His
directorial
venture
The
Dirty
Picture,
loosely
based
on
the
life
of
South
actor
Silk
Smitha,
has
become
one
of
the
most
memorable
Bollywood
films,
but
Milan
Luthria
believes
the
enthusiasm
the
audience
shows
towards
the
biopic
genre
will
soon
fizzle
out.
The
filmmaker
,who
was
a
part
of
panel
discussion
In
Someone
elses
shoes:
Fireside
chat
with
makers
of
stellar
biopics
along
with
Hansal
Mehta,
Nandita
Das
and
Dangal
fame
writer
Piyush
Gupta,
at
FICCI
Frames
event
here,
said
it
is
the
"laziness" that
prompts
a
lot
of
directors/writers
to
work
on
a
biopic.
"Earlier,
we
did
not
have
buyers
for
biopics,
like
for
The
Dirty
Picture.
Today,
the
acceptance
level
is
high.
But
I
am
afraid
we
might
be
reaching
a
saturation
point.
"People
chase
it
(a
genre)
without
even
knowing
why
are
they
doing
it.
I
feel
there
might
be
laziness
in
writing.
It
is
difficult
to
chart
out
a
road
map....
Start
out
the
story
with
a
new
character.
Reference
point
always
makes
things
easier
for
writers,"
he
said.
Luthria,
however,
believes
"good
biopics"
will
continue
to
do
well.
Mehta,
who
has
worked
on
true
stories
like
Shahid
and
Aligarh,
said
the
subject
of
a
film
should
be
entertaining
and
engaging.
"Did
I
care
if
Dangal
was
a
true
story?
To
some
extent,
yes.
But
do
I
care
that
it
was
an
entertaining
story?
Yes
I
do
.
Like
how
true
was
(the
story
of)
Shahid.
He
was
not
alive
to
tell
me
the
story.
We
have
always
cried
that
we
do
not
have
good
stories,
but
we
need
to
work
hard
to
find
them.
"If
we
are
making
biopics
with
the
thought
that
everyone
is
making
it,
then
it
will
be
the
dead
end.
We
will
screw
it
up
if
we
just
make
it.
There
has
to
be
a
lot
of
potential
in
the
story
to
bring
it
up
on
screen.
Even
in
case
of
Aligarh,
people
were
not
telling
us
everything,
but
we
had
to
make
the
story
engaging,"
he
said.
PTI