Akaash Reacts: Bollywood Nepotism WORKS?
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- Опубликовано: 14 июл 2022
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Akaash Singh and Andrew Schulz react to Nepotism in Bollywood with Indian stars like Alia Bhatt, Ranbir Kapoor, Karan Johar & Ananya Pandey and how it actually WORKS? 
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Aakash went to an indian standup comedy club and did a set on Indians being good at maths , He's as Indian-American as they come
American-Indian. American first 🙂
@RaJjj most indians are not good at math.
@RaJjj actually No india still has high illiteracy rate, so obviously as a whole Indians are not good at math compared to South Korean or Japanese
Most Indians do not have Americans to compare to, so they do not know they are actually great at maths.
@@vagabondsoul1286 Indians are not great at math. Americans are just used to highly educated immigrants who have to practice math a lot as a tool for immigration.
Akash take on India is just like any other person who is observes India through Western lens.
But he is right about the happy movie stuff.
@@adityasharma2380 agreed
@@adityasharma2380 yes mostly, but the happy and the "art" cinema existed in parallel all throughout the time. Remember Smita Patil doing commercial movie and art movie at the same time, and actors like Naseeruddin, Smita Patil, Shabana Azmi, Farookh Shaikh, being asked why continue with sad cinema or non-earning movies while the art movies then were competing alongside with the commercial cinema space. And art cinema merged with commercial in the sense that it started bringing audience since 2007/08 with Vinay Pathak at the helm with Bheja Fry, Dasvidanya etc., and with movies like Paan Singh Tomar, Gangs Of Wasseypur, Vickky Donor, Andhadhun, and the cinema began taking turn with content on Channel V, Bindas taking turns with making the younger audience more adaptive, hence giving room for the newer audience to flock to cinema for Ayushmann or Rajkumar, Irrfan Khan, Naseeruddin etc.
@@adityasharma2380 That trend ended in the 80's. He is not completely wrong but he is talking about as if India is still in 70's. India's tier-1 cities are pretty much on par with Western cities and their facilities these days.
He's an ABCD
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Desi
Akaash has some of the worst, non nuanced takes on Indian matters. Just cause he's ethnically Indian it seems like he gets a weighted say on these matters but he's no different from an American who has a warped view of other countries. He's a good comedian, but some research might help him a lot before just assuming authority on all matters Indian.
You are 100% right, Sometimes these so called American Indians probably havent visited India but just say same shit that their parents or grand parents told them.
even research won't help, one who has experienced and lived in them societies and environment will give a more accurate and funny spin on things. You're right his pov is no different than of an american born and brought up in US. But he should give that disclaimer before giving his opinions otherwise people will take his pov to be true cuz of his ethinic association with India.
Truer words
@@VSM101 True mothufucking words...
You’d re jealous he is exposing your little dirty secrets
Bollywood mainstream might be feel good escapism but even early Indian movies that were popular were usually always sad and realistic.
When ?
@@shreythakur9079 Mother India type movies.
@@shreythakur9079 Dilip Kumar was called tragedy king. Guru Dutt another one. And then there's parallel cinema movement that started in the 50s with Satyajit Ray's arrival and continued till the 90s, pretty harsh portrayal of life there.
Yes, also in regional movies, in Marathi atleast, there is no escapism. It’s hard real truth on your face.
We do have satire. It’s the most important part of Marathi literature. Even before independence, before Gandhi, satire was used for political messaging.
5:59 do they have pet dogs in India? Man, the level of ignorance is infinity 💀💀💀
Not everybody gonna know about different part of the world they don't live in dude..
@@toxicvoid0663 and that’s called ignorance 😂 cause if u don’t know u shouldn’t speak.
@@lisasyadom23 are you dumb he is not speaking.. he is asking something he doesn't know.. do you even know what a question is? It's something you ask that u don't have answers to.idk why u getting mad at it lol😂
@@lisasyadom23 then how could you say it ignorance if they don't speak it?
