South Cinema is far more problematic than BW - Page 3

Yaa I kinda agree .. I have seen so many scenes in south movies where stalking have been romanticised and normalised like hero will stalk and heroine will fall for him like tf is that ?! not to forget the misogynist storylines that so many of the movies have .. I have criticised Bollywood movies for the same and I will criticise South Indian movies too ..

Originally posted by: Anjalika01

It's probably all the surgery and skin lightening lol, she looked quite different before that 😆

And other South Indian heroines from that generation in Tollywood that I know of are Anushka Shetty, Trisha Krishnan and Nayanthara...

Obviously more recently there's many more, which is good I guess

Oh she looks like Nikki Tamboli so I am not surprised if she did that. Nothing new though, she probably thought that if no-actors like Amy Jackson can get work only bc of their skin then why not her

Originally posted by: InspectorShirke

True. I have a question, is Samantha South Indian? She doesn't look tho

😆, and after saying this, you want to be taken seriously.

This whole stupid notion that every one from South India is somehow a dark skinned person, a part bigger than the likes of Germany, France and UK, with almost hundreds of different groups of ethnicity.

Originally posted by: Anjalika01

Samantha is one of the few actresses of that generation who is actually South Indian... she's Tamil I'm pretty sure

No she is not. Her mother is Malayi, and her dad Telugu. But she grew up in Tamil Nadu, and considers herself Tamil.

Originally posted by: Anjalika01

Loool always good to be honest with yourself I guess 😆

You know a lot about south films

Is this not the greatest south song ever 🎧

https://youtu.be/DpimJwrkJWo

Originally posted by: MujheMaarjaneDo

No she is not. Her mother is Malayi, and her dad Telugu. But she grew up in Tamil Nadu, and considers herself Tamil.

Oh right, my bad

Originally posted by: Maroonporsche

You know a lot about south films

Is this not the greatest south song ever 🎧

https://youtu.be/DpimJwrkJWo

I've never heard this one before actually, and idk what film it's from 😆

It's nice though...

And I actually don't btw, haven't seen any from the last 5 years or so besides Baahubali 😆

FYI. South cinema, the way you term it, doesn't exist. There is Telugu cinema, Tamil cinema, Kannada cinema, Malayalam cinema.

Calling it all south cinema is like calling Bengali cinema Bollywood because Mumbai and Bengal happen to be north of the Vindhyas and lumping all as problematic.

Having said that, south Indian cinema--the sum total of the the industries taken as a whole--is extremely problematic.

However... (1) actually good cinema also succeeds in the south.

(2) As for the fair-skinned women: for every BW actress who makes her way down south because of fair skin, there is also a Samantha Ruth Prabhu, a Nithya Menon, a Sai Pallavi, a Manju Warrier, a Keerthi Suresh, a Nayanthara (not a great actress but she can manage), an Asin (same as Nayanthara). They do genuinely good work. Nobody mistakes or spins the flowerpot ladies as great actresses.

(3) There are nepo kids, but there are also those who came up the hard way.

The balance makes the difference.

Originally posted by: InspectorShirke

LOL it's not about kissing or hugging. Kabir Singh was bashed due to its disturbing story and portrayal of women in the movie. LOL no one cares about kissing, gaali galoch etc now. Otherwise most of the OTT shows would not be popular.

Read "That's what got audience" 🤷🤷 it was criticised but all those romantic scenes made the movie popular 🤷🤷 OTT is 2020, after Arjun Reddy, many movies had actors cursing and done bold scenes! It isn't a good thing tho!

Originally posted by: ShaliniTv

Read "That's what got audience" 🤷🤷 it was criticised but all those romantic scenes made the movie popular 🤷🤷 OTT is 2020, after Arjun Reddy, many movies had actors cursing and done bold scenes! It isn't a good thing tho!

Sorry but this seems like a bias to say Kabir Singh was bad while Arjun Reddy was good. When the fact is, both movies were same to same, except the treatment of the lead character, where Arjun Reddy had more of a emotional approach ues, while Kabir Singh had a egotistical approach.

Also biggest pull for the Kabir Singh movie was Shahid's acting and the music. Apart from the fact that Kabir Singh was an entertaining movie, as was Arjun Reddy.

Both are good entertainers with excellent music and great acting from the male leads. To say one is great and another is crap, is just being biased and filled with hatred for the other industry.