Why Bollywood is losing its spark
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- čas přidán 24. 05. 2024
- Larger-than-life heroes, sweeping dance numbers, eye-catching set designs, music, drama, action, romance. Even if you haven’t watched a single Bollywood flick in your life, these will be first images that come to your mind.
With its colourful and glitzy productions, Bollywood has swept millions of fans off their feet across India and in many other parts of the world. Actors like Shah Rukh Khan and Amir Khan have taken Bollywood to novel peaks.
But despite its wide popularity, the powerhouse industry is coming under harsh criticism. Numerous posts are being shared on Social Media platforms calling for #BoycottBollywood films and many of its movie stars, adding to Bollywood’s woes.
But why are the people that were the industry’s biggest fans, suddenly predicting Bollywood’s end? Has Bollywood simply lost is spark?
On this episode of Arts Unveiled we will take you to Bollywood and find out where the industry is headed.
0:00 Intro
0:55 What is Bollywood?
2:49 India's early encounters with cinema
5:42 The rise of the masala film - it's all in the mix
7:28 The Khan Era
8:23 Voices of criticism
9:23 The times have changed
10:52 The South crushing Bollywood
11:53 Is it time to prepare Bollywood's funeral?
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Nepotism is the major factor why people don't want to see bollywood movies. They don't select talented ones in the movie. Shocking is still the same 50-60 year old guys is doing the role of a hero in a movie !! And with the help of media, PR stunts and money in hand they make their movie forcefully hit to remain that stardom
Not at all whole south industries stacked of nepotism.
Not at all whole south industries stacked of nepotism.
@@JoJo-hj4tx but south nepo products are talented, deserve to be there, they never take their position for granted!
@@IrinNarlely Says who?
@@IrinNarlely Lol.. Telugu film industry has so many nepo kids including ram charan and are you saying that they all have acting skills by seeing their masala movies?
I believe the taste and preferences of the audience has also changed. Now contents from all over the world are easily available thanks to OTT platforms. We have options, if Bollywood keeps serving half baked products, then people too would react accordingly.
Bollywood actors & producers are trying to invade other parts of India/other Indian cinema, if you know what I mean 😅 It’s obvious, disgusting…and I hope directors/producers from other parts of India.. who have a solid movie industry built on REALITY (realistic acting, talent/actors) and humility won’t be infiltrated by a lower, pseudo force 🙏
Script is the King... Good story, sleek editing... Respect your audience they aren't silly... They have choices now...
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try watching doctor g or an action hero great movies but flopped
@@rajrajoria1910 True
@@DWHistoryandCulture 10:13 LOL Hindu Nationalist aspirations? So making a movie about a Hindu king automatically makes you "Hindu Nationalist"?
If Western "Liberals" got to have their way then they would demonize Hindus all day.
Malayalam industry mostly make❤
Now people are starting to understand Bollywood, they are starting to understand their PR, which does their publicity, and makes their image like a deity, and even a bad and lousy film of an actor used to become a super hit just in its name, But this whole game went on till the internet was not accessible to common people, today is the time of internet,
Today nothing is going to happen with puppet media and PR, people have become very smart now
Solid analysis. Keep up the great work DW. Lots of love from India!
Thanks a lot Rajeev. All the best from Berlin
@@DWHistoryandCulture *Bollywood is Finished, Except SRK and Ajay Devgan, no one can produce profitable movies, as they are good actors and choosing good scripts*
You haven't mentioned nepotism , Pl share more about Bollywood's future,
Yes that should have been mentioned, instead of casteism like any other leftist/western narrative about India
Bollywood means drugwood Copywood Madiawood mafiawood assassination of actors wood
Then what about south ?
South Indian movie industry is dominating now.
Bollywood honestly has ran out of ideas, the last indian movie I watched was in 2019
Bollywood the hindi flim industry is not all of indian cinema. The recent hits from indian cinema were South Indian flims like RRR
The basic reason for failure o Bollywood industry are as follows :-
1)The industry never grown with current audience or the present people interest
2)After launch of OTT people have option to watch any kind of movie from any language the barier of language has been broken
Indian people started watching Malayalam ., Tamil movies which are low budget movies but with amazing artistic and realistic narration and with good content.