@@lisasyadom23 he was asking a question, not stating something
Very true. Almost 70-80% of the biggest Bollywood stars belong to one Bollywood family or other.
That's a very heavy cap
Kapoor's
I think more than 90% are from the Bollywood star child or their cousins.
@@evon4441 I think 100% of the Bollywood people are from a family. There are no orphans in the industry.
@@scientia.veritas not just bollywood but the Telugu and Tamil cinema too. I didn't realise it, but all these industries run on the same ideas of getting their family employed.
Akaash understands that when u work in india for 12 hr shift u dont want a film like where u have to work ur mind again u need something unreal.
Not completely agree
either his mind is trapped in 2000's india and netflix is the only current content he can access or he's just ignorant.
All they know about Indian cinema or India in general is through their media which is extremely biased so even Indians in US,UK etc have stereotypical views about India.
he's actually just lived in India in the 2000s and just visits time to time, so for sure isn't that aware of current social condition that well. he seeing india in lens of a foreigner with peaked interest cause that's his homeland? It's really just that his source now would be just western media not wrong on his part but always he should stop acting like he's some well versed insider or knowledgeable cause he's very outta touch.
They are called capsule babies. These guys think India is still like how their parents talk about India back when they lived there in the 1960s n 70s.
Please tell me what are the other “realistic” content that Americans can access. I hope you know we can’t access certain streaming services you have in india
@@r.c.7779 u can vpns exist and even inspite that u can its available, it's just a ton more effort than just checking out American Netflix's bollywood section and enjoying it which isn't wrong either. Just don't act like u understand the social intricacies of India its cultures and even its media when u don't actually do firsthand.
This is what happens when you spend 2 days every 5 years in your native country. Akash is just so out of touch. 🤦🏽♀️
I haven’t visited India in over 18 years. Even I’m not this ignorant 😆
The advent of gritty story driven cinema in India was not initiated by Netflix. It was happening before that. There is strong independant cinema in India, reflected in the rise of actors like Rajkummar Rao and Ayushman Khurana
There also South Indian, Tamil and other regions that create great films and expect Bollywood to remake them and take the credit.
Nobody claimed gritty story driven cinema in India was initiated by Netflix. Buddy, you gotta train your brain to properly comprehend the stuff you are trying to watch. Trying to counter a false argument manufactured by your own tiny brain isn’t the best idea.
@@dunno23 someone salty here, replying every comments like butthurt. Akash knows a 10% of India, and explain like he knows everything.
@@reason4fairness like kabir shigh and jesrsy, who's greedy south Indian director made the same movie for both region or remake them. So not only Bollywood is remaking them
@@dunno23 they literally suggested it at 2:50 you absolute idiot.
Love how the conversation shifted from nepotism to gardening 😅
Indian Americans always sound like the last Indian movie they watched was a Bollywood movie from late 90's early 2000's and then they say it's the same in 2022
right and make ddlj and k3g their whole indian american personality
@@dishasharma5624 same sharukh khan did dilse of maniratnam but 🤦🤦they don't remember it
Yeah its retarded
Bollywood is garbage
This conversation is for people who live in nutshells.Comfortable in there couch and relaxing not having the knowledge of hardship and suffering their lives.thank you🤣😂
Who live in bubbles not nutshells lol.
Bollywood has lost its glory nowadays better cinema comes from other Indian industries
We too had a historic gritty cinema until 80's , after that a lot of Indians became successful abroad, and then the Bollywood went after Dollars!
That's when Indian cinema became purely escapist.
Finally a sensible take!
Absolutely. "I can only think of one or two movies where the main actor died." I guess he's never seen an Amitabh Bachchan movie; who only happens to be the biggest Indian actor of all time!
"Do they have pet dogs in India?" WHAT!!!
I am from India , we have pets .
Aakash's view on India 1990- 2015 .
With all due respect .
Flowers are the way to have fruits .
