Podcast: Decoding Today’s Bollywood Action With Sham Kaushal

From War to Saaho, Bollywood has upped its ante when it comes to action.

Films like ‘Baahubali’, ‘War’ and ‘Bajirao Mastani’ have set high standards of action. 

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Prabhas’ big budget action flick, Saaho, hit the theatres on 30 August, and there is no denying that the makers have gone all out to make the action sequences look slick and larger than life. And the trailer of Hrithik Roshan and Tiger Shroff-starrer War, which released few days ago, has taken it to another level altogether. The film seems to have almost every kind of action sequence there is - from an airplane stunt, to tanks, guns, hand-to-hand combat, blasts, bike chase - you name it, War has it!

From directors’ storytelling techniques and increased budgets to hiring Hollywood experts and spending crores on VFX, a lot of elements have contributed to the rise in standards of Bollywood action sequences. 

There is no doubt that action in Bollywood has gone through a sea change in the last few years. From directors’ storytelling techniques and increased budgets to hiring Hollywood experts and spending crores on VFX, a lot of elements have contributed to the rise in standards of Bollywood action sequences. And also because the audience is exposed to some of the best action from around the world today, and expects nothing less from their Bollywood counterparts.

In today’s episode of Reel Deal podcast, veteran action director Sham Kaushal - the man with over 30 years of experience, and films like Gangs of Wasseypur, Bajirao Mastani, Padmaavat and Dangal to his name in recent years - takes us behind the scenes of how action is done in Bollywood today and decodes the reasons why the standards have gone up phenomenally in the last few years.

Tune in to the podcast here.