Shah Rukh Khan wants better special effects in Bollywood films

INDIA: Indian superstar Shah Rukh Khan wants Bollywood to improve its special effects, and the actor is taking a three-month break to make his production company more technology savvy, a newspaper said on Friday.

India’s booming movie industry is the world’s most prolific but it has often lagged behind Hollywood — and even Asian neighbours Japan and China — in the use of technology.

Until recently, a Bollywood action movie meant a collage of fight sequences in which punches rarely landed and kicks missed their targets by yards.

“I want our F-X to be comparable with the best in the world,” Khan, referring to a technical term for describing special effects, told the Mumbai Mirror daily.

“I want to spend the next three months honing up the F-X in our production house.”

“Have you seen films like ‘300’? That’s the level of special effects we should be aiming at,” Khan, 41, said.

MUMBAI, Friday, Reuters