Ajay Devgn opened up recently about how there are more ‘boys’ than ‘men’ in the industry today. He said that there is not any ‘dominating male personality’. He brought up examples of an earlier generation of actors, including Jackie Shroff and Amitabh Bachchan and said that they were all ‘men’ in how they appealed on-screen.

In an interview with Ranveer Allahbadia on YouTube, Ajay said, “In today’s world, you don’t see a dominating male personality. All are boys; you don’t see men-men. In the earlier generation, we saw men—even in my generation, from Jackie Shroff to Amitabh Bachchan, they were all men.”

He added, “When Akshay Kumar was thrashing ten people or Sunny Deol was pulling out a hand pump, we would clap because we believed they could do it. In today’s generation, we don’t feel that anyone could actually do that.” The actor stated that he was not talking about anyone specific but was rather referring to a change in upbringing that has also brought about a difference in how people approach life with a certain attitude.

Ajay was last seen in Rohit Shetty’s Singham Again which clashed at the box-office with Kartik Aaryan’s horror-comedy Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3 on November 1.