When you make comparison of north vs south film industry then what is your criteria of Judging them?
It seem bollywood have more fan followings and earn more money/profit as compare to south indians movies even if we call them rubbish . If you look at top 10 or 20 highest grosser movies of Indian film industry then most of them will be from bollywood ..
Why south Indians have obsession with this old man as he is still appearing as main hero
First of all, you need to realise that it is not North industry vs South industry.
(Since the only thing North about Bollywood is the language. Otherwise there are as many southies in the industry as northies. Always been. Many great actresses you know are from South, including Vidya Balan in Begum Jaan, since it's being discussed in this thread. But especially the technicians. Actual North industries are Bhojpuri, Punjabi, Bengali and such, of which Bengali is good, though can be pretentious.)
But it can be called (North+South) Market vs South MarketS (four independent markets).
Bollywood, since the language is Hindi, caters primarily to North, but AS WELL AS TO SOUTH, since we partially or completely know Hindi.
It has pan-India audience, meaning a higher budget, and thus higher profits.
It's that simple.
Also they know how to be glamourous and build six packs. It comes with budget and a big market. It brings fans.
But mostly it's about the size of the market you're going for.
Southern movies, there are five (earlier four) states and four main languages/cultures, meaning the audience is extremely limited.
Let's call the states A, B, C, D.
Only some movies from A may release in C, and so on. So you know how limited it is.
These south industries (Except Kerala, who focuses on realism) makes many unrealistic crap as well as realistic movies, of which unrealistic stuff is loved by the North and remade/dubbed/tv, thus giving the idea that it's what South is.
So those unrealistic stuff from South also tend to make more money than realistic.
This is where Rajni comes in. (Your picture.) He made many unrealistic stuff which made him famous all over India (and Japan). In South and Malaysia, Tamils worship him, (so it's wrong to say South worships him, though true in isolated events).
Why? India loves filmstars and they're committed till death, also focusing much on their on-screen charisma.
But he's also a very nice guy and doesn't wear make up outside films. Down to earth.
How do I judge Bollywood and South?
Simple. I do it on a film by film basis.
Bollywood has made good films, but it's nowhere close to the films Southern industries have made, mostly because Bollywood has to cater to the Hindi masses of the North with less knowledge of cinema, and because even the educated classes of the North have developed a taste for non-sense. They just want the film to be glossy and good looking.
This is why southern movies (and other Regional language movies like Bengali, Marathi) tend to win more ACTUAL awards and Bollywood has to rely on Filmfare Awards.
But make no mistake.
No one can beat Southern movies when they decide to go full retard. I never deny this. It's a 50-50 chance if you take all four industries of south together.
Untalented idiots like Rohit Shetty tries to imitate it in Bollywood. But southern crap is some special crap. It can't be imitated.
So forget imitating Artful Southern Cinema.
I'll stick to the decades old Bollywood films when I feel like having some Hindi. They were good.
It's not like there's any dearth in excellent World Cinema.
