Karan Johar has opened up about how Bollywood is deriving sure facets from South motion pictures.
According to Karan Johar, Hindi cinema is trapped in a ‘herd mentality.’
Director Karan Johar has expressed considerations concerning the state of the Hindi movie business in his newest interview. He talked about how the business is studying the incorrect classes from profitable South Indian movies and making an attempt to cater to an viewers that’s turning into more and more ‘angry.’ He additionally mentioned the altering portrayal of heroes in Hindi movies over time, from difficult the system up to now to embracing misogyny and vulnerability, and now, reverting to anger as soon as once more.
In an interview with Nikhil Taneja on the We Are Yuvaa YouTube channel, he talked about how movies affect society and admitted that the idea of heroes is fading in Hindi cinema now.
“Hindi cinema has no hero; the hero today is the film, and thank god for that. We don’t need a Vijay to save us or a Raj to rule our hearts. We need our content to be impressionable in a good way,” he mentioned, and added. On being requested concerning the inherent violence that Hindi cinema sees in masculinity, he mentioned, “Hindi cinema has derived this from South cinema. This is not our core being, this is our derivation. Suddenly now we are deriving it because KGF and Pushpa are big hits. And we’re deriving it in an inauthentic manner. South (filmmakers) have their own conviction and how they can pull it off, and that’s their strength. We don’t have that strength. We don’t know what we’re doing, me included. We’re all walking around like headless chickens trying to find our feet.”
According to Karan, Hindi cinema is trapped in a ‘herd mentality.’ He mentioned that the viewers now prefers robust and flawless male characters over susceptible ones. However, he criticised that even the portrayal of anger in Hindi movies lacks authenticity. “We don’t want to see soft characters any more, we don’t want to see vulnerability, we don’t want to see flawed men, because the men in this country, generally, have gone back to being angry. But Hindi cinema hasn’t even got the anger right. Kabir Singh is Arjun Reddy, it’s not even authentically Hindi,” he added.
