Bollywood Nepotism...

If Bollywood is getting destroyed by nepotism then how is south thriving. It took death of star to show south is in hands of 5 families. Most of the male actors are insider. Then why does media think Bollywood is sinking under weight of nepotism. Even counterfeit outsiders like Ranveer (if I was related to motor mouth and her family I might have same reaction) are getting sympathy votes.

Bollywood has long history of nepotism which started simply because no one wanted to be them and places had to be filled. So why not siblings, children, nephew...But it has always left its door open to outsider. Barring few every superstar Bollywood has seen is an outsiders. Actors like SSR, Akshay and Shahrukh are outsiders(2016 was more or less good to them) and as far as I know will have releases in 2017. Top layer female actresses are all outsider. So why is everyone hitting panic button?

Is this some lazy media strategy that really does not do much research and point fingers. Or someone's PR who wants to win rounds on being outsider and now everyone has joined bandwagon.Do you really think actors like Alia are the reason why Bollywood is sinking. Could it be possible Bollywood does not respect its writers and have difficulty in finding material that click. Or it may have wide but split audience (Mass, Multiplex and NRI) and it is genuinely finding it difficult to please every one at the same time. And what about regional that is gaining more strength thanks to localized audience and language.

Is there a genuine threat to industry because it practices nepotism or is it phase that will pass?

Any thoughts on this issue?

I think there is difference between this issue and the fact that one person getting nearly all the films under one prominent production house just because of her connection with KJO and namely being a starkid aka alia. Yes, connections get you films. But, I absolutely abhor it when someone else constantly does it for you, meaning you don't go out there and do your own haggling in getting good projects, someone already does the work for you. Meanwhile all the outsiders and even a lot of starkids have to do their own haggling. It's just off putting. It's like getting your career on a golden platter. And yes, withstanding the talent, since talent doesn't do jack for you, if you don't have good projects on hand.

People are blaming Varun and Alia for Bollywood going through crisis which is impacting on the whole industry


But truth is these 2 are for sure star kids but why blame Bollywoods failure in these 2 when majority of all their films have been successful which is rather better than having all these Ranveer, Sidharth etc whose films aren't even doing that great. Nepotism at its own place and talent/star power on other

Originally posted by: springkissed

I think there is difference between this issue and the fact that one person getting nearly all the films under one prominent production house just because of her connection with KJO and namely being a starkid aka alia. Yes, connections get you films. But, I absolutely abhor it when someone else constantly does it for you, meaning you don't go out there and do your own haggling in getting good projects, someone already does the work for you. Meanwhile all the outsiders and even a lot of starkids have to do their own haggling. It's just off putting. It's like getting your career on a golden platter. And yes, withstanding the talent, since talent doesn't do jack for you, if you don't have good projects on hand.

Interesting..

How is different from star recommending their friend for movies. Like how Salman helped Kat. Or someone in industry promoting and becoming god father like Subash Ghai did in 80's and 90's. Jaggu (Tiger's pop) got his leg up in industry.

Originally posted by: indfam

Interesting..

How is different from star recommending their friend for movies. Like how Salman helped Kat. Or someone in industry promoting and becoming god father like Subash Ghai did in 80's and 90's. Jaggu (Tiger's pop) got his leg up in industry.

The way South film industries run is that fan clubs of the star kids and their parents book all the tickets in the initial days for housefull boards. So producers do get some money back. People swear allegiance to stars and their families for generations mostly on caste basis. But even in the south not all starkids doing well. Ram Charan hasn't had a proper hit after Rajamouli's film. Mahesh Babu went without hits for years. So did Jr NTR. Nagarjuna's sons have not seen much success. Only Allu Arjun has a good track record and he balances his roles really well.

Sid is in the same position as Alia. Prominent Producer KJO gets them all their films. But he isnt a star kid is he. Then how did he get that setting ??? His talent is debatable but im sure KJO sees something in him. IM sure other outsiders can get that setting too. People need to work hard and stop whining

I think almost every industry out there has nepotism. It's a fact of life, and people have to deal with it. It's just that Bollywood is a dream destination for a lot of actor hopefuls. It's super famous and thus everything is probably magnified, including nepotism. It might not be "right" in the true sense, but oh well, as we all know life is not fair. 😒

Quite an interesting view point