What happened after 2015 lol
@@swashbuckler2319 Access to internet got hella cheap and easy
@@anuragbhandary1571 cry poor indians
@@swashbuckler2319 shri Narendra modi
@@swashbuckler2319
New government,
New idea
New PM
And internet
I think it's high time Americans realise that NRI Indians who are like second or third generation and have lived most of their life in the US and maybe visited India once 7 years ago where they literally stayed for a couple of months in a singular city or state have as much idea of what India is right now as most Americans do.
I am an NRI albeit got an opportunity to visit India every alternative year cus I was in the Middle East and with each new visit, I saw an entirely different nation. India's been growing significantly in the last 10 years, so much so that everything from entertainment to the middle class to consumerism is not the same as it was even a decade ago.
Disney, Netflix, Amazon are all playing huge bets on the country and it's 1.4 Bn people who watch content in more languages than what Europe speaks. At this point, it's a cross between 100s of cultures that we see on Web content.
It's more dynamic and exciting than unfortunately anything any other country can claim to have. We are like a golden warchest of content.
Is that patriotism speaking or actual facts ? 😅
@@sharooqsalaudeen865 facts as pakistanis whole culture is less than from our states 🤣
@@kaustubhraizada Am i supposed to be offende? Bruh 🤣🤣🤣🤣. Did you just assume that i am from Pakistan???. 🤣 Dude, people like you are what's bad about our country. Pathetic.
@Mandavi Kumar🇮🇳 🤣
@Mandavi Kumar🇮🇳 😂😂😂😂
u dont know anything about our movie history, our great director Satyajit Ray from 50s inspired so many of ur directors like martin scorsese, and there always has been realistic cinema and realistic topic movies since late 40s till now, go watch the works of Shyam Benegal, Ritwik Ghatak, Mrinal Sen, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Bimal Roy, Guru Dutt, Anurag Kashyap, Vikramaditya Motwane, Anand Gandhi, Dibakar Banerjee, lijo jose pellisary, Dileesh Pothan, Thiagarajan Kumararaja, Madhu C. Narayanan and many many many more
If you were smart enough you would realize Satyajit Ray, Riwik Ghatak, Meinal Sen and some other names you have copied from wikipedia do not come under the fold of ‘Bollywood’ (which Akaash was talking about). They were mostly film makers in regional languages. And how many of their movies were the biggest grossers of the year? Learn the skill of comprehension before wasting your time typing irrelevant stuff.
@@dunno23 u should learn to read between the lines, these people just using the word bollywood but they subliminally means all indian cinema, also u should also learn to do something productive rather than just looking of comment sections of specific videos every few hours and try to prove how smart you are but unnecessarily disagreeing with people on small things
@@user-hq8wm8giyujcg There is not much to read between the lines. He literally said ‘Bollywood’. You are the one trying to disagree to him unnecessarily
@@dunno23 Learn to understand context. Bollywood is an umbrella term for Indian movies, just like Indians use Hollywood as an umbrella term for all English movies, even if they were from UK or Australia.
@@scientia.veritas Buddy, you seem to be a little slow, so let me put it out for you. There’s difference between context and ‘assumption’ (what you seem to be doing here). Going by the way your thick brain apparently defines ‘context’ I could ‘contextualise’ your comment as coming from a bunch of losers who have massive massive inferiority complex (as an individual and as a nation), who can’t handle the truth that shitty Bollywood movies that they used to watch growing up are actually shitty. They will try to defend their darling bollywood against any valid factual claims, only because they have intellectual capacity and emotional fragility of 4 year old kid.
Bollywood is no longer the biggest movie industry in India. South Indian movie industries consistently put out more profitable and better movies
So I know bahubali 1 and 2, kgf 1 and 2, pushpa 1 and 2nd upcoming, rrr. This trend started since 2015 and its not even every year. So I don't get your statement when you say stuff south movies are bigger when before bahubali nobody was really paying attention globally or even pan-india wise what south movies are coming out. Even post bahubali there has been a few pan india movies that flopped badly. Point is today industry doesn't matter, content does. That is why despite of having big stars regardless of where the movie is from, it can flop. Also bollywood had a couple of bad years due to controversies and bad content movies but still today bollywood is giving big hits. I watch movies from all 3 major movie industries and content wise I like Tamil and hindi and for masala movies i like telugu.