3)bollywood stuck with same pattern and template stories and hero/hereon oriented movies
4)Huge money flow and nepotism made the industry to stick with what they had in the last
5) A major reason of the failure is stories - After 2014 - The govt is interfering more in to ART or PR, they will interfere in to movie contents, the govt dont allow critics or any kind of stories which will be against their views - so the writers will not have any kind of freedom ...but in southindia it is in reverse , they have much freedom to express in art/movie .. it reflects in good content
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Bollywood : Picture Abhi baki Hai mere dost
They missed how South are more into content oriented movies
South don't make good movies either except the case of malayali entertainment industry
Unfortunately these stars kids and special privileges to star kids and nepotism had destroyed Bollywood.
Thank you DW for covering this. Lots of love ❤
Indian Cinema, Cricket and Mother India will always strive together
All three are dieing a slow death
Bhai khatam hai ab sab kuch kyuki faltu baatein hai bakwas hai bas 😊
Thank you for this informative video. Great content and superb images.
"Curse of SSR"
- The Revolution
Justice for SUSHANT SINGH RAJPUT
Eliminate old stars, family groupism, Bad money, Huge costing, PR Nonsense, etc.
Bring in grass roots talents from theatre, OTT, genuine social scripts based on honest representation of our societies, personas, genres at nominal costing of 100Mn - 200Mn INR
Show the audience what THEY wish to see not the Egoistic MINDS force them to see..
There are such amazing stories of north east, girl empowerment, how daughters today are supporting parents more, how dillussioned relationships, educational degrees, etc. have become
Learn something from Panchayat & other TVF series - break the old fungus moulds.
Personally I think the style of "bollywood" has solidified enough that it transcends simply where the films are made. It's now a style. It won't die if it moves somewhere else in India, it will just shift with the times while retaining the things we love about it.
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Very interesting! Thanks for sharing the insights.
Bollywood will fight back, it has always done it and will do it again. This similar era came in 80’s when people started having TV in there houses just like how OTT has come and many people got hooked to watching TV at home than going to cinema . That’s why 80’s is also considered to be one of the worst eras of Bollywood ( offcourse we dint have so much media otherwise there must have been a similar video in 80’s also calling ‘ Is Bollywood Over’” but the 90’s came and it came back bigger than before. And again now we are seeing a beautiful but slow rise again and by 2025-2030 Bollywood will be back bigger than before !
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Bollywood come back again 🧡
Good 9ne
Bahut badiya,
Good Analysis
Amen to that ✨❤
Bollywood failing because it delve on its stars and limelight. It is pretty much inwardly idea of success. It didn't approach art in a form that should give back to society that is being a source of its entirety.
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That's not reason. What Bollywood offers?? Just a trash love story or remake or they have no idea how to make an action movie ,,with thier stars it's a joke
Shandar prastuti,
Now South India films is rising
Most of the hindi speaking actors/actresses are interested in doing films for foreign languages. They believe that it will give them international fame. Often they look for quick money. There are many possible reasons for the people to go to theatre. But to spend 300 bucks for a movie which they can get to see on OTT within 30-45 days of its theatrical release, is it that worthy? I doubt so. People may want to go to watch a film in theatre but only if they feel it is worthwhile.
thanks for differentiating between bollywood and indian film industries
11:57 here's the crux of the matter, prior to the internet, the major Bollywood studios with the help of organised crime consolidated distribution of cinema in India so had an effective monopoly.
Since the arrival of high speed internet post 2000s, a new generation of Indians have had greater access to global cinema and media unlike those before them.
That alongside rising literacy rates have created a more relatively sophisticated and refined taste for media than before.
More and more younger Indians find Bollywood crude, primitive and puerile compared to foreign cinema of the US, Europe, China, Hong Kong, Korea and Japan among others.
