Our run of blockbusters was led by a multilingual wave of South Indian movies, Hindi versions of which helped swell hall audiences across the country. Going by the report’s data, Hindi films have such re-dubs to thank for more than half their inflows over this period. What leaps off the screen, instead, is the dramatic success of southern cinema. Southern movies are diverse, as one would expect of filmmakers who release many more films than Mumbai’s Hindi industry does. Rajamouli’s movies, for example, are mounted mostly as grand spectacles, with animation enabling hyperbolic storytelling of the sort we associate with our age-old nautanki narrative style.

Source: Mint June 03, 2022 01:18 UTC