Just because he's indian by ethnicity doesn't mean he know more / accurate abt india . But I can say he know more abt india than these 3 people
Alot of old Indian movies dealt with heavy topics. Most. It wasn't what the movie was about perse, you didn't go into the movie saying well this is about forced marriage or political corruption but the themes were always prevalent.
According to the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations, approximately 80% of all flowering plants are specialised for pollination by animals, mostly insects (which includes bees). Pollination is crucial because many of our vegetables, fruits and the crops that feed our livestock rely on it to be fertilised, so without it, we could go hungry. Vegetables such as broccoli, asparagus and cucumber rely on the pollination of bees, as do apricots, strawberries, apples, tomatoes and almonds.
telugu industry has overtaken bollywood in the last there years akash . telugu industry is the highest grossing movie industry in india for the last 3 years .now it has one of the most popular non english movies in recent times in RRR
Which was a terrible movie
as a NORTH indian i agree bollywood sucks
RRR is GOAT movie
RRR was an over the top entertainment spectacle . Kinda similar to what Bollywood is known for . Not gonna win any awards but entertaining to the masses
@@danischannel it was terrible in every way
0:57 to answer marks question maybe not currently but in the past we had a white guy who spoke perfect Hindi and used to work in bolly movies regularly and he is pretty well respected in the theatre scene
Tom alter??
@@aaravarora737 Padma Shri Tom
Yeah, but he still almost always played the side-character of a white guy who was mostly evil. Despite the fact that Tom Alter was such an amazing actor, he never got his due just cos he was stereotyped.
@@scientia.veritas because the cinema wasn't developed then for legends like Tom Alter, or Bob Christo, and Gavin Pakard. Loved seeing them on cinema. However they have passed since. Now directors have a better take on cinema and can/could have employed them on screen in a more natural way.
I don’t think Akash has seen enough Indian movies. There were many dark and gritty movies even before Netflix was a thing. Off the top of my head I can think of Lajja and Ek Hasina Thi off the top of my head. Of course the fluffy larger than life films are also a big part of Bollywood.
A lot of ppl have dogs here, and every street has like atleast 5 dogs, they survive cause the ppl feed them , home cooked food!
im from sri lanka and botanical grdens are a thing here too.. we arent by any ,eans a developed country(especially now).. the thing is, rich ppl in poor countries live better lives than rich ppl in rich countries
Akaash really does need to show the guys Kal ho na ho. It's almost at the level of Marley and me.
Yeah, but at least it has the throughline of SRK dying of Cancer the whole time. M&M is just dog grows old and dies naturally.
@@Baronnax i dont think they said what he died from, it was just an unspoken thing. He just had a condition linked to his heart
For that, Akash needs to see it first.
I see what you did there 🤌
method acting was first performed in cinema in Hindi Indian movies by the actor Dilip Kumar (Yusuf Khan)
Nobody cares. What an inferiority complex you have dude.
Shulz is more informed about India than Aakash. Man has no idea how India works
The sad thing, he is gonna dismiss being called out as "hate comments" or "Indians being sensitive" but would never accept that most things coming out of his mouth are the farthest away from truth. So much that he sounds an internet troll as compared to all the people commenting. It is not even a battle of opinions. Things being said are just plain untrue.
Being multilingual, I can say the Indian film industry is better than Hollywood in many aspects
@Universe did I say Bollywood or Indian film industry? What’s your IQ?
@@Tsug2803 well, if you see the rate of bad movie to every good movie, it's insane
@@srachar your statement is irrelevant to mine
@@Tsug2803 well, your statement says it's better in many aspects and I'm saying it's bad in its bad in its main aspect
Nice joke
Bollywood is not just indian cinemas. India has way more movie industries. Realistic movies have always been a part of movies but not all audiences would want it. But when you come to south especially kerala and Tamil nadu, audiences dont consider watching these Bollywood style movies, they watch more of realistic movies with proper physics. And that why most of the producers make realistic movies in the south.