Bollywood has a dilemma, the majority of their audience are still the older generation who put up with their complacent cinema for the past 50 years and are declining whilst the new emerging youth are sizeable and don't feel like they owe their time and money to this dated and cringe ridden relic of a bygone era of monopolistic cinema.
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East or West. The South (Tollywood, Kollywood and Sandalwood) are always the best.
Bollywood had bounce back in 2023🎉🎉
And one thing I notice is that after 2023 it is not about Bollywood, Tollywood or Kollywood is it is more about now an Indian cinema where every actor of every field working in each other movie to make cinema better❤❤
But then came Jawan and Pathaan which saw a renewed interest in Bollywood
It's true analysis
10:30 What relation does it have with films?
This is bollywoods reality,
DEAR MADAM, at around 2:30 in the video, the bottom two films are from Tollywood or Telugu films and the above film is Sandalwood or Kannada film. These three are greatest Indian Films of this generation............A small look around on wikipedia will do wonders to your imagination and knowledge...................but the video was good ......appreciate it TQ............................and also one thing is the voice in the video is robotic voice...............oh my G.....................
Bollywood or more appropriately Hindi cinema had its golden era from the 40s to 60s and definitely
not the Khan era or 90s as you said .
Exactly, I'm from South, even I like movies of 1970-80s by Basu Chatterjee, hrishikesh Mukherjee & v.shantarams, i feel so respectful for them even today. Those actors amol palekar, Sachin pilgaonkar, Leela Mishra, Vidya sinha, Shabana Azmi, asrani, om prakash ji, utpal dat etc. I feel them part of my family. Those were Indian movies.
Those days everything was there except nakedness which nowadays like too much without any content. 🤪
Are script writers gone dead in india
I dont find creativity in indian movies anymore except malayali movies.
Whether its bollywood with same actors and actresses pairing with one another
Telgu and tamil just making action and rowdy movies
Just because some films have not done well in BO it has gone vanish....the cultural impact it has can be seen all over the world
Now days a story do not end without including Modi into it.
Really ?
N u t
Making movies on real life stories spoiled bollywood. No imagination no visionary in stories .
Forgive them my lord for they knew not that SRK was scripting Pathan, Jawan and Dunki while they were writing off Bollywood 😄
Too much nepotism, old men and star kids with no talent or stage presence!!! 😢
Bad timing. This documentary was made in November 2022. And few months later in January SRK came with his new movie Pathaan to break all records... picture abhi baaki hai mere dost
A movie? Just one?
*Bollywood khatam, Except SRK and Ajay Devgan, no one can produce profitable movies, as they are good actors and choosing good scripts*
100 cr in India......not a big deal....... 😂😂😂😂Most revenue is from outside 😂😂😂😂
@@priyalpatel4250 toh bahar kee audience mayne nhi rakhti??
Lol Selfiee, Shehzaada also flopped.
Now Bollywood f*cked south industry badly, The return of king SRK , He smashed the boss box office and created history in 2023 with 3 back to back movies .
British as the bad guy is nationalistic for colonies of Europe, nationalism in Europe and elsewhere works differently, IDK why they don't get it.
Sorry, we may not be following along yet. Could you please elaborate on your point?
U used a original telugu movie to mention kollywood.
Yes
10:55 I think you meant "comprising" here
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Content is the King, when the hindi film industry understand this than there's no looking back for them...
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Like what Rocky said in KGF, nepotism will be the downfall of bollywood.
@@user-rw1pb5rp3l no way..btw it's kannada not kannad
One word: Pathaan
Ek movie se lwda kuch nhi hota 200 movies saal k kharab hi aa Rahi hai
Shit film
@@antoniogarcia7128 it disproves everything the video says
You brought caste angle here also!
Even though u ur self said that Bollywood is dominated by Khans (Muslims).
Never in my life have I heard about this caste complaint for bollywood, never
Bahubali is not kollywood it is a tollywood.
2.0, Vikram are kollywood.
Because of the same mentality ( the only hero is wining and handsome) with the same style of dancing after craying behavior
Nice video but honestly movies in the south (especially non masala) are absolutely brilliant
Thanks for sharing your perspective on the matter.
