Star culture continues to prevail in Bollywood despite the meteoric rise of OTT, Rahul Bose feels. The actor, whose film Berlin is set to be screened at Red Lorry Film Festival in Mumbai, says that audiences prefer watching superstars onscreen regardless of their performance.

“You don’t care whether they’re playing a villager or an industrialist. You just want to see them. You don’t care how they act,” he told Times Now when asked about actor Kangana Ranaut’s recent remarks that her and actor Shah Rukh Khan are the “last generation of superstars”.

Bose believes that charisma plays a major role in an actor’s success, and the “bad” ones get by on their ability to woo viewers. “The charisma of an actor becomes so strong that you only want to see them and you believe that you know them,” he said.

According to him, lacking charisma is a recipe for failure. “You can’t be non-charismatic. There are some very good actors who have zero charisma. They’re not going to get very far. There are some very bad actors who have lots of charisma. They’ll get far because cinema is a visual medium,” added the 56-year-old.