The fundamental problem with Bollywood is different. For the production and the actors, #LalSinghChaddha is not a flop. They would have received their money by now. Who takes the losses? Distributors. They have already bought the rights - or they are coerced to buy the rights.
Now, the situation is this. If you boycott, its the theatre owners who take losses. If you don't boycott, Bollywood will brazen out by dishing out more nonsense like #LalSinghChaddha. The only solution for this is to ensure the distributors won't accept such movies.
But, is it realistically possible? What is the chance that a distributor or a theatre owner, howmuchsoever big he is, can dare to boycott a big ticket Bollywood movie? Make no mistake, till the time a distributor boycotts, Bollywood will not see any losses.
And it will dish out one nonsensical movie after the other. After all, if Aamir Khan or Karan Johar or someone face zero repercussions for whatever they are producing, why will they stop producing the nonsense? So, what's the solution to this?
As of now, the best we can do is to ensure that we spend our money more responsibly and stop thinking about others till a more viable solution comes up for this problem - production houses should feel the pinch, not just the distributors or the popcorn sellers in theatres.
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