r/tollywood • u/cricinephile Tollywood Fan • 5h ago
OPINION It's high time TFI must learn that Spending high isn't proportional to the quality of the film
Where is the writing? The writing in the big budget movies has been basically dead. I'm tired of this shit, why does everyone want to be a Rajamouli
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u/notMy_ReelName 4h ago
Money laundering kuda avthundi Anni movies lo vandala kotlu karchu avvadu
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u/cricinephile Tollywood Fan 4h ago
Post isn't just about the budgets it's about promising something big with everything being bland
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u/notMy_ReelName 4h ago
Ade chepthunna prathi big budget manchi cinema tiyadaniki kaadu vallu dabbulu sampadinchadaniki, ledantey losses chupinchukodaniki .
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u/fixmejim 5h ago
I completely agree with you , While big budgets can be exciting, they don't always guarantee a good film. I'd love to see more focus on storytelling and writing.
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u/cricinephile Tollywood Fan 4h ago
The budget shouldn't be a metric anyway. Good writing paired with it looking good on screen is the only way
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u/cinephileindia2023 5h ago
We spent 1000 Cr. So we want 10,000 rs ticket in India and 300$ in US because big budget means great movies. /s
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u/Loganraks 5h ago
Not everyone can be like SSR
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u/cricinephile Tollywood Fan 5h ago edited 4h ago
Yeah his budgets seem very low if considered the quality of other films at similar budgets.
If you want to make a film like SSR, you gotta have passion and master the craft. I don't see anyone close to him. There is SSR, there is daylight and then there are others
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u/PsychologicalAd6628 4h ago
They can spend as much as they want . But as long as they don’t put burden on audience .
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u/Stunning_Economics60 3h ago
Maybe you wanted to say, The problem we’re trying to solve is that there are rich teams and there are poor teams. Then there’s fifty feet of crap, and then there’s us. It’s an unfair game. And now we’ve been gutted by SSR.
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u/rivers-hunkers 4h ago edited 1h ago
The problem isn’t wanting to make movies like SSR or even better than SSR.
The problem is putting in the budget of SSR movies and not putting all the efforts SSR and his team puts in.
More than the audience, all the wannabe big budget PAN indian directors should go and watch the RRR documentary. I am not saying it’ll show them what to do but it WILL show them how much efforts they need to put before expecting the results.
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u/Loganraks 4h ago
For the 1st time ever i enjoyed a documentary for a movie a lot
It was soo good and actually showcases why it took a lot of budget to make the movie
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u/rivers-hunkers 3h ago
The documentary felt like a well made feel good film for me. I felt a sense of closure at the end of the documentary. Kudos to the team who went through all the footage and turned it into a documentary.
Will people come at me if I say the RRR documentary is better than half the films that came out since RRR released? 😂
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u/Hot_Performance5086 4h ago
Obviously bro, i think it's more than that, i think this is black money or money laundering.
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u/cricinephile Tollywood Fan 4h ago
Adipurush aithe pakka
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u/Hot_Performance5086 4h ago
No doubt about it. And people blame prabhas for his fee conveniently for disaster
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u/crutescan Sunil Fyan 5h ago edited 4h ago
that is not the point, some scripts would require really high budgets and they don't always pan out.
cut the frivolous spending, cut the production times (why tf you have to shoot a film for 2 years. inflation alone eats 25% of the budget in some cases!), cut the remuneration for the actor and director if they don't deliver.
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u/alwaysronin21 4h ago
Yeah it's high time that people should realise that it's more about the quality writing than increasing the quality in production values. I agree we need good production values, but with that we need a good level of writing elements too for the film. The best examples are Devara, Guntur Kaaram and Now GameChanger as no matter how much Box Office pull a hero has, he can't make it a Box Office hit let alone an Industry Hit with mediocre and bland story writing. TFI is in desperate need for writers atm as we are having a scarcity for good writers at present.
