TE3N: Do thrillers have limited audience reach? Amitabh Bachchan answers!

I personally don't remember any Bollywood thriller film, after Kahaani, that has surprised me. I guess that comes with the territory. Usually, the thriller genre has a very limited audience reach. Specially in the time of the social network boom, the suspense is out within minutes after the first day first show ends.

Wazir could not work, Fan fizzled out. And it was time for TE3N to weave magic. The film brings back fond memories of Kahaani but will it be able to do a Kahaani at the box office? 

Talking about the limitations of the genre, Big B disagrees completely. "I don't think social media can kill a film like this. Thrillers are like romantic films. You know ki hero-heroines will have to face a lot of problems but eventually, you know they will have a happy ending. You know how the story will culminate. Why can't people watch a thriller with a similar mindset? They definitely can. I don't think thrillers have a limited audience reach."

But when we tell him that none of the thrillers have worked at the BO, ever since Kahaani, he explains, "I think tastes will change as people start watching different kinds of films. The entertainment value in such kind of films was there earlier on as well. We have lovely thriller films from the past by Dada Munim, Sunil Dutt, Mehboob sa’ab and they were huge successes. Mahal was one of the biggest successes and it was a suspense film. They are being made from those times. But sometimes people like to go and watch escapist films. Speaking of some of the films that I have enjoyed, Alfred Hitchcock’s films have been wonderful."