Tamil directors are the toast of Bollywood!
By Moviebuzz | Friday, 25 September , 2009, 12:37
Move over David Dhawan, Abbas Mastan and other mass directors in Hindi. Today all Bollywood producers are on the look out for Tamil directors who understand “Mass psychology of North Indian audiences.”
The stupendous success of Salman Khan’s Prabhu Deva directed Wanted has created a new awareness about south directors. In the last 10 months, two Hindi movies have created box-office history Aamir Khan’s AR Murgadoss directed Ghajini and Prabhu Deva’s Wanted.
Both these action flicks have made ‘dishum dishum’ movies more popular. Earlier action heroes in Hindi like Akshay Kumar, Sunny Deol, Suniel Shetty, Ajay Devgan, and Bobby Deol were treated with less respect than the deadly Khan’s- Aamir, Salman and King Khan.
Now Murgadoss and Prabhu Deva has brought back the “action hero” and gave them respectability. These films which used to cater to the B & C audiences and played in single screens are now being shown in Multiplexes.
Boney Kapoor, the producer of Wanted made a correct statement when he said: “ Directors from south bred on Rajinikanth, Chiranjeevi, Vijay style mass entertainers understands the pulse of the common audiences. They are able to make technically wonderful entertainers which are slick and stylish to woo the multiplex viewers .”
Prabhu Deva after the mega hit Wanted has half a dozen offers from Bollywood. He is now searching for the right script to make his next film. Says Prabhu: “ I have to get the perfect script where all elements of mass commercial cinema blends beautifully with the larger than life character of the hero. I feel universally action films have great potential.”
Meanwhile directors like KS Ravi Kumar ( Godfather), Gautham Menon (Vettayadu Vilayadu), Dharani ( a mix of all his films), Susi Ganeshan (Tiruttu Payale) are on the look out for Bollywood producers and actors to back them in Hindi.
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