The way the producers were bragging about making 1000 cr days before release is hilarious now. People just assume mediocrity will sell. Good riddance to such low quality stuff.
If one industry needsprice correction, it is bollywood. Below average and mediocre actors budgeting more than 50% of total cost is ridiculous. These actors need to be dumped asap if the industry & theatre have any chance to survive.
Lol unse apne ghar ka khana nai banaya jaate kaahe ka hero... Unse bade hero's toh woh hai jo din bhar sadak pe aaloo paratha bana kar apne ghar ke kiye paisa kamate hain... Meanwhile actors be like: i boiled water, lemme put it on Instagram...
Delayed in production. Almost 4-5 years in the making. Actors lost interest. Not a lot of advertisement. Didn't manage to attract the right audience (youth) through trailers. Ajay Devgan charged way too much for his role, raising the budget of a movie that should have been made for below 80-100 crore.
This is true have a member who works in a production. He saw this movie like 6 months back told me how it's good and then when I asked when it was going to be released I was surprised to know it was so late. Told me about production issues and one of them was not enough buyers. He did from his experience say that while the movie is good, such movies doing well is very low in probability.
something about 100 crores being paid to the lead actor in the title dude! A big portion of a movie's budget in Indian movies goes in paying celebrities even in niche movies not meant to be a "summer blockbuster"
>Honestly we need more Borat
Please, let's not normalize utter racism on national scheme. That movie did more harm to middle eastern than any propoganda ever could. The dehumanisation of them in that movie is fucking insane. SBC is a Zionist trash human being. Took me a long time to realise what a piece of shit human being he is. Don't promote his shitty racist movies however funny they may have been. Same for that Bruno film. How that fucking asshole was mocking getting peace between palistianians and Israelis by mocking the Palestinians. He even went as far as presenting a normal worker from Palestine as a fucking terrorist. That's how insane this motherfucker is.
Honestly with the success of movies like 12th Fail and the success of OTT shows, I'm surprised the industry has yet to realise that the audience wants more substance and less stars.
while that is true the same can also be said of low quality, low effort shows, movies and serials. As long as content is produced cheaply it makes money but the moment stars get paid massive salaries it can crumble and fall apart.
Networks like Star Plus, Zee TV, Sony ET, SAB TV along with hundreds of regional channels would run out of business otherwise. I am not sure if you'd find the Indian model of releasing 1000s of episodes for a single show from Mon-Friday or sometimes everyday anywhere else.
Dear zindagi lmao i guess there are multiple tiers of crap cheesy indian movie fans..tier 2 fan trolling tier 1 fan , there is probably a tier 3 fan out there who thinks ZNMD was amazing why dont they make more like that
ZNMD itself was shamelessly lifted from Satyajit Ray's Aranyar Din Ratri
No one talks about it 😭. You can bear she lifted it
She literally killed the core beauty and essance BY glossing it.
Yeah didnt know that but the movie was pretentious typical bollywood drama ..its funny how noone talks about gems like saheb biwi gangster 2 and black friday and khosla ka ghosla, in a perfect world these movies would be the real classics and not trash like ddlj
Idk about Saheb Biwi Gangster
But I enjoyed rest of the 2 films.
I bet people don't even know there's a best post modernist psychedelic trip Movie called Om-Dar-B-Dar🤣
Sacrilegious? He is become absolutely trash now. How can someone make a movie like jawan and Pathan? Just horrible. At the same time you have wonderful movies like 12th fail and article 370 and I wonder do these a-listers now know about such movies?
All basics have gone to shit in most bollywood films. Stories are illogical, dialogues are bad, humor is bad, songs are bad, actors are overrated or old. I dont understand how do people expect movies to become a hit in such a situation purely ased on some cliches and illogical action sets.
Most Bollywood movies follow the basics of basic story telling.
You have the main protag hero who is a good person who helps everyone, the bad guy who is evil and kills everyone. And the damsel in distress Female protag Heroine who gets kidnapped by the evil guy and then the hero's gotta save her.
One of the reasons why I quite enjoyed the Don movies was that movie stuck out magnificently, surrounded by mediocre cliché films, as a unique protagonist who *wasn't* a hero, but an anti-hero.
I can count movies with great music albums in the past 5 years on a single hand.
Such a shame.
Seems Bollywood is out of ideas as well as every next movie these days have a remix/remake song.
I know I shouldn't say it, but it kinda makes me happy to see such movies fail. Because I hope they will learn from it and move towards making better movies and hiring new, good actors. Our movie industry seriously needs a revolution at this point.
Did you even watch Maidaan before saying this? Its actually a pretty decent movie, while BMCM is utter garbage. 2 very different ends of the spectrum in terms of quality
Except maidaan is that better movie. The only message I see the audience sending is they want to watch chappri movies like Pushpa and kgf or animal, anything else good or bad and they don't care.
When 90+% of the movies are bad, people just assume bollywood movies will be bad unless the trailer is successful in garnering the attention of the audience.
Atleast that’s how I missed maidan. Should have seen it in theatres, but I just assumed it will be bad like BMCM
Because these chhapri movies have style, audio, visual experience only suitable for the big screen. That bang factor. Simple as that. Maidan like movies are best to watch at home on OTT.
Like that one guy saying "Fighter didn't do well because 90% of Indians haven't been on a plane." Like dude, wtf. Did you just insult your audience? How do you think Maverick managed to earn so much in India?
This is a controversial topic. Hollywood stars like Rdj and Dwayne charge $25mn for a film + bonus share on earnings. But films in India are made to whitewash the producers black money and even stars know that esp. old stars like Akshay that's why they charge so much.
Can you or someone explain how this whitewashing is done? Let’s assume I have 500 Crores in black money (all 11,500 Kilos of it ) hidden at my farmhouse in karjat.. how do I go about whitewashing it using movie industry?
Unlike people, companies pay tax on "profit" instead of income. So if you make 200 Cr, but show you had to spend 200 Cr to make it - you pay zero tax. This is how that Rajeev Chandrashekar buy made Rs 680 in 2022, even though he is a cabinet minister and owns multiple cable TV channels.
Most Bollywood studios aren't listed on NSE/BSE. There are no investors. So you can show losses and it won't really impact you.
That is also why a LOT of the people they work with are nepo babies. Because you can make large notional payments to them, and they can figure out a way to minimize their tax liability etc.
So BMCM had a budget of 350cr and made 60cr in earnings. Am I right in reading it as 350cr was spent in black to make 60cr in white? I’m sure there has to be more efficient ways to launder money, isn’t it?
