Raid: My generation of stars lucky to have loyal fan following, says A

To enjoy continued success and stardom
for over 25 years is no easy task and Ajay
Devgn says his generation of actors was
lucky to have a dedicated fan following,
which is a rarity today. The 90s was
dominated by icons like Ajay, the three
Khans - Shah Rukh, Salman, Aamir - and
Akshay Kumar who continue to be on the
top.
In a media interaction, when asked if his
generation would be the last of the
superstars to enjoy matchless adulation,
Ajay said, "I think we were very lucky
because when we had started work, the
kind of fan following we got at that point of
time, they were very loyal fans. Till today
they maintain that and watch our films.
"The new generation who is watching
films, they have become very sensible, smart
and intelligent. They go by the content, film
to film. This will keep on changing. They will
decide if the film is good or not, it won't
matter who is in the film, he added.
The actor has been on a golden run with
his back-to-back releases Baadshaho and
Golmaal Again doing well at the box office.
Ajay, however, said there was never a
phase in his career where he felt "lost.
"I've been very lucky in that sense.
Everybody goes through a phase when
films don't do well but someone analysed 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. May be if there are
two or three flops, there has always been a
hit. I've luckily never had a phase where I
was struggling.
Currently, the 48-year-old actor is awaiting
the release of his next, Raid. Directed by Raj
Kumar Gupta, the film is set against the
backdrop of the 1980s and features Ajay as
an Income Tax officer hailing from Uttar
Pradesh. "I like rotating my genres, doing
different things. I did Golmaal now Raid,
then a romcom and then Dhamaal. I think
I've been lucky. 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 stereotype. It's about me enjoying
my work and not getting repetitive and
bored, he added.
The film, scheduled to release on March 16,
is inspired by real incidents and Ajay says
the story - written by Pink fame Ritesh Shah
- has been fictionalised to give it a
cinematic treatment. While the film might
have taken creative liberties on reel,
decades ago, the actor recalled how he was
at the receiving end of a real-life raid.
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"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.

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