New script: Bollywood cuts a long story short - Times of India

MUMBAI: Big things are happening to movies aaj kal. They’re getting smaller. Make that shorter. Time was when Raj Kapoor's blockbuster 'Sangam' (at 238 minutes) had two intervals and still worked. Of course today's multiplex audience has neither the time nor the patience to sit through a magnum opus of that kind. Plus it just makes so much more sense, commercially, to keep a movie short.

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These days the international release of a movie brings in the big bucks. Keeping that in mind, Karan Johar (famous for his long emotional dramas) has shortened the length of ‘My Name Is Khan’ (MNIK) by 45 minutes before its release in Germany, Poland, France, North America and Russia. "MNIK was shortened to fit the commercial parameters of world art house cinemas," says Johar. "We need to drop the indulgence and make way for tautness," adds the man who gave us the 3.5-hour-long ‘Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham’.

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With multiplexes came multiple movies, back-to-back, in theatres half the size of what they used to be.

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