In such movies the story rules the minds of the audience, not the actors or the budget of it. They are known as classes, and movie that cater to this class of people are usually rich in content and have meticulous performances by the actors, who would get into the character and act rather than adorn the movie by their presence. There is a section of audience who would still savor the bouts of realistic situations and characters in a movie. The special effects adds to their world of fantasies, when a hero would grip the villain and throw him miles away by those gyrating phenomenon of physics. The psyche to find the unusual through a movie has made them to yearn for more superficial situations and happenings. The exaggeration of situations and all unrelated events being happening under one roof creates a fairytale for the audience, who would usually want to get lost in some other world when they enter the theatre and just want to get lost in a wonderland where there is no encounter with reality. The mass appeal lies in a hero who would have a larger than life image, his struggles and his journey to overcome these challenges along with his lady love who is supposed to be an ideal woman of the lot, and if not she will become one eventually garnished with some good songs and dances creates a formula that would hardly fail. The thump rule for making a block buster is not yet established, but filmmakers usually target the masses when they make a film. They have their own reasons to watch a movie and it may vary from person to person and also from geography to geography.

The reason which makes a film a blockbuster used to be a crisp storyline in olden times, however in today’s times this is not the only reason why viewers would flock for a movie in the theatre.

They try to pick one of those factors and continue to appreciate the movie even if the story don’t appeal them.

Now-a-days movies do not cater to the needs and tastes of the audiences, as a result of which they harbor their expectations on the other factors that contribute in the making of the film. The apprehensions are numerous about whether to go for it or not to go for it. When a Bollywood flick releases the most heard statements around us would be “What is the star cast?”, “Who is the director?”, “What is the production house?”, “How is the music?”, “How are the special effects?” and many more such questions just flow in and out the minds of the audiences who try to gauge a movie even before its release.

Vitthala shapath