Live | The Huddle 2018| We need to have new blood in cinema: Ratna Patak Shah

Bengaluru | Sunday | 18th February, 2018

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This is when I realised what cinema could do"Stating that we need to have new blood in cinema, Ms.

Shah says, "The incestuous world of cinema is dangerous." On what directors expect out of women actors, Ms.

Shah says, "In India, an actress who can cry is a wonderful actor. On films like Dabangg, she says it gives out such a dangerous message especially about women, Ms.

Shah said, "Films like these do not talk well of our civilisation." In conversation with Veena Venugopal, Associate Editor, The Hindu1 p.m.Stating that Bollywood is not India, Ms.

Shah says, "I come from a time when people talked about India they talked about great art. With economic growth China may look towards strategic dominance, and India needs to be prepared for this..