In case you are working in a government job or a plush job in a private sector, you can cool your heels once you retire but that is not the case if you are a part of the entertainment industry. A very small percentage makes the big bucks while the rest work only out of passion and earn enough to make ends meet.
When the time for retirement comes they tend to look for alternative careers. Akin to that, filmnagar sources reveal some of the retired directors who are certain they will no longer get an opportunity to make a movie have decided to take a new path. It is heard that they are now trying for acting roles.
As such, any director has to be a good actor fundamentally so these retired directors are visiting many producers and film offices with their profiles. Buzz is that they have taken Devi Prasad, the director of films like ‘Blade Babji’, as inspiration because his actions in the recent release ‘Needhi Naadhi Oke Katha’ is garnering a good response.