Pooja Bhatt, who started her filmmaking career with Zakhm, says if she had made her National Award-winning film Tamanna today, it would have been a money-spinner as well.
Tamanna was awarded the National Film Award for Best Film on Other Social Issues in 1996. Bhatt produced it while Mahesh Bhatt directed it.
“I know that if I made Tamanna today, I wouldn’t have received just critical acclaim, but it would have also been a money-spinner. I would have got the right audience and it is a very relevant film. I got the National award for it,” the 42-year-old said on Sunday at the closing ceremony of the fifth Jagran film festival.
Bhatt added that it was tough to sustain interest in such an off-beat film in those days.
“Today’s time is an exciting time for filmmakers. When I made my first film Tamanna, I was 21 and there were no multiplexes and no platforms like these festivals. I had to release the film in the Metro cinema, which just had a capacity of 1,500. It was very difficult to sustain in those days,” she said.
Bhatt turned director with Paap in 2003 and is currently working on her next film Cabaret.
