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I think Salaar wasted such a great date for nothing. As Salaar was announced, Jawan picked up Sep 7 or else Sep 28 is the perfect date with 4 day weekend and Oct 2nd Monday and 2nd week has Dussera holiday.
Jawan box office collections: Shah Rukh Khan starrer surf past USD 38M Overseas, Nears 1000 crores Worldwide
The Worldwide box office collections of the Shah Rukh Khan powered Jawan has clocked Rs. 940 crores, with a phenomenal Rs. 622 crores coming from India.
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Shah Rukh Khan in Jawan (image courtesy of Red Chillies Entertainment)
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Jawan added USD 10 million to its international total in its second week, which has now reached USD 38.25 million. The film managed to outscore Pathaan in the second week, which had collected USD 9.35 million during the same time frame. Jawan still trails Pathaan after two two-week run but is closing the gap, which is down to USD 3.75 million as compared to nearly USD 5 million after the first extended weekend. Jawan shall cross the USD 45 million mark comfortably, with potential resting place of around USD 46-47 million.
The Worldwide box office collections of the Shah Rukh Khan powered film has clocked Rs. 943 crores, with a phenomenal Rs. 625 crores coming from India. Jawan will be joining the illustrious Rs. 1000 crores worldwide club during its Third weekend.
After two weeks, North America has earned USD 13 million, which is the second highest for a Bollywood film after Pathaan USD 17.50 million. Jawan is outscoring Pathaan in dailies and can go on for a final gross of USD 16 million plus. In the Middle East, it is running ahead of Pathaan with USD 12.60 million, with an expected final number of USD 15 million. Jawan is now the most-watched Indian film in Saudi Arabia, though in gross it is a bit short but will be able to hit that during the weekend. It can repeat the same in UAE as well.
Australia is just shy of AUD 4 million, pace being higher than Pathaan. It can go on to beat Pathaan full run record of AUD 4.72 million here. The underperformance relative to Pathaan has come in the United Kingdom (GBP 2.56 million), running 30 per cent short of Pathaan at the same time, though the gap has narrowed down in dailies. Elsewhere, Pathaan is the highest-grossing Bollywood film in Bangladesh (multifold of Pathaan) and Sri Lanka. The former is on a phenomenal run and can enter the top markets for the film at the end of its run. Other markets where Jawan has crossed Pathaan final number are Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong.
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The territorial breakdown for the overseas box office collection of Jawan is below.
Americas: USD 13,125,000
United States: USD 8,750,000
Canada: USD 4,200,000
Rest of America: USD 175,000
Asia/Oceania: USD 6,650,000
Australia: USD 2,550,000
Malaysia: USD 980,000
Nepal: USD 775,000 Approx
Singapore: USD 700,000
New Zealand: USD 480,000
Sri Lanka: USD 290,000 Approx
Rest of Asia: USD 875,000 Approx (incl. Bangladesh)
Middle East and Africa: USD 13,025,000
UAE: USD 7,400,000
GCC: USD 5,200,000
Africa and Rest of M.E.: USD 425,000
Boi Himesh numbers in pinkvilla but producer numbers it hasn’t. Reason is boi and Himesh have the 512 numbers of pathaan and lower for gadar. Producers did lot of cooking last 3 weeks but they still need to find 2.5crs to cook. Not sure how they will manage this as movie is not running in many theatres.gadar 2 is biggest hit this year vis-a-vis budget but once they realised jawan will anyways beat them they should have stopped inventing numbers after week4.
I agree with Marcus on one thing he said that maybe in current scenario it is easy to get 500crs. Hence dunki need to go past 600 or 700cr yo establish a clear gap with rest and set a real benchmark
500 crs could be the new 300 crs and this was discussed during Pathaan as well. We need more data to confirm this. If Dunki cross 600 and 650 crs, we can call that but as of now, only couple of movies have done. Jawan was expected after Pathaan and only Gadar2 has been surprise. Regardless, I see Tiger 3 doing 500 crs as well snd I can’t fathom the whole Tiger franchise and fans of Pathaan and Jawan will skip Tiger 3. It is sureshot 500 crs.
WC and pre-Diwali will create issues. Also they cant possibly sell it with too much of SRK or else Tiger vs Pathaan loses its relevance. In any case WC is a big hindrance even if it was Tiger vs Pathaan that was releasing. Salman will get all the same areas excited which had Gadar 2 excited but WB, Assam, South and even Mumbai is not his forte
Jawan has done 170cr gross in just South and will cross 200cr Gross and this Gross hardly 10 original South movie would have done in their lifetime. These number are impossible for Salman in South and same goes for WB, Assam and Mumbai. Mumbai atleast will come onboard if movie is good but South needs to see lot of SRK in the trailor of Tiger.
Tiger vs Pathaan can do best of both worlds. Where SRK lacks in UP Bihar Salman makes up and where Salman lacks south SRK makes up
Gadar is real BO, real numbers . Pathan and Jawan are all corporate bookings, Fan clubs mass bookings of 2,000 rupees a seat tickets etc. etc.
Ganda hai par Dhanda hai….
“I’m not in the position of replacing anybody. These are things that we discussed over the years, I wanted to take a certain direction with the story, somehow we just couldn’t find common ground. We just parted mutually knowing that it’s probably for the best. So that’s where it is,”
“I’m really excited Ranveer’s on board. He’s so charged and so ready to go. It’s a big film, just purely from the point of view of an actor, it’s a big thing to do, and we’re really excited to have him on board. His energy is energizing us, so to speak,”
Wah SRKbhai, real collection from all of the planet Earth, not collection from Mars and Jupitar 😉
Shah Rukh Khan is poised to become the 1ST INDIAN 🇮🇳 MEGA STAR OF ALL TIME to breach pass the ₹2000crs mark GLOBALLY in one year !!! #Pathaan#Jawan… with #Dunki yet to come ! 💥❤️🔥💥❤️🔥💥❤️🔥💥❤️🔥💥❤️🔥💥❤️🔥💥❤️🔥💥❤️🔥💥❤️🔥💥❤️🔥💥❤️🔥💥❤️🔥💥❤️🔥💥❤️🔥💥❤️🔥💥❤️🔥💥❤️🔥💥❤️🔥💥#ShahRukhKhan#SRK@iamsrkpic.twitter.com/MSS9vfvlMU
Yes, this double work now. I don’t see to enter login info. I enter comment and click reply and then I see 3 options and then selected wither wordpress/facebook/email login and then enter details. Multiple steps needed for single comment.
It seems they are forcing users to create WP or gravatar accounts. Hopefully it is a testing phase. I checked settings and it is same; that is to comment, email and name are required.
How far is Gadar 2 from becoming the biggest Hindi blockbuster?