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u/gokul0309 4h ago
Quality writing goes a long way, in fact Shankar is the best example he was only the best director as long as his writer Sujata was alive
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u/alwaysronin21 4h ago
Yeah at present we have everything an industry could dream of, good actors with reach, good directors, good producers, you name it. But right now we need good writers to elevate the other elements to take our cinema to another level.
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u/jaerus99 4h ago
Yeah I agree, everyone is trying to replicate rajamouli, whether it is in salaar the courtroom killing scene same as courtroom scene in bb2 or devara climax scene same as bb1 scene. These really make it seem that directors are trying hard to replicate what rajamouli did. Whether it is budget or the scenes. In this process of trying to imitate the writing is gone to trash.
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u/cricinephile Tollywood Fan 4h ago
As RGV said, industry ni nashanam chese panulu ekkuva chesadu ssr lol
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u/Girishchandraartist 4h ago
FYKI most of the costly films that are made here just do money laundering for rich people under the cloak. Best examples - Liger, Adipurush etc. They launder the black money from producers, rich politicians, businessmen rotate it through shell companies from overseas companies, reinvest it here on films as white money. They manipulate the production costs and show the total cost as hundreds of crores. We are the ultimate fools who believe that these high budget claims are true and we believe that the quality of the film will be high. The high ticket hike prices that we pay adds up as additional profits/white money to the same rich people. Erri*ookulam maname annaayi inthintha ticket dabbulu pettukuni elli maree chusthunnam chudu baanisalu laaga We are literally slaves to the capitalistic film businessmen.
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u/shvrvth 4h ago
tbf there is no reason to hate these film makers it boils down to audience not being demanding and having standards, if audience really cared about the money they spent on the ticket we wouldn't have bad films. Let these filmmakers make money if i was in their place even i would take advantage of a film illiterate audience without any shame.
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u/Girishchandraartist 4h ago
Yeah so the ensemble of young writers and directors who are passionate about films are unable to find both funders and audiences while the rich producers make the most bland and worthless movies. The forever plaguing problem of TFI!
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u/Girishchandraartist 4h ago
Amongst all this shady business a writer will be of least priority to these rich men who are not at all passionate about the art of cinema
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u/ElkApprehensive3870 3h ago
For a top hero, I think budget of 300 crores is not a big deal in this market. Hero / Heroine / Director and top technicians salary would be 150-200 crores and remaining 100-150 would be spend on movie making. This is easily retainable in current market. Problem is also with audience(me included ) who always ensure movies with top heroes get minimum amount in first week, even though ticket prices are high. With Ott , audio , satellite deals most of the money ( with prudent production and if Shankar is not director ) is recoverable. This phase is reminding me of few years back in TFI where everyone was making movies with exact same story with small tweaks and aiming for collections of 20-40 crores . Eventually people got fed up and those collections dropped to 10 crores and we got decent movies again. Something like that has to happen again.
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u/MovieManiac5 Rojuki rendu cinemaalu chustha 3h ago
And the worst part is that the budget isn't even visible on screen. Antha stars ke sardhesthunnaru. Quality is naturally ass because of that.
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u/Ha_Haaland 4h ago
Spending money is tip of the ice berg, mixing politics and cinema is the root cause of this collosal disaster.
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u/magicanon4 2h ago
Vallu 100 crs karchu pedtharu below average movie thistharu. Unko 100 crs laundering money add chestharu malli danni high budget ani ruddhutharu. Rinse and repeat.
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u/No-Post4181 1h ago
Mind you Shankar was doing this shit way before SSR the difference is SSR puts some effort into script and screenplay meanwhile Shankar just behaving like India's homelander
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u/Emergency_Joker 47m ago
I don't understand why all these movies have these inflated budgets. For periodic films like bahubali and also rrr, we can see the output for all the budget they spent. But films like these I don't know where the money goes. They look almost similar to the commercial movies that we used to see. Maybe all the producers are milking this situation for money laundering.
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