Saturday, May 3, 2008

Tollywood betimes Bollywood

It might sound bizzare! But it's true. Bollywood is well known for the glitzy, glam and money it puts into industry but down south Tollywood is no less. The recent films released in Tollywood have taken a toll over many big-budget Bollywood films. The reason is simple, originality and meaningful stories. Now that doesn't mean that Bollywood doesn't procreates meaningful stories, but look at the list of films released lately and you know. Most of the Hindi films are either taken from the Hollywood flicks or Tollywood (latest trend). It has been a tradition followed since the begining. Twenty years back most of the Bollywood flims were adapted from the Bengali cinema then came a romantic era where we found some original stuff. This was followed by gen-next who thought that re-making the Hollywood films in Bollywood ishtyle would work with the audience. Last but not the least is picking up hit films from down south which is working really well.
The reason is simple that there is still some originality left in the south. Though they too have picked handful of meaningful Bollywood films and remade it to huge success. Bollywood is going through a phase, where the directors and producer believe that showing skin and black comedy can get audience. Whereas down south audience have a hunger for entertainment. They believe in complete packaging which has action, comedy and romance too. And yes not to forget a social angle too in their films. It's also the craze people carry for their favorite stars that has made Tollywood such a big industry. For Bollywood they need to take some lessons from Tollywood rather than borrowing stories from them.
Please comment on this........this is incomplete but I would like to know whether it's sounding interesting. Lately I have been watching some blockbuster cinemas of down-south and this are the things I have noted.....

2 comments:

Shruti said...

hmm well said

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