Karan Johar stresses ‘Indian cinema’, saying “We are not in the woods anymore”

Bollywood ace director Karan Johar on Friday said that the Indian film industry should not be referred to as ‘Bollywood’ or ‘Tollywood’ and start treating it as one industry.

Meanwhile, during a press event of ‘Brahmastra’ Karan delivered an important message in Hyderabad.

“We, in our own tiny way, are trying to reach every corner (of the country with our film). Like SS Rajamouli sir said, this is Indian cinema. Let’s not call it anything else. We keep giving it a wood…Bollywood, Tollywood. We are not in the woods anymore, we are out of them. We are proudly part of Indian cinema. Each and every film will be now from Indian cinema,” Johar emphasized.

Moreover, ‘KGF’ star Yash also asked to stop everyone from classifying Indian cinema into sub-categories in April 2022.

“I think people have moved on. It’s high time we have to understand that it’s one industry and stop classifying it into categories. After that so much has changed. If it would not have changed, people would not have accepted it (pan Indian films with star cast from different film industries) in such a big way,” Johar said, referring to the release of his film ‘KGF 2’ and ‘RRR’.

In the movie ‘KGF 2’ Sanjay Dutt and Raveena Tandon also starred apart from Yash and in ‘RRR’ Alia Bhatt and Ajay Devgn starred alongside NTR and Ram Charan.

However, talking about Karan Johar’s work front he is currently busy on his next directorial project ‘Rocky aur Rani Ki Prem Kahani’. The movie stars Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt and is scheduled to release on February 10, 2023.