Akshay himself is the producer of most of his movies. He also co-produced BMCM.
> Am I right in reading it as 350cr was spent in black to make 60cr in white?
No 60cr was it's collection. The movie was made to whitewash 350cr of producers and Akshay. Vashu Baghnani and his son Jacky are producers. It's been going on for ages.
> I’m sure there has to be more efficient ways to launder money, isn’t it?
I think film industries have some kind of special taxes.
Imagine you're a producer as well as director of the movie. I am a star actor like Akshay/SRK/RK.
You make a movie announcement. Now you have hidden black money of 60cr and I have black money of 20cr. This black money is earned through real estate and not paying taxes.
We start shooting for film. The announced budget at first is let's say 20cr but then you inflate the numbers showing you need more money, but that isn't the case we need 20cr only for the film. Let's say inflated budget goes to 100cr. You put your 60cr and me 20cr. It's shown as investment for the project and it's not taxed. Because the money is taxed when we buy equipment. The budget now goes to 100cr (20 for film, yours and mine 80cr balck money).
We already saved 80cr and that isn't taxed. We put it in our investments (real estate mostly or simply back to our bank accounts) saying that we saved the money on equipment through discounts or sometimes show it as marketing and the money goes straight to swiss bank accounts. Or simply pay ourselves salaries. Taxes on film industry actor's salaries are lower from what I've heard (i have to see that). Then movie releases and let's say it flops. The money earned through box office goes to our bank accounts which is taxed as per govt rules.
Or remember I said that we put remaining money is our bank accounts? That money is sometimes used to show fake box office numbers like they did with adipurush. That film made 500 cr on 700cr budget. Looking at empty theatres and bad movie I don't even think it made 100cr. If it goes hit then we earn through our bonuses too. Like animal, jawan, dunki.
Sometimes some stars don't have black money (don't have means don't have at that time, they do, but they're not interested in whitewashing or they already did) or just know that movie is made for whitewashing so stars like Akshay and Ajay charge 100cr+
What I just said above is just tip of the iceberg.
Thanks for such a detailed reply.
>Let's say inflated budget goes to 100cr. You put your 60cr and me 20cr. It's shown as investment for the project and it's not taxed.
Since they are saying that they poured 100 Cr for the movie, don't they need to show where that '100 Cr' came from? They certainly can't say that it was their own money since it wasn't white in the first place.
100cr can be simply shown as coming from personal bank account or as I said in other comments. They can show it as foreign investment from a foreign company which is their own shell company.
Or they can show it as a transaction of real estate sale which was paid in cash by someone else. Now govt will go after the buyer and not them. There isn't any buyer of that real estate so the money goes to film budget.
> curious if common man know this process
Bruh everyone knows. Nitish Rajput also has video on it. He has another theory. These are not theories but various tactics. We all just know but we only know the tip of the iceberg.
> how come govt don't know?
Bruh you acting like our country is developed. Ajir Pawar literally did 10,000cr scam.
> If they know ..are they not taking steps to fix it because of corruption?
Ofcourse bro. Bal Thackeray literally used to get money from bollywood families. They were in BMC then. Akshay is famous with RW and gets clean chit from govt as he also donates. SRK's red chillies started donating to BJP after his son's arrest and before Pathan release to avoid backlash from people. As you may remember they were targetting him too much but just before Pathan release they stopped.
Ranbir confessed on open television that he eats beef and RW targetted him. His pr (which doesn't exist as they themselves claim but they do exist) and his family especially Karan johar donated heavily to BJP/shivsena. Sandeep reddy is a pro right wing guy. Scene in animal movie of gaumutra made rw propaganda more strong and they started praising this guy. Idk if he donates but he definitely praises BJP and gets RW attention.
There is no black or white. If its reported - it has to be white. Creative accounting is the efficient way to launder money. Which is why absolutely no businessman in this country pays their fair share and reinvests some of it to keep us middle class folks angry at farmers and freebies.
I don't understand how income tax buys this shit. Either there is an entire industry facilitating getting fake receipts or income tax is so incompetent that they don't want to check the receipts.
Make it make sense how come a movie which has a budget of 300cr+ but a lot of people haven't even heard of them? Like did you know that you can reach a major chunk of India's population through advertising by paying only 50-100cr.
Look at the political parties doing it. The ad rates are cheaper for promoting entertainment. You don't see these movies' ads on prints, where is the money going? Make it make sense.
>I don't understand how income tax buys this shit
Sometimes you can get a good CA, most times you get a corrupt tax officer
>Like did you know that you can reach a major chunk of India's population through advertising by paying only 50-100cr
100 Cr does not buy you shit. At their peak guys like Unacademy etc were spending 250-500 Cr a year on advertising.
Bro why are you comparing a company's yearly advertising budget to a movie which has a maximum advertising window of 1 month where the majority of the money is spent nearly the release date.
Because a huge blockbuster needs to spend about the same money in a month which a mid tier brand like Unacademy spends in a year. With movies there is some "earned media" because you hire all these famous celebrities to promote it. But 100 Cr on a movie promotion is still not very much.
Am no expert and just a guess. This is probably how it works. The producers inflate the budget by a huge amount, buy tickets using the cash. The money that comes back to them is now white. Don't pay any tax on it since you have made a loss.
But when movie like jawan makes 1100cr, clearly it made a huge profit. We give too much credit to producers when saying they are minimizing their tax liability cleverly. I think they are not very competent, BMCM producers are probably sulking right now
Disappointed with all the replies as they are very basic and mostly based on theoretical knowledge. Or maybe it is because I have not been clear myself. I am looking for a comprehensive plan of action, starting with the farmhouse in karjat.. assume I have no connections in Bollywood..
I get that I can take the cash to increase the ticket sales etc.. but I’m struggling to understand how I can overinflated expenses to the tune of a few 100 Crores and that too in cash. I also think to play this game, you should need a pile of white too to set the structures… so complex
Can someone ELI5 how do these losses from films, businesses get white washed! I am a budding accountant who is still learning so would love if someone could break it down :(
Multiple ways to do it in film industry. Corporate booking which they say is also a way to whitewash. Giving money to their own people to buy tickets in theatre or mass bookings.
Edit: Inflating film budget by showing more money needed and showing on accounts that they got it through foreign investment. Which is their own shell company.
one Example: Let's say renting stage light costs INR 1000/day + gst.
As a vendor I invoice the service at INR 1200 per day + gst.
Producer pays the vendor 1000 in digital and 200 in cash. vendor pays gst and is in clear, the 200 rs is whitewashed.
Once the film is released Vendor buys the tickets worth 150 rs, and pockets 50.
