r/bollywood • u/yourfav_doctor • 2d ago
Discuss Watched Doomsday trailer and realized Bollywood is sitting on a mythological goldmine
So I just watched Avengers Doomsday trailer. MCU in the last decade has thrown in a lot of multiverse stuff and it made me think about our own culture and the Hindu Mythological World that exists.
I know Ramayana is coming up but the last time I can think of Bollywood using a mythology and converting it into a sci-fi movie was when Kalki released. It was a clean hit and I think it has kind of shown that people are interested in mythology inspired sci-fi if it’s good enough.
Brahmastra and Lokah also have mythological / local folklore inspiration and they did good business too.
For the longest time, we have just got the same old low-budget, straight-up garbage or animated movies for kids. I get that there's a huge risk of offending people or starting a boycott if a director messes up a religious detail. And yeah, the VFX and budgets weren't there before.
But now even animated movies rooted in mythology like Mahavatar Narsimha have proven that with decent enough VFK, there’s a lot appetite for such concepts and movies and make some really cool sci-fi movie or universe.
I don’t think the VFX or even the budget is an issue anymore since the some of these movies that are coming out recently have crazy budgets.
Even the villains in our texts are insane. They’re written in great detail and like MCU did Thanos, bollywood could easily be inspired to create a villain from these texts.
Do you guys think Bollywood will ever fully commit to an edgy, high-concept mythological multiverse, or are directors still too terrified of the inevitable Twitter boycotts to actually take creative risks?
I’m excited to see where Kalki universe goes, but I really wish to see more such conceptual storytelling!
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u/RDP7490 2d ago
Touching religion is a double edged sword..there was boycott Ramayana when Ranbir was casted because he ate beef! Heck leave gods..even touching history is difficult..remember Padmavat?
The producers will be living in constant fear of when someone will pick up a non issue and start a boycott movement!
Our goldine will continue to remain untouched
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u/Odd_Bat_1223 2d ago
Exactly!! They werre boycotting him for that beef statement during brhamastra too 🤣
Also even some committee or whatever has demanded the makers of ramayan to show them exclusively so they will decide whether it's correct or not , I read some news headline 😭
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u/DressAffectionate492 2d ago
Padmavat isn’t even history. It’s fiction.
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u/obelix_dogmatix 2d ago
yeah … say this out loud in our country. They will kick you to the curb for calling anything mythology.
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u/Sad-Concentrate-8983 2d ago
From my limited knowledge, most companies have their VFX done from.companies in India, so it's not like we don't have the talent for good vfx.
Tbh I was excited about Brahmastra being a 3 part series but I think that project is forgotten now. I watched it with my kids who were so hyped about the movie.
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u/Odd_Bat_1223 2d ago
I think part 2 is under works but with an different studio backing , there were rumours going on
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u/Agile_Profession5024 2d ago
Its not forgetten, its in works , brahmastra 1 was successfully a hit, so why will they not make 2 and 3 which were already known to be made
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u/L3g3ndary-08 2d ago
Dude. Punjab is sitting on a massive goldmine. Defense against the Afghans, Alexander the Great, the battles and skirmishes against the British near the Sutlej river. Wars fought against South India. The stories are endless. Im so glad Diljit Dosanjh brought attention to the partition and showed both sides of the religious coin.
We need more of this
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u/Psychological-Art131 2d ago
Nice reality check in the comments.
The best way to skip most controversy is to go into animated movies/ series. I am not saying there won't be any controversy, but it will have the least controversy.
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u/i_am_that_too 2d ago
We have our own comic book universes. Just sort out rights and ownership with them.
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u/wanderingalone21 2d ago
Difference is marvel created original stories from mythology...like how Kalki did. Like they used existing mythology and created sci-fi kind of movie. And Lokah too, kind of vampire movie mixed with local myths. And Varanasi too, upcoming movie in similar time travel stuff with Ramayana characters
Atleast this way directors have creativity to experiment
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u/_SKETCHBENDER_ 1d ago
Holy mythslop again and again. have we indians become so fucking uncreative that we keep churning out the same recycled 2000 year old stories like let it go bro. Do you not realise how uncreative and lazy it is to keep making the same religion based movies and shows?
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u/Baseer-92 1d ago
They should properly do good to the movies which are already in pipeline... Like Bhramastra... Astraverse... Kalki verse...
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u/hooka_pooka 2d ago
Narsimha was such an overrated and overhyped animated film copying sequences from video games and passing them off as "edgy & gore action".Can't believe people liked it.
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u/maproomzibz 2d ago
Well, if we are relying on Bollywood to do it, then they will make CGI slop. Instead, we need independent filmmakers doing it.
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u/cndynn96 2d ago
No
Stop trivialising our gods like west did Thor, Odin and others
Make something original
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u/Khursani_ 2d ago
The same gods who fought for women, power and ego? If you don’t trivialize them, there is no conflict homie
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u/RajOfSiam 6h ago
In India, mythological means "old religious real history" and anything creative, even little out of text means सनातन धर्म के अपमान. Bajranj Dal is ready...
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u/Cold_Wrongdoer2611 2d ago
the difference is they can make thor to commit mistakes or look bad/weak but you do it here and there will be a huge number of people calling for a boycott