In recent years, Bollywood has once again been overrun by the mass action genre. With the success of Tamil, Telugu, and Kannada films of a similar nature, Hindi cinema returned to making big-budget event films after years of producing comedies and romances.

The outcomes, though, have been inconsistent. According to filmmaker Karan Johar, this is because the current generation of filmmakers in the business lacks the necessary abilities to produce such films.

Karan was asked if Bollywood has a "director crisis" when it comes to large-scale event films in an interview with Suchin Mehrotra on The Streaming Show podcast. This is because the majority of these films are directed by southerners.

Karan responded, "It is a director crisis. You can't think of more than a name or two. There isn't anyone, because that entire generation spent their time watching a different kind of Hindi cinema, nurtured on a different kind of cinema. Globalisation, the Shah Rukh Khan phenomenon, stories shot outside the country, they love all that, but haven't been able to do that front-footed testosterone cinema. They have never known it. Now, they can't learn it. So, they emulate it and fall flat on their face."