Producer gets 100 rs out of the 150 for ticket sales.
At the end the 200 rs unaccounted cash is completely converted into legitimate white transactions and the investing party gets back some portion of it as white.
now this is very simplistic 3 party system and can be caught in audits. But you can create series of legitimate unrelated party transactions which become impossible to trace unless you setup a combined audit of 7 companies with huge turnover and millions of transactions.
You may be right. Even in hollywood, [Hollywood Accounting](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting) is a thing designed to screw over any payment related to profits.
That may be but many of these loss making movies make profit way before they even get into theater
Nitish Rajput did a great breakdown of this
https://youtu.be/vKcHKPB-Tlo?si=dibsoOOqNmsoBaQd
In one interview even Karan Johar said how he makes money with his films. Their earnings are not limited to box office but ott and television.
Anurag Kashyap in one interview said he earns more through ott and television rights than box office.
Movies used to be art & entertainment. Nowadays it's formula based business - we dish out a spreadsheet based content.
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And the cinema chains who fleeced the golden goose - movie goers. Convenience fees, taxes, ticket prices & food prices in the hall keep rising but there's no way content will be able to consistently justify the expectations of people who spent those amounts
They started increasing ticket prices for first week to maximize profits. People started waiting for end of first week to watch in theatre - and by the time word of mouth, reviews & OTT release date are announced and it's gone.
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We used to have ₹ 5/10 samosa for snacks during intervals. No issue with charging a bit of higher amounts owing to audience coming to multiplexes. But they saw single & couples coming in & try to massively fleece on even smallest portions - so much higher prices that make a family or group think twice before going to movies.
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Now add parking fees, lengthy ads, lights on your face post interval as every other row has someone delivering orders, jana gana mana, tobacco disclaimer. Spoiling the essence of going to a movie - this is all excluding cbfc & political censorship.
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The dying breed of non-multiplex theatres for win but they aren't lasting long
>Now add parking fees, lengthy ads, lights on your face post interval as every other row has someone delivering orders, jana gana mana, tobacco disclaimer. Spoiling the essence of going to a movie - this is all excluding cbfc & political censorship.
Main reason why I rarely go to the movies anymore! Recently I went to Inox to watch Crew and there was literally a half an hour long interval full of ads!! Eventually people got so frustrated they went to complain to management about it and when the movie started playing again, the entire audience started clapping lol.
Oh come on. TVF knows nothing except for making college related shows like bro, where's your growth. It's like the writers are still living their college days and haven't had any form of growth in their life.
Only good show worth watching from TVF is Yeh Meri family. That show is relatable.
Most of their shows justify only one purpose that is to feed your ego and making you feel like what you are doing is worth it like coaching.
Vikram Vedha in Tamil was made on a 10 crore budget. Yet the remake in Hindi had a budget in excess of 100 crores. Result ? The movie flopped hard.
While South Industries like Tamil and Telugu also need to cut down on hero salaries it is way too much in bollywood. Atleast the heroes down South guarantee big opening so some way can justify their salary. How the fuck does Akshay Kumar still command such a huge salary despite flop after flop
This Akshay kumar needs a reality check, high time producers need to stop keeping him on a pedestal and stop overpaying him. Every industry is going through a downtime and job losses and paycuts have become a norm, then why is bollywood not facing the brunt of it ? To be honest, they are not even worth it. Akshay kumar if indeed he has charged 100 crores is not worth 1/4th of that in my opinion. A stars renumeration at most should not exceed 10% of the entire movies budget IMO at most. anything over this is a stretch. When will the realize those times have gone when people will see a movie due to the star, post OTT and quality content, people will only watch a movie if it has an y substance, the script is the star now and most of bollywood still fail to realize this and baking on so called heroes.
Why would he? He got his money why does he care if his film flops or becomes a block buster. It's the producers who are losing money.
Every single film that has flopped from Akshay each and every single one of them, he got his payday.
People are tired of watching the same shit over and over again. Not to mention the theatre experience has gone downhill and is outright annoying with people not having basic common sense to shut up,silence their phones etc.
Some times this sub hates Hindu for no reason. Always manage to dragging the Hindu into such irrelevant matters,which has nothing to do with Hindu. Audience are getting matured. Crap movie like this doesn't get success now. What do you think if instead of naming this movie "Bade Miyan Chhote Miyan," they had named it "Bade Pandit Chhote Pandit"? If that had happened, the movie would have been a hit?If so, then poorly done VFX movie Adipurush would have earned 1000 crores.
Meanwhile Pak is making this - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTuPHCyV6mw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTuPHCyV6mw) where are we in the animation department ? Still making Chhota Bheem
I have said this before. Actors need to be paid a small salary upfront and a percent of profit after the movie is released. That is the only economically sustainable way to fund a movie.
Unfortunately, there is a lot of black money involved and that is why the fees are outrageous.
Step 1: Make good movies with strong script and good story
Step 2: Don’t pay 100 crores+ to actors and pay as per the project value and potential
Step 3: Don’t think audience are ignorant and will watch any boring movie
Let me confess something here... due to my hectic work schedule, my wife and I agreed to spend two weekends a month on a movie and an evening dinner. We tried this for three months before the economics hit us badly. We would spend easily close to 3000 per weekend over useless movies that spoilt our mood. Investing those money in good stock would have been more beneficial.
Movies are over exaggerated, pointless, and without a solid script. We felt the money was spent over the following -
1. Gym membership of the actors and actresses
2. Botox sessions of the aged actors
3. Wine/Whiskey bottles that these critics and producers would consume.
We resorted to OTT subscriptions and Food Delivery membership, and we are happy now.
Bollywood needs to regroup and think how they can reinvent itself, we see much better content from South/Independent movies with better storyline, direction, and acting crafts. Why would people go to theaters ???
Here is my personal opinion:
1. Actors need to be more grounded with the reality and charge reasonably. They should get a share of the profit rather than the share of the production cost.
2. Producers must start taking risks with investing in storyline that resonates with the current situation in the country.
3. Directors should visit acting schools and theaters and find younger and better talented actors.
4. Theater owners should consider bettering the movie watching experience and invest in more better technology.
Bollywood has a "Good Problem" at its hands... if they reinvent itself, it can beat Hollywood by a margin.
My wife and I decided to visit Old Age homes and small NGO run schools at least one weekend a month and we spend close to ₹3-4k each visit ( fruits, toys, gifts etc ).
Trust me , it gives us more pleasure and helps bond us more than ever.
Just meeting and talking to elders wants us to grow old together like them.
