Is This The Most Nepotistic Era? - Page 10

Originally posted by: raj80

offcourse there was curiosity abt kids of those stars...even today the audience get curious abt the starkids on their debuts...do u think people went to watch a producers kid or an action director's kid?Majority didn't even knw they were producers or action director's kid before their debut...u r saying as if those magazines were brought at every household...those days producers used to make announcement before starting every movie yeah that used to get coverage in the print media...ok I couldn't put it properly,there might b article abt every other film but have never seen personal intvws of them before release ...today u see personal interviews of the upcoming debutants on newspapers,TV and offcourse social media...not just that even check out Juhi's intvw reminiscing abt QSQT,even she said they were not known before the movie's release...the film was a sleeper superhit at the BO...infact QSQT had a slow start at the BO...those days producers used to check the occupancies and it was low...whereas Barsaat and Refugee had bumper or record breaking opening...Kunal Kapoor,Shashi Kapoor's son who was popular as Bombay Dyeing model was out after 2-3 flops...back then 2-3 flops did not finish the career of even outsiders...Akki is one such example...

HKKN was in 70's...In 80's he had only flops...

Take for example Utkarsh Sharma's debut...I am sure not just u many of them will use google search engine to knw abt him...was there any curiosity abt Utkarsh or any buzz around his film as it was his debut?compare it with Jhanvi or Sara's debut...

Originally posted by: pallavi25

Social media hype in current times cannot be compared to pre- internet age hype in 80s, 90s. But lots more people read magazines and newspapers, the people who are on the net now were getting their BW info from mags and papers. It wasnt just Stardust, Filmfare, there were film mags in all languages, Hindi, Bangla, Gujrati etc

Yes, when movie was announced the producers had a Mahurat, pics were published of the Mahurat and Puja, janta came to know which movie starred which actor's son. As for Juhi, we were the audience, we know Juhi was already famous as she had won the Miss India before QSQT, plus she had done Sultanat before that so that wasnt her debut movie

Narrative changes strangely over the years, and these BW people say something else now than what we have witnessed back then. Like people say now Sholay was flopping in 1st two weeks, that is so untrue. It had hype right from the start, the director Ramesh Sippy had already given several superhits, movie had Sanjeev Kumar, Amitabh, Dharam, Hema, Jaya, the movie already had tremendous hype at the time of release.

We went to watch QSQT in 2nd week, it already had hype of starring the pretty Juhi Chawla / Ms India and the cute new actor who was Nasir Hussain's nephew. There was no SM back then but WOM spread quite fast through friends, relatives and people also read critics reviews in newspapers and mags.

Also critics back then were not so harsh on most films, they mostly gave positive reviews, never trashed films so brutally as they do now.

Anyway. all these insider kids had name recognition from who they were related to, whereas the outsiders were the unknown faces and names who had to establish their cred from successful debuts.