Realistic with proper physics ?are you ok ?
Aakash sounds like he says Chai Tea and Naan Bread.
India mentioned on a RUclips video? Here comes the Indians wanting validation from other groups of people commenting on this video, Andrew might as well do reaction channels to grift 😂
Not everything is done for views.
People can be interested in something related to India ,it's not impossible.
Andrew knows Bollywood deep he put Alia bhatt and Ananya Pandey on thumbnail 😂
I’m 100% sure miles found Bollywood actress’ on google images and put. If he knew Bollywood he wouldn’t say all this
The reason Bollywood made rich people movies is because they were made by rich people. That was their world. They didnt know what else to make. What poverty and struggle movie would Karan Johar make?
akash has some of the most unadulterated stereotypical western views on India.
LMAO MARLEY AND MEE the artistic reflection of the countries was a very interesting point cool cool
I know prominent Bollywood actors have denied any form of nepotism in their industry. Why would they admit to something they are benefitting from?
What astounds me is that there are regular Indians based off these comments that think nepotism is cap in Bollywood.
Just look at all the films Bollywood produced in the last 5 years. If you pulled out all the leading cast members, you would notice more than 80% of them are descendants from actors, relatives or part of extended families. Go back half a century, you will still see the same thing.
Muslims are allowed to have dogs for security, sheep dogs, service dogs etc but typically they are kept outside the house for cleanliness.
@Neil Bajwa yeah dogs aren't clean, from personal experience I agree tbh, every dog I've ever been inside the house with stunk like ass NGL. Also Muslims are allowed to have service dogs ie (shepherd dogs, hunter dogs, protection dogs) but they aren't allowed in the house
Dogs are haram in Islam. You have to wash with soil 7 times if you touch a dog.
@@dawwww no, that's a ruling specific to utensils. If a dog eats out of a bowl and its saliva touches the bowl then it must be cleaned before being used again
@@1purpose482 No. The quran even says Isa is coming back to destroy Christians and Dogs. 😄 Take your taqiya to children. 😄
Nepotism is damaging new talents on the rise. Aakash is the sharing the blind mans fact.
Akash explaining 2000s bollywood
First of all Bollywood is what Hallmark movies plus Action blockbuster Hollywood movies to India there are other regional industry which excels at making movies South industry for example they have been putting out quality movies since the 80s (think of the indie movie scene in US but not just art films all kinds of films) lately there’s a huge popularity rise in South Indian movies thanks to pan India release in multiple languages.
Dude....is Aakash living in the 90s.....a man earning 30lakhs in India can live a better life than an American earning 100k in USA....and thats half of the Indians in IT industry.......we dont need your party culture to be happy...stop putting Yourself as living the best life....everyone has there own definition of best life...he is Indian but he doesnt knows India.
what a great point made by aakash connecting economy to nature of movies
loved that ending done by al 😂
Bruh the thumbnail💀🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Bollywood is filled with nepotism and remakes. It’s been a very long time since they have not copied another movie that did well in India. Now that streaming is such a huge thing, the North Indian people are watching a lot of South Indian movies that have very different story lines and they are also getting tired of remakes and same storylines from Bollywood. Because of that bollywood is trying to change. Before they did not have to because streaming other culture’s content was not a thing but now all different type of movies in different cultures are only a click away.
Nepostism is everywhere
@@aanchalfinwoman another line to defend the nepotism in bollywood. We are talking about bollywood then stick to that-
@@haripppalady.7873 It is everywhere you dummy
@@haripppalady.7873 Yes. I have my shares invested In Bollywood and u have ur acting career at stake
So much wrong thing. Tell me you have just watched Karan Johar's movie and considered it as only Bollywood movies. There are tons of different stories and tons of amazing actors. Just because people didn't watch doesn't mean that Bollywood has produced trash. I accept in last 3-4 years, they went insane (specially main actors are doing remakes) still before those 2-3 years Bollywood has done better than any other indian film industry. And fyi considering those 2-3 years they have still done way better than any other film industry in india. I acknowledge the problem of nepotism... But it is in south too. Your dp name 'saaho' was a trash movie too.+ Radeshyam+ recent movies like beast was also critically worst movies. Still see their earnings... It's just people are running after mass movies.