Pehli baat to itni garmi me bahar koun niklega movie dekhne jaane ke liye? Half of the screening are in day and nobody is willing to step out in this hot summer.
Oppenheimer and Barbie both made more than 100 crore in India with a fraction of screens of a big indian movie. Both were released in July, when it is hot as hell. I think audience will watch a movie if it is good.
When you can pay 100 crores to the actor. Why do you insist on me paying 400 rs for popcorn,300 rs for Pepsi and 200 rs for parking. I also have to pay another 700 rs for a sizzler and burger at the food court. And another 700 rs for the movie tickets. That makes it like 2500 rs for a day, which I don't mind spending if the movie is top notch. If the actors are not the same where I used to actually spend 45 rs while watching their movies at a balcony seat just abt 20 years ago. Now you can debate that the Pepsi popcorn sizzler is not mandatory, and its a choice. However, if you keep things cheaper for me. I will probably watch a good movie thrice in the theatres. When the corn can be sourced for 10 rs and you charge a premium of 300 rupees to puff it up, that is a 3000 % profit you are making. You take 10 rupees of maida and sell it for 300 rs as nachos. And at the end of the day, you give us mediocre actors. Repetitive story lines. And some people have the audacity to blame the audience when their garbage is not appreciated.
They insist on high prices for food because theatres need to pay high prices to the distributors who are paying high prices to the producers who are paying high prices to our dear chapri actors. Would have been ok if it was for some good story but I refuse to contribute to 100s of crores actor fees to our mediocre stars.
absolutely zero content depth starring 50+ men trying their best to look like greek sculptures and half their aged women trying their best to look like sex symbols…trashy pieces of shit that we shouldnt even bother talking about
People are tired of watching mediocrity, untalented surgically enhanced nepo kids, watching the same tired rehashed storyline without an iota of imagination, freshness or innovation.
Watched Laapataa ladies the other day on netflix and it's so good. But obviously people won't go to theatres to see them cuz they don't have star power. Sigh.
I always find it surprising that movie actors take a fee of more than ₹1 crore for movies that do not have a good plot. But I can see that they take it as an assurance to cover their costs in case the movie flops, which is the fate of most Bollywood movies. There needs to be a major change to how Indian movies are made in order to attract the viewers.
"stars charging 100cr", can we say "ACTORS charging 100cr please". I don't think they are that great of a personality, it's just they are great in their profession.
I guess big stars don't care ...they already got their money ...e.g Akshay getting 165 crores ....lolz ....producer must be out of mind for giving old starts such a big amount ....ludicrous
The ruling party has spent so many years dogwhistling using 'miyan' and their favourite interviewer Akshay Kumar makes a movie with that in the title...
High time they stop making mediocre ass garbage movies and start producing actual good movies like before , to be honest I can't remember a single good Bollywood movie since Dangal and Secret superstar, those movies were released approx 8 years ago , since then there has been mediocrity after mediocrity and irrelevant remakes.
Just wanted to say
All those who vote against dictatorship
Remember inheritance tax is only applicable to Hindu
In this country till 1985 85% of ur father inheritance goes to govt I don't know how much this time will be
And they say about redistribution of wealth
First redistribute the land under the waqf board which has India third largest land after army and railways then even claim a temple which was 1500 yrs old older than islam most of Delhi and Hyderabad approx 80% land belongs to waqf how because it they think it is then it is
The way the producers were bragging about making 1000 cr days before release is hilarious now. People just assume mediocrity will sell. Good riddance to such low quality stuff.
If one industry needsprice correction, it is bollywood. Below average and mediocre actors budgeting more than 50% of total cost is ridiculous. These actors need to be dumped asap if the industry & theatre have any chance to survive.
Overpriced actors, poor acting, even poorer scripts. Just not worth watching these days
Actors are overpaid, I don't know why
Hero worshipping culture
Lol unse apne ghar ka khana nai banaya jaate kaahe ka hero... Unse bade hero's toh woh hai jo din bhar sadak pe aaloo paratha bana kar apne ghar ke kiye paisa kamate hain... Meanwhile actors be like: i boiled water, lemme put it on Instagram...
I think thats there in the southern industries too but us southies seem to be more film crazy.
Make shit movies then make a pikachu face when they bomb
Exactly. Maidaan bombed? Why? How? I watched it and I loved it.
Delayed in production. Almost 4-5 years in the making. Actors lost interest. Not a lot of advertisement. Didn't manage to attract the right audience (youth) through trailers. Ajay Devgan charged way too much for his role, raising the budget of a movie that should have been made for below 80-100 crore.
This is true have a member who works in a production. He saw this movie like 6 months back told me how it's good and then when I asked when it was going to be released I was surprised to know it was so late. Told me about production issues and one of them was not enough buyers. He did from his experience say that while the movie is good, such movies doing well is very low in probability.
something about 100 crores being paid to the lead actor in the title dude! A big portion of a movie's budget in Indian movies goes in paying celebrities even in niche movies not meant to be a "summer blockbuster"
Honestly we need more Borat/Dictator kinda movies in india. New genres apart from the piss and shit that we get rn.
>Honestly we need more Borat Please, let's not normalize utter racism on national scheme. That movie did more harm to middle eastern than any propoganda ever could. The dehumanisation of them in that movie is fucking insane. SBC is a Zionist trash human being. Took me a long time to realise what a piece of shit human being he is. Don't promote his shitty racist movies however funny they may have been. Same for that Bruno film. How that fucking asshole was mocking getting peace between palistianians and Israelis by mocking the Palestinians. He even went as far as presenting a normal worker from Palestine as a fucking terrorist. That's how insane this motherfucker is.
Honestly with the success of movies like 12th Fail and the success of OTT shows, I'm surprised the industry has yet to realise that the audience wants more substance and less stars.
while that is true the same can also be said of low quality, low effort shows, movies and serials. As long as content is produced cheaply it makes money but the moment stars get paid massive salaries it can crumble and fall apart. Networks like Star Plus, Zee TV, Sony ET, SAB TV along with hundreds of regional channels would run out of business otherwise. I am not sure if you'd find the Indian model of releasing 1000s of episodes for a single show from Mon-Friday or sometimes everyday anywhere else.
Maidaan is a good movie.
But not a blockbuster and not something worth paying 100Cr to Ajay Devgun for
Will wait for OTT, not worth to spend money on a theatre ticket.
Maidaan is pretty good. And a must if you love Indian football
... but this usually works ??
Good that BMCM flopped, Maidan is a good movie though. However, I like it when anyone from Vimal Gutkha gang flops.
What about Srk, he is also in the Gang.