– Just Rs. 2 crore! PATHAAN, the biggest so far, had netted Rs. 524 crore (Hindi version only). GADAR 2 closed its 6th week (which got over on 21st September) at Rs. 522 crore. Interestingly, even as GADAR 2 is inching its way to becoming the biggest Hindi blockbuster, Shah Rukh Khan’s JAWAN is also all set to overtake PATHAAN… and also GADAR 2. That means, GADAR 2 will enjoy the status of being the biggest Hindi film for a few days, after which it will have to make way for JAWAN to occupy the top position. Interestingly, it took six years for the record of BAHUBALI 2: THE CONCLUSION (Hindi dubbed) to be broken (by PATHAAN). It took six months for the record of PATHAAN to be broken (by GADAR 2). And it will take a couple of weeks for the record of GADAR 2 to be broken (by JAWAN (Hindi)).
Yes, Jaideep puts in a stellar performance but the movie is another pedestrian effort from Sujoy Ghosh.
Another underwhelming film i watched recently is A Haunting In Venice. Blah!
This blog has seriously gone to the dogs where below par films like Jaane Jaan and Haunting in Venice are claimed to be good films.
But then what else can be expected from this blog where 500 cr grossers are now worshipped 24*7 as if they are today’s Sholays. A little bit of perspective should give these fanatics some sense that yesterday’s 300 cr grossers are today’s 500 cr grossers inflation adjusted with similar 3 cr footfalls. Nothing earth shaking is happening with these films to justify this unhealthy obsession with these regular numbers. Laughing stock this blog has become. Shame!
Sujoy’s 3rd in line after Kahaani and Badla. Haunting in Venice is quite decent as well, at least a genuine effort at novelty after the underwhelming first 2 films. Cannot expect every films to be an Oppenheimer.
Disagreed on Hindi cinematic expectations and also Jaane Jaan is a lot more gripping than a lot of the overrated Malayali thrillers coming in week in & week out and being praised to the hilts by the usual suspects, a certain ideology that’d praise everything about this useless communist wasteland without an iota of idea of ground reality.
Depends on what one’s expectations from a film are. The film has flaws but it has good production values and detailing and the maker managed to extract good performances from the cast. Ahlawat was too good. The film is certainly in the ‘watchable’ category.
One cannot expect a perfect film coming from a hindi film industry anyway. We have to make peace with anything decent that comes our way.
Even if i go with the normalization of a 500cr to a 300cr, we need to remember that There were only 6 or 7 Hindi movies which did 300crs. Its not that there were 100s and Pathaan and jawan are 101st and 102nd. So even in that sense it is a fantastic achievements. And Pathaan and Jawaan are also ATG’s and not all the 300crs in the list were that. And if Dangal was celebrated then why cant Pathaan or Jawaan be celebrated even assuming they are 300crs grossers.
Jawaan was also an original movie and an exceptionally risky venture taken when Pushpas and KGFs werent a norm and had one face on which the whole movie was sold. It deserves every recognition that comes its way way more than Pathaan (if i were to assume the preposterous theory that people actually came at 6am to see Pathaan to see Salman and not SRK).
Grossing 60 to 70 crs (final total) in Tamil and Telugu at 63Rs and 190Rs ticket points to roughly around 30 to 40 L non Hindi folks seeing the movie there.
And i will be also keenly watching which Hindi (forget original movie even a sequel is ok) movie opens at 65crs on a non working day too.
There is way way more to appreciate in Pathaan and Jawaan (and Gadar) then scoff at them by assuming that there are going to be further 100s of movie doing the same when only 6 movies did 300crs in first place.
Bollywood had given up on Baahubali 2’s 512 total long back. After covid movies were scoring 50-60 crs and even few crossed 100 crs and only couple crossed 200 crs. Then Pathaan comes and SRK out after a break and he hasn’t given even 250 crs ends up giving twice that expectation and while doing that also ends up beating the untouchable Bahubali 2 record looks like normal and nothing to be celebrated about. Lol. Kept hearing about much interior movies collections for years but folks have problem with celebrations of Pathaan’s 500 crs and Jawan’s 550 crs. Matlab kuch bhi!! Clear jealousy and nothing else.
Regarding Tiger 3, multiple times the credit was being given to Salman Khan when he wasn’t even officially confirmed and he has been doing cames all along(even SRK’s last movie Zero had him and also for full song). Now, SRK is such peak and every audience who has seen Pathaan knows he’s coming in Tiger 3 but hey…let’s give 0 credit to SRK now. Srk fans will throng the cinemas and they even did for Brahmastra as he was coming after years in guest appearance. When it’s SRK’s turn, all logic takes a hike. Kuch bhi!!
Wait, are we still In 2016 when Bahubali 2 had not released yet? How about RRR or KGF2 all India. These films never released? Suddenly you have films that been releared in the very territories where Hindi films are being played and these films collections are then discarded as they placed the bar too high for others. I guess that by that logic FIFA should have awarded Ballon d’Or or best football player to a specific category that is called best player outside Messi and Ronaldo for 2 decades!
What’s next now? Highest grossing film in Jhoomri Talaiyya??
This is just a PR process by people hell bent on trying to prove they are the biggest by omitting others and through specific criteria that only suit their agenda. I can still buy the highest hindi net category if one wants to discard Bahubali 3 ectc. But no serious person can take the highest all languages and deliberately omit other higher grossing films. It means Jawaan’s Tamil collections count, but Bahubali or RRR’s don’t? It is ridiculous.
Given my opinion here. I don’t even think it is worth a debate. For that I will leave it to those who buy into this stuff.
I guess it’ll be #5 or #6 in all time worldwide grossers after Dangal, Bahubali 2, RRR and KGF2. Among Hindi Gross numbers it’ll perhaps finally overtake Bahubali 2 (something which Pathan and Gadar 2 did not, I mean “Gross”).
It’s such a silly rant without understanding the context that Bollywood trade will worry about their movies and which release in their areas. They wouldn’t track or bother about 25 other Industries and their movies. If Bollywood site is saying, it’s for Bollywood movie(Hindi and it’s variations) released in India. So, you all trade to track all languages movie all over? That’s like 50 times the work and doesn’t make any difference to Hindi movie industry. Hindi Nett and whatever it does in dubbed languages which goes to same producer and movie is clear enough.
Oh now there’s a narrative to reduce the 500 crs to just another 300 crs grosser. Let me give some background. Movies were unable to gross over 200 crs which was done by 3 Idiots which is an outlier like Baahubali 2 in Hindi. It took few years and some correct films to cross 200 crs again in 2013. First one was Chennai Express and then Dhoom 3 went past it easily in same year.
Then comes 2014, now 200 crs become normal for a huge hit and Salman’s Kick does over 200 crs then comes another outlier in PK which outgrosses Dhoom 3 by a distance and goes beyond 300 crs. Now, the rest of the movies by Salman, SRK are still doing 200s and then Salman Khan has an outlier in 2015 with Bajrangi Bhaijan as it went past 300 crs but falls short of PK. Then Salman had another almost 300 crs in Sultan in 2016 and by the end of 2016, we had another new milestone in Dangal which went past 350 crs.
