Filmmaker Prakash Jha, who is primarily known for making political dramas, on Wednesday said he is yet to see any social change effected by films.
While talking to media persons here, Jha said, “I have not witnessed films making any change in the society,” Jha, is here to promote his upcoming film Jai Gangaajal.
The movie, starring Priyanka Chopra in the lead role is releasing on March 4. He said that Jai Gangaajal is the seventh movie that he has shot in Bhopal.
“People of Bhopal are very cooperative. My movie shoots here have not been hindered for even seven minutes. I don’t miss my home State Bihar when I am in Bhopal ,” he added.
Speaking on the intolerance row, Jha said he never experienced any kind of intolerance. “I got the permission for rallies and traffic diversions even at the busiest areas of the city, within few minutes. This helped and we continued to make movies without any hurdle,” he added.
To a query, he said that he doesn’t have any plans to make a movie of Vyapam scam, a massive admission and recruitment racket in Madhya Pradesh. “I have not done any research on it,” he said.
Jha, who had wanted to become an MP but failed, says he no longer desires to associate with any political party. “I have no interest in becoming a part of any
political ideology or party,”
Jha said, adding that it was only that Bihar CM Nitish Kumar had asked him and he had agreed.
Notably, Jha had lost the lok Sabha election from Bettiah in Bihar in 2014 as a Janata Dal-United candidate. He had unsuccessfully contested as an Independent in 2004 and on a lJP ticket in 2009 from the same constituency.