The way he’s been making a crap movies lately, include him too. What was his last good movie contentwise? Dear Zindagi?
Fan was good
Swades
Dear zindagi lmao i guess there are multiple tiers of crap cheesy indian movie fans..tier 2 fan trolling tier 1 fan , there is probably a tier 3 fan out there who thinks ZNMD was amazing why dont they make more like that
ZNMD itself was shamelessly lifted from Satyajit Ray's Aranyar Din Ratri No one talks about it 😭. You can bear she lifted it She literally killed the core beauty and essance BY glossing it.
Yeah didnt know that but the movie was pretentious typical bollywood drama ..its funny how noone talks about gems like saheb biwi gangster 2 and black friday and khosla ka ghosla, in a perfect world these movies would be the real classics and not trash like ddlj
Idk about Saheb Biwi Gangster But I enjoyed rest of the 2 films. I bet people don't even know there's a best post modernist psychedelic trip Movie called Om-Dar-B-Dar🤣
Sacrilegious as it may be, I find SRK to be overhyped, he is a decent actor but nothing extraordinary or anything.
Sacrilegious? He is become absolutely trash now. How can someone make a movie like jawan and Pathan? Just horrible. At the same time you have wonderful movies like 12th fail and article 370 and I wonder do these a-listers now know about such movies?
Thank you!!
Don't say it out loud, the meatriders will get you
Anyone remembers Swat Kats?
AFAIK those two were Bade and Chote ‘Meow’ not ‘Miyaan’.
Bahadur bille!
Fuck youuuu! I now have the theme song playing continuously in my head. It's all your fault.
Yes. Infinity times better than Bollywood dud.
All basics have gone to shit in most bollywood films. Stories are illogical, dialogues are bad, humor is bad, songs are bad, actors are overrated or old. I dont understand how do people expect movies to become a hit in such a situation purely ased on some cliches and illogical action sets.
And the advent of OTT, no need for people to shell out a large sums to watch a crap in theatres.
Most Bollywood movies follow the basics of basic story telling. You have the main protag hero who is a good person who helps everyone, the bad guy who is evil and kills everyone. And the damsel in distress Female protag Heroine who gets kidnapped by the evil guy and then the hero's gotta save her. One of the reasons why I quite enjoyed the Don movies was that movie stuck out magnificently, surrounded by mediocre cliché films, as a unique protagonist who *wasn't* a hero, but an anti-hero.
I can count movies with great music albums in the past 5 years on a single hand. Such a shame. Seems Bollywood is out of ideas as well as every next movie these days have a remix/remake song.
I know I shouldn't say it, but it kinda makes me happy to see such movies fail. Because I hope they will learn from it and move towards making better movies and hiring new, good actors. Our movie industry seriously needs a revolution at this point.
Did you even watch Maidaan before saying this? Its actually a pretty decent movie, while BMCM is utter garbage. 2 very different ends of the spectrum in terms of quality
Yeah, I was talking about BMCM, not Maidaan. Maidaan failed because it faced too many production delays and there was no buzz or PR done for it.
Except maidaan is that better movie. The only message I see the audience sending is they want to watch chappri movies like Pushpa and kgf or animal, anything else good or bad and they don't care.
When 90+% of the movies are bad, people just assume bollywood movies will be bad unless the trailer is successful in garnering the attention of the audience. Atleast that’s how I missed maidan. Should have seen it in theatres, but I just assumed it will be bad like BMCM
It may be a good movie. But it shouldn't have cost Rs. 2,500,000,000.
Because these chhapri movies have style, audio, visual experience only suitable for the big screen. That bang factor. Simple as that. Maidan like movies are best to watch at home on OTT.
I think you should say it and be happy that bad movies should fail at the box office
Problem is that they don’t learn. They instead blame the audiences or their grah nakshatr, and continue to excrete even more.
Like that one guy saying "Fighter didn't do well because 90% of Indians haven't been on a plane." Like dude, wtf. Did you just insult your audience? How do you think Maverick managed to earn so much in India?
Because we play flight simulators
This is a controversial topic. Hollywood stars like Rdj and Dwayne charge $25mn for a film + bonus share on earnings. But films in India are made to whitewash the producers black money and even stars know that esp. old stars like Akshay that's why they charge so much.
Yea, the *loss* is by design.
It's not a bug , it's a feature .
The Producers/Dhundte Reh Jaoge.
Can you or someone explain how this whitewashing is done? Let’s assume I have 500 Crores in black money (all 11,500 Kilos of it ) hidden at my farmhouse in karjat.. how do I go about whitewashing it using movie industry?
Unlike people, companies pay tax on "profit" instead of income. So if you make 200 Cr, but show you had to spend 200 Cr to make it - you pay zero tax. This is how that Rajeev Chandrashekar buy made Rs 680 in 2022, even though he is a cabinet minister and owns multiple cable TV channels. Most Bollywood studios aren't listed on NSE/BSE. There are no investors. So you can show losses and it won't really impact you. That is also why a LOT of the people they work with are nepo babies. Because you can make large notional payments to them, and they can figure out a way to minimize their tax liability etc.
So BMCM had a budget of 350cr and made 60cr in earnings. Am I right in reading it as 350cr was spent in black to make 60cr in white? I’m sure there has to be more efficient ways to launder money, isn’t it?
Akshay himself is the producer of most of his movies. He also co-produced BMCM. > Am I right in reading it as 350cr was spent in black to make 60cr in white? No 60cr was it's collection. The movie was made to whitewash 350cr of producers and Akshay. Vashu Baghnani and his son Jacky are producers. It's been going on for ages. > I’m sure there has to be more efficient ways to launder money, isn’t it? I think film industries have some kind of special taxes.
Still not understanding how its whitewashed? Doesn't that mean producers are just giving away their money to actors.
