{"id":8405,"date":"2023-09-27T13:30:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T13:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/naseeruddin-shah-confesses-he-couldnt-sit-through-rrr-pushpa-for-this-reason\/"},"modified":"2023-09-27T13:30:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T13:30:07","slug":"naseeruddin-shah-confesses-he-couldnt-sit-through-rrr-pushpa-for-this-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/naseeruddin-shah-confesses-he-couldnt-sit-through-rrr-pushpa-for-this-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"Naseeruddin Shah confesses he couldn&#8217;t sit through &#8216;RRR&#8217;, &#8216;Pushpa&#8217; for THIS reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Bollywood veteran Naseeruddin Shah shared his two cents on the rising trend of hypermasculinity in Indian cinema, while also making a surprising confession about the recent mega-hits like <em>\u2018Pushpa\u2019<\/em> and <em>\u2018RRR\u2019<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch ARY News live on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/live.arynews.tv\/hq\/\">live.arynews.tv<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a recent conversation with an Indian digital channel, Naseeruddin Shah said that he couldn\u2019t sit through to watch mainstream hits <em>\u2018Pushpa\u2019<\/em> and <em>\u2018RRR\u2019<\/em> due to the hypermasculinity celebrated in those films.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the concept of \u2018Be A Man\u2019, Shah said, \u201c<em>Mardo ki insecurity badh rahi hai isiliye aur bhi zayda zor diya ja raha ha hypermasculinity ko <\/em>(The insecurity of men is increasing which is why hypermasculinity is being emphasized in the films).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cAll superheroes, now in America, this Marvel universe is thriving, and it\u2019s happening here too.\u00a0But alongside, films like<em> A Wednesday<\/em> also succeed, which don\u2019t have a hypermasculine hero.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe title=\"Naseeruddin Shah on #BeAManYaar with Nikhil Taneja | A Yuvaa Original - EP 4\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JrnER453skc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the acceptance of smaller films like those made by Anurag [Kashyap], like <em>Ramprasad Ki Terhvi<\/em>, like <em>Gulmohar<\/em>, I think these kinds of sensitive movies will find their place as well,\u201d Shah was optimistic. \u201cI am pretty sure because I have great faith in the younger generation and I think that they are far more evolved, far more informed and far more savvy than we were.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking further, the veteran also confessed that he tried to watch <em>\u2018RRR\u2019<\/em> and <em>\u2018Pushpa\u2019<\/em>, but couldn\u2019t sit through entire films.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough I did watch a Mani Ratnam film [<em>Ponniyin Selvan<\/em>], completely, because he is a very capable filmmaker and does not have an agenda. And I can\u2019t imagine besides the thrill or feeding the emotions hidden inside you, there is a sense of happiness that often lingers for several days after watching. I can\u2019t imagine,\u201d he detailed, adding that he can never watch such films.<\/p>\n<p>It is pertinent to mention that with the growing trend of pan-Indian films, <em>\u2018RRR\u2019, \u2018Pushpa\u2019<\/em> and <em>\u2018Ponniyin Selvan\u2019<\/em> are some of the biggest blockbusters to come out of the South cinema in recent times.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/sindhis-mansha-pasha-yasir-nawaz-to-naseeruddin-shah\/\">True Sindhi feels: Yasir Nawaz, Mansha Pasha give back to Naseeruddin Shah<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"rocketlazyloadscript\">\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n    FB.init({\n      appId      : '161345524510473',\n      cookie     : true,\n      xfbml      : true,\n      version    : 'v3.0'\n    });\n    FB.AppEvents.logPageView();   \n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bollywood veteran Naseeruddin Shah shared his two cents on the rising trend of hypermasculinity in Indian cinema, while also making a surprising confession about the recent mega-hits like \u2018Pushpa\u2019 and \u2018RRR\u2019. Watch ARY News live on\u00a0live.arynews.tv In a recent conversation with an Indian digital channel, Naseeruddin Shah said that he couldn\u2019t sit through to watch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/naseeruddin.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}