Filmmaker Abhishek Sharma recently questioned the originality of the Hindi film industry. Speaking during a session at the ongoing International Film Festival of India in Goa, Sharma attributed to how the term Bollywood is derived from Hollywood and not the original itself. When asked about the difference that corporates have brought in the film industry, Abhishek said, “Corporatisation is the best thing that happened to the industry because at least cheques are getting encashed now.”
Sharma added, “Pehle kaha se paisa ata tha aur kaise ata tha (The kind of money that came in films and how it came)…. We know. That change is good. Corporatisation has helped cleanse the money being invested in films.”
He said, “Bollywood must be some journalist’s joke that remained. If the name is a mimicry of something else, how can you expect them to be original? The suits are here to pay up but are you ready to be creative enough? Are we truly an organic industry? We need to introspect. We need to come together keeping aside personal profit and loss and think about the industry as a whole.”
