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"We're making a commercial Hindi film catering to all types of audiences"

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It is both a promise and a preemptive defense: a way of selling a movie before anyone has even argued about what it is. When Sanjay Dutt says, "We're making a commercial Hindi film catering to all types of audiences", he is speaking the industry dialect of Bollywood credibility. "Commercial" signals scale, star power, songs, and a reliable emotional arc; it is also a hedge against the prestige trap, the idea that seriousness equals smallness. In a market where budgets are fragile and attention is scattered across streaming, cricket, and social media, that one word is reassurance to financiers and distributors: this is built to travel.

The phrase "all types of audiences" is where the subtext gets interesting. It implies India is not one audience but a mosaic: single-screen crowds and multiplex patrons, families and young couples, Tier-1 cities and small towns, diaspora viewers who want a familiar cultural package. Dutt is quietly acknowledging that Hindi cinema survives by being a negotiated truce among tastes - action for the front rows, romance for the middle, a joke for the kids, a moral for the parents.

Coming from Dutt, a star whose persona has long blended toughness with vulnerability, the line also performs image-management. It frames the film as inclusive and non-threatening, an event rather than a statement. In an era when films are routinely conscripted into culture-war arguments, "catering" is a calculated verb: service, not provocation. The intent is clear - widen the tent, mute the debate, and keep the box office doors open.

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Dutt, Sanjay. (n.d.). We're making a commercial Hindi film catering to all types of audiences. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/were-making-a-commercial-hindi-film-catering-to-161600/

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Sanjay Dutt (born July 29, 1959) is a Actor from India.

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