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Anurag Kashyap and Ram Gopal Varma Question Formulaic, VFX-Driven Trends in Bollywood

Overreliance on formulas paired with costly effects budgets is sapping creative storytelling in Bollywood films

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Overview

  • The filmmakers argued that hits like Sairat and KGF inspired a rush to replicate proven formulas at the expense of originality
  • Ram Gopal Varma warned that escalating VFX and production spending often undercuts the emotional core of a story
  • Anurag Kashyap revealed that a peer intentionally degraded the visual effects in their film to make audiences notice the VFX work
  • Both directors criticized the growing obsession with gratuitous gore, citing Animal as an example of violence used without narrative purpose
  • They called for a revival of conviction-driven cinema focused on authentic experiences rather than commercial templates