Thrillers don’t have a huge market for the producers: Andhadhun director Sriram Raghavan

The director, who has given timeless thrillers such as Ek Haseena Thi, Johnny Gaddar and Badlapur to Hindi cinema, is back with another mystery in “Andhadhun” where a blind pianist is at the centre of a murder.

The genre not getting due, because it demands more involvement from the viewers. Unlike Badlapur, which had a sensational beginning with the killing of the heroine, “Andhadhun” begins as a romantic comedy and then something happens, he says, adding the trailer basically follows the structure of the film. “There are a lot of shows on the web for sure but still there are not many films. Only three or four thrillers are made in Hindi cinema in a year.

The director said in an interview, there are times when you get caught in situations or you regret for the rest of your life, what and how the things happened and the way you try to cover up the story. We all are scared of bad things, so when we watch a film we see our fears on the screen. You have this thought ‘Thank God, it is happening to someone else’,”

There is a fascination for crime genre but producers think thrillers don’t have that much of a market or will not get picked up for satellite rights. I believe thrillers work if the story is good. It is not easy to make a thriller because the audience is making their own story in their minds as they watch the film. You have to break that expectation and still make them like the film. So, it is a little difficult to pick the right script as there are not many people writing them.”