{"id":537537,"date":"2026-03-13T10:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T10:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/537537\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T10:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T10:05:08","slug":"comedy-directors-are-treated-like-jokers-in-the-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/537537\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedy directors are treated like \u2018jokers\u2019 in the industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/43183_9138491_pri_updates.jpg\" alt=\"Priyadarshan: Comedy directors are treated like \u2018jokers\u2019 in the industry\" id=\"482327\" class=\"uploaded-jshare-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"686\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Priyadarshan: Comedy directors are treated like \u2018jokers\u2019 in the industry\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The filmmaker Priyadarshan has gained famous recognition because his comedies such as Hera Pheri and Bhool Bhulaiyaa and his other works make people laugh.  <\/p>\n<p>The director told \u00a0in his latest interview that he must create comedy films because he prefers to direct serious movies like Kaalapaani and Kanchivaram. <\/p>\n<p>While speaking of his creative preferences Priyadarshan admits that although comedy has brought him all the popularity no other compared with the thrill that hit in making dramatic and intense pictures. <\/p>\n<p>He revealed he&#8217;s \u201cforced\u201d to make comedy films and said, \u201cI like to shoot serious films. I don\u2019t like to shoot comedy films. I have no option so I am doing it. But when I shoot a serious film, there\u2019s a big issue. When you make comedy films you are never respected as a good director. When you make a serious film there is respect for you in the film fraternity. That is very painful to me. Why is a comedy filmmaker never accepted as a good filmmaker?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>In addition, the director also talked about feeling frowned upon in the industry. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love making films like Kanchivaram and Kaalapaani because there I will be accepted more as a filmmaker in the film fraternity,\u201d he said. \u201cEven internationally this issue exists. They look at you as a joker when you make comedy films. That is why you rarely find comedy films winning an Oscar. This is very sad, but it\u2019s the reality.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Priyadarshan: Comedy directors are treated like \u2018jokers\u2019 in the industry\u00a0 The filmmaker Priyadarshan has gained famous recognition because&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344],"class_list":["post-537537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}