There are three major film forums on India Forums - Hollywood, Bollywood, and South. Once upon a time, it made sense to keep them separate. Each industry had its unique fan base, and there wasn't as much intersection.
The artificial walls between industries have been erased with the streaming media boom. We live in an era where many movies are considered "Pan-Indian" cinema. Movies like KGF, RRR, and Pushpa found audiences across India and abroad. Even Bollywood filmmakers consciously try to release films dubbed in various South Indian languages.
And it's not just the divide within India that has come down. Internationally too, walls have come down. People across the globe are watching K-dramas or Latin soap operas. Indians have always prolifically consumed western shows and movies. But now, on streaming, even western audiences are consuming Indian content. Think of some of the biggest shows on Netflix in past years - Squid Game (Korean), Dark (German), and Elite (Spanish). People worldwide enjoy these shows irrespective of where they live or what language they speak.
So in an era when our consumption is diverse and eclectic - why segregate forums in a manner that represents archaic consumption patterns? And what if you watched a Marathi or Bengali film you want to discuss? What about Pakistani films?
And even if the separate forums exist only because of grandfathered legacies - why are we so stringent in enforcing them? Why are moderators overzealous to move topics out of Bollywood forums as soon as a non-Bollywood star is mentioned? How are movies like KGF, RRR, and Pushpa allowed on Bollywood - but Hollywood movies are moved just like that? How do you determine what can be talked about in a specific forum? Is it just actors or do distributors and producers matter - Reliance has production/distribution stakes in tons of Hollywood productions.
Why not just have a broader forum to share and discuss the movies they consume? Completely eliminates the concern of what falls in which category where and how to have fair and consistent exceptions (ya beeshes ain't consistent at all.)
Yeah, I am not salty at all about my topics getting moved. Watch them move this to Debate Mansion because it's not Bollywood.
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