Actor Sanjay Kapoor feels it’s great that makers have started exploring different kinds of stories and are not hell-bent on making projects that cater to audiences across India: “Now, actors are offered different kinds of roles, something that didn’t happen earlier. The makers weren’t capable of taking risks and had to cater to the whole of India. Today, they are comfortable in making films for a certain target audience, which is great.”

Kapoor, 56, adds that makers have more confidence in their stories now and are certain that even a film with an offbeat subject will find an audience. “Sometimes, there are films that even run in the interior parts of India. Neerja (2016) by Sonam (K Ahuja, actor and his niece) and (actor) Alia Bhatt’s Raazi (2018) for example. Though they were very different, such films suddenly got a universal appeal. These were some breakthrough films,” shares the actor, who will soon be seen in filmmaker Ali Abbas Zafar’s Bloody Daddy and director Sriram Raghavan’s Merry Christmas.

Kapoor feels had his 1999 film, Sirf Tum, released today, it’d have been ideal for OTT. “The kind of music and story it had, it would have been a perfect OTT film today,” the actor ends.