Vikramaditya Motwane Says Post-Pandemic Bollywood 'Not In a Good Situation': It Needs Fixing

Filmmaker Vikaramditya Motwane is best known for his films including Udaan, Lootera and Trapped among ors. Vikramitya has always been vocal about dressing matters in regards to Bollywood and his films. In a recent conversation, director spoke about what kind of films should be me amid crisis.

Vikramitya Motwane: It’s going nowhere, that’s needs fixing

In a conversation with Hollywood Reporter, Vikramitya said, “ Hindi-indie industry is — I don't want to say de because that's a really strong word. But if you see where we were pre-pandemic, before streamers seemed to be solution. It’s going nowhere,” he said. “And it’s a situation that needs fixing.

When asked about films like Jigra and Kill, he gave example of Laapataa Lies which performed well. “If film is good and a distributor shows confidence in it, people will go and see it. same applies to Kill and 12th Fail (2023) as well — that's best example of a movie within indie/mainstream space. re are wonderful films everywhere. But how is it possible for m to take that final step to (reach) audience?”.

When Vikramitya said says small to mid-budget movies can grow in numbers if it stays in atres for longer

Hailing success of Vikrant Massey-starter 12th Fail,  director said movie can be an interesting case study for how a small to mid-budget movie can grow in numbers if it stays in atres and builds upon positive word of mouth.

"12th Fail is a great case study of a film that can be commercially and critically successful. For any movie to work in a atre beyond opening day and weekend, it needs time for word of mouth to build, and for people to come into atres. In case of 12th Fail, people were talking about film in fourth and 12th week, it was allowed to brea,” Motwane told PTI in an interview.