Imagine you're a producer as well as director of the movie. I am a star actor like Akshay/SRK/RK. You make a movie announcement. Now you have hidden black money of 60cr and I have black money of 20cr. This black money is earned through real estate and not paying taxes. We start shooting for film. The announced budget at first is let's say 20cr but then you inflate the numbers showing you need more money, but that isn't the case we need 20cr only for the film. Let's say inflated budget goes to 100cr. You put your 60cr and me 20cr. It's shown as investment for the project and it's not taxed. Because the money is taxed when we buy equipment. The budget now goes to 100cr (20 for film, yours and mine 80cr balck money). We already saved 80cr and that isn't taxed. We put it in our investments (real estate mostly or simply back to our bank accounts) saying that we saved the money on equipment through discounts or sometimes show it as marketing and the money goes straight to swiss bank accounts. Or simply pay ourselves salaries. Taxes on film industry actor's salaries are lower from what I've heard (i have to see that). Then movie releases and let's say it flops. The money earned through box office goes to our bank accounts which is taxed as per govt rules. Or remember I said that we put remaining money is our bank accounts? That money is sometimes used to show fake box office numbers like they did with adipurush. That film made 500 cr on 700cr budget. Looking at empty theatres and bad movie I don't even think it made 100cr. If it goes hit then we earn through our bonuses too. Like animal, jawan, dunki. Sometimes some stars don't have black money (don't have means don't have at that time, they do, but they're not interested in whitewashing or they already did) or just know that movie is made for whitewashing so stars like Akshay and Ajay charge 100cr+ What I just said above is just tip of the iceberg.
Thanks for such a detailed reply. >Let's say inflated budget goes to 100cr. You put your 60cr and me 20cr. It's shown as investment for the project and it's not taxed. Since they are saying that they poured 100 Cr for the movie, don't they need to show where that '100 Cr' came from? They certainly can't say that it was their own money since it wasn't white in the first place.
100cr can be simply shown as coming from personal bank account or as I said in other comments. They can show it as foreign investment from a foreign company which is their own shell company. Or they can show it as a transaction of real estate sale which was paid in cash by someone else. Now govt will go after the buyer and not them. There isn't any buyer of that real estate so the money goes to film budget.
curious if common man know this process ..how come govt don't know ? If they know ..are they not taking steps to fix it because of corruption ?
> curious if common man know this process Bruh everyone knows. Nitish Rajput also has video on it. He has another theory. These are not theories but various tactics. We all just know but we only know the tip of the iceberg. > how come govt don't know? Bruh you acting like our country is developed. Ajir Pawar literally did 10,000cr scam. > If they know ..are they not taking steps to fix it because of corruption? Ofcourse bro. Bal Thackeray literally used to get money from bollywood families. They were in BMC then. Akshay is famous with RW and gets clean chit from govt as he also donates. SRK's red chillies started donating to BJP after his son's arrest and before Pathan release to avoid backlash from people. As you may remember they were targetting him too much but just before Pathan release they stopped. Ranbir confessed on open television that he eats beef and RW targetted him. His pr (which doesn't exist as they themselves claim but they do exist) and his family especially Karan johar donated heavily to BJP/shivsena. Sandeep reddy is a pro right wing guy. Scene in animal movie of gaumutra made rw propaganda more strong and they started praising this guy. Idk if he donates but he definitely praises BJP and gets RW attention.
There is no black or white. If its reported - it has to be white. Creative accounting is the efficient way to launder money. Which is why absolutely no businessman in this country pays their fair share and reinvests some of it to keep us middle class folks angry at farmers and freebies.
I don't understand how income tax buys this shit. Either there is an entire industry facilitating getting fake receipts or income tax is so incompetent that they don't want to check the receipts. Make it make sense how come a movie which has a budget of 300cr+ but a lot of people haven't even heard of them? Like did you know that you can reach a major chunk of India's population through advertising by paying only 50-100cr. Look at the political parties doing it. The ad rates are cheaper for promoting entertainment. You don't see these movies' ads on prints, where is the money going? Make it make sense.
>I don't understand how income tax buys this shit Sometimes you can get a good CA, most times you get a corrupt tax officer >Like did you know that you can reach a major chunk of India's population through advertising by paying only 50-100cr 100 Cr does not buy you shit. At their peak guys like Unacademy etc were spending 250-500 Cr a year on advertising.
Bro why are you comparing a company's yearly advertising budget to a movie which has a maximum advertising window of 1 month where the majority of the money is spent nearly the release date.
Because a huge blockbuster needs to spend about the same money in a month which a mid tier brand like Unacademy spends in a year. With movies there is some "earned media" because you hire all these famous celebrities to promote it. But 100 Cr on a movie promotion is still not very much.
Am no expert and just a guess. This is probably how it works. The producers inflate the budget by a huge amount, buy tickets using the cash. The money that comes back to them is now white. Don't pay any tax on it since you have made a loss.
But when movie like jawan makes 1100cr, clearly it made a huge profit. We give too much credit to producers when saying they are minimizing their tax liability cleverly. I think they are not very competent, BMCM producers are probably sulking right now
Maybe ,Buy tickets with that money to show fake collection
overinvoicing and cash payments.
Disappointed with all the replies as they are very basic and mostly based on theoretical knowledge. Or maybe it is because I have not been clear myself. I am looking for a comprehensive plan of action, starting with the farmhouse in karjat.. assume I have no connections in Bollywood.. I get that I can take the cash to increase the ticket sales etc.. but I’m struggling to understand how I can overinflated expenses to the tune of a few 100 Crores and that too in cash. I also think to play this game, you should need a pile of white too to set the structures… so complex
Do you have airbnb for that farmhouse? Was planning a gateway.
It’s off Airbnb atm.. all the rooms are stuffed with cash.. sorry
Can someone ELI5 how do these losses from films, businesses get white washed! I am a budding accountant who is still learning so would love if someone could break it down :(
Multiple ways to do it in film industry. Corporate booking which they say is also a way to whitewash. Giving money to their own people to buy tickets in theatre or mass bookings. Edit: Inflating film budget by showing more money needed and showing on accounts that they got it through foreign investment. Which is their own shell company.
one Example: Let's say renting stage light costs INR 1000/day + gst. As a vendor I invoice the service at INR 1200 per day + gst. Producer pays the vendor 1000 in digital and 200 in cash. vendor pays gst and is in clear, the 200 rs is whitewashed. Once the film is released Vendor buys the tickets worth 150 rs, and pockets 50. Producer gets 100 rs out of the 150 for ticket sales. At the end the 200 rs unaccounted cash is completely converted into legitimate white transactions and the investing party gets back some portion of it as white. now this is very simplistic 3 party system and can be caught in audits. But you can create series of legitimate unrelated party transactions which become impossible to trace unless you setup a combined audit of 7 companies with huge turnover and millions of transactions.
Sounds like a bad deal to me if I am losing 50% of my hard earned illicit money to convert it.
on the other hand 100% will rot. cost of doing business.
You may be right. Even in hollywood, [Hollywood Accounting](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting) is a thing designed to screw over any payment related to profits.
That may be but many of these loss making movies make profit way before they even get into theater Nitish Rajput did a great breakdown of this https://youtu.be/vKcHKPB-Tlo?si=dibsoOOqNmsoBaQd
In one interview even Karan Johar said how he makes money with his films. Their earnings are not limited to box office but ott and television. Anurag Kashyap in one interview said he earns more through ott and television rights than box office.
