Naseeruddin Shah calls a spade a spade exclusively on NewsX

MUMBAI: Veteran actor, director and producer Naseeruddin Shah, speaks exclusively to NewsX on the farce that Mumbai film industry is. On the sidelines of a theatre workshop at Srinagar, in a candid conversation with the channel, the actor spoke about the films, film industry and his colleagues.

Speaking about why he was not doing many films he said he was ?Terribly fatigued at the thought of acting in movies.?

For him ?Movie acting is the most boring job in the world. No one would do it if it weren?t for the money.?

He also talked about it because he was not getting exciting scripts. ?We do not exactly produce greatest scripts in the world, we are still content to churn out what the hacks who pass off as writers in the film industry on the last Hollywood film they have seen.?

On being asked about doing comedy films he said, ?The man who made `Jaane bhi do Yaaron` doesn?t show any signs of waking out of his stupor. But there are a number of youngsters who are producing promising scripts.?

He also lashed out at the critics of his film ‘A Wednesday‘ and his friend director Govind Nihlani.

According to him Govind Nihalani made a ?wretched film? called Dev for which ?he should be punished ?It was a rabid RSS philosophy in that film?

He then goes on to add that Om Puri ?Who (Om Puri) is far superior actor to the other gentleman (Amitabh Bachchan) who is acting in the film.?

He also talked about how ?There are no friends in Bollywood.? (repeats thrice).

And that he is fortunate ?that nature has saved me for major stardom and condemned me to play the same role film after film.?

In the valley for a theatre workshop he also spoke about how the ?Youth of this area has been exposed to hardly anything except brutality and Hindi movies. The worst possible combination.?