Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) chairperson Prasoon Joshi has opened up about the string of box-office failures that the Hindi film industry has witnessed in the recent past.

The two-time National Award winner stated that instead of adopting a “victim mindset”, the film business must seek solutions to overcome this downturn. He went on to add that some introspection is needed at this point to ascertain how the situation can be improved, going forward, and that the industry went into a “bubble”.

“There is a need to do some introspection. It (Bollywood) needs to do away with the victim mindset,” he said at Sahitya Aaj Tak 2022 on Saturday.

The year 2022 has not been particularly productive for the Hindi film industry, as it saw many big-budget tickets fail to elicit much response at the box office.

What further marred chances of raking in the moolah were boycott calls that took over social media, targeting films such as Aamir Khan’s Laal Singh Chaddha and Akshay Kumar’s Raksha Bandhan.

When asked about the possible reasons for this slump in box-office collections, Joshi asserted that this was the result of the industry and its creators having lost touch with their roots.

“There was a time when Bollywood films had stories taken from literature and mythology. These tales were connected to their roots. Then, at some point, Bollywood became self-congratulatory and went into a bubble. There are mainly only people from Mumbai here. Many have never seen a farmer in real life. But then, they try to show farmers in films. They are cut off from their roots,” he said.