Multilingual Films News Today

The theatrical success of southern films is leading to their greater acquisition on OTT platforms and a rise in dubbed versions and multilingual films. Like the past, it may also lead to an adoption of the ‘hit’ formula—big budgets, grand scale

URL copied Posters of KGF Chapter 2, Haathi Mere Saathi and RRR Top superstars of regional cinema have a new formula to reach out to a pan-Indian audience. While earlier, films would be made in one language and then dubbed in other languages including Hindi, big names of regional cinema -- particularly the South -- are going for escalated production cost and shooting in multiple languages, sometimes even different co-actors to make in different markets. In many cases, if a film is not...