Now, after this 300 crs became usual for huge hits like Padmaavat, War, Sanju, etc and a few falling short of 300 like Tanhaji, Kabir Singh, etc.
Now the high points were always celebrated from Chennai Express, Dhoom 3, PK, Bajrangi Bhaijan, and Dangal. There is always excitement whenever there is a huge grosser that beats the previous records. So, likewise, I see no difference when Pathaan, Gadar2, or Jawan break the 500 crs barrier but it has not become normal and this is still the early phase of 2014-2015 of PK, Bajrangi Bhaijan, and not the 2019 stage of War getting 300 crs.
So, to undermine the highpoint box office citing Inflation is logic only jealous folks do and no one else. Many are aware of this logic and have no find in understanding this and still have no issues in celebrating 500 for Pathaan crs and now 550 crs for Jawan. Every milestone needs to be recognized and celebrated. Citing Inflation means nothing..if so none of the hits will be bigger than Mughal E Azams and Sholays and we stop tracking boxoffice decades back.
The only difference being that PK, Bajrangi and Dangal came over a span of 2 years and hence there was a novelty factor associated with their ATBB status. Here you’ve literally had 3 ATBBs in a span of 9 months and if Tiger 3 and Dunki cross 500 Crs as well, the entire essence of the term ATBB is gonna be lost with 5 in a single calendar year. So all those in the trade and here jumping at the prospect of Pathan’s record of 500+ and claiming it’ll stand for at least 2 years would now need to retrospect and change the classification of all these films to Super BBs and daresay if Tiger 3 and Dunki go the same way, they’d all be Blockbusters eventually (at least Brahmastra can deservedly be downgraded to Average that way!). Reminds me of 2006 when in January RDB crossed 2005s biggest grosser No Entry and the whole trade jumped at its Super Duper Hit status. By the time we had Krish, LRM and Dhoom 2, all that was left of it was a regular urban multiplex Hit.
Underestimation of Salman by SRK fanboys seems to be the norm now. Tiger is the OG of spyverse and its first film came at a time when spy action films were hardly a thing in India. Salman delivered 600 Cr via just 4 films in 2011-12 at a time when 100 Cr was a blockbuster norm. Even at his lowest ebb a Tubelight performed far better than Zero & JHMS. If Pathan belongs to Srk, Tiger solely belongs to Salman Khan especially since its a decade old franchise. In no way would Tiger 3 ever be a 2 hero film on the lines of Tiger vs Pathan or even a War. As for Fighter, 500 Cr is far fetched. Its neither a franchise nor a universe and HR does not enjoy as much of a fanatical patronizing from a certain fanbase the way these 2 Khans do.
Jawan and Pathan are blockbusters. But one film shall come that will push the box office to another level. Its just a matter of time that will make us realise the actual potential was missing.
Certainly one can’t expect every film to be a Bahubali or Dangal. But a Dangal-level accepted film should do at least 650 crores in today’s time
Dangal footfalls 3.8 and Pathan almost 3.5 crore included dub and 3.2 for hindi version according Bollywood Hunggama. So these number are not big defference if we take all india performances. The question can Dangal gather the same footfalls 3.7 crore given today ticket prices. No question Dangal more liked and far more critical film than both SRK film. By the way Jawan might challenge Dangal footfalls number if dubbed version were to be included at the end of its run.
The whole gist of such comments is to prove single point that “SRK stardom is nothing special”. Like all movies are doing or can do this 500 crs. Srk is barely matching some 300 crs of hits of last decade or anything. All that debates mean nothing when one knows the point they keep trying to make that SRK big hits are just pure luck or high price tickets or corporate bookings or some superstars 10 mins cameo. Srk movies become hit for everything else besides SRK and his stardom for folks on this blog! Once you understand that, there’s nothing to debate here.
Jawaan Tamil Telugu footfalls at 65cr and 130 to 150 ATP will come to 40 to 50Lacs. Imagine that many non Hindi speaking people watching the movie. Thats massive!!!. Fighter will beat it big time due to NTR but this movie has no big lead hero and for Telugu industry not even as popular cast as Tamil
Pathan footfalls are 3 Cr as per BOI and they are the only site tracking FFs for Hindi films (right or wrong upto debate). Jawan might at best hit 3.2 Cr in Hindi which is the same as Sultan. And these are hard facts, not some anti Srk rants as some fools out here continue cribbing 24*7. Its a known fact that he’s a huge megastar & easily the biggest of his gen alongside Salman, only a dunce would deny this.
Jailer has 3 brilliant sequences of 10-15 min each. Apart from this 45 min of brilliance rest is pakaaoo.
But first hats off to Rajni sir. What a performer!!
Now back to review – Those 45 min of extraordinary brilliance are
1. Young #Rajinikanth in Jailer scene- Aag laga diya Rajini sir ne. Out of the world cinematic experience with terrific BGM by @anirudhofficial
2. Home attack with family at dining table – This is genius sequence by the script writer and Director #Nelson. The entire action scene gives you goosebumps. Amazingly shot with terrific BGM.
3. Effective use of cameos by #JackyShroff, #Shivarajkumar
And #Mohanlal. This lifts the experience of watching an action film.
Vinayakan is extraordinary as villain. He is set to corner all awards.
The entire Blast Mohan track is a failure and brings a halt to what would have been a superb film. The agonising 30 min of climax focussed on the stupidity of characters is a complete let down.
At least, overseas there’s no competition and silly debates!!
#Jawan crosses $40M overseas. 🔥 Till date, only Three Indian Films have been able to cross the $40M mark in its Phase 1 Run. #ShahRukhKhan creates HISTORY as he becomes the only Indian Actor to score Two $40M+ Grossers Overseas.
2nd Bollywood movie after Pathaan. RRR was 14.5 million. They did 2 re-releases later during Oscar’s. RRR also did 2 million with preview release with ticket prices over $50 and even first weekend tickets were $30-35. RRR collected 9 million in first weekend and final 14.5 million. Jawan has 7 crs first weekend and 14-15 crs final run with 1/3 ticket prices. No comparison at all. Even Pathaan had more ticket sales than Baahubali 2.
I don’t attest to 500Cr is the new 300Cr hypothesis (yet).
1) footfalls have been coming down for decades for Bollywood. I don’t know if we can believe these numbers period. But if you take peak 70s and compare to peak 90s I am sure you will you see a % drop. If you then compare that to 2010s again you’ll see this drop.
2) the achievement is stellar. This is sounding a bit like a star rant rather than looking at the data. In 2023 3 films have cracked 500Cr and 1 more should follow (Dunki) and Tiger 3 has a chance. Never did Bollywood have 4 or 5 300Cr’s in one year.