Rocketry movie went flop in collection. Why? It was well promoted, good movie, good actor, good story. All good. Still didn't run. And south has many actors who are actually nepo kids like Mahesh babu,Rana, allu arjun, prabhas all are nepotism product. Mahesh Babu, Vijay devarkonda isn't a good actor, just his looks. And mostly south movies which are dubbed in Hindi are mass action movies. People are just watching those kind of movies. And some movies have been remade in south too like 3 idiots, andhadhun. The thing is just people are hating way more to Bollywood. Fyi, the movies which are remade in hindi are produced by south directors or producers to earn more money from Hindi audience. Actually they are bigger culprit than those actors who play characters for money. And in Hindi cinema even Akshay Kumar or ayushman khurana has got more variety than south movies.
There was an American- Indian ( white guy) actor called Tom Alter . He acted in many Bollywood films and was very popular. He received highest government honour too. His son is also an actor now 😊
His American parents went to India as Christian missionaries and settled there.
Also Akaash’s version of India is so funny and outdated . India is a huge populations/classes , which watch all types of films
1:02, Tom Alter a white Indian spoke perfect Hindi/Urdu and was cast into a number of Indian movies and serials..
He's right somewhat. Not because of poverty as the 70s-80s were more poor but great stories.
It's social engineering after the 80s till 2000s. Now coming off. Again.
There are 2 to 3 movies released every week do you think it's all nepotism or escapism ..akash is so out of reality.
Amount of animal on which rural India relies is very high... Having animals like cows, buffalo, dogs, cats, hens, goat is very common...
And each one have there own significance.
And most of the time people who does not have a pet also take care of there locality stray dogs and stray cows.
In many households there are traditions to take out portions out of your own food for cows and dogs...
And yes people get sad when there animals or pets dies of old age or some other causes...
Karl Pilkington and the guy who plays Willow and Ewoks were in a Bollywood movie and they killed it.
You forgot the irish guy , Tom Alter. He played both +ve and -ve prominent roles in so many movies
The thing about flowers and plants is something I've always felt
Akash seems like he is stuck in the past because the content from the indian film industry has taken a massive turn in last couple of years, specially with OTT platforms. A lot of realistic cinema and series all with fresh faces. Infact today the sureshot way of making sure your movie flops is casting all nepo kids in it. Ofcourse there are exceptions like nepo kids who actually can act like Alia Bhatt.
their theory on changes on movies storyline as the country advances was an interesting one. We do have more real stories and escapism type movies are rare nowadays. someone should look into it.
flower nector makes honey though .... encourages bees to pollinate. just adding a point.
sad/gritty movies were mainstream in bollywood in 60s-70s. Indians hate nepo bollywood we just dont hv options.
For those of you who keep complaining about the whole Akaash/chair issue, please allow me to explain.
“Akaash” comes from the Sanskrit word “Akasha” meaning “ether” or “sky”, referring to the ethereal realm where Akaash’s chair exists.
Akaash is also nearly homophonic with “a couch.”
Folks, this was ordained a long time ago by forces far more powerful than us - accept it and move on!
Who are you and why are you so wise?
You sir/madam are a phenomenal & creative linguist!
🤣🤣🤣🤣
are you Sadhguru?
Why can't people like you do stand up in India. Why is always the libtards who have a mic on them
he's actually just lived in India in the 2000s and just visits time to time, so for sure isn't that aware of current social condition that well. he seeing india in lens of a foreigner with peaked interest cause that's his homeland? It's really just that his source now would be just western media not wrong on his part but atleast he should stop acting like he's some well versed insider or knowledgeable cause he's very outta touch really.