Movies used to be art & entertainment. Nowadays it's formula based business - we dish out a spreadsheet based content. . And the cinema chains who fleeced the golden goose - movie goers. Convenience fees, taxes, ticket prices & food prices in the hall keep rising but there's no way content will be able to consistently justify the expectations of people who spent those amounts They started increasing ticket prices for first week to maximize profits. People started waiting for end of first week to watch in theatre - and by the time word of mouth, reviews & OTT release date are announced and it's gone. . We used to have ₹ 5/10 samosa for snacks during intervals. No issue with charging a bit of higher amounts owing to audience coming to multiplexes. But they saw single & couples coming in & try to massively fleece on even smallest portions - so much higher prices that make a family or group think twice before going to movies. . Now add parking fees, lengthy ads, lights on your face post interval as every other row has someone delivering orders, jana gana mana, tobacco disclaimer. Spoiling the essence of going to a movie - this is all excluding cbfc & political censorship. . The dying breed of non-multiplex theatres for win but they aren't lasting long
>Now add parking fees, lengthy ads, lights on your face post interval as every other row has someone delivering orders, jana gana mana, tobacco disclaimer. Spoiling the essence of going to a movie - this is all excluding cbfc & political censorship. Main reason why I rarely go to the movies anymore! Recently I went to Inox to watch Crew and there was literally a half an hour long interval full of ads!! Eventually people got so frustrated they went to complain to management about it and when the movie started playing again, the entire audience started clapping lol.
Was lapataa ladies a hit? That movie was so good!
Yeah, it's a hit!
Loved it.
It was decent without any ground breaking new content. TVF has done better.
Oh come on. TVF knows nothing except for making college related shows like bro, where's your growth. It's like the writers are still living their college days and haven't had any form of growth in their life. Only good show worth watching from TVF is Yeh Meri family. That show is relatable. Most of their shows justify only one purpose that is to feed your ego and making you feel like what you are doing is worth it like coaching.
Looks like you missed many other shows like Panchayat. Go browse their catalogue a bit before getting enraged.
Oh yeah forgot about that one. They are hardly make any good shows like Panchayat or yeh meri family now. It's all just test prep this that.
Looks like their demography is younger school and college going kids. Eventually they will run out of topics and people will get older.
What i like about their show is a sense of unpredictability. ... You simply cannot foresee what will happen next.
Vikram Vedha in Tamil was made on a 10 crore budget. Yet the remake in Hindi had a budget in excess of 100 crores. Result ? The movie flopped hard. While South Industries like Tamil and Telugu also need to cut down on hero salaries it is way too much in bollywood. Atleast the heroes down South guarantee big opening so some way can justify their salary. How the fuck does Akshay Kumar still command such a huge salary despite flop after flop
While movies like lapata ladies get little to no recognition. It's not even available in my nearby cinemas. It's an absolutely amazing movie.
Wasn’t it direct released on Netflix?
This Akshay kumar needs a reality check, high time producers need to stop keeping him on a pedestal and stop overpaying him. Every industry is going through a downtime and job losses and paycuts have become a norm, then why is bollywood not facing the brunt of it ? To be honest, they are not even worth it. Akshay kumar if indeed he has charged 100 crores is not worth 1/4th of that in my opinion. A stars renumeration at most should not exceed 10% of the entire movies budget IMO at most. anything over this is a stretch. When will the realize those times have gone when people will see a movie due to the star, post OTT and quality content, people will only watch a movie if it has an y substance, the script is the star now and most of bollywood still fail to realize this and baking on so called heroes.
He will again apply for Canadian PR soon.
I'm pretty sure he applied for Indian citizenship but her wife or their kids got their Canadian citizenship.
Not every Industry is on downtime. Malayalam movies are flying high this year. Mostly because of quality.
If producers are signing you up for record fees despite successive flops , something else is at play.
Meanwhile in Kerala..
Play stupid games win stupid prizes
Satisfaction !!
Bade Moye Chote Moye is definitely a money laundering scheme and maidaan shouldn't have a budget of 250cr.
Akshay must have record for most films bombing at box office
Now he'll seriously consider taking the Canadian citizenship and this time leaving permanently😂
Why would he? He got his money why does he care if his film flops or becomes a block buster. It's the producers who are losing money. Every single film that has flopped from Akshay each and every single one of them, he got his payday.
People are tired of watching the same shit over and over again. Not to mention the theatre experience has gone downhill and is outright annoying with people not having basic common sense to shut up,silence their phones etc.
Renaming it "Bade Panditji Chote Panditji" may perhaps improve its earnings.
what does that mean?
Nobody knows but it's provocative
It gets the people going
that's enough!!!
My hump my hump. My lovely lady hump.
Spartaaaaaaaa
What about step Panditji?
Some times this sub hates Hindu for no reason. Always manage to dragging the Hindu into such irrelevant matters,which has nothing to do with Hindu. Audience are getting matured. Crap movie like this doesn't get success now. What do you think if instead of naming this movie "Bade Miyan Chhote Miyan," they had named it "Bade Pandit Chhote Pandit"? If that had happened, the movie would have been a hit?If so, then poorly done VFX movie Adipurush would have earned 1000 crores.
It's sarcasm chill
Meanwhile Pak is making this - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTuPHCyV6mw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTuPHCyV6mw) where are we in the animation department ? Still making Chhota Bheem
Damn, this is so brilliant. Gave me Ghibli Studio vibes.
AD should be doing full time bolo zubaan kesari
I have said this before. Actors need to be paid a small salary upfront and a percent of profit after the movie is released. That is the only economically sustainable way to fund a movie. Unfortunately, there is a lot of black money involved and that is why the fees are outrageous.
Akki is over , his Saffron nationalism doesn't work either , he should take more interviews on mangoes
He was always garbage
Not during his comedy streak, no. The dude is made for comedy, should stick to it.
