Kannada actor-producer Daali Dhananjaya’s final manufacturing enterprise, Vidyapati, starring Nagabhushana within the lead, launched in theatres on April 10 and opened to pretty respectable critiques. However thereafter, there was completely no push from the movie crew and it appeared virtually as in the event that they’d misplaced curiosity in it. “Folks didn’t flip up in theatres and I used to be, truthfully, a tad upset and felt that there was no level doing something. As soon as audiences determine to not come to theatres, you can not change their minds, so I didn’t attempt something thereafter,” he mentioned.
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The following finest transfer, he figured was to get the movie on to OTT as quickly as potential, within the hope that audiences would watch it not less than then. Dhananjaya launched Vidyapati on Amazon Prime Video first, after which took it to Solar NXT as properly, inside weeks. “The response on OTT was, clearly, higher,” says the actor, including that like others within the trade, he too is baffled by the present hunch in theatrical footfalls and uncertain of a potential resolution.
Dhananjaya: Launched Vidyapati throughout the IPL; individuals weren’t even discussing movies then
Vidyapati is the primary time that Dhananjaya has been unable to attract crowds to theatres. “Whether or not it was Badava Rascal, Head Bush or Tagaru Palya, they labored properly on all platforms. With Vidyapati, I’m not certain if the IPL season was the difficulty, or if we didn’t create sufficient buzz across the movie. I don’t know what went fallacious, however my greatest studying is that IPL was a significant component; individuals weren’t even discussing films,” says the actor, hopeful that the second half of the yr will likely be higher for the Kannada movie trade.
Within the meantime, Dhananjaya is making an attempt to not mull over this present state of affairs and stays steadfast in his dedication to selling new expertise together with his manufacturing home, Daali Productions. He’s acquired not one, however two movies at the moment in post-production, one in every of which, JC College, was introduced, and the opposite, is but to be made public data.
“I’m working with newcomers on each these movies. In case you don’t have new expertise rising within the trade from time to time, ultimately, the trade will die. I’m making an attempt to do my bit for the betterment of the Kannada movie trade; I do know it’s a danger, however I’m doing my finest,” says Dhananjaya, including that he should make calculated modifications to this technique if audiences proceed to shun theatres and fail to encourage new expertise.
The actor, who had his justifiable share of struggles in his preliminary years and, began to present again to the trade as soon as he discovered a agency footing, provides, “I can sit again and luxuriate in my life as an actor. Why do I’ve to return to a section of battle simply because I’m making an attempt to do one thing for the advantage of the trade? I’m not making income, but when I not less than get better my funding, it is going to give me the arrogance to place that into one other movie.”