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After more than 60 films in a three-decade career, actress Shabana Azmi now wants to work with her stepson, director Farhan Akhtar.
"I am really looking forward to working with Farhan some time," Azmi told IANS in an interview on the sidelines of the ongoing Asian cinema festival. "I know he understands and respects my work and will offer me something challenging."
Akhtar, the maker of this year's much-acclaimed "Lakshya", is the son of Azmi's poet-lyricist husband Javed Akhtar from his first marriage. Azmi said she liked Farhan Akhtar's work and the films of his contemporaries.
"These new directors are breaking all the Bollywood commercial traditions and are still doing very well."
She said with the coming of multiple-screen theatre complexes, or multiplexes, in India, directors have the liberty of defining their audience.
"Take someone like Farhan - he only caters to the urban, educated city film viewer. He doesn't have to cater to the lowest common denominator, not the Hindi hinterland, not the villages.
"That's a great freedom, you are not getting bogged down trying to cater to everyone. The myth of a pan-Indian audience has finally disappeared."
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