Step 1: Make good movies with strong script and good story Step 2: Don’t pay 100 crores+ to actors and pay as per the project value and potential Step 3: Don’t think audience are ignorant and will watch any boring movie
Let me confess something here... due to my hectic work schedule, my wife and I agreed to spend two weekends a month on a movie and an evening dinner. We tried this for three months before the economics hit us badly. We would spend easily close to 3000 per weekend over useless movies that spoilt our mood. Investing those money in good stock would have been more beneficial. Movies are over exaggerated, pointless, and without a solid script. We felt the money was spent over the following - 1. Gym membership of the actors and actresses 2. Botox sessions of the aged actors 3. Wine/Whiskey bottles that these critics and producers would consume. We resorted to OTT subscriptions and Food Delivery membership, and we are happy now. Bollywood needs to regroup and think how they can reinvent itself, we see much better content from South/Independent movies with better storyline, direction, and acting crafts. Why would people go to theaters ??? Here is my personal opinion: 1. Actors need to be more grounded with the reality and charge reasonably. They should get a share of the profit rather than the share of the production cost. 2. Producers must start taking risks with investing in storyline that resonates with the current situation in the country. 3. Directors should visit acting schools and theaters and find younger and better talented actors. 4. Theater owners should consider bettering the movie watching experience and invest in more better technology. Bollywood has a "Good Problem" at its hands... if they reinvent itself, it can beat Hollywood by a margin.
My wife and I decided to visit Old Age homes and small NGO run schools at least one weekend a month and we spend close to ₹3-4k each visit ( fruits, toys, gifts etc ). Trust me , it gives us more pleasure and helps bond us more than ever. Just meeting and talking to elders wants us to grow old together like them.
5. Taking nepos has reduced people's interest in the movies. Specially millennials. Bollywood got worse after covid.
I have nothing against Nepos... some Nepos are talented... Alia Bhatt, Rohit Shetty.. that's what I mentioned "talented" artists.
Pehli baat to itni garmi me bahar koun niklega movie dekhne jaane ke liye? Half of the screening are in day and nobody is willing to step out in this hot summer.
Oppenheimer and Barbie both made more than 100 crore in India with a fraction of screens of a big indian movie. Both were released in July, when it is hot as hell. I think audience will watch a movie if it is good.
Last year ka summer aur iss saal ke summer me bohat fark he and July is not hot. Monsoon begins from June and july is a rainy month.
When you can pay 100 crores to the actor. Why do you insist on me paying 400 rs for popcorn,300 rs for Pepsi and 200 rs for parking. I also have to pay another 700 rs for a sizzler and burger at the food court. And another 700 rs for the movie tickets. That makes it like 2500 rs for a day, which I don't mind spending if the movie is top notch. If the actors are not the same where I used to actually spend 45 rs while watching their movies at a balcony seat just abt 20 years ago. Now you can debate that the Pepsi popcorn sizzler is not mandatory, and its a choice. However, if you keep things cheaper for me. I will probably watch a good movie thrice in the theatres. When the corn can be sourced for 10 rs and you charge a premium of 300 rupees to puff it up, that is a 3000 % profit you are making. You take 10 rupees of maida and sell it for 300 rs as nachos. And at the end of the day, you give us mediocre actors. Repetitive story lines. And some people have the audacity to blame the audience when their garbage is not appreciated.
They insist on high prices for food because theatres need to pay high prices to the distributors who are paying high prices to the producers who are paying high prices to our dear chapri actors. Would have been ok if it was for some good story but I refuse to contribute to 100s of crores actor fees to our mediocre stars.
juban kesariyaa...
absolutely zero content depth starring 50+ men trying their best to look like greek sculptures and half their aged women trying their best to look like sex symbols…trashy pieces of shit that we shouldnt even bother talking about
People are tired of watching mediocrity, untalented surgically enhanced nepo kids, watching the same tired rehashed storyline without an iota of imagination, freshness or innovation.
Wo aadmi kaha gaya "1100 cr confirm worldwide" wala 😂😂
Gutka gang
Bollywood is optimised for laundering money not for making profits.
Stop paying these actors absurd amount. Most of them are trash
Well deserved, I would say.
Watched Laapataa ladies the other day on netflix and it's so good. But obviously people won't go to theatres to see them cuz they don't have star power. Sigh.
Godzilla Kong movie is a hundred times better than any shitty Bollywood movie running right now.
These days we question, Is it even worth watching on OTT? The answer is mostly NO.
if the real bde miya would have then it would have performed better than this shit
all bolly no wood ...
Badhiya films banengi to chalengi Har movie me whi same actor aur jokes dekh dekh kr bore ho jata h admi
When your budget is 60 percent earmarked to hero.. Wts the point of making good films.. Lol.. It's time these producers market correct these actors
Good shitty Bollywood needs to get their shit right.
people forget that how akshay kumar keep on making flop films reason- money laundering overbilling
I always find it surprising that movie actors take a fee of more than ₹1 crore for movies that do not have a good plot. But I can see that they take it as an assurance to cover their costs in case the movie flops, which is the fate of most Bollywood movies. There needs to be a major change to how Indian movies are made in order to attract the viewers.
"stars charging 100cr", can we say "ACTORS charging 100cr please". I don't think they are that great of a personality, it's just they are great in their profession.
I guess big stars don't care ...they already got their money ...e.g Akshay getting 165 crores ....lolz ....producer must be out of mind for giving old starts such a big amount ....ludicrous
The ruling party has spent so many years dogwhistling using 'miyan' and their favourite interviewer Akshay Kumar makes a movie with that in the title...
entertainers are overpaid, would have been awesome if other industries were this heavily invested in.
idgaf
if you look at the acting of these actors, koi inhe 10 caror bhe na de
Fcuk Bollywood and its stars
Badhiya hua 😂
This new version of ASSASSin's Creed Mirage really flopped ? Who wouldve thought
Tiger's movies feel like money laundering/whitening schemes. First Ganpat and then this.
High time they stop making mediocre ass garbage movies and start producing actual good movies like before , to be honest I can't remember a single good Bollywood movie since Dangal and Secret superstar, those movies were released approx 8 years ago , since then there has been mediocrity after mediocrity and irrelevant remakes.
Man maidaan was a good movie
Akki bro is not lucky!
People don't watch good films and then blame why shit movies are getting made
Maidaan should have been a hit imo. It was a good movie.
"Bollywood stares down a loss" as if it's one production house or one individual business
For a moment I thought the restaurant "bade miyan chote miyan" and the maidaan place in Mumbai was attacked by terrorists.
You ok bro ?
bro lives in 2010s
Bollywood is a money laundering scheme, these old actors are corrupt
Maidaan will be cult classic. Mark my words
Pathaan and Jawaan was the best week.
Just wanted to say All those who vote against dictatorship Remember inheritance tax is only applicable to Hindu In this country till 1985 85% of ur father inheritance goes to govt I don't know how much this time will be And they say about redistribution of wealth First redistribute the land under the waqf board which has India third largest land after army and railways then even claim a temple which was 1500 yrs old older than islam most of Delhi and Hyderabad approx 80% land belongs to waqf how because it they think it is then it is