Siddhant Chaturvedi Urges Bollywood to Embrace Heartland Voices, Authentic Stories

• Siddhant Chaturvedi highlights Bollywood's need for writers from smaller towns to tell authentic Indian stories.
• He notes that storytelling talent from tier-2 and tier-3 cities often goes unnoticed due to geographical and structural barriers.
• Siddhant emphasizes that the industry is concentrated in Mumbai (Juhu, Bandra, Andheri), limiting access for outside talent.
• He points out a disconnect between mainstream Hindi cinema and audiences, partly due to language and cultural shifts.
• Siddhant Chaturvedi will next be seen in Bhansali Productions’ Do Deewane Seher Mein and the V. Shantaram Biopic.

Why It Matters: Bollywood must seek out and empower writers from India's heartland to create more authentic and relatable narratives.