3) lots of combinations of factors. But most are pointing towards SRK’s return. Immaculately engineered set of releases really.
4) in a free world nobody is stopping any other star from doing these movies so till somebody else backs it up it makes no sense to reduce the achievements here.
5) the (yet) comment is basically because of what shivaay mentioned on 2006. If people recall that year some sites had as many as 5 opening week records – RDB, Fanaa, KANK, Krrish & Dhoom 2. There was a steep growth in overall net grosses but IMO it was in the main a price thing. Because I doubt any of those films were iconic tentpoles like Gadar either. So we should remain open to this type of factor even today. You’ll only know if you have patience for 5 years to reassess 2023.
Separately NOBODY here who is trivialising 2023 would have predicted Pathaan in first place. The same people though deserve brownie points for suggestion of more films hitting the benchmark (which happened).
Can you not all be right? I.e. there is a chance that 500Cr is the new norm but thus far 2 out of 3 is SRK’s. The third is Gadar 2, a huge brand. Will Sunny Deol have another 500Cr realistically that has no Gadar or Border brand? I doubt that.
So for now realistically it’s SRK who’s doing it. Let Tiger 3 & Fighter release and then see.
6) though I think Dunki itself ‘might’ correct the debate. We shall see because Dunki might push the bar higher and make all else look smaller like Dhoom 2 vs LRM/Krrish/Kank/Fanaa/RDB.
7) Records are there to be broken. It’s a free playing field where every star has the chance to break the records. It’s definitely SRK’s year by a distance already. Let’s not forget the overseas performance either…outstanding there.
If somebody said SRK’s going to have a great comeback in 2023 – they told me he’s got these 3 films Pathaan, Jawan and Dunki. They told me the basics of producer, cast & director etc. They asked me to predict which of the 3 would be the biggest grosser and put my life on it. I 💯 would bet on Dunki. The truest strength of the market capacity is only tested with a WoM monster. We’ll know by January 24 IMO.
8) just give credit where credit is due IMO. If Akshay or Salman or Hrithik or Aamir give 2 back to back 500Cr’s then you have rights to enter the debate. In fact only a Sunny Deol fan can currently have one foot into this debate. SRK fans have 2 feet. Maybe 1.5 more by end of year because he will have a say in T3 (media will ensure this) and obviously Dunki.
And you really believe Salman or even Aamir have anything left to prove regarding their stardom, after all these years? SRK never had domestic records (barring 2 weeks of RNBDJ) so good for him that he’s finally gotten them which he deserves. As for the other 2, one is the opener of the 100, 200, 250, 300 & 350 Cr clubs while the other has been creating records since his MPK & HAHK days (yeah they’re Bhagyashree & Madhuri solo films as per a few!). Its like some dolt with Zero grey cells claiming AB Sr is unsuccessful based on his post 60 career 👏
None have much to prove. Srk had CE too. For all Salman’s dominance in 2010s he had 0 lifetime records. But they have nothing to prove. Aamir’s opened the 1k to 2k club globally too. And nothing from the last 15 years is bigger than HAHK. But as of now comparing the 3, SRK is ahead right now. Not talking about the career stats just who is dominating today. Now if T3 is 600Cr we can talk again. But right now if T3 manages 400Cr then SRK’s walloped Salman in 2023 no? And the pressure is firmly on Salman.
Aamir’s case we haven’t a clue. He’s off the radar as of now. His best days may well be over.
If they have nothing left to prove then there’s no pressure or competition beyond dumb fan wars on social media. I don’t think anyone intended to wallop anyone’s ass be it the 90s or the 2010s or now.
In this regard, I can speak for myself. I care and think SRK movies but I have no hatred or against any star. I have been on this blog supporting Sultan, Bajrangi Bhaijan, Tiger 2, PK, Dangal etc. Everyone is free to give bigger hits and that wouldn’t change a thing. It only matters when SRK movies are targeted like some folks here citing corporate bookings, fake collections and what not. I have said that Tiger 3 will also do 500 crs but SRK being part is well known and he should get bigger credit than Salman was in Pathaan. Rest all, nothing matters. Gadar2 – totally no issue as Sunny giving in 2001 couldn’t do anything, what’s he gonna achieve now after 65 yrs and reaching near 70 soon.
My take on everything is it’s okay to have different opinion, different likes/dislikes but respect someone elses opinion just like you want yours to be respected.
SRK fans like Master, Krish, myself were putting up Gadar 2 boxoffice number and celebrating it. We don’t come here day and night to put other actors down. We are not here constantly degrading any actor or movies.
Sorry but i will be blunt on this but the problem is:
1) Rocky – he comes here with agenda and hate and 99% of his posts reflects that. It’s there for everyone to see and guage.
2) Marcus – he talks about this blog has gone to “dogs” and doesn’t like when someone posts SRK movie box office number. This is the same guy who used spam the forum all day with posting same news from 20 different source, but he wants to complain when 1 post is made on SRK movie box office. He also has clear agenda of trying to undermine SRK blockbuster movies and ends up looking very foolish when he starts claiming corp booking, fake collection theory.
3) Random (like Rahul, bob cristo) – Who comes out of nowhere during Gadar 2 praising it’s collection as historic but then wants to undermine SRK Jawan when Jawan is doing consistent great business not just in Punjab or North but every territory of India (including South) as well as thru out the world.
I agree with Jay that lets not think 500 is the new 300. We need more data to prove it, and data from Bollywood movies. Let’s not start using South films (which is also very limited like BB2, RRR, KGF2) to give some credit to your argument, use Bollywood films for argument purpose.
Did movies like Vikram, Jailor release in Hindi belt. If they did, curious why it didn’t make any noise.
As far as any actor proving anything, none of the actors from 80/90s or early 2000 have anything left to prove. Not everyone can be a big star or superstar (term used very lightly nowadays). Each one of them did enough at their peak and the fact they’re still around says that they are in business. From that lot you have them delivering pathaan, jawan, sooryavanshi, tanhaji, gadar2, war, dangal, tiger, etc. With plenty big films coming from them, they’re not going anywhere.
And one can’t and shouldn’t disregard what SRK is doing currently at the Indian and overseas box office. We’ll understand the value of this in 5 years from now. Of course it could be otherway around where every big film collects 500 cr but time will tell.
Again, none of the actors from 80/90/00 has anything left to prove. HR would be the newest one from the lot and he’s been here almost 25 years. you don’t stay relevant for 25 years or in case of others (over 30 years) without being good at what you do and public wanting to see your films.
Dharmendra, Jeetendra, Rajendra Kumar, Dev Anand, Rajesh Khanna etc did not survive 30 years (even AB barely did since post 2005 he’s been irrelevant box office wise) does not imply they had lower stardom. Anyone denying the assistance of visual effects, franchises & cgi in prolonging & reigniting careers is living in fool’s paradise. SRK & Salman are easily the biggest of their gen just like Dharam & AB were of theirs and Dilip Kumar/Raj Kapoor of theirs. Comparing regular stars like Akshay & Ajay with Khans is as misplaced as comparing one generation with another.
