Mumbai: Actor Nagarjuna during a session ‘Pan-Indian Cinema: Myth or Motion?’ World Audio Visual and Entertainment Summit (Waves) in 2025, in Mumbai, Friday, 2 May, 2025 | Photo Credit: Shashank Parade
Telugu superstar Nagarjuna Akini led a session on Friday (May 2) at the World Audio Visual and Entertainment Summit (Waves) at BKC, Mumbai on the rise and rise of PAN-India filmmaking. He joined the panel by veteran Anupam Kher, Tamil actor Karthi and actor-royalty Kushbo Sundar.
Recently PAN-India Jugronot’s success success Pushpa, Bahubali And Sect -All the elders produced by the south-Nagarjuna argued that such films worked because the audience in India loves heroes bigger than life.
They told that both Pushpa The films earned more money in the answer than the Telugu centers. “We have seen similar stories in Telugu before, like PushpaIn which there are big heroes than life. Whereas in the north – in Bihar, UP, and Punjab – they wanted to see their heroes like Pushpa Raj. Sect Or BahubaliFor Indian people and culture, it is difficult to survive just day by day, and when they want to relieve stress by watching movies, they want to see magic on the screen, ”said Nagarjuna.
Actor Nagarjuna, during a session, left during ‘Pan-Indian cinema: myth or motion’, and Kushbo Sundar? ‘World Audio Visual and Entertainment Summit (Waves) in 2025, in Mumbai, Friday, May 2, 2025 | Photo Credit: Shashank Parade
Trailer for Allu Arjun-Starrer Pushpa 2: Rules It was launched in Patna, Bihar, while Rocky Bhai – hero played by Yash in the Kannada franchise Sect -A pop-cultural event became in the north. These films come out of a vested, rustic valor that are different from Hollywood gloss, yet manage the audience to transport into a fictional world.
“Allu Arjun was a star ten years ago in the north Pushpa happened. This was not the night’s success, ”Karthi said.
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Pan-Indian films are offering large screen escapism without moving away from their original roots, observing Nagarjuna. “This is what is doing big stories of life, without losing the basic things of Indian story tell. They are not going away from it, which is why they have been successful. Rajamouli shot. Bahubali, Frame to frame, thinking that it was a Telugu film. He was very proud of his roots and language, and he shot it like a Telugu film, and people loved it worldwide! If you are vested to tell your story, it will resonance, ”said Nagarjuna.
Anupam Kher worked on the universality of compelling story tell. “Ingrid Bergman, the famous Swedish actress, said it surprisingly,” Kher commented. “He said that any film, any story that is from the heart, will touch the audience, not the craft. The craft never touches the audience but the truth.”
In this image released by PIB on May 2, 2025, Bollywood actor Anupam Kher ‘Pan-Indian Cinema: Myth or Motion?’ World Audio Visual and Entertainment Summit (Waves) in Mumbai in 2025. , photo Credit: –
Kher gave the example of James Cameron Titanic And how Hollywood tried to turn it into a thread, but failed. “He (Cameron) created a love story against a disaster. So American makers thought, let’s set another love story against a big disaster. So they made them Pearl harborBut that film itself became a disaster. ,
Nagarjuna insisted that a large scale film production in India operates within its own argument. “You can say,” A man raises his fist and 20 people fall, it looks unusual! ” But if you like Marvel or DC films, Superman does the same thing, but they give them ‘super power’ to those, but we do not need those special powers.
Published – May 02, 2025 04:29 pm IST
