The last decade in Bollywood and the abysmal quality of stars - Page 3

Fans make stars and fans no longer care as much. Thank God for that. As someone who hasn't been fascinated with stars in a long time, I think mass bollywood fan love toward stars harms more than it helps. I am glad it is starting to fade a little. Our star system produces more bad quality films than good movies. I would rather enjoy 10 unknown actors/ non star actors in movies that were well made, where the focus was selling good script and good acting, vs having a fan favorite star who will bring in more eyeballs and money. It hurts our awards too. Best actor should be best actor, I don't understand the bs about giving the popular award to the "star" and giving the real, but lesser appreciated award to non-star or lesser known star.

Originally posted by: Rhimjhimsawan

Fans make stars and fans no longer care as much. Thank God for that. As someone who hasn't been fascinated with stars in a long time, I think mass bollywood fan love toward stars harms more than it helps. I am glad it is starting to fade a little. Our star system produces more bad quality films than good movies. I would rather enjoy 10 unknown actors/ non star actors in movies that were well made, where the focus was selling good script and good acting, vs having a fan favorite star who will bring in more eyeballs and money. It hurts our awards too. Best actor should be best actor, I don't understand the bs about giving the popular award to the "star" and giving the real, but lesser appreciated award to non-star or lesser known star.

We care but were still stuck on Bhai and people of that generation

Originally posted by: Maroonporsche

We care but were still stuck on Bhai and people of that generation

I was a bhai fan most of my life. Thank God I left that behind

Originally posted by: Rhimjhimsawan

Fans make stars and fans no longer care as much. Thank God for that. As someone who hasn't been fascinated with stars in a long time, I think mass bollywood fan love toward stars harms more than it helps. I am glad it is starting to fade a little. Our star system produces more bad quality films than good movies. I would rather enjoy 10 unknown actors/ non star actors in movies that were well made, where the focus was selling good script and good acting, vs having a fan favorite star who will bring in more eyeballs and money. It hurts our awards too. Best actor should be best actor, I don't understand the bs about giving the popular award to the "star" and giving the real, but lesser appreciated award to non-star or lesser known star.

They care, the last Aamir khan film can opened at 50cr day one, SRK flop still can open at 20 cr

Originally posted by: Rekha_ji

Even Salman Khan and Aamir Khan didn't become Super Stars until 10 years into their Filmography. I think it's safe to say that happened in 1997/1998.

are you serious? both have 3 300cr + adj nett gross before 10 years

I agree. Quality has tarnished. That’s because of the influx of undeserving star kids. We’ve been forced to like Alia and give 100 chances to Janhvi, Sara, Ananya. We’re already being told that Khushi, Suhana, Shanaya and Nysa will come too. The industry is turning into a big family party that nobody wants to go to.

Same with the guy, RKR is there but he’s not a star, Ayushman will fade away too.

Originally posted by: Shaitan-Haiwan

I agree. Quality has tarnished. That’s because of the influx of undeserving star kids. We’ve been forced to like Alia and give 100 chances to Janhvi, Sara, Ananya. We’re already being told that Khushi, Suhana, Shanaya and Nysa will come too. The industry is turning into a big family party that nobody wants to go to.

Same with the guy, RKR is there but he’s not a star, Ayushman will fade away too.

Yet these outsiders suck up to industry saying how nepotism isn't a problem and whenever debate arises it's muffled down saying oh look Uday chopra and Tusshar kapoor couldn't succeed and how RK and Aloo are second coming of DDL and Meryl Streep, Nepo kids have to work hard bla bla

Simple: Too much internet usage, no more curiosity left to explore, no star qualities.

Hrithik is the last star we got.

All these Ranbir, Ranveer, Alia, etc. have limited appeal to only urban audiences. Ranbir got directed other way otherwise he had great start.

Even these stars need good entertaining scripts to keep their star status, imagine the pressure all new talents have if their aim is to become next Amitabh or SRK.

I feel everything was balanced up till when SRK and Hrithik were on the top till 2007. Everything went downhill from there.

Stupid south remakes got limelight(100 crore labels) by Aamir after Ghajini and Salman after Wanted. All the scripts went down the drain. Even on TV every channel still shows up hindi dubbed south movies. I don't want internet in my TV life so don't really like buying subscriptions.

I am more concerned about the abysmal quality of movies and abysmal crop of new directors. To make matters worse, almost all the promising directors from the noughties have either regressed or are no longer making movies. The web series that everyone raves about are mostly propaganda vehicles. Ek TVF hi hai joh theek thaak content bana raha hai.

The star culture contributes to mediocrity, I agree in some ways, but at the same time is a major boost for the producers and distributors who are looking to earn money because at the end of the day, it is all about business. Stars who exude an aura of charisma, screen presence ARE important because these things are intangible and bring something fresh to the table. Look at Katrina, for example. She's an average actress but a huge star who has done so well for herself. She and Deepika both are stars because they are unique, dashing, and have blistering screen presence. They are the last female stars we have.

In males, I think Hrithik and Ranbir are both big stars, and have a good following especially among females.

What is needed is co-existence of star culture and good content. Ideal, if the two things combine.

Fact is I saw Ram Prasad Ki Tehrvi in the theatre which is good content, but the theatre was empty. At the end of day, majority in our country either didn't know about the movie because it wasn't marketed well or it simply didn't resonate with the theatre going audience. Sir, which is an excellent movie, would have fared the same because it didn't have stars.

Also, let's not forget that "stars" contribute to a healthy movie culture like Aamir Khan for example, who makes it a point to work with innovative scripts.

Even Salman Khan's movies like Bajrangi Bhaijan did have good content, an exception maybe compared to his other movies, but it is the movie which will go down in history.