Because Bollywood films imitate an unfashionable genre (the romantic melodrama) while Hong Kong movies imitate and apotheosize the American action film.
The revolution was over and all Brazil went to work to apotheosize Alberto Santos-Dumont, the air hero, in good South American style.
Grave, deliberate, costly, he has gone on utilizing the genius with which few who deify him as a thinker, apotheosize him as a tragedian, credit him the genius for being funny.