Mumbai, May 06, 2025 (ANI): On the US President Donald Trump announcing a plan to impose 100% tariffs on foreign-made movies, Vikram Bhatt, director and filmmaker, said, “As far as we (Indian fims) are concerned, very few films go to the US and the UK, which are very big films and the overseas market is not for medium to low budget films and now after doing this, I think only very big films will be able to go there because the exhibition cost is very high there...I don't understand how this applies to us, because we don't shoot in the US anyway. So what is the point of putting tariffs on our films.”
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00:00Actually, it's been a few years ago, but the first thing is that the tariffs are actually
00:13in America, Congress should be ratified, but if the truth is social, if you tweet or message
00:27in America, it's been an emergency situation. So, now they have an emergency situation in
00:39America. Now, what do we mean? What do we mean? What do we mean? What do we mean?
00:49In the world it's more important for everybody's RICH, it's limited labor,
00:57limited equipment, limited equipment, and Hollywood's studios are inspired
01:03to be inspired and encouraged to be inspired and to be inspired by the Hollywood industry.
01:16And Hollywood's films should be made in Hollywood, not in the foreign countries.
01:23The basic thrust of our story is that our story is very later.
01:28Now, why is this happening in America?
01:33Because in America, labor is very expensive.
01:35In America, shooting is very expensive.
01:38This is why people go out.
01:42Now, if you go out,
01:45then you will get 100% tariff.
01:50The tariff will get a ticket.
01:55So, if you go out,
02:00you will get a ticket.
02:02I thought that you don't have a film.
02:07You don't have a ticket.
02:09You don't have a ticket.
02:12You have a tariff.
02:14You can't make a ticket.
02:17You will not make an effort.
02:20You will not make an effort.
02:22So, I think that this move is more towards the labor of America than the studios.
02:29Because the labor of America, the light man, the technicians, etc.
02:36They are all unions.
02:38And these unions,
02:42it is the move that we have to get a job.
02:45Because these people are going abroad and shooting.
02:48So, this is the problem.
02:50I think it is the problem.
02:51I do not know the problem.
02:52Because the American film is the one of which some foreign shooting is the subject.
02:57The world war is the subject.
02:59What will happen?
03:00I don't know.
03:01Because this is a general dictation.
03:05You have to say that it's like this.
03:07I don't know if you want to go back to the story of Antartica, so how do you want to go back to the US, so I think these problems are more of them.
03:27Our question is that there are very few films in America and UK, which are very big pictures of the overseas market for medium-to-low-budget films.
03:42Now, to do this, I think that there are only very big films that will go there.
03:49Because there is a lot of price on the exhibition, like theatre and ticket price.
03:59The audience is not like that.
04:03And if you give the ticket price or tax,
04:10I don't think that the rest of the film will sustain them,
04:17which will be the Indian films.
04:20And I think that there are many European films also,
04:24especially the art house films, the independent films,
04:30that will come from there.
04:34And I think that there are many films that will be seen in America.
04:42From our films on tariff that it means that we will shoot at that,
04:48we will see that we will see that we will see it.
04:50But we can't show that we are Indian films.
04:52We can't show that we will see in India.
04:53to shoot. So, I feel like this is a
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05:51in Ottawa or Toronto, so it's very different.
05:55But the story of Mumbai, how do I shoot in Los Angeles?
05:59These are not all things.
06:04Probably in the days of coming,
06:06we will better understand.