The current trend in Hindi cinema sees intense romances or films with hypermasculine, alpha male protagonists pull in the biggest crowds at the box office.
Vedang Raina, set to star in filmmaker Imtiaz Ali's epic romance Main Vaapas Aaunga, shares his thoughts on the trend.
'Something works because the audience accepts it regardless of what is working in reality apart from that film,' he says.
The actor plays a Sikh boy in the pre-partition era, with their love story hitting a roadblock due to the 1947 India-Pakistan partition.
Vedang elaborates, 'Hypermasculinity is not a genre. I don't think it is the reason a film works, it works because it has great content.'
He cites the example of Vikrant Massey-starrer 12th Fail, saying 'Amid this, a 12th Fail worked and I don't know what category it falls in.'
Vedang started his acting career with Zoya Akhtar’s ensemble musical The Archies in 2023 and made his big screen debut with the Alia Bhatt co-starrer Jigra in 2024.
