In 2024, Indian film industries face challenges, but regional film industries are producing more successful films than Bollywood. Bollywood films, except Stree 2, are struggling at the box office. Actor Taapsee Pannu believes the proportion of hits and fails is similar.
When Taapsee was questioned in an interview with ANI about why the southern film industries were performing better than the Hindi ones, the actor replied that people in states where Hindi is the primary language are only exposed to the popular films from the south and are not really aware of the movies that are not showing in theaters for the first week. “There are movies that don’t work after three to four days and are taken out of theaters as well. Simply put, you don’t learn about it while you’re seated here. You will see that there is an equal amount of hits and flops in that industry if you continue to monitor every release from that state or industry. It’s not all that dissimilar, she remarked.
Taapsee continued by pointing out that the south has a very distinct movie-watching culture than does Hindi, stating that “movie viewing is almost like a religious activity” there. People enjoy watching movies. There is a custom there. “Relatively difficult to pull out a Hindi movie viewing audience from their houses to go and watch the film,” the speaker continued.
Speaking more about the South Asian film industry, Taapsee was questioned on the key differences between the work cultures of these two sectors. Taapsee responded that it isn’t always the case that the southern film business is more structured and disciplined in response to the question. “I can assure you that’s not the case, having worked in both industries,” she said. She claimed that, in contrast to Bollywood films, she never received bound scripts when she began working in the south, which was before to her debut in a Hindi film. Instead, she would receive dialogue sheets on a daily basis.
“Until my time in the southern film industry, none of my films’ bound scripts were provided to me.” Before, I would only receive scenes, and a lot would change on set. It’s probably better there now as well, in my opinion. However, even though David Dhawan, the director of my first Hindi movie Chashme Baddoor, is renowned for having directed everything from the beginning when everything was written on the spot, the movie had a bound plot, the actress remarked. She went on to say that even filmmakers who make a lot of changes on set, like Anurag Kashyap, handed her a proper script.