If I comment what my opinion is, I'll avoid the rules of the channel against racism and hate speech. Thanks.
Ego and agenda. Simple🙄
DW, is very sad that caste is not highlighted in Indian films.
And because of that now Indian youth are not even considering caste while they go out.
I am glad it's ending
SRK shows the picture
Bollywood is best industry
The compulsory, casual, gratis vilification of India in general and Hindus in particular that DW is compelled to do starts at 8:40…. Just a heads up.
Overall, this video doesn’t say much and is bereft of point. TLDR - Bollywood is falling because the South is out-Bollywooding Bollywood. But as an Indian you already know that all regions are catching up to a point of parity in almost everything, films included - and Bollywood was never the best of Indian cinema anyway, just the most popular, which it continues to be on a pan-India basis.
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What was meant by the statement “Impoverished by years of Colonialism “ ? Indian people were already impoverished while their ruling class grew richer, the same story the world over.
It’s time to update this video. 3 films have already crossed 500 crs last two months 😅😅
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It's not just Nepotism...
Indian Films generally are too simple and the stories just don't make sense. Either they're too sexist, too outlandish and just plain non-senss overdramatized.
I rarely watched Indian Films because of how repetitively similar they are...
They have done enough sins and crimes
Now its time for the downfall
Aftet ssr death
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You are mistaken if you think the 'golden era' of 'bollywood' started in the 90's. Hindi cinema was at it's peak from the 1950-1970's when good family dramas were made. Later on the underworld kings from India and the Middle-east started financing 'bollywood' movies and had a say in the top stars, story line, content etc which saw the rise of all the 'Khans' and also of heavy doses of violence and sex.
Agree
Are script writers gone dead in india
I dont find creativity in indian movies anymore except malayali movies.
Whether its bollywood with same actors and actresses pairing with one another
Telgu and tamil just making action and rowdy movies
Shahrukh khan came with a bang with 3 bach to bach all time blockbuster and created history in 2023 with the box office collection of 3000cr ($400M) 😅 smashed south industry out of park 😎.
#World 🌎 #Biggest Super star ⭐ #SRK
Reminds me of Disney format.
There is no space for any country every one will be living in the personalized echo chamber. Who wants to watch some other culture guy as a hero who doesn't look like him😂
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Bollywood never ends in india may be in other forms but it never happens that movies cant make in india n Hollywood movies are watching by all indian it will never happen
I wouldn't watch the Bollywood movie even if you gave me a free ticket.
I watched the documentary and insightful it was; covered virtually all the factors but for the biggest and the the most important of all.The advent and rise of so called social media platforms such as instagram, tiktoks etc....This is the biggest reason for the degradation of the world cinema not just the bollywood.There will always be some film industry doing better than the other.Perhaps Bollywood is not doing as great as compared to other indian movie industries presently but it is a global phenomenon rather than just bollywood not doing well.When all the people in the world are hooked or addicted to the nonsense and worthless content that social media is propogating ;in a world where every single individual has the means and tools to produce their own little content(however inappropriate and worthless it may be) without any form of cencorship(cinemas are still subjected to regulations and cencorships) and has the algorithms to make it spread like a wild fire thus in the process getting instant recognition by the entire world , it is no wonder that the traditional movie industries and their stars have lost the charm.
Here comes the era of becoming a star from the comfort of your bedroom by just saying hello guys ....
You dont need hard work
You dont need knowledge
You dont need capability
Anymore.......
But hats off to those who do put in a lot of effort to produce some meaningful content even on social media!
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I Love priyanka Chopra she's Also Blollywood Star To But Now A Days She Was A Hallywood Star.
She is bad too nowadays
Too much of anything will always lose its appeal. That's happening now in bollywood. It will happen in all film industries. There's so much good content everywhere, and it's very easy to produce content now. The same repeated content/theme will lose the demand.
And may be people are tired of watching so much content as well.
