Tuesday, May 06, 2003
Movie & TV News @ IMDb.com#2Not a single film of some 70 produced by India's Bollywood, the most prolific film industry in the world, has been successful at the box office this year, the BBC reported today (Tuesday). Director Karan Johar said that the audience for Indian films is engaging in a "mutiny." He told a BBC reporter in Bombay: "I think after a long time the audience has revolted and decided it will not see anything that isn't good cinema. It has rejected mediocrity." The rejection has reportedly had devastating consequences for film distributors. The BBC observed: "The distribution system has suffered so badly, distributors are not buying films any more -- they have no money to shell out." In other words, once I get interested, time to go under. It's the same thing that happend with Hong Kong film and a lot of San Francisco restaurants. I'm sort of faux-horseman of the Apocalype, or something.
posted by Jeff Lester |
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