Yaar, I can't hate DQ. I just can't. There is something so endearing about him, as a person. I don't follow anyone else from Mollywood or Bollywood. Never did.
Talking about Malayalam only:
Every 2nd superstar is an industry kid. No two ways about it. But the kind of pressure created through blinds/media/fake PR is not rampant there. Inki films are mostly promoted via their crazy fanclubs.
Some major differences between Btown and Mollywood
1. Main thing: Most of them turn into producers after acting for 4-5 years. DQ, Fahadh, Prithvi, all of them have done it. Then wo khudke liye banate hai movies. Kaun rokega? Will you say 'don't launch yourself'? 
2. Waha ki junta is crazy. They have such scary fanclubs of actors. The filmmakers actually thank the fanclubs in the film credits. Its a norm there. Imagine KJo thanking IF's Bollywood forum in his films🤣 Adha darr toh actors ko fanclubs se lagta hai. They think twice before dissing contemporaries.
3. The concept of promoting films was totally alien to them 5-7 years ago, even now they don't have any grand tamasha around promotions. If its a very veryy big film then they have a special 1 hr interview for it. That's it. In the last few years they have started aping Hindi TV and have a few shows that are like (1) Kapil Sharma show; (2) Singing/dancing shows. Usme bhi no one promotes films on a regular basis, they just can't be bothered.
4. Waha, they release 1 poster, 1 trailer, and they are done. They move on to the next film. These guys do 6-7 films a year. Most of them work in 2-3 film industries. Most are married with kids, so free time is family time or affair time🤣.
5. Most of them are introverts, they shoot their film, give 1-2 interviews and ho gaya. They don't care about social media also.
6. Waha ke viewers khatarnaak trolling karti hai, in real life (not social media). They boo the shit out of films they don't like. I have seen it happen. It's crazy. No father, godfather can help you if they don't like your film.
Waha aise chote games nahi hote. They have next level shady shit going on down South. Whether its politics or cinema. Have you heard about actor Dileep's case? Some of the scary shit that happens there, even Bollywood cannot match it.
Edited by togepe30 - 5 years ago
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