Actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui who doesn't mince any words while sharing his opinions, has blasted Bollywood for its formulaic content and copying content from South films. Nawazuddin, who was last seen in the Zee5 film Costao, also slammed the culture of sequels by calling it "pathetic".
In a recent conversation with Puja Talwar on her YouTube channel, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, while talking about formulaic films in Bollywood, said, "In our industry, the same thing is repeated for five years straight - then, when people get bored, they finally let it go. Actually insecurity bohut badh gayi hai. Unko lagta hai ek formula chal raha hai toh usse chala lo, ghiso isko. Aur usse bhi pathetic yeh hogaya ki yeh 2, 3, 4 (sequels) hone lag gaya. (Actually, insecurity has increased a lot. They feel that if a formula is working, they should keep milking it, overdo it. And what's even more pathetic is that now there are 2, 3, 4 sequels being made)."
To point out the lack of creativity in the industry, he coined the term, "creativeruptcy" and said, "Kahin na kahin jaise bankruptcy hoti hai, vaise yeh creativeruptcy hogaya. Kangaliyat hai bohut zayada. Shuru se humari industry chor rahi hai. Humne gaane chori kiye, story chori ki (It's creative bankruptcy, just like financial bankruptcy. There's a lot of creative poverty. From the beginning, our industry has been stealing. We've stolen songs, we've stolen stories)".
Siddiqui also said that the trend of "copying" has been there for decades.
Nawazuddin also went on to say that filmmakers, who wanted to make out-of-the-box films, were forced to leave.
"What can you expect from an industry like this? What kind of actors will come in? They'll be of the same kind. And then actors and directors start quitting - like Anurag Kashyap, who was bringing in good work," he said.
Anurag had earlier described Bollywood as "toxic." He officially left Mumbai, after being frustrated with the industry's growing obsession with box office numbers rather than creative storytelling.
