Veteran actress and Samajwadi Party politician Jaya Bachchan recently made sharp remarks on the BJP government, accusing them of ‘killing’ the Hindi film industry.
Jaya accused the government of not taking proper care to ensure the survival of single screens, leading to many of them shutting down.
She also accused previous governments of taking part in Bollywood’s ‘death’ but fired on the BJP and the Finance Ministry for taking it a step ahead.
She said, “Today, leave aside GST; all the single screens (theaters) are shutting down. People are not going to movie halls because everything has become so costly. Perhaps you want to kill this industry altogether…
…I am speaking on behalf of my film industry and making a request to this House on behalf of the audio-visual industry, that please spare them…
…Please have some mercy for them. You are trying to kill this industry. Please do not do this. Today you have started targeting cinema also.”
The actress urged Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to take this matter very seriously to ensure Bollywood’s survival into the future.
While there may be some truth to her words with the government’s ambiguous policies and increased taxation leading to a slowdown in footfalls, it is also no secret that more often than not, the downfall of Bollywood is brought upon by the industry itself.
Be it a lack of innovation, promotion of nepotism regardless of talent, or remaining heavily detached from the ground realities, Bollywood needs to massively reform itself and connect back with the common man to once again shine the way it used to before.
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