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Mumbai, Aug 17 (PTI) Commenting on the lukewarm response to "Laal Singh Chaddha", actor R Madhavan on Wednesday said filmmakers need to realise that they are catering to a "completely changed" audiences who have consumed world-class content during the coronavirus-induced lockdown.
At the teaser launch of his upcoming film "Dhokha - Round D Corner", the actor was asked to comment on the underwhelming performance of the recent big-ticket Hindi films, including the Aamir Khan-starrer "Laal Singh Chaddha".
The duo have previously shared screen space in "Rang De Basanti" and "3 Idiots".
"If we knew (why "Laal Singh Chaddha" didn"t work), we would all be making hit films.
Nobody starts off thinking that we"re making a wrong film.
The intent, hard work behind it is just as intense as with every film that an actor works on or doesn"t.
So, all the big films that have been released...
the intent was to make a good film and make it work," Madhavan told reporters here.
The actor also reflected on the success of his directorial debut "Rocketry: The Nambi Effect", which was simultaneously shot in English, Hindi, Tamil and dubbed in Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada.
"I think the only big difference with my film is that I was lucky that mine was a biopic so it is not time agnostic.