Films are complete in 30-60 days, not 300-400: Akshay Kumar

Bollywood superstar Akshay Kumar has said that he feels films should be completed in 30-60 days and not 300-400 days – taking a dig at actors who take nearly a year to shoot their films.

The actor also said, he completed ‘Housefull 3’ in just 38 days.

“It is not rocket science, it is very easy, you just keep on working. I don’t think one film should take more than 60 days. I finished ‘Housefull 3’ in 38 days. Everyone comes on time, we work hard. I work for eight hours and it was very fast.”

“I had read that they made the film, ‘Mission Impossible’ in 52 days. I don’t know how we talk about 300 days and 400 days. Films are completed in 30-60 days, maximum you take 70 days, how much shooting will you do?” Akshay said, expressing surprise over how some filmmakers and actors take 1-2 years to complete a film.

The trick to Akshay doing 3-4 films a year is that he doesn’t sit on the editing table, nor does he involve himself in the pre-production or post-production work. He approves the script, gives his dates, works for no more than 8 hours a day, doesn’t work on Saturday or Sunday (it’s in his contract) and doesn’t assign more than 10-15 days to promote a film. This allows him to do 3-4 films a year and also take 2-3 vacations with his family in between films.

“My shooting days were 38 days, but it took 40 days to make the trailer because they (makers) couldn’t understand how to show in two and half minutes everything about it’s storyline. It was very difficult for them, I remember so many times they showed us, but nothing was working out.”

Directed by Sajid – Farhad, ‘Housefull 3’ releases in theatres on June 3rd.