Nawazuddin Siddiqui says he liked Oppenheimer for its conversations; highlights filmmakers in Bollywood focus too much on dialogue delivery

Praising Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer, Nawazuddin Siddiqui highlighted how Hindi movies lag in delivering conversations by focusing too much on dialogue delivery and a punch in the dialogues.

Nawazuddin Siddiqui shares that he loved how even small characters were played by big actors in Oppenheimer.

Actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui recently explained why in an interview he said that he won’t do smaller roles anymore and would only do the starring roles. Quoting the example of the Oscar-nominated Christopher Nolan film Oppenheimer, Siddiqui said that the film had such big actors doing small roles, yet they shone in their parts as they had the opportunity to showcase their craft. But in Bollywood, Nawaz said, that happens only in art films.

During an interview with Galatta Plus, Nawazuddin said, “In Bollywood, there are big and small roles, and my quota of small roles is over. Why should I not do bigger roles now? Every actor wishes to do bigger roles, smaller roles is just the beginning. It is fine in the beginning, but every actor wants to do bigger roles. If I tell a star to do a small role in my film, will he ever do it? Or it should be like an Oppenheimer, where such small characters are played by big actors. That is a different kind of cinema.”

Oppenheimer was released alongside Barbie last year, and ended up becoming the third-biggest hit of Christopher Nolan’s career. Led by Cillian Murphy, the film is powered by a strong supporting cast which includes Robert Downey Jr, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Rami Malek and Florence Pugh.

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Christopher Nolan added, “In those small roles also, you can see the skill and craft of the actor. When I see Rami Malek, I can see his approach, despite it being a small role, one can see how intelligent the actor is. Here, such a thing only happens in artistic films.”

Further praising Nolan’s film, the Gangs of Wasseypur actor highlighted how Hindi movies lag in delivering conversations by focusing too much on dialogue delivery and a punch in the dialogues.

“I liked the conversations that happened in Oppenheimer because here we have a dialogue-oriented approach. There are good things also, like songs, which have come from our traditional form. But we get too indulged in dialogue delivery. We are more focused on the punch in the dialogues. We lack in conversations, which is the most difficult thing to do in front of the camera,” Nawazuddin opined.

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On being pointed out that maybe the filmmakers here don’t indulge in conversations because of the audience they are catering to, Nawazuddin immediately said, “We can’t make everything as per audience’s liking. This is an era of Instagram, and if we go by audience’s likes, we will have to lower our IQ of cinema.”

The actor was last seen in the Telugu drama Saindhav. Next, he has Noorani Chehra in the pipeline.

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