Anurag Kashyap averred that Bollywood has been on the absurd on following the bandwagon off late. The filmmaker referred to the pan-India films which have destroyed the industry. He critically pointed out that Bollywood lacks originality.
During a round table mediated by Galatta Plus, Anurag said, “I was talking to Nagraj and I told him Sairat destroyed Marathi cinema, the success of Sairat. Because suddenly people realised there is a possibility to make so much money so they stopped making those films. Everybody wanted to emulate Sairat.” Sairat released in 2016 emerged as the highest grossing Marathi film of all time.
Anurag added that the pan-India hits have led Bollywood on the same trail. “With pan-India, what is happening right now is that everybody is trying to make a pan-India film. Success will be 5-10%. Films like Kantara and Pushpa give you courage to go out and tell your stories. But KGF2, however big the success, when you try and emulate that and set a project up, that’s when you start heading towards disaster. That’s the bandwagon that Bollywood destroyed itself on. You have to find films that give you courage,” he added.
Pan-India films have been tagged for the films making big at the box office. These include SS Rajamouli’s Baahubali franchise, KGF: Chapter 2 and RRR, Ponniyin Selvan: I, Kantara, Vikram, and Brahmastra Part One Shiva.
