Taapsee Pannu says Bollywood and south have equal proportion of hits and flops: There also films fail

Southern film industries have taken over the pan-India space, especially post pandemic, making significant waves in the Indian Cinema. Hindi film industry, on the contrary, has seen a massive fall in the last few years. Many superstars including Aamir Khan and Akshay Kumar have seen their films tank at the box office, while the audience has wholeheartedly embraced South Indian films like 'Pushpa', 'Kantara', and the 'KGF' franchise. Given the recent trajectory, there has been an impression that the regional film industries are making more hits than flop while that is clearly not the case for Bollywood. Taapsee Pannu, who has seen best a part of the best of both worlds, was recently asked her views on the topic. The 'Phir Aayi Haseen Dilrruba' actor said that the proportion of the hits and flops is almost the same in all the film industries.

In a recent interview with ANI, Taapsee was asked why Southern films are doing better than Hindi. Responding to it, the actor said that that an audience sitting in a Hindi-speaking state only gets exposed to the hit southern films and does not really get to know about the films that are out of the theatres in the first week. There also films fail, there also films don’t work after 3-4 days and they are out of the theatre. It’s just that you don’t get to know about it sitting here. If you are staying in that state or if you follow every release of that industry, you will realise that they also have equal proportion of hits and flops. It’s not that different,” she said.

She also added that the movie viewing culture is quite different in regional cinema than in Hindi. The actor asserted, "movie viewing is almost like a religious activity. People are movie lovers. It’s a ritual there.” She added that it is “relatively difficult to pull out a Hindi movie viewing audience from their houses to go and watch the film.”

When asked if the southern film industry is more organised and more disciplined, Taapsee said that it is not necessarily the case. “Having worked in both the industries, I can tell you it’s not the case,” she shared.

“Till the time I was there in the southern film industry, I didn’t get any bound scripts for any of my films. I used to only get scenes and a lot of things used to change on set. I think now, probably, it’s better there as well. But when I started in Hindi, my first film Chashme Baddoor, even though it was a David Dhawan film who is known as the director from the time when everything was written on the spot, even that film had a bound script,” she said.

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