Rocky Rocky Rocky
Sirf Naam hee kaafi hai Alphabet ko Daraaney key liye.
All his comments if not about hkl are about Rocky.
yeh darrr achcha hai !! LOL
Satyam was against TZH and found it won’t even do 300 crs but I was adamant and just quick search found my comment supporting it. Maybe surprising for folks who claim I’m stupid SRK fan. Similar comments for War as well.
Satyam was against every actor to show somebody on top. Though he showed some respect towards Amir just to stay relevant in fourms. Even this portal was opened to destroy Srk’s career but alas! Srk is going from strength to strength and i’m sure that Satyam must be finding it hard to earn his bread n butter somewhere in a tier C town.
From today and till the next week there will be lot of New benchmark and record for jawan.
Starting with the first with its all india total, with saturday collections, highest ever for bollywood beating pathans 545cr
Tomorrow with sunday numbers crossing 1000cr ww
And in coming days record for hindi in producers numbers and then record with BOI numbers ect….
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3 Idiots was the first 3 crore+ footfalls film after Gadar. In between there were a lot of successes but the mass support was missing. Even the likes of Dhoom 2 had 2.4 crore odd footfalls and big successes like Krrish and LRM didn’t cross 2 crore footfalls. Reason: the masses had backed out and multiplex oriented films were on the rise. But Salman’s resurgence in films catering to SS and Aamir’s content films brought the audience back. In the mass cinema that saw a comeback, we hit the 3 crore mark quite a few times in the past decade.
That’s not true.. its a fudged data on boi.. the archives on boi clearly state 47 Cr nett implying about 2.8 Cr FFs max. Even FI classifies K3G as a Hit & not Super Hit.
Even Ghajini was 2.5 Cr & Dabang was the same. Ticket prices were high, screen count was too low for higher footfalls. Only in mid 2010s post PK & Bajrangi did 3 Cr become commonality like the 90s.
SRK is in Sallu’s phase after Wanted…. That break made people yearn for him. People will watch anything he releases rn.. He can release a ‘Kisi ka bhai kisi ki jaan’ & still be a blockbuster. His fans have changed seats with Salman’s fans now.
Full agree and damn am loving it. The sheer joy of celebrating an actor’s movies, fighting for him with no logical sense at times is amazing. I now envy what a decade salman fans had and i look forward to what more is in store for us srk fans
Jawan and Pathaan share the fastest 100 cr on Day 2 unless we are calculating the timings on Day 2 which it was achieved. I don’t think that’s the case.
As you read this, #Jawan has become the 2nd consecutive #ShahRukhKhan film to hit the Rs 1000 crore mark at worldwide box office. He started the club in January with #Pathaan, and now owns it with #Jawan.
PS: The worldwide gross of #SRK in 2023 is higher than the global gross of all other Hindi films put together in the year. SIMPLY PHENOMENAL & UNDISPUTED display of GLOBAL STARPOWER
It has probably already achieved 1000 by now since most of the shows in India and other part of the world are completed. USA still left so it’s a done deal but will post official poster tomorrow 😉
IMO this is ‘true’ first SPY Universe movie and promoted on 3 previous films – Tiger Zinda Hai, War and Pathaan on the poster itself. Movie will also end by introducing NTR Jr in the climax which Hrithik will take in War 2.
Terrific on-ground job by #YRF for #Tiger3. I see posters plastered at prominent locations of cinema halls across Mumbai. Went to see #TheGreatIndianFamily today and happened to see a group of friends getting clicked against the poster.
Greatest comeback ever in the history of Indian cinema. I’ve mentioned earlier as this is a FACT which no one can deny or repeat ever in cinema again. Giving 3 back to back ATG or 1000 crs films is not a joke when others are far away from even coming close to that number. Tiger 3 is the closest which comes but it’s already part 3 of popular franchise which has added War & Pathaan on it’s poster itself. That’s the biggest sell point ever!
Everyone wrote him off when his films were not performing well from 2015- 2018
He took a break for 4 Years
Came back with a VENGEANCE
Delivered Two 1000 Cr Worldwide Grossers in a Single Year & will end the year with Three 1000 Cr WW grossers.
We have been celebrating 100cr – 200cr – 300cr benchmark by any film even in future we all will do the same…
BUT…. Did you all noticed…. None… I repeat None even uttered a word when Jawan did 100 – 200 – 300, no celebration as such, it was just so normal… pic.twitter.com/aBjnhgRgUl
Jayshah: The biggest flip of discussions around here is if you check the statements before Pathaan and after Pathaan’s release. Before Pathaan, the consensus was that Bollywood movies were grossing low and all the 80 crs grossers pre-pandemic are now doing 30 crs post-pandemic. So, LSC doing 59 crs post pandemic is actually similar or better than Zero doing 89 crs in 2018. Runway 34 is similar to 70-80 crs grossers before pandemic and etc etc. So, in that situation – Pathaan does 500 crs and then you build new narrative flipping 180 degress that ‘this’ 500 is actually 300 crs of pre-pandemic. LMAO. So, the lower number is actually higher but the higher you goes, it’s actually lower? Matlab, my head is spinning.
Yes 💯
The narrative changed to ‘normalise’ 500Cr like it was 2019. It is not. The achievements are astonishing. But at same time a lot of Pathaan was a concoction of unique reasons. A 4 year hiatus. Big production. This all created a unique scenario. But Jawan following this with Gadar 2 too does suggest the troubles Bollywood had in 2022 are gone to some degree.
Making junk vigilante films that celebrate the rogue socialist ideology is a feature of Tamils like Shankar & his sob protégé (T)Atlee funded by their DMK masters like Stalin Jr and co. Braindead films like Jawan, Jailer & Loki universe are a good pre election PR stunt for the INDIANs but since they’re so forgettable, I doubt the INC & its cronies like AAP, SP and TMC would ever get mileage out of them.
We’ll have Donki from a far accomplished film maker talking about the poor condition of “innocent” refugees before that.. be rest assured.. amusing desperation at building up a failed propaganda 🥱
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Jawan doing 1000 crs is not the news but the speed at which it did is the news.
1000 cr club by SRK!
Pathaan : 27 days
Jawan: 18 days
This is truly outstanding to do it with that much gap within same year. By the time Tiger vs Pathaan comes along, I’m expecting 1000 crs in 7-10 days max.
Wed to Sunday each day RCE estimates lower than sacnilk. Infact Sunday number of BOI is also higher than RCE actuals. Opportunity lost by SRK to increase some numbers, Sheesh!!
No it won’t, Big South films now expects expects big returns from Hindi belt so they will not clash with big Hindi film which they know could beat their film.
