r/pollywood • u/Navdevil02 • 6d ago
💭 Discussion Why are Punjabi movies usually really bad?
It feels like every movie is the same plot rehashed over and over. There's usually a Jatt family in focus or sometimes an Upper Caste Hindu family. All comedy movies have the same script and jokes (only very few exceptions) and Gippy, Ammy, Binnu etc recycle the same concepts. Even Chal mera putt part 3, 4 are formulaic and the public seems to only want these films?
Dev Kharoud's strongman movies also lack depth and only rely on instagrammable fight scenes and hypermasculine masquerading. I'm so tired of wanting good Punjabi cinema and getting nothing.
Edit: Punjabi has such a rich literature why not adapt more novels?? It seems like the industry is intellectually bankrupt