The debate of Bollywood vs South has started once again. A ‘healthy’ debate between film makers Boney Kapoor and Naga Vamsi took a different turn. During the conversation, Boney Kapoor told how South Indian films have their own market in foreign countries. Naga Vamsi gave his own take on this. He said that Bollywood was stuck in Bandra and Juhu. According to him, South Industry has given a new look to Hindi cinema.
Naga Vamsi is also being criticized a lot on these things. Now director Sanjay Gupta has also given his opinion. Sanjay did not like Naga ignoring Boney Kapoor’s words like this. According to Sanjay, Naga has insulted a senior producer. By posting on
Sanjay’s anger on Naga
Sanjay made several posts by sharing the video on Look at his body language and disgusting attitude. He has not become the father of Bollywood by giving 4 or 5 hits, nor will he become one.
Sanjay further wrote that he would have the courage to sit in front of senior producers like Allu Arvind sir or Suresh Babu sir and talk to them like this by pointing a finger at their face. Learn to value respect before success. The first thing we learned while working with great southern filmmakers was humility and discipline. Showing arrogance and hatred is the last thing you would expect from them.
Every year around 300 Telugu films are released. This means that between 2020 (Baahubali 1 release) and 2024, they have released 1500 films. Bahubali 1 and 2, RRR, Pushpa, Kalki and Pushpa 2. Out of 1500, 6 films have been All India Blockbusters. We slept peacefully and happily knowing that our distributors have collected Rs 86 crores. Same will happen in your case also, but the success of others does not keep us from sleepless nights.
What was the conversation?
Let us tell you, Boney Kapoor and Naga Vamsi’s heated conversation during the conversation in Producers Round the Table of Galatta Plus attracted a lot of attention. Where Boney said that the King of Morocco had honored Amitabh and later Shahrukh Khan. The markets of Telugu films and Tamil films are unique. For example, Telugu films have a unique market in America, while Tamil films have a strong presence in Singapore and Malaysia.
Naga disagreed on this and said that I have something more to add to it. It may sound harsh, but we have changed the way you watch South Indian cinema – even for Bollywood. Because you people were stuck in making films for Bandra and Juhu. But now, because of films like RRR, Baahubali, Animal, Jawan, your perspective has changed. After Mughal-e-Azam, you mentioned films like Baahubali and RRR, which were Telugu films. You never mentioned the name of any Hindi film after Mughal-e-Azam. I don’t think the whole of Mumbai would have been able to sleep when it was revealed that Pushpa 2 had earned Rs 86 crore in a day.
Now, we cannot say how far this debate between Boney and Naga will go, but it would not be wrong to say that 2025 is ready for a new debate.