Abhishek Bachchan: 'Bollywood films are not all remakes'

Abhishek Bachchan has refuted claims that Bollywood lacks originality.

The actor, who will be seen next in The Italian Job remake Players, explained that Indian cinema is not all about copying other earlier projects.

"We make close to a thousand movies a year. If five or six of those thousands are remakes of older films or films from a different language, suddenly we are being labeled with a trend," Bachchan said.

"It's not only Western films being remade but also older Hindi and Indian films. I think it's more of a creative choice than anything else. The director wants to make a film and it's their creative choice," he added.

The Abbas-Mustan action thriller also stars Bobby Deol, Sonam Kapoor, Bipasha Basu, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Omi Vaidya and Sikander Kher.

Karan Johar recently announced that Bachchan would reunite with John Abraham again on the long-delayed sequel to Tarun Mansukhani's Dostana.

The Viacom 18 Motion Pictures release Players comes out January 6.