Not only in hindi belt but hindi audience in overseas would go first for big hindi film, a film with SRK in it.
Both films will collect big but will eat into each other business by a lot.
There’s a saying India.. giving milk to baby snake and when it becomes big, it ends up biting you. So much support from Hindi audience to south films and now they target biggest Hindi films and impact them openly. Shameless.
Clash won’t IMO but it’s a free world. I’m sure SRK’s clashed before and also been ruthless.
If they clash I go with what Z says, Dunki will come out on top.
My stand on this is same as what i had said when news of Pushpa 2 announcing same day release as Singham3.
Hindi audience should boycott it and i’m almost 100% sure that a lot of hindi audience will boycott salaar. Salaar will not get a single SRK fan to go see it in theater.
SRK fans will ensure Dunki has over 50 Cr opening.
Salaar will crush Dunki in overseas with Salaar ticket prices being double to triple of Dunki, but Dunki is NRI friendly movie and SRK has a strong fan following in overseas so Salaar should be little cautious. They will lose Hindi market and Dunki will eat out a lot from Overseas too.
It is a free world and you can’t blame Salaar for coming on this day, especially if there’s no big south release during Christmas.
Salaar is front loaded & Dunki is a runner. I don’t see much issue here. Salaar team though could have come week before or after. SRK’s been here before and nothing to worry about IMO.
There’s a huge South Indian population in Gulf so Salaar will do better if not just as well as Dunki.
Both movies will do well, it’s just that both will eat into each other business.
If Dunki is ready for Christmas, SRK will not back down. He never has.
Main negative for both films will be that if one of them is a bad film, it will tank very fast because audience will have a choice of watching another big film.
Forget Salaar, I saw the Mission Raniganj trailer and I couldn’t stop laughing as Naveen wanted that to clash with Dunki. It’s like a poor rendition of the last 1 hour of Kaala Patthar and even after 35 years, the VFX looks bad compared to the stunts done back then. Had to struggle to complete the trailer.
YES, IT’S TRUE… SRK VS PRABHAS, ‘DUNKI’ VS ‘SALAAR’ THIS CHRISTMAS… The exhibitors have received a mail stating that #Salaar will arrive THIS CHRISTMAS [on 22 Dec 2023]… An official announcement by the producers, #HombaleFilms, will be made on Friday [29 Sept 2023].
Let them clash would be fun, too many action films releasing dunki will be fresh. Srk and hirani movie don’t need to move, salaar will suffer in the Hindi belt
Prabhas was congratulating SRK after Jawan super weekend and SRK responded to him. I think team Salaar found out from SRK that Dunki is moving to next year.
Salaar is not Project K not sure why people are worrying so much. This is not a Pan India movie. Its a regular Telugu movie which will come as a dubbed movie and not a sequel too. No actors in it are Hindi apart from Prabhas who is the only famous face here. It might do well but i dont see it a threat to Dunki as Dunki dont need to release in huge number of theatres like Jawaan. I dont see Salaar like a KGF2 or Adipurush. One had Hindi faces in it along with Prabhas and was universal epic and other was a sequel. I think what Salaar is targetting is the core South market here and the overseas markets which Telugu movies usually target. And overseas there is never a theatre issue anyways. Think of Salaar as a regular South movie which might come in Hindi dub in around 2000 theatres outside South.
The North distributor market has earned a lot from SRKs last movies their loyalties will be very clear specially in multiplexes when it comes to show allotment
South is where Salaar will affect Dunki but then Dunki wont anyways be targeting interiors of South. Salaar Day 1 will be bigger than Dunki naturally as Dunki is not a Jawaan or Pathaan
People cried nonstop when Gadar2 clashed with Akshay guest appearance movie, now this is full fledged Prabas movie with KGF2 director and then action loaded. Dunki will get affected and what you loose in first 10 days, it’s hard to make up in January. Lifetime will be affected.
If indeed there is a clash..there will be South vs Bollywood narrative; Salaar is coming in five languages with KGF director; SRK is coming with two 500+ crore plus with Raju Hirani…
Project K is releasing on Jan 12, so why would you want to have 2 releases in 3 weeks? If Project K is moving, the have Salaar release on Jan 12. Or better make part 2 of Salaar and release same year, Lol.
“If indeed there is a clash..there will be South vs Bollywood narrative”
100%.
I disagree with Krish on that Salaar is just another south film releasing in dubbed version in hindi belt. Prbhaas is a big name and more than that the director is of KFG2 fame. It’s an action movie so it will do well. This is not Radhe-Shyam.
SRK/Team Dunki has nothing to worry about. Yes, it will take away a lot of money from first 10 days and you can’t easily recover that but stick to your guns and come on scheduled day.
Plenty of films have done well releasing on same day. As long as it’s not LSC/Raksha Bandhan type of deal, i’m happy 🙂
I haven’t checked BMS interest but I don’t think to know it’s a huge film with KGF2 director. One huge and another small film is fine but not 2 huge films.
SRK fantasizing fools willing to discredit Salman Khan’s superstardom and even claiming Tiger 3 is now an SRK film are amusingly sweating about some second rung star (in Hindi circuits) like Prabhas challenging a post Pathan/Jawan SRK collaborating with The Raju Hirani.. funny! Dunki vs Salaar (Hindi) is not even a contest. Salaar in Tamil/Telugu/Hindi might collect what Dunki would worldwide in Hindi as long as its at par with Hirani’s first 4 films.
Funnily, no one is actually worried about the clash, the only point is that it’ll unnecessarily damage Dunki in creating true records and you don’t get such actor-director combinations daily, so would have expected solo release and check the true potential of boxoffice in India. If movie is good, it’ll still do well but the potential of success will be damaged if those first 10 days screens are shared. No 60-70 crs single days and all that will eat up lifetime totals. No one’s sweating if Dunki will be success or will flop if Salaar releases but talking about the damage it can do which can hurt record grosser.
Tony, have been noticing it since long that whenever any Srk movie is about to release, you try to create some sense of fear among fans by bringing in different theories. What’s real motive behind all this, you might be knowing better. My conciousness says you are one of the biggest Srk haters by heart but trying to project yourself as a sobber/ reasonable person. Come on man! show your hatred openly as that will be appreciated more instead of acting like this.
There were some news floating around on this last week where Prabhaas and distributors who saw some glimpse were totally not impressed so this could be a reshoot from that feedback.
I agree with Shivaay here. Prabhas is not as big a star in Hindi belt as people think he is and Salaar is not Pushpa 2 or KGF2.
