🎬 Everything is a pan India release now, is that good?

Last week I watched a big South film in Hindi at a multiplex. The sound was fine but the mouths didn't match. Every line was a half second late. After 20 minutes I stopped noticing, which is its own problem. Years ago I'd have waited months for a dubbed version on TV. Now it's in my city on day 1. That part I like. I don't want to be the guy complaining about more choice. But I've started to notice that all the big ones feel alike. Same size of stunt, same big song. Same sort of hero who is a bit of a god. The plan seems to be, make it travel everywhere. I wonder what happened to the small local story. The family drama in 1 city with 1 dialect. Those used to get a proper release. I can't tell if they still do. I told a cousin who works at a multiplex box office. He laughed at me. He said people queue for the big shared one. Nobody queues for the small local one on a Friday. He might be right. The hall was full that night and the whole crowd clapped together at the end. It's hard to argue with a full hall, and I did enjoy being in it. I'd like to hear from people who watch these in Telugu, Tamil or Malayalam first. Does it feel like your films are being stretched to suit everyone? Or does it feel like the rest of the country is finally paying attention? I can't tell from where I sit, with a Hindi dub in my ears.

I sat in a pan India release last month with people around me speaking maybe 4 languages at the interval. A man in front kept explaining the plot to his father in Telugu, then in Hindi for his friend. Nobody minded. People shared snacks. It felt like 1 big family outing, not a regular film night. So I get your worry, but I'd take that noisy hall over an empty one.

Telugu side here, sort of. I don't work in films but I watch a lot, and I'd say you're half right. The big ones are bigger now and travel far.