<p>National Award-winning filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan feels Bollywood is different from Hindi cinema as the former follows a stereotypical pattern of stories.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The director says there are people making attempts to come up with content-driven Hindi films as compared what is happening in mainstream.<br /><br />"I wouldn't call the cinema made in Mumbai as Bollywood. That's a different kind of cinema. In Hindi cinema, there are people making better films. There are attempts being made," Adoor told PTI.<br /><br />"But Bollywood cinema is a different world. It is badly stereotyped. It is like a mould where everything fits in."<br /><br />The 75-year-old director's first film "Swayamvaram" in 1972 is credited to have started the 'new wave' cinema movement in Kerala.<br /><br />Even in south, the films have become commercially-driven, feels Adoor.<br />"The audience is going towards films which have violence. In Malayalam cinema, it has become a commercial element with a lot of bloodshed, killing and rowdyism. That works. There is an audience for that."<br /><br />The director says when he saw some of the films with high violent content, he thought they wouldn't work with the audience, but he was proved wrong.<br /><br />"In the past, women would not turn up to see those films, now it has changed. I think it started with films like 'Paruthiveeran' and others. Those films were so terribly violent that I thought they won't work with the audience.<br /><br />"But they did so well I thought there is something wrong with the audience. A good society should never celebrate films like these."<br /><br />The filmmaker has returned to the big screen after a gap of eight years with romantic-drama "Pinneyum", which marks his 12th feature film.<br /><br />The movie, released this Friday, brings the popular pairing of Malayalam cinema, Dileep and Kavya Madhavan.<br /><br />"It is a simple story. It is romantic with love and family as a backdrop but it is not the typical running-around-the-trees romance... I knew I had an audience here so, I wanted the film to have a wider release outside Kerala." <br /><br /> Adoor says taking a long gap was not a conscious decision but he was waiting for a story worth telling.<br /><br />"It was not a conscious decision to take such a long gap. But I needed an idea, which is novel and something worth telling. It should be exciting enough for me to go through the whole process of filmmaking. 'Pinneyum' was that."<br /><br />The filmmaker also feels today cinema has dumbed down romance and has been reduced to something which is borderline vulgar.<br /><br />"These days for romantic scenes, you need 40-50 extras, both men and women. Men should look rowdy, women should look like very loose characters. This is romance.<br /><br />"They either sing with the hero or heroine, or dance with them. That has become the norm. When you make a film and show just simplicity, they (audience) say 'We don't understand'. But they understand this ludicrous thing."<br /></p>
<p>National Award-winning filmmaker Adoor Gopalakrishnan feels Bollywood is different from Hindi cinema as the former follows a stereotypical pattern of stories.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The director says there are people making attempts to come up with content-driven Hindi films as compared what is happening in mainstream.<br /><br />"I wouldn't call the cinema made in Mumbai as Bollywood. That's a different kind of cinema. In Hindi cinema, there are people making better films. There are attempts being made," Adoor told PTI.<br /><br />"But Bollywood cinema is a different world. It is badly stereotyped. It is like a mould where everything fits in."<br /><br />The 75-year-old director's first film "Swayamvaram" in 1972 is credited to have started the 'new wave' cinema movement in Kerala.<br /><br />Even in south, the films have become commercially-driven, feels Adoor.<br />"The audience is going towards films which have violence. In Malayalam cinema, it has become a commercial element with a lot of bloodshed, killing and rowdyism. That works. There is an audience for that."<br /><br />The director says when he saw some of the films with high violent content, he thought they wouldn't work with the audience, but he was proved wrong.<br /><br />"In the past, women would not turn up to see those films, now it has changed. I think it started with films like 'Paruthiveeran' and others. Those films were so terribly violent that I thought they won't work with the audience.<br /><br />"But they did so well I thought there is something wrong with the audience. A good society should never celebrate films like these."<br /><br />The filmmaker has returned to the big screen after a gap of eight years with romantic-drama "Pinneyum", which marks his 12th feature film.<br /><br />The movie, released this Friday, brings the popular pairing of Malayalam cinema, Dileep and Kavya Madhavan.<br /><br />"It is a simple story. It is romantic with love and family as a backdrop but it is not the typical running-around-the-trees romance... I knew I had an audience here so, I wanted the film to have a wider release outside Kerala." <br /><br /> Adoor says taking a long gap was not a conscious decision but he was waiting for a story worth telling.<br /><br />"It was not a conscious decision to take such a long gap. But I needed an idea, which is novel and something worth telling. It should be exciting enough for me to go through the whole process of filmmaking. 'Pinneyum' was that."<br /><br />The filmmaker also feels today cinema has dumbed down romance and has been reduced to something which is borderline vulgar.<br /><br />"These days for romantic scenes, you need 40-50 extras, both men and women. Men should look rowdy, women should look like very loose characters. This is romance.<br /><br />"They either sing with the hero or heroine, or dance with them. That has become the norm. When you make a film and show just simplicity, they (audience) say 'We don't understand'. But they understand this ludicrous thing."<br /></p>