Most South Indian action/drama flicks are all about raw machismo and hyper adrenaline stunts. You need a director with conviction and actors fully on board to deliver such product. Bollywood lacks both. Tell me a director in bollywood who is as gifted a story teller and has strong visual sense as SS Rajamouli or even Prashant Neel?
Bhansali does ghisy pity romance with drama in a period setting, but doesn't know jack about action and vfx loaded action.
Rohit shetty can do action, but can't tell a story. His action lacks that grandness.
Siddharth Anand can do very slick looking action and makes his actors look great on screen with some nice stunts and all, but he struggles with story telling.
Other so called good filmmakers like Raju Hirani, Nitesh Tiwari, Neeraj Pandey etc. can tell good stories and make entertaining films, but they don't know how to do a large scale larger than life machismo film with big vfx and stuff.
Only guy who I think has potential is Om Raut. Tanhaji had nice action and cool vfx. Story telling was okay too. Let's see if he can deliver something mindblowing with Adipurush. One thing is for sure that a lot is riding on that 250+ crore vfx heavy film.
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