Ajay Devgn: “Taanaji Has Nothing Controversial, I Am Not Worried About It”

After tasting the grand success of Golmaal Again, Ajay Devgn is all set to impress us yet again in Rajkumar Gupta’s Raid. The film also stars Ileana D’Cruz and Saurabh Shukla in the pivotal roles and it is slated to release on March 16, 2018.

Recently, we met Ajay Devgn for the Raid interviews. From Raid, to Taanaji, to Golmaal 5, to Singham 3, star system decline, next generation actors…Ajay candidly spoke about almost everything that you need to know about!

Excerpts from the interview:

Have you encountered an actual raid ever?

I’ve been raided once in the ’90s. I didn’t encounter it because I was shooting out of town. It went on for a day or two and in the end, they got nothing.

Raid is a true story. But how much it has been fictionalized?

Every film needs to be fictionalized because otherwise, it gets very boring. So it is just the screenplay. It is fictionalized as much as news people do.

There’s always been a debate that whatever is shown in the film is a reflection of the society. How do you look at it?

It is a fact! We make films what is happening in our society technically. Nothing is from outside. We are a corrupt society, so we show corruption. From the 50s or 60s, you pick up every decade, you see what kind of films have been made at that time. If you analyze that, you will realize that it is exactly what the society was at that time. So whatever is happening in the society is relevant. The stories of films are picked from here only.

You have had back to back films which were successful commercially as well as critically. Was there a phase ever in your career that you felt lost while doing your work?

I’ve been very lucky in that sense. Everybody goes through a phase when films don’t do well but someone analyzed it for me that in my whole career, except for a year or two, there has never been a year when I didn’t have a hit. Maybe if there are two or three flops, there has always been a hit. I’ve luckily never had a phase where I was struggling.

You just did a comedy film. Now, Raid is a serious genre. What kind of genres interests you or you are looking forward to?

I like rotating my genres, doing different things. Otherwise, I will get bored. I did Golmaal now Raid, then a rom-com and then Dhamaal. I think I’ve been lucky that I’ve tried most of the genres and they all have worked. Otherwise, an actor starts struggling. He wants to break out of a genre and then it gets very difficult. It (trying new genres) has got nothing to do with the stereotype. It’s about me enjoying my work and not getting repetitive and bored.