Looking at this comment section is just depressing. His takes although based on generalizations are true. We indians cant hear any criticism about india and get pseudo patriotic when any indian/ indian origin/ foreign person says something remotely negative/critical about india.
Flowers are required for pollination. So they do serve a purpose and they also add authentic value as well.
Botanical gardens being flex and a waste was the funniest and realest part of this video
I am from Kolkata and here we have the largest Botanical garden in Asia. You might have heard about Great Banyan Tree which is 300 years old and is the widest tree in the world.
I really do not know why NRIs or Foreigner think that India do not have Botanical garden because we are developing nation.
Just a great clip
4:19 - I feel like the crazy shit in Bollywood movies is just Indian eccentricity, not necessarily escapism. Like India’s just a crazy, eccentric country on its own.
Nowadays though, nepotism is definitely ruining Bollywood. Has been for the past like 9 years or so.
What India are they talking about? No pets, no gritty content in India, life too bad etc.I think I grew up in very different India. Since my birth I have seen pet dogs in almost every family in villages of northern India, even those who aren’t rich and they love them like family. It requires heart to feed an animal even whne you aren’t that rich and we always had it. Ignorant rant these people.
Akash is right and I am Indian lived most of my life in India
RANVEER is related to Bollywood people. He is related to Anil Kapoor’s family. Ranveer’s grandmother was an actress.
Aakash needs to visit india
“Flowers are a drain on humanity”
- Andrew 2022
The only escapism I found in what Akaash said was Indians getting out of poverty. Come to this country and see how real "bollywood escapism-loving people" are really living. The wealth gap is higher than ever, basic shit is getting more expensive, and unemployment is rampant.
Bollywood used to be all about the culture now it’s all Hollywood culture! Wannabes.
thumbnail is on point 🤣😂🤣
Akash please show them RRR, it's on Netflix, you guys can make the whole podcast on that movie, it is great fun.
That's the gayest movie ever
I don't agree... RRR is just a below average movie with too much masala.
Guys lookup Tom Alter … bollywood legend .🙏🏻
Akash is so Ignorant about Asian culture. Schutz has better understanding of world than Akash.
Okay so Akaash should officially not be allowed to talk about India ever.
Buddy better learn to handle the truth
@@dunno23 I am, by calling out false narratives
@@Aditya-rr6rx Nothing majorly false in what he said. Accept the truth and move on.
@@dunno23 But actually though. I'm not talking about just this video. I find Andrew's take on Indians far more accurate than Akash's.
True. There are a lot of wrong takes when it comes to india Or bollywood Or anything around this. But anyways 💀
I think he's right. To ppl for whom reality sucks, blowing cars and emotion-filled events feels like escaping the dud life. Not every movie has to be a nuanced brainf**k.
Andrew's on his hair blow out glow up.
Although Bollywood is the biggest film industry in India. It is not all about Bollywood. In India there are many film industries, Bollywood is just one of them
The idea of "the better (economically) a culture gets, the grittier the entertainment stories get" can be seen in American cinema as well. Look at cinema back before and around the Great Depression. Happy, dance-y musicals, farcical comedies, all that. Gritty realism doesn't start to really hit until just about the end of the Vietnam war, dealing with the betrayal of the people by the politicians in a way that cost a generation of youth to what was seen as no purpose. And since then, most of "culture" has been the manufacturing of false problems to keep us distracted from the increasing oppression of our beautified slavery. Identity politics is a beautiful way to get the majority of folks to WILLINGLY divide themselves up into tinier and tinier less-powerful groups, instead of just saying the phrase that terrifies the owners (as defined by the late, great George Carlin) "Hey, we're all just Americans (or Brits, or just about any non-Scandinavian nationality on the planet, who already think this way), and sure, we have differing opinions on some smaller matters, but THIS OVER HERE (insert either of the two TRULY serious problems, the environmental crisis or rampant economic inequality) needs fixing. Because fixing either of those will a) make the super-rich less rich, and b) show us that we CAN unite against them successfully, neither of which they want.
