Anurag Kashyap calls pan-India films a ‘massive scam’: Post Baahubali, everybody want to do these big movies | Bollywood-OxBig News Network

What Anurag said about pan-India films

During the interaction, Anurag said, “‘Pan-India’, in my opinion, is a massive scam. A film goes into production for 3-4 years. A lot of people are surviving on that film and their lifestyle also depends on it. All the money doesn’t go into the film. And the money that does, it is spent on these massive, unreal sets that do not make sense. And only 1% of it works.”

‘KGF became a success and everyone wants to emulate that’

He went on to add, “Uri: The Surgical Strike became a success and everyone started doing nationalistic films. Post Baahubali, everybody want to do these big movies with Prabhas or somebody else. KGF became a success and everyone wants to emulate that. That’s where the decline of storytelling begins.”

For the unversed, Pan-India films refer to the movies that are marketed and released in multiple languages across India, including Telugu, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam, and others. The concept gained prominence after the success of Baahubali in 2015. The last pan-India film which did blockbuster business at the box office was Allu Arjun-starrer Pushpa 2: The Rule.

Anurag’s last directorial Kennedy is yet to get a release date in India. As an actor he was recently seen in Rifle Club and Viduthalai Part 2.