Movie-making is a business. It takes crores of rupees to make a movie. Hence, a person willing to spend that much, would only do it on something that'll give good returns.
Investors and technicians are being put to good use (i.e. making movies that make money). As long as such movies keep being profitable, Bollywood will keep churning them out.
Down here in Tollywood, we have it even worse. It's like there are only 2 kinds of movies: herogiri movies (think Salman Khan & Singham) and romantic movies.
One of Tollywoods most popular actor, Mahesh Babu, tried to go a bit off-beat and made an awesome movie (1: Nenokkadine), but it flopped miserably - easily overtaken by a forgettable, formulaic, herogiri movie (Yevadu) by a less popular actor. Mahesh Babu is back to making the kinda Herogiri movies is well known for.
At least for Bollywood, due to its large audience, the niche for off-beat movies, although small, is big enough that some of them do get made (Example: Shahid, Queen, Gangs of Wasseypur 1&2, Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, Udaan, Kahaani, Black, Dev.D, Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, Special Chabbis, Kai po che!, Omkara, Paan Singh Tomar, Salaam Bombay!, Johnny Gaddaar, Rock On!!, …I'm just listing some of my favorite Bollywood films. I could go on, but I'll stop here).
Hollywood has an even larger audience. That's why you'll see more off-beat movies there. But, the big budgets will always belong to movies that make big money (same as any film industry).
Seek to understand, not judge.
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ke_neth1981
10 years ago
It simply gives an idea of the kind of people that appreciate these movies. >90% of my colleagues at work, would prefer a Krrish to Avengers any day. One of the plausible reasons being a language barrier and majority of the people content with not overcoming it. Films are made globally for people to watch them and understand them. Here I've seen movies made so that fans can see their stars occupy screen space more than watching the content itself. Hollywood movies are appreciated globally, but Bollywood films cater to only the Indian population [onshore & offshore]. Bollywood does not and will not[given its current disposition]ever get a market globally whereas its counterpart thrives and rules the global market.
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