Amitabh Bachchan: Film has lost its charm

Amitabh Bachchan

Amitabh Bachchan, who met multiple Oscar-nominated filmmaker Christopher Nolan to talk about celluloid films in the digital era, rues that films have lost their charm due to the growth of digitalisation. "The word film has suddenly lost its charm, for there does not seem to be any need to shoot films on film. It's all digital now," Bachchan wrote on his blog.

He shared his thoughts as he reflected on a roundtable event held to debate and ascertain the importance of film heritage and its preservation. Nolan and visual artist Tacita Dean are here for the fourth edition of Reframing the Future of Film, hosted by Viacom18 in association with the Film Heritage Foundation.

The cine icon, 75, pointed out that what was once known as the "film industry", where celebrities were "known as 'film stars'", has now gone digital. "In the absence of that medium and that product, it would be quite in order to call ourselves 'robotic genes' or words of similar sound…. 'digi act' or 'digi digi'. Whatever… it would be an issue that would need consideration," he added.

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