MUMBAI: The current year will see a wide variety of political films releasing around the next few months owing to the upcoming polls, The Indian Express reports.

This week will see the clash of two films with political backdrop which includes “Youngistaan” and “O Teri”. While “Youngistaan” talks about a young prime minister coming to power, “O Teri” focuses on the recent CWG scam and soon joining the league will be “Bhoothnath Returns” where a ghost contests elections against an evil and greedy politician. Many may shrug this off as a mere a co-incidence but after talking to the filmmakers and a prominent trade analyst for understanding these films, their relevance to elections and politics and change in the approach toward the subject.

Though this year will see a splurge of political films, this trend of political cinema has not emerged as a contemporary phenomena but it has been a part of this industry since always. Trade analyst Taran Adarsh says, “If you notice there has been this trend since old days with films like “Aandhi” (Suchitra Sen-Sanjeev Kumar). Prakash Jha too has made a couple of films like “Raajneeti” and “Satyagraha.”

While there is no denying that politics has been explored well in Bollywood, what leaves all of us a little surprised is the fact that some commercial filmmakers like Atul Agnihotri have switched to films with a social message.