The Golden Era of Dr.IR and Dr.SPB

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app, i guess even after ARR arrived IR was ruling by doing most no of movies and was giving hits too...
ARR was like two movies per year.

Ofcourse, ARR was not after numbers. However, once he took the cream (big prod houses, stars, directors), the second grade MDs like Deva, SAR, Sirpi, Vidyasagar took away the other market.

IR became a niche player within a matter of a couple years after the arrival of ARR, IIRC. Some old faithfuls as Fazil / BM did a few movies with him before they became irrelevant in the market. Sethu helped a bit but IR's practical relevance as a commercially sought-after MD has gone after the arrival of ARR-Deva-SAR in the market, as a combined force.

We know the trend post-2000 when technology helped the newcomers a lot. One can compose for a film - good sounding music - sitting in a small apartment with no necessity of a big orchestra.

So we have Harris / Vijay Antony / YSR / GVP / VS doing most of the above-average-bud movies (top ones going to ARR) while low-bud can be done by anyone with a few gadgets and there're 100 of them today