This year, India has seen a lot of action in the cinema. From Article 370 and Fighter to Kill to GOAT and Vettaiyan; most of the films produced this year had been action and violence dominated. On the top of it, makers are now taking the liberty of showing bloody and gruesome scenes in the film which they couldn’t do earlier. Scenes like decapitating heads and burning alive have become quite common.
Although we have seen certain films of non-action and clean genre gaining popularity as well. But the numbers are very few. Even Stree 2, the highest grossing comedy of all time in India, contains some scenes that can be called violent.
Two months are now left for the year to end. In these months as well, we can see most films that are released to be violent and packed with action. Amaran, Singham Again, Kanguva, Pushpa 2 etc. all the big films about to be released belong to the action genre.
Although, with the recent releases, we can see that the dominance of the action films has lowered a bit in the year, considering the collections of films like GOAT and Vattaiyan, which earned way less than what was expected from them. But still, most of the films (especially big films) continue to be of the action genre.
Though the dominance of the genre has lowered in the box office, still films of other genres are not able to thrive as well. Comedies and Dramas are not able to garner much attention. So, the audience is not that interested in the action genre, but they are not watching the films of other genres as well.
This becomes a reassurance for the makers that although the interest has lessened, still action films will prove to be more profitable than other films. Hence we see the dominance of the genre in the year’s summit as well.