Mohit Suri: India Experiences Cinema With Entire Body, Not Just Head Or Heart

MUMBAI -Director Mohit Suri, who delivered the blockbuster in the form of ‘Saiyaara’ earlier this year, recollected the most valuable teaching of his mentor.

He said, “India, as my mentor taught me, doesn’t watch films with the head or the heart but with the body. When you see a thrilling scene, you clap. It’s a body reaction. You have a sensual scene playing in front of you; it actually turns you on. You see an emotional film, you cry, which is a physical reaction. When you enjoy a hero’s dancing, you get up and you dance. You see the reactions that you’re seeing of people in the crowd, their body reactions, and people are reacting and shouting and screaming. That’s how India watches cinema.”

He further mentioned, “This is how we are emotional people. And we show our emotions with our body, not with our head and heart. So, I think for a filmmaker, you need to enjoy things that way. And that’s the only way to do it, the audience feels the same.”

‘Saiyaara’ has done to this generation what ‘Kaho Naa… Pyaar Hai’ did to the millennials or ‘Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak’ did to Generation X with its debutants. (IANS)