Karan Johar on Bollywood’s ongoing crisis: ‘Actors asking for Rs 35 crore are getting box office opening of Rs 3.5 crore’ | Hindi Movie News

rewrite this content and keep HTML tags

Filmmaker Karan Johar weighed in on the dire circumstances that Bollywood is facing as a result of the difficult time the industry has been going through since the start of the year. He claimed that the notion of theatrical success needs to be updated and changed immediately.
During a conversation with journalist Faye D’Souza on her YouTube channel, Karan Johar shared, “Firstly, the audiences’ tastes have become very definitive.They want a certain kind of cinema. And if you (as a maker) want to do a certain number, then your film has to perform at A, B, and C centres. Multiplexes alone will not suffice.”
Karan further continued by stating that the cost of filmmaking has risen, with inflation being a contributing factor. In the Hindi cinema industry, there are approximately 10 reputable actors who demand high fees. Consequently, filmmakers must allocate funds for actor salaries, production costs, and marketing expenses. Unfortunately, there is no guarantee that the film will generate sufficient revenue to cover these expenditures. He further emphasized on the fact that the movie stars are asking for Rs 35 crore but their films are opening at very low numbers at the box office.
Karan said, “Those movie stars asking for Rs 35 crore are opening to Rs 3.5 crore. How’s that math working? How do you manage all these? Yet, you have to keep making movies and creating content because you also have to feed your organization. So there’s a lot of drama, and the syntax of our cinema has not found its feet,” he added. “In the case of Hindi cinema, there has been a certain kind of syntax in each decade. Right now, we are like, ‘If Jawan and Pathaan worked, should we do only action?’ Then everybody’s running that way. Then suddenly a love story would work. I feel like we are running around like headless chickens. Conviction has taken a complete beating, and it’s all about herd mentality. We haven’t realized that there is a certain audience now that wants rooted Indian cinema and, without the pressure of what the critics have to say, pure joy.”
The filmmaker further added, “They also don’t want alienating cinema. When you talk about urban syntax and alienate Tier 2 cities and the plexes in smaller towns, then you don’t do that massive business. You can make such urban cinema, but at a certain price.”
On the work front, Karan Johar’s latest production film ‘Kill’ is currently running in cinemas. The film stars Lakshya Lalwani, Raghav Juyal and Tanya Maniktala in pivotal roles.

Is This The End Of Karan Johar’s Popular Chat Show? Here’s The Explosive Reveal

FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS

Read original article here

Denial of responsibility! Swift Telecast is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. If you are the owner of the content and do not want us to publish your materials, please contact us by email – swifttelecast.com. The content will be deleted within 24 hours.

Leave a Comment