Flashback to the 90s, how has Bollywood changed since than?

Satya was the most path breaking film of Bollywood ! That film had changed many conventions of Bollywood ! People had the idea that someone like Amrish Puri and his son like Gulshan Grover controlling Mumbai and one long haired Punjabi handsome Malhotra, Chopra type police inspector clears the mess and brings peace for Mumbai's citizen.

First time we saw that how the existent organised underworld works in Mumbai through Satya. We also come to know that there's no Chopra, Malhotra, Khanna type police inspectors working for Mumbai Police, they are actually Khanvilkar, Shinde, Deshpandey, Jadhav, Deshmukh, Patil, Gaitonde, Sawant etc.! Anurag Kashyap, who was not born and brought up in Bombay ! Hence his awareness about Bombay was different from Subhash Ghai, Mahesh Bhat, Ramesh Sippy, Rajkumar Santoshi, Yash Copra etc. ! I think from there on we can see the changes regarding story telling smartness!

He opened the floodgate; from there on we can see so many middle class or lower middle class boys started to dream big and gone to Mumbai and doing different acts which were controlled by the industry insiders earlier! These bunch of North and Central Indian middle class boys have changed the monotonous. These bunch of new age Bollywood directors have different stories to tell us. Vishal Bhardwas, Anurag Kashyap, Dibakar Banerjee, Rakesh Mehra, Kabir Khan, Jaideep Sahni, Rajkumar Gupta, Neeraj Pandey,Maneesh Sharma, Abhishek Chaubey, Varun Grover, Shoojir Sirkar, Imtiaz Ali, Vikas Bahl,Shakun Batra etc. have no filmi background, I think that helps them to create and imagine differently from KJo, Adi Chopra, Rohan Sippy, Farhan Akhtar types. Now most of the major banners except Bhat Camps have realized that Bombay is not ultimate, this India is bigger than that what Manmohan Desai, Prakash Mehra, Yash Chopra, Subhash Ghai, Rakesh Roshan, Rajkumar Santoshi, David Dhawan thought about it! Most of the big banners are now producing North and Central Indian based interesting stories, and we can perceive the transformations for the past 10 years specially!

Originally posted by: ScorpionGunner

Satya was the most path breaking film of Bollywood ! That film had changed many conventions of Bollywood ! People had the idea that someone like Amrish Puri and his son like Gulshan Grover controlling Mumbai and one long haired Punjabi handsome Malhotra, Chopra type police inspector clears the mess and brings peace for Mumbai's citizen.

First time we saw that how the existent organised underworld works in Mumbai through Satya. We also come to know that there's no Chopra, Malhotra, Khanna type police inspectors working for Mumbai Police, they are actually Khanvilkar, Shinde, Deshpandey, Jadhav, Deshmukh, Patil, Gaitonde, Sawant etc.! Anurag Kashyap, who was not born and brought up in Bombay ! Hence his awareness about Bombay was different from Subhash Ghai, Mahesh Bhat, Ramesh Sippy, Rajkumar Santoshi, Yash Copra etc. ! I think from there on we can see the changes regarding story telling smartness!

He opened the floodgate; from there on we can see so many middle class or lower middle class boys started to dream big and gone to Mumbai and doing different acts which were controlled by the industry insiders earlier! These bunch of North and Central Indian middle class boys have changed the monotonous. These bunch of new age Bollywood directors have different stories to tell us. Vishal Bhardwas, Anurag Kashyap, Dibakar Banerjee, Rakesh Mehra, Kabir Khan, Jaideep Sahni, Rajkumar Gupta, Neeraj Pandey,Maneesh Sharma, Abhishek Chaubey, Varun Grover, Shoojir Sirkar, Imtiaz Ali, Vikas Bahl,Shakun Batra etc. have no filmi background, I think that helps them to create and imagine differently from KJo, Adi Chopra, Rohan Sippy, Farhan Akhtar types. Now most of the major banners except Bhat Camps have realized that Bombay is not ultimate, this India is bigger than that what Manmohan Desai, Prakash Mehra, Yash Chopra, Subhash Ghai, Rakesh Roshan, Rajkumar Santoshi, David Dhawan thought about it! Most of the big banners are now producing North and Central Indian based interesting stories, and we can perceive the transformations for the past 10 years specially!

Originally posted by: Justmoi

Pros

1. More realistic view of real life in reel life.

2. Emphasis on fitness which improves appearance a lot. No pot belied heroes even if the age gap is more.

3. Emphasis on Fashion and grooming. Less eye watering looks especially on heroines and no unibrow.

Cons

1. Lost art of BW romance without kissing.

2. Lack of "family" movies.

3. Lack of trained classical dancers that has made dancing rather terrible in movies.

4. Age gap between hero and heroines

5. Painted abs 🤔

6. More starkids and less outsiders.

7. Less melodious songs.

8. Explosion of Item numbers.

Originally posted by: ---Betty---

@Rekha_ji You're right

And before that Kapoor Brothers( Raj, Sashi, Shammi), Nutan and Tanuja... It's always been like that

Only now the number of star kids has increased drastically...

Let's put it this way... Up until the mid nighties there were more successful non star kids in BW