This podcast is what we need after lex fridmans
How ironic they are wondering if a dog movie could be popular in India when 777 Charlie was a hit this year
Brace yourself... Indians flooding the comment section soon
actually no. Bollywood hasn't been profitable for a while now. the most profitable movie industry in India is the Telugu movie industry. its not Bollywood.
We have dogs as pets but we don't put leash on them and keep them inside house, my grandfather, uncles have pet dogs they used to feed them and they were always following them in fields or on their tractors.
I think Uttar Pradesh is very famous there 😀
Akash is from there
I love how this conversation is mainly around having pet animals
This is such a demented discussion. "People start to feel things as they pull out of destitute poverty." Also, really dislike what nris portray to all others with their half baked knowledge. Oreos and yet they pretend like they know everything.
Not "Oreos" but "coconut" I believe is the more appropriate term.
Also, what according to you is the correct portrayal of India? Assuming you are from India?
@@Shankar-Bhaskar It is true that cinema is an escapism, but it has little to do with poverty. In the 50s and 60s, when India was in destitute poverty, cinema was still grounded and dealt with social issues.
Saying Bollywood is mostly nepotism is like saying healthcare is mostly nepotism, cos almost all doctors have a parent or a relative who was also a doctor. Yes there are star kids, but there are plenty of non-Bollywood background actors too. The former finds it easier to get a platform, but it's not a "chokehold".
The rising demand for gritty cinema is due to the exposure to global content, not economic status.
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Not true, almost all non Bollywood actors had to start work with production houses that are run by Bollywood families. Srk, probably the most successful non Bollywood actor, too had to work with Yashraj films first to make a name for himself. Granted he started off in offbeat films and a television career in Delhi, but he really had to ingratiate himself with Bollywood families by befriending (a$$kissing?) them before truly becoming successful in Bollywood.
@@Shankar-Bhaskar what do you mean "production houses run by Bollywood families"? Production houses are businesses. And like most businesses, they are passed down in the families. Any production house today, if it exists 20 years from now, would be run by the owner's family. You make it sound like a bad thing.
Production houses are expensive. A guy doesn't just walk in and create a production house. It takes years and years, and hence most are run by families.
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"Like most businesses, they are passed down in the families"
Thanks for making my point clear about nepotism. That is the exact definition of nepotism.
Most businesses, to the best of my knowledge, ethically speaking, are not supposed to be passed down in the families. This is the problem in India, not just in businesses such as Bollywood but also politics, I think it's an Asian cultural thing.
There is some "sir titled guy from dehradun that is pure breed white indian born brought up
bollywood is dying slowly with new netflix and amazon prime no more of this nepotism
I like any Netflix or OTT app web series rather than any Bollywood movies. Because there are not many good actors(yes there a are few brightly talented), most of the actor's children hold of big stars or businessmen and are bad. Just because of nepotism the Bollywood that used to be in the past is fading, Idk why they're not making any good movies. Honestly, I haven't seen any Bollywood movies after lockdown. I prefer web series and some of the good movies which have good plot & subjects in them.! And the sad reality is that the good movies don't perform well there are only a few which did but not all of them did a great box office collection. The Bollywood movies are full of songs and less acting, I am not opposing the fact that a movie doesn't have any music in it, it should but only a couple like 1 or 2, more than that it makes it boring and also the singers need to be good. I am amazed that they're remixing the old melodies by adding some new touch to them but some of them are bad which makes the old melodies a shit to hear just because of the new remix they're hated then.
the ponytail white guy had a point . the writers dont come from the bollywood families.. the actors do.
Indian regional movies are pretty dope.
I mean nepotism would works for any country with 6000+ cinemas and 2.6 billion dollar industry
The demand is there and nepotism controls the supply really well 🤣
Tom alter and his son jamie alter are two indian born white guys who star in Bollywood movies and serials.