He said that a lot of money that goes into a film production isn’t actually spent on making the movie, but on catering to the demands of stars.
Lok Sabha Election Results 2024Appearing on the Humans of Cinema YouTube channel, Anurag said that after streaming platforms entered the Indian market, people who weren’t paid enough earlier suddenly realised their worth.
Finally, those people started getting paid who were totally ignored, which is the technical crew… It’s fair, in a way.
But a lot of extra things started coming in.”Click for more updates and latest Bollywood news along with Entertainment updates.
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Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap spoke about the reconfiguration that the Hindi film industry is going through, as he highlighted the changes that streaming platforms introduced in India with regards to budgeting, and how that empowered certain stars to demand exorbitant amounts of money. He said that a lot of money that goes into a film production isn’t actually spent on making the movie, but on catering to the demands of stars. The Indian Express has reported extensively in the recent past about these overhead costs, and the course-correction that the industry is currently undergoing because of them.
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Appearing on the Humans of Cinema YouTube channel, Anurag said that after streaming platforms entered the Indian market, people who weren’t paid enough earlier suddenly realised their worth. “For example, I had never seen so many vanity vans on my set like I saw on Sacred Games,” he said, adding, “That’s how the culture got started. Then you can’t reverse that. Finally, those people started getting paid who were totally ignored, which is the technical crew… It’s fair, in a way. But a lot of extra things started coming in.”
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