Salman Khan is ruling Bollywood since the start and he is a perfect example of a successful hero. However, it seems Salman has found the actual reason as to why production houses are shutting down these days and why movies are facing considerable losses.
Yes, nowadays, even big banner films flop, thereby leading to production houses being shut down. As per Salman, the main reason for movies facing losses is owing to their big budgets.
There is even news about Disney UTV shutting down. Yes, earlier, Disney had collaborated with UTV and expected a profitable business, but now, with ‘Mohenjo Daro’ proving to be a big flop, Disney is parting ways with UTV.
Talking about the year 2016, it wasn’t that good in terms of Bollywood business. Big stars were involved, which meant high budget movies!
Take for example ‘Wazir’, ‘Jazbaa’, ‘Fan’ or ‘Mohenjo Daro’, none of them could meet the expectations of the makers.
Salman speaks about the reason behind the losses and says;
“I think apart from piracy, we are going slightly over budget on our movies. The pricing system is something that we need to rework on. A film does not just earn money because of a particular star but it is because of writing as well direction.”
Another reason which he feels is responsible for the hindering growth is the fee-hike of stars. Salman says,
“So when a film does well, the captain of the ship raises his fee and what happens next is, everyone from the crew start hiking their fees. Keeping the successful film as base, everyone raise the fees and that is where our industry is going completely haywire.”
Obviously, we are going to agree to this reason of Salman Khan, isn’t it? Every now and then, there are reports of fee hike of these stars. Sometimes, stars are paid on profit-sharing basis, which is even more burdensome for makers.
The Sultan star says;
“I truly believe that a film never fails, it is the budget which fails. If a film like Jai Ho was made on a small budget, there is no way it could fail. But we need to spend money to make it look larger than life. On other hand, a film like Freaky Ali, you cannot spend much. You should always be cautious about the money you spend on a film because at end of the day everyone right from producers to distributors to exhibitors have to make money,”
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