Sanjay Dutt launches his production house 'Three Dimension Motion Pictures'

Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt is launching production company Three Dimension Motion Pictures with a view to bringing back the golden age of heroism to the industrySanjay cites the recent panIndian box office success of South Indian film Pushpa and the films of Baahubali filmmaker SS Rajamouli as an example of the vanished largerthanlife heroism in Bollywood reports varietycomWere trying to get back what we had what the South Indian films are doing now Dutt tells VarietyWhen we entered the film industry we started off with the heroism the heroic roles the mass love and everything and I just saw that stopping And I am trying to revive thatSanjay debuted with Rocky in 1981 in an era where leading men of mainstream Indian cinema were written as a complete heroic package Today that genre in the Hindi film industry has reduced to a niche or a little gap as Dutt describes itWhat Denzel Washington and Kevin Costner and Mel Gibson are doing in Hollywood I think that little gap is missing here Im trying to get that gap back of a hero of that age who can perform and who can fight and who can stand for his rights the actor saidThe golden age it just cant die Even if you look at Hollywood it exists there and in the South I dont know what happened to Bollywood But thats what were trying to get back those days of heroism he addedThree Dimension is prepping a slate which includes horrorcomedy The Virgin Tree to be directed by Sidhaant Sachdev who has TV music video and assisting experience and will make his feature debut with a cast of four newcomersPrincipal photography begins in MayThe rest of the slate is not titled yet but includes a family drama some action films with younger actors and some more action films with a mature man as heroI will be starring in not all of them but some of them says DuttI would like to relax as the producer after 40 years of being in the industry be on the sets on the other side of it That will be an experience for me Ive never been in that chair before Im looking forward to thatWhile the Three Dimension slate also includes series for streaming platforms the films are all meant for theatrical release I believe in the big screen I know it can never die down I know that OTT streaming is an important part of filmmaking today But I know eventually theaters will open up and there will be some films only made for theaters Dutt saidThe actor squarely blames the vanished Bollywood heroism on the suitsI feel that this whole corporate structure coming and encroaching our space in Bollywood ruined everythingBecause those guys sitting on the table and who are giving the money have got no right to interfere with the director for his creation or with the actors or give their thought to content or a script when they dont have any idea about it when its not their business the actor saidTheir business is funding and thats where the business ends But once you start interfering in the script and in the direction and in the budgets and this and that then things go haywire and thats why I think we lost out on a lot of good stuff during that time Dutt addsWhereas in the South this corporate structure does not exist From the producer to the director to everybody involved in the teama theyre passionate about making good films and that is the thing which has worked for themAnd that has gone against us because that passion of making movies or that passion of making something great and working and performing is gone Which I think will come back At least in my company it will come backAs an actor Dutt has several films delayed because of Covid due including the historical Prithviraj alongside Akshay Kumar period action drama Shamshera with Ranbir Kapoor and crime drama KGF Chapter 2 the sequel to the 2018 Kannadalanguage film that became a panIndia blockbusterDutts own life has been colorful enough to adapt as a Bollywood film A popular actor from the 1980s to the present day he also went through a period of drug abuse endured multiple bereavements and overcame cancerFrom 1993 to 2016 Dutt was in and out of prison on charges of possessing weapons during the 1993 Bombay bombingsI served time in prison and I came out Then I was welcomed back by the film industry which is like family to me and its always great the way they supported me Dutt saidAnd then it was this phase of cancer which also Im out of Im doing great nowWhile the actor had a string of hits behind him Rajkumar Hiranis Munna Bhai MBBS and its sequel Lage Raho Munna Bhai produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra endeared Dutt to a whole new generation of fansDutt says that he has asked Hirani and Chopra about the third part several times and has suggested that since he and Warsi are now older the script reflect thatThey are in the thinking process and God willing itll happen says DuttWhen asked if Three Dimension would be the logical home for a streaming series on Dutts life he said Youve put that seed in my head Im going to be thinking about it nowThis story 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