It’s not just Hollywood breathing down Bollywood’s neck. Now post-Baahubali, Telugu and Tamil cinema is also a huge threat to Bollywood, specially this week when two disparate Bollywood films feature the hero as a hitman.
In A Gentleman, Siddharth Malhotra wields the gun across skyscrapers while in Babumoshai Bandookbaaz Nawazuddin Siddiqui is the rustic contract killer. But both Bollywood’s bandookbaaz are likely to be outdistanced by Hollywood and Tamil cinema
The Hitman’s Bodyguard features veteran Samuel L Jackson as a Dawood-like internationally wanted assassin with the very popular Deadpool star Ryan Reynolds playing the sharpshooter assigned to protect Jackson from peril
Bollywood this week sees The Hitman’s Bodyguard as a huge threat at the boxoffice.
A prominent actor from one of Hollywood’s action films this week wonders, “Why would audiences pay 300-500 bucks to watch Nawaz or Sid Malhotra in the action mode when they can get the original thrills in a big swanky Hillywood film dubbed in Hindi?
As if the threat from Hollywood was not enough this week also has Tamil superstar Ajith playing an international hitman in Vivegam. The film has a seriously non-regional look and is pitched at providing Indian audiences across the board big bangs for big bucks.
So where does that leave Sidharth Malhotra and Nawazuddin’s gun-toting act? While the former is likely to get an urban audience Nawaz’s lungi-clad killer is sure to have a very limited appeal
Tamil cinematographer filmmaker Santosh Sivan who worked with Ajith in his Hindi film Asoka says the actor is aiming at an international market . “It is no longer about Tamil, Telugu , Hindi or Bengali cinema. You have to match international standards and Ajith is doing that.”
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