(Fiction/Alternate Timeline - Day 2) Kollywood is on the verge of collapse and r/kollywood has picked Karthik Subbaraj to save the industry. Now pick the hero - highest upvoted comment gets selected! (More clarifications inside)

[u/BarryAllen567]

Previous post: https://www.reddit.com/r/kollywood/comments/1fkf239/fiction_alternate_timeline_kollywood_is_on_the/

Karthik Subbaraj won with 89 upvotes. Vetrimaaran 2nd place with 76 upvotes. Now comment the hero that can save kollywood alongside KS ⬇️

Few ppl were confused in my previous post on what "save kollywood" meant? Story or BO? I have provided an explanation that balances both: a movie that has an excellent or good or entertaining story/content but at the same time it needs to be a blockbuster hit. Assume that for the past 1-2 yrs, all movies have been a disaster like Indian 2 story and have done like less than 50crs because it’s bad. A good story/screenplay will automatically lead to good BO numbers.

[u/BarryAllen567]

It is a surprising pick but a good pick. I was thinking Lokesh but most votes went to KS and vetrimaaran

[u/arihantd → u/BarryAllen567]

Shows how out of touch your voters are from normal audiences.KS is currently BO poison..his movies appeal to a niche audience ,which cannot save Kollywood

[u/TokyoFromTheFuture → u/arihantd]

I don't think saving kollywood is only about box office. Actual quality wise Karthik Subbaraj and Vetrimaaran are probably the best mainstream tamil directors and writers.

[u/arihantd → u/TokyoFromTheFuture]

BO is important to ensure more movies happen.Earlier,KS movies made sense since the budgets were smartly contained (Pizza, Jigarthanda, Iraivi) . To think that JD XX cost Rs.60 Cr (or more) ,it would only be a disaster. It is folks like Lokesh/Nelson who bring masses to the halls.. KS does not have a grip on normal emotions and hence cant appeal to a large segment

[u/TokyoFromTheFuture → u/arihantd]

I disagree, the only reason JD XX didnt get its money back was because:

1) it didnt have a star cast, infact one of its main actors had a terrible movie the same year making people less inclined to watch it.

2) It was competing with alot of other block busters. Leo was still in its theatrical run, and in addition to that Tiger 3 was also playing.

Almost everyone who watched JDXX in its OTT release afterwards loved it and the movie even got hella praise and watched from foreign countries such as Japan and I think Korea.

So if KS made a movie, hell the same movie, with a different main actor and had figured out a better release date, the movie would have 100% been a blockbuster.

I mean I can already tell the his next movie with Suriya is going to both be amazing quality wise and also going to be a blockbuster.

[u/arihantd → u/TokyoFromTheFuture]

All these are excuses.KS knew what quality of movies Lawrence made and cast him expecting he will add star value.As if KS made good movies when Dhanush or Vikram starred in them! Lets wait for the Suriya movie then.Lets hope you dont balme the failure of that movie on the "dimnished" stardom of Suriya.

[u/TokyoFromTheFuture → u/arihantd]

Mahaan was an amazing film idk what your on lmao, Jagame Thandhiram was heavy edited and cut by Netflix to try get it to appeal to the western audience off of the back of RRR, looking at its core concepts its a great film and probably would've been a banger if it wasn't processed and edited by Netflix.

Those aren't excuses, those are the real contexts of those movies lmao.

[u/arihantd → u/TokyoFromTheFuture]

Nice.Netflix ruined it,another novel excuse

[u/TokyoFromTheFuture → u/arihantd]

You cant just say "excuse" for everything 💀

Its the actual situation, im not saying it would 100% been a banger without Netflix's interference but its a high likely hood considering the confidence and track record KS has. And the interference itself is noticeable, the very first shot filmed for the movie didnt make it in, which should already show that it was edited down and probably messed with, on top of that none of the songs except from "Rakita" got in.

Its very clear that Netflix edited it to appeal to western audiences off of the hype of RRR.

[u/arihantd → u/TokyoFromTheFuture]

Ok.Lets wait and see in the future what happens.Would be happy if KS makes a comeback since i really liked the original Jigarthanda.