At Netflix’s See What Next event in Singapore, actor Madhuri Dixit Nene said if her 1992 film Hum Aapke Hai Kaun released two decades later on the digital giant Netflix, it would have have been watched by even more people.
The actor is making her debut on Netflix with her Marathi production titled 15th August, which is set in a chawl and is a satire about the struggles of middle class India.
"There are two magical things in the world. One is theatre or cinema and the internet. Netflix is a great marriage between these two. If we had the infrastructure that we do today, 20 years ago then it would have been great because even though Hum Aapke Hai Kaun was very well received despite not having Netflix and everything it would have magnified," Madhuri said.
"190 countries and different languages with subtitles... I think it would have been watched by even more people than it reached out to," she added.
The Bollywood actor said films releasing on the digital platform help in reaching out to a larger audience.
"When you make films, you want maximum number of people to see. In India there are 5,000 screens theatres, in China it's 9,000 theatres and on Netflix more than a 100 million screens. So you are reaching out to that many people and that's what you want to do. You want to magnify it and take it to as many different people as possible," she said.
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