Also The BMS thing for South movies work differently. Skanda is at 200K , Leo is at 300K does anyone here think this means these two movies will do well in North Belt. No? Why? Salaar BMS is also same thing, it is all the Telugu crowd from Hyderabad to Vijaywada clicking to show interest thats how it works for all South movies. The BMS interest is concentrated not like Jawan or Pathaan which is across states
Prabhas was big after Bahubali and Saaho opened big, even that was around 25cr if i remember. Then Radhe Shyam we know what happened to it in Hindi belt. Why couldnt it open if he is so popular? Adipurush was a different kind of movie again. Fan club in South will upp Salaar but North wont care. The North distrubutor also wont. Best of luck finding a good set of theatres. Salaar is lucky that Dunki is atleast clashable. It doesnt need 5000 theatres, Even without a clash it will open aroud 35 to 40crs IMO. I dont think this figure will change even with a clash.
Salaar wont open more than 15 to 20cr in Hindi belt. I will stick my neck on this. And the movie wont be bad as Prashant Neel is a good director too. But the reason he is clashing is it is a free date for Telugu market not because he is targetting Hindi belt. If he planned to target 300cr in Hindi he wont be releasing with Dunki. His target is Telugu market South and overseas. Dunki is a 100cr movie, Salaar is a 250 cr movie, Hence it is very important for Salaar to get a good date in AP/tel and Dec is a very good date for same in whole of South and OS. Hindi belt dont even lose sleep.
I meant to say Dunki wont open 50 to 60 cr anyway it will open 35 to 45cr and that wont change much as it wont need 5000 theatres
Srk has managed bigger and better screens before in clashes with Bhansali, Roshan before and those are bigger production houses. Here they are going against a relatively unknown production house.
Lastly the movie is a Hirani movie. If he has made a decent Hirani movie things will take care of itself
Agree, fine points. I don’t know why they are hell bent on losing Hindi collections. If KGF2 did over 400 crs, Salaar on solo release could have done 300 crs Hindi. Secondly, if Project K is coming on Jan 12, isn’t too close to both films? If not..then why not move Salaar to Jan 12th? Besides all this as Munna said this will be murky clash with all North vs South and dividing and losing the goodwill of south industry. Already they announced Pushpa 2 on Singham 3 date and now Salaar is doing same. You can’t openly hurt or challenge Hindi movie industry, the fans or trade won’t appreciate it.
Lol, okay. As Himesh puts it they didn’t announce officially and sent message to distributors and testing waters. They may not release it actually. Either ways, I’m not worried about SRK in the movie, I feel Dunki’s responsibility lies more on Hirani as compared to Pathaan or Jawan where it was SRK, the star at forefront.
Jawan Becomes The Highest-Grossing Indian Movie In Gulf Countries
“Jawan” has scored $14.10+ million so far in 19 days, crossing “Pathaan’s” $14.10 million lifetime collection.
*****
Many here claimed that Pathaan only succeeded that much coz its named Pathaan and attracted certain demographic. I wonder, how the hell did Jawan beat its lifetime collections in 19 days within same year without much inflation or any festive release. Matlab kuch bhi??
Krish- why did RCE 3rd weekend collections are lower when everyone suggested it’s higher. Even BOI who’s giving lower daily gave 3rd weekend as 32.75 crs and RCE gave as 32.50. Lol. It should be easily 34.50 to 35.
Nothing to worry about the clash. Gadar 2 got to 500cr plus with OMG2 releasing on same day and collecting 150cr plus. There was Jailor in the South and it was a huge grosser there. A week or 2 later Dreamgirl 2 made it to 100cr plus.
Gadar 2 did it with 3500 screens and despite the clashes. if anything is liked, there is nothing to worry about. Both Salaar and Dunk can work. However, one should not under-estimate Salaar in the North. I remember LSC was to release alongside KGF2 and the narrative in this forum was that LSC would thrash KGF everywhere!
It seems that Salaar is being promoted upon the basis of KGF2 and in that case no one can under estimate it in the Hindi belt and Maharashtra.
If both films are good enough, they will work well alongside each other. Gadar 2 has just proven that.
Its wierd actually. Saturday was tracking around 12.5 just Hindi and Sunday 14.25..Sacnilk must be scratching their heads with their model what went wrong when they are tracking 80% cinemas these days. Even BMS ticket drops were indicating higher number both days. No wonder BOI is also higher than RCE which is a rare phenomenon by itself for any movie which doesnt do well in East Punjab.
Great strategy if movie is great, salaar team should think about what they doing going against hirani and srk but let’s see going to be fun I want this clash it makes it exciting lol
It should release on 21st (Thursday) in India too. Jawan released on Thursday too.
I’m super confident that Dunki has nothing to worry about if Salaar releases on same day (I still think salaar makers are just testing the water to see what kind of feedback they get from hindi belt).
Dunki is made by Bollywood biggest director with biggest star, you can’t pretend like you’re a runner up with having two out of three ace in your film.
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Sittaford and Exampton become Solang and Manali in this well-renditioned version of Agatha Christie’s murder story, with some additional character arcs and subplots.
The cinematography does apt justice to the setting of the novel, and the story moves ahead at a brisk pace. Bhardwaj exercises a strong control over the narrative and one can say he is in better form than some of his directorial features lately. I think this man is in the best of form when he’s working on adaptations rather than original stories penned by him. Matru ki bijlee etc was IMO an interesting attempt at a stoner black comedy and satire but that was a major misfire.
IMO the best decision he took was to make this into a series format instead of a film version, which allows the plot to breathe and characters and setting to take shape. The result is a satisfying, if not flawless, attempt. The Teesri Manzil references were golden (one instance where Prem Nath is confused for Prem Chopra) to drive an important point is a writing triumph.
Better than Branagh’s efforts for sure. Looking forward to more Bhardwaj adaptations of Christie’s classics
I have it as part of Hulu. It is not straight forward navigation (there is hub section, and you can access programming there). If you have student in house, then: https://www.hulu.com/student
Saying that on VRA’s face. Woh mera apna hai! good.
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Again saying, it’s good to say Nana back on screen after that stupid Me too fiasco. I was probably only one here supporting openly that Tanushree Datta got it completely wrong and Nana is far from a person abusing women. He’s rough but never an abuser. That’s the worst allegation for any celeb in recent times.
I think there is going to be a film in the very near future that is going to blow every record (Hindi) away and hit the 650-700cr mark. The so-called records of right now, be it Pathan or Gadar 2 or Jawaan are not going to last too long.
With today ticket price those figure is achievable but still you need maybe 4.5cr over footfalls to get there. I think this is the hard part because higher ticket prices will likely reduced number of repeated audiences. 650-700cr for hindi alone you may need more or more 20% watched more than 1 times.
Yep. Gadar 2 is a great example of a movie released on 30%+ less screens (and I assume lower ATP compared to Pathaan/Jawan) but still reaching ballpark range of Pathaan and Jawan.
If you take Gadar 2 + OMG 2 you can find a situation where a film appeals to both demographics and finds a good release date and can push towards 700Cr.
The occupancy for Gadar 2 judging from sacnilk data is more optimised than many wider releases.
