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From NRI pleasing, touristy rom-coms to gritty small-town realities, the themes and characters in Hindi cinema have travelled a long way to become increasingly diverse. Here is our pick of five such, relatable dreamers who struck a chord with the audience in a big way.
Billu aka Prem Kumar Yadav in âChaman Bahaar:âÂ
Once upon a time, paan vendors and neighbourhood shopkeepers were incidental protagonists in Hindi cinema who once in a while offered heart-warming advice to the lead actors. Remember Lallan Miya in Chashme Baddoor (1981), Ram Dulare Paanwala in Avtaar (1983) and the shopkeeper in Saathiya (2002) whose telephone is a refuge for secretive lovers? Billu aka Prem Kumar Yadav breaks away from that trope and is the paan shop guy in a Chhattisgarh village who not only gets to play the lead in Yoodleeâs âChaman Baharâ but also wants a love story of his own.  But is he the
Small town dreamers who captured our imagination in a big way
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Unconventional, brilliant actors who we need to appreciate more
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NewsX was recently joined by Siddharth Anand Kumar, Vice-President- Films and Events at Saregama India Ltd., for an exclusive conversation as a part of its special series, NewsX A-List where he spoke about his production house and the film industry.
Talking about the film division of Saregama and leading it, Mr. Anand said, “So, the film producing division of Saregama, which is India’s oldest music label, it has the most incredible and rich catalogue of music. Going back to the early days pretty much every song which belongs to my childhood or your childhood, the feeling of nostalgia and the great kind of cinema that we have created overall in these years resides in Saregama. Yoodlee is an attempt for Saregama to have a participation in the making of movies and not just in the music of movies. So, we started out cautiously, slowly to establish the fact that film-making can be a profitable venture.”
Express News Service
Back in 2012, there was a heated debate that had the potential to kickstart a revolution in entertainment consumption in India. It was started by Kamal Haasan when he wanted to release his Vishwaroopam on DTH services hours before its theatrical release. His idea was snuffed out quickly. Eight years and a global pandemic later, every studio across the world has adopted variations of this model.
There are now 10-plus OTT streamers used by content creators to showcase their products. People who swore by theatrical releases not only warmed up to direct OTT premieres but became ambassadors of this growing market too. While audiences logged in in droves to watch direct-to-digital films that would’ve been theatrical releases if not for the pandemic, the reception to original Indian OTT content in 2020 was quite heartening. It was nothing short of a tectonic shift in entertainment consumption. Here are a few trends that best encapsulate the kind of Indian content th