, content-driven roots. The reasons can be ample: public perception, personal ambitions, and market requirements. Abhishek, however, keeps it simple. For him, it all boils down to real estate. "Once you move to this city (Mumbai), your success is measured by the number of rooms you have in a housing society," he says. "If you get out of the mindset of constantly levelling up from one to two or two to three BHK apartments—probably by buying a house in Goa—and only focus on the number of good films and good characters you do, it becomes easier."

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