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Film accumulation successful Bollywood has gone down by 50%, and existent filmmakers are confused astir their prospective audience, according to histrion Huma Qureshi. “It’s not an alarming sign, but I consciousness for upcoming actors who conflict for opportunities,” said Ms. Qureshi, who was speaking astatine The Hindu Huddle 2026 connected Friday (May 5, 2026).
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She shared her observations connected existent trends successful Bollywood, on with chap histrion Kritika Kamra, during a league titled ‘New Avatar for the Silver Screen: The Global Reach of OTT’, which was moderated by writer and speech amusement big Rohit Khilnani.
In pictures: The Hindu Huddle 2026 | Day 1
Day 1 of The Hindu Huddle successful Bengaluru, inaugurated by Karnataka CM D.K. Shivakumar (R). Dr. Narayan Lakshman, The Hindu’s Opinion exertion and the curator of The Huddle (L) is seen astatine the event.
The Hindu Huddle 2026 opens successful Bengaluru, June 5, 2026.
The Hindu Huddle brought nether a azygous roof, the astir impactful experts successful the clip of shifting planetary priorities and polarities connected June 5, 2026.
The sixth variation of the ideas conclave of The Hindu Group, was held successful Bengaluru connected June 5 and 6.
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Actors Huma Qureshi and Kritika Kamra successful speech with Rohit Khilnani, writer and speech amusement host.
A mentalist named Naman Anand performed astatine the conclave.
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“Earlier, large stories were backed by OTT. It was a fantastic play of storytelling. Today, we are confused astir whom we are catering our films to,” said Ms. Qureshi said, who is acceptable to prima successful the highly anticipated movie Toxic.
Ms. Kamra echoed her thoughts. “Some unthinkable enactment was being done astatine the opening of the OTT era. We took immoderate large leaps successful the OTT space. Now, we are making movies for numbers. Visibility is being prioritised due to the fact that it makes money. It is simply a scary concern to beryllium in,” she expressed.
Stories that interruption taste barriers
Ms. Kamra was praised for her show successful The Great Shamsuddin Family, a JioHotstar movie revolving astir a modern Muslim household grappling with generational gaps and societal tensions. “It took 8 years for the movie to spot the airy of day. It’s a tiny film, but I americium gladsome to spot the emotion it has gotten from women each implicit the world. The reception to the movie has fixed maine the assurance to bash an indie movie. We indispensable person much small, mid-budget movies. They person disappeared,” she said.
Ms. Qureshi said her deed bid Maharani changed however radical successful the manufacture look astatine her arsenic a performer. She is keen connected featuring successful stories that “break taste barriers”, she said. “I would emotion to beryllium portion of thing connected the lines of Adolescence and Squid Game,” she added.
Influencers: aspiring actors?
Is becoming an influencer the caller mode to interruption into acting? Ms. Kamra does not deliberation so. She opined that youngsters indispensable beryllium a portion of the filmmaking process to turn arsenic performers. “They indispensable be auditions and effort to assistance directors. It’s a amended attack than gathering a societal media illustration and going viral,” she said.
The actors besides offered their perspectives connected the blistery taxable of wage parity. “Apart from adjacent pay, we indispensable besides speech astir pistillate actors getting much screentime and unsocial characters. As for pay, I privation we scope a concern wherever we are successful a presumption to request a stock of the film’s profit,“ Ms. Kamra said. Ms. Qureshi added: “Films are made for the antheral gaze. Women are conscionable accessories. This mindset is deep-rooted.”
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