Abhishek Bachchan Likes to Choose Films That Excite Him, Irrespective of Box Office Status

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Game may have been a flop at the box office, but that has not stopped Abhishek Bachchan from doing what he does best: act. He is going full throttle for his film Dum Maaro Dum, where he has a good role. The buzz is that he has excelled in the role of the police officer. But like failures, he is not really ecstatic about his successes as well. He prefers to be chilled out and work in assignments that suit his taste.

“I stand by each of my films whether they work or don’t”, says Abhishek whose Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey as well as Raavan didn’t do well in recent times, “After all, if these films would have done well, I would have got maximum appreciation and praise as well, so why run away? I take every film of mine personally. I am not a coward.”

The thing that has been noticed in his last five releases, apart from Dum Maaro Dum, is that he has tried to do something different in all of them. Dum Maaro Dum is however more conventional and made for box office. Jr. Bachchan confides, “Shall I tell you something? If someone tells me that ‘Hey look, here is a story and if we make a film on this it is going to be X amount of business at the box office’ but I realise that I won’t enjoy the experience of making it and instead would be thoroughly bored, I wouldn’t work on it. In fact if I work in it and the film even turns out to be a hit, I won’t enjoy that success.”

So, what really drives his passion, if commercial success is not really his cup of tea? “It can’t be just commerce”, immediately says Abhishek, “It has to come down to the basic criteria that whether the film has excited me or not. My heart has to be convinced to do that film. It is as simple as that.”