I Studied 125 Bollywood Films’ Finances & Here’s the Weird Truth.

In this video, we deep dive into the Bollywood industry exploring how it's grown despite economic challenges and the industry's deep-rooted cultural significance. Discover how the "lipstick effect" keeps entertainment thriving in tough times and why the human quest for stories is timeless, backed by the Lindy Effect. We'll dive into Bollywood's evolving landscape, from sky-high actor fees and broken unit economics to the impact of OTT platforms and corporate funding.

Join us as we break down the financial intricacies, historical funding sources, and the shifts post-2001. We'll analyze recent box office hits and flops, revealing the true costs and revenues. Plus, we'll uncover the lesser known factors driving up actor fees and the challenges of paid reviews and sketchy contracts.

We'll also explore how small-budget films and regional cinema, like Malayalam movies, are setting new benchmarks with stellar storytelling. Can Bollywood learn from these successes and adapt? Tune in to find out!

[ankitjha]

give money to the story writers, you can make box office hit even from an anime, the story is first, even an epic movie like bahubali had a good substance

[Angelavaldess]

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[pooreconomist]

You studied 125 film budgets but presented 5 movie budgets that everyone know! 🙈🙉🙊

[ktkthakre]

The best example I can think of is 'Laapata Ladies'. What a f***ing awesome movie! It didn't have flashy costumes, or out-of-salon-looking actors, or item numbers or songs with expensive sets, or steamy scenes or forced cheap humor/comedy. Nope. None of that bullshit. What it did have was a no-nonsense fresh story which was grounded in reality, great characters, talented actors, and a simple vision to deliver it with wholesome wit. That's what bollywood needs right now. A movie with a good story and decent production quality.

[mohitvazirani]

I am so happy finally someone spoke about this.
Great topic, Indian cinema needs new good stories and we as the audience should start appreciating the writers equally if not more than the already well established and "famous" actors.

[josephvarghese]

As a malayali from Kerala we have good films for years..because of OTT u guys know about us now..back in the days Bollywood does copy paste our movies and u guys didn't knew but we did.

[saivinayakp]

Allover the world Film industry is facing issues..there is no more new story..everything is repeating

[SanjayGopi-ncsk]

One Irrelevent addition: This one is regarding Bihari Movie Industry, Bihar has so many stories to tell, Stories of Valour, Glory, Oppression, loot, Stories of Indentured labours, opium cultivation, freight equalisation policy, Emigration, spectrum of social issues, corruption, political zombies, and things that relate to common Indian.

[renukochar]

I am a simple person, i see aevytv, i click.

[MR]

I dont understand why no films come up with new actors taking less money but with a good story, is it so hard

[vmrl]

We need an A24 like studio, but for Indian Cinema

[AshishChauhanYoungy]

Good video overall. But looked more like an opinion piece and commentary rather than a factual reporting backed by data points of finances of those 125 movies you claimed. I was really hoping to see figures, and facts reporting.
Also, is this possible if you can make your dataset of 125 movies open source under non commercial licence for secondary research and analysis?

[neelsarkar]

It's so sad to see that script writers arent getting paid which is literally the backbone of movies and series but some hyped dude acting charging the highest and producers are fullfiling their demand... I mostly want and enjoy the movie because of the script and storytelling not because of someone acting in it. The audience also need to change their approach while watching a movie. I have some friends who watches even a shitty movie just becuase that actor played the lead role in it. To me this is what killing the industry and nothing else.

[ajatshatruBCE]

It's a shame that the most diverse oldest surviving civilization which is literally land of stories, Indian Film Industry fails to capitalise on this.

[-Neutron-Star]

Akshay Kumar should take a break for a decade before trying to act again!

[chinnuu]

Every time a movie is a hit only the actors take the limelight, it's shown in movie awards as well... If it's an industry everyone involved in the movie deserves respect

[nezukochan]

The editing and visual design of this video is probably some of the best I've seen on Youtube! 😍

[gowthamanjaiganesh]

Tamil and Telugu cinemas do have the same issues but the sheer star power of tamil and telugu stars producers are more than willing to pay for tamil and telugu actors. Bollywood actors must learn from telugu and tamil stars. Actors like Vijay Rajinikanth Sivakarthikeyan Surya Kamal Haasan Vijay Sethupathi Jr NTR Allu Arjun Mahesh Babu Ram Charan Chiranjeevi Nagarjuna Pawan Kalyan they choose films that strike chord with their fans and with the masses and they don't do fake PRs in social media and are pretty private individuals.

[yashdodia]

I think actors are taking smart moves because they know about movie script so if movie script is good then they are ready to work on lower pay cheques 😅

[RJNair]

One of the best channels in YT worth watching. Very intellectual. Great work guys!