Bollywood Moolah

Is Good cinema is defined by collections. If no, then why we have so many platforms (Facebook, blogs, twitter) shouting with the numbers and experts giving minute to minute details of how movies are faring around the world, collection wise. Regional movies are no exception to this. Surprisingly elite crowd is highly depending up on these reports of numbers as they are habituated by the dash boards and flash reports at work. Even, our opinions on the movies are highly influenced by these numbers most of the times. The hurdle/apprehension might be that, how can a movie be categorized as bad one if it raked 70 Crores at Indian box office.

This practice has started with 100 Cr club movies then 200 Cr and with Dhoom 3 & Krrish 3 it went to 500 Cr club. Unfortunately none of these are celluloid delights.  Indian cinema has stopped producing intelligent cinema long back except for few experimental movies by Vikramaditya Motwane, Ritesh Batra, Sujoy Ghosh and few more. Sad part is most of these productions could not grab attention of masses because they have not crossed the mark of collection clubs to be declared as a hit. We forgot the definition of a good cinema rather started praising the hit cinema.

The collection of recent movies gives the pathetic state of Bollywood viewers. Heropanti (50 Cr), Humshakals (55 Cr) and hit movie Ek Villain (88 Cr) were unpleasant outings but still able to attract crowd. The media and production houses are successful in titillating our minds with the projection of numbers, big interviews of star cast and TV shows and we are falling prey to it. So far only producers were worried about the collections but now whole world is curious behind the collections. A thought on below :

Did we forget the taste of good cinema?

Why Bhansali has to cross the limits of sensuality and explore vulgar world in RamLeela?

Why Bollywood is heavily depend upon south remakes?

Why major productions are released on Eid and Diwali?

Answers are obvious but we don’t want to give an ear to them.

…is it because we do not have a face and stand point on good cinema?

…or our viewing preferences are influenced by lot of Non-cinematic elements?

Venky...