u/Disastrous_Cat_4901

For some reason I don't feel like it's a dry period for the industry. I really feel it's the end . Dry period can be coined when we can expect that things are gonna be better in the near future but I really don't think so. Even if a movie or two clicks in the immediate future ntg is gonna change & if theatres start closing and start selling the property it will create a domino effect because Bengaluru Single screen theatres are located in the most valuable piece of land ( prime real estate) in the whole country so yeah . Coming to multiplex telugu movies have captured it completely rightly so because they are doing well , hindi movies will always be pushed in national multiplex, malayalam too has been doing exceptionally well in Bengaluru. They are utilising the market to the fullest. Kannada films in the midst of this fails to get the right showcasing even if they do they don't get the reception

The future of the industry looks grim & as per the report the overall collection of kannada movies this year is less than marathi & bengali movies . Atleast in the neighbouring states there is enough star power to bring people to theatre & for malyalam if the content is good people will throng to the theatres in large numbers. Neither of this can be said abt our industry sadly .

Ps :- sufromso was a miracle even the makers cannot recreate that sort of reception for any movie .

Kabza is widely known as a flop venture or wrongly misinterpreted as a disaster commercially but the intriguing thing is that it's a profitable venture for R chandru . The box office collection was around 35 cr but the digital rights was bought by prime video for a whopping 78 cr for all languages . Even the other rights went for a good price . It was a disaster for prime video which made them blacklist kannada movies and they decided to never invest such amounts on kannada movies . So all the movies from there on pretty much all small & medium budget movies were only offered pay per view and movies that were purchased had to be commercially successful at the box office.

So yes kabzaa did dismantle the ott Market for kannada which the industry has not been able to recover . Amazon was keen on building the kannada content library but one ambitious, desperate, hasty& dumb move fucked the whole industry