It’s not an original voice: Anurag

All follow a formula and copy each other: Anurag

Everyone is imitating the pan-India trend: Anurag

Bollywood director Anurag Kashyap has been vocal about the various shortcomings in the Bollywood film industry. In a recent interview with Humans of Bombay, he talked about the negative effects of going after box office records. “I have often seen that success destroys more than it breeds. When Sairat made Rs. 100 crore, I told Nagraj Manjule, who is my friend, that Marathi cinema is now finished. Because now no one will want to tell stories, they would want to earn ₹100 crore,” Anurag said. 

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The 100 crore club was a much talked about metric ever since Aamir Khan-starrer Ghajini passed the threshold in 2008. The benchmark has however been set high with films such as Baahubali and Animal across the world. “The problem with our Hindi film industry is that they now want to earn Rs. 500 to 800 crore, not make films. For that, you have to first dumb down your films, sacrifice your story. And it’s not like it is an original voice; all follow a formula and copy each other. Now everyone is imitating the pan-India trend. If you watch 10 pan-India films, all will look the same. This never benefits the health of the industry as the films then start to bomb in huge numbers. One or two will work, then everyone will copy, and then everything will flop,” Anurag added.