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Tollywood sounds like tattiwood or
maybe cringewood with full of nonsense action
dynasticism and nepotism is main reason because talented people dying everyday everywhere
I would say this video didn't aged well 😂. The king of Bollywood Mr. Shah Rukh Khan has saved the Bollywood by giving highest revenue earning film for Hindi speaking belt in India. And the main reason for downfall of Bollywood is nothing but BJP guys who's calling boycott for almost every film, 2nd reason is Bollywood guys are not making films in Hindi anymore, everything is in English from film title to the dialogues. An ordinary indian could not understand it. These are the only reasons why Bollywood had 2 terrible years in terms of revenue. But now I can say very much Bollywood is back.
Film Industry : Head Ache. 🤷🤷🤷
No 1 & main reason the end of Bollywood S S R Mudered Naya do justice for SSR
DW as always living on lala land. SRK revived bollywood again
check the DATE, idiot. this video is older than 'Pathan film'
They are still sticking with glam driven stories. No amount of beauty is going to save a movie if there is no story, script.
India is hindu majority country do you think we will be ruled by Christian nationalist party
Not so much nepotism. But rather the fact that they simply copy South Indian films and just want to put a North Indian ethnic phenotype in the lead role .
Their music also samples, heavily, from foreign musicians. At one point they were plagiarising old 1980s & early 1990s songs from Africa. Very cheeky because copyright ©️ laws are almost nonexistent on the continent, but I recognised sooo many, they did not sample they used the entire tune only writing , obviously, different lyrics to match the film - but the entire melody was from another song. No mention of the original artists in the credits.
Worst & unforgivable for me is they; word for word, copy South Indian films but advertise to the audience as if it's a new fresh idea. It's insulting and deceptive to the audience. Salutations to Sharuk for exposing Billu Barber was a South remake. Bollywood also promotes a westernised culture, I find South is more honest in showing the culture. The South just needs to stop self harming with tasteless mocking of darker skin colour Indians especially when darker skin colour Indians are more genetically closer to the ancient Dravidian original inhabitants of the valley before invasions that brought in the colour caste system.
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And then they came with a bang in 2023.
Poor storylines shamelessly plagiarised from Hollywood and other global cinema movies which the Hindi audience doesn't relate to. Bollywood was once famed for its unique musical soundtrack but now music composers are churning out either mostly remixes of old songs or tunes "inspired" by other artistes.
Times have changed so much that filmmakers don't really know what type of movies fo make. 1950s Nehru socialism gave Raj Kapoor, Dev Anand and Dilip Kumar. 1970s Emergency period doled out angry young men like Amitabh Bachchan and Shatrughan Sinha etc. Then 1990s n 2000s economic liberalisation churned out Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, Aamir Khan and Hrithik Roshan.
How do you define today's era? How is the mood of public like? Filmmakers dont know that so they dont know what type of films to make
Lastly, one can attribute Bollywood's failure to nepotism, in the aftermath of Sushant Singh Rajput's death, who was seen as a rising star. There is a segment of audience that views Bollywood industry with distrust due to the involvement in anti national activities and drugs etc.
Jawan movie revived bollywood ❤
It was but then Srk made a comeback
bhaubali is also tollywood
all other things are fine but suddenly politics in between from nowhere 🤨😅
They are so so bad nowadays honestly. overdone over exaggerated not engaging at all.
These type of documentaries show that why the West is living in some other world.. Kuyein ke medhak..
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2:28 that still is Telugu Film Industry not Kollywood(Tamil Film Industry), how hard is it get at least one film expert from India who can differentiate between industries😠
Thats Telugu not tulugu first do your research properly and spelling it correctly and may be you have giving some good as points in this but the way you said its media and geo political driven but we in india respect the story equally if its good enough irrespective of the language or film industry. Your reporting should be neutral but not driven by western or leftist narratives. Very shoddy reporting by you guys targeting india in all instances without looking to other side of the coin, which paints a real intention of your media channel
U must have reedit the video as bollywood bounceback in 2023. This year witness a remarkable return with a sense of catering the audience in right manner.Ir surely continues onwards!!!!!
"Upper caste background " was that rant necessary or even true? So typical.