“If you take Gadar 2 + OMG 2 you can find a situation where a film appeals to both demographics and finds a good release date and can push towards 700Cr.”
Not sure I agree with this. Because that would be like saying if you take Sholay + Jai Santoshi Maa (both blockbuster in their own rights), and you have a film that caters to both demographic. This means every single film has not reached capacity including sholay.
I think the capacity is about 500 to 550 Cr, max 600 Cr. What will get you over 400 Cr is the repeat audience and number of times they watch it.
Think of Rohit Shetty argument during Sooryavanshi, he was saying if his movie had released on double the screens it would have done 350 Cr. It certainly would have done more than 200 Cr but just cause you release it on more screens doesn’t mean it will double in collection too. Because the movie was doing like 50 to 60% capacity first weekend. you can’t fill the screens you have, what makes you think if you double it up that capacity would remain same?
I think a movie that will really give us good indication on the cap (if it’s 550, 600 or more) will be Dunki or Pushpa (not too sure about Dunki since it’s not an action film).
Tiger3 may actually touch 550 if it clicks with audience and if there’s a longer Pathaan cameo.
No matter how we look at it, 2023 has erased the bad memories of past few years for Bollywood, fun times ahead.
600 Cr capacity is only forgettable popcorn films that have no long term value apart from fanatics & militant fans milking posters before release. A universal entertainer with brand value and anticipation like Bahubali 2 can comfortably surpass 800-900 Cr in Hindi alone. Even urban entertainers with high repeat value 3 Idiots and Dangal are well over 700 Cr by today’s pricing and taxation. Dunki has every chance of that of its as accepted as 3I and PK.
Be it Hollywood or Bollywood all top 3 earning films right now were dominated by action genre. No matter how good and well received Dunki i still find it very hard to pass over 600cr. This is even more difficult to pull it off considering Dunki high in urban comedy and drama which is not major attraction to audiences at B and C centres. But in oversea i have no doubt it will pass 50 million in its first worldwide release. I still hope Hirani prove me wrong.
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SRK will not back down because of Salaar or any other movie. Only reason it will move is if the product is not ready just like how they moved away from June for Jawan (decision rightly made).
Has Salaar makers officially announced Christmas release?
Lots of people in South will be pi$$ed because it’s going to hurt crowded South Christmas release more than Dunki.
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SRK forcibly added action even in DDLJ climax and not in s ript which they shot in 2 hours without proper care thinking not to keep but then everyone loved in editing room and they kept it. It was best decision by SRK to add action even back then.
If you look at any interviews of SRK past 30 years, he has always insisted on doing action films. it’s just romance bought great success and then all makers took that route but deep down in his heart, he always wanted to do more action films.
And with Pathaan and Jawan, he has proven how natural he is at action films. SRK has a very fluid body and doesn’t look stiff like salman/aamir.
I hope Dunki does have one of those small DDLJ or Pardes type of Climax action sequence.
You guys are underestimating SRK/Dunki/Hirani now the same way you were underestimating Atlee after initial songs of Jawan came out. Only Shivaay and Jay have got it right IMO. Salaar will get swallowed by Dunki in Hindi belt.
There was never any question of backing down. SRK + Hirani would never back down when they have announced 2 years back the date. If anything Salaar kickstarted the promotion of Dunki early. I will also confirm that the Telugu industry is completely pissed by Salaar makers and there is lot of internal pressure for them to stop this release because it has created a big problem for movies already planed on that date.
The Telugu fan clubs can only do so much up North. But SRK now has a very organized fan club too which functions very well if you know what happened in pathaan and Jawan. All of them will help to promote now. A movie like Dunki is fine not to be promoted much but now there wil be more attention to it
I don’t think anyone is underestimating SRK/Dunki/Hirani.
But you can’t disregard the director of KGF2 completely, especially salaar being action film which will cater to B&C centers.
I do sense that there may be silent boycott of salaar by many in hindi belt.
“SRK now has a very organized fan club too which functions very well”
This i think is very much underestimated by non-srk fans. I don’t think they realize how strong and big SRK-Fan base is at promoting SRK movies at ground level and SRK movie getting a great opening.
Krish, south will impact hugely. For areas like Bangalore, AP where we had over 800 shows for Jawan, and Pathaan, they will get around 250 shows now for Dunki. Secondly, for North, Multiplexes showing 8-9 shows for Jawan will settle for 5 shows max and 2 each for Salaar and Aquaman. So, the impact will be there just in giving shows. Forget about acceptance or the movie being good or bad. The shows will impact the collections. Single screens can actually prefer Salaar over Dunki outside metros.That what’s I’m mentioning.
Master and I are same page. It’s not about over or underestimating any films. Simple logic/math is that screens will get divided so you’re not capitilizing of full potential.
If there are 100 people waiting in line for lunch and one guy has a masala dosa stall and another guy has pav bhaji stall, based on taste/like, it will get divided. maybe 70 will go for masala dosa, the other 30 will go for pav bhaji.
Now if there’s only masala dosa stall, all 100 people will go for that.
The issue comes if masala dosa has bad taste and pav bhaji stall is available, next day, majority will start going to pav bhaji stall cause there’s a choice. But that doesn’t help with the revenue you lost on day 1 or the whole weekend.
I don’t think your comparison makes sense. There’s tremendous excess capacity shown by occupancy %”s and Gadar 2 shows on less screens you can still hit great lifetime milestones.
The only true impact of divided screens is if a film is operating at near capacity. The numbers suggest at average occupancy levels this rarely happens.
I guess it happened a bit with Gadar 2 judging by articles out there but there are so many shows now that losing screens shouldn’t matter. If it matters in short term it only matters more for a disaster film. For a WoM film it won’t matter in the end.
BOI keeps repeating that Gadar2 could have done 600 crs with solo release. Similarly, OMG2 could have crossed 200 crs. It’s very rare to achieve full potential with a clash. It used to happen 20 years back but it can’t be anymore and specifically the bigger films. If it’s medium budgeted films, it’ll get its audience eventually but a bigger film is always gonna lose some % during clash. Here both Dunki and Salaar will lose some and possibly Salaar more. Salaar could get 2500 screens now and if solo anyway, it could have done 4000 screens. Dunki could have gotten 6000 screens and now will get max 4000 screens. It’s just math. Both Kaabil and Raees couldn’t touch 150 crs. Both Shivaay and Ae Dil Hai Mushkil couldn’t touch 150 crs and if solo, at least 3 of these 4 films would have touched 150 crs during that time.
Inside sources is saying Salaar is doing this for publicity and get back the hype and finally will move to Jan 12th date of Kalki. Now, it’s all over the news with just this news.
The dosa analogy works only if movie is running out of capacity and is extremely front loaded. A movie like dunki won’t need so many screens and the 50 who didn’t see it will anyways come back later to see it. I am not saying there won’t be any impact but impact is more for the front loaded movie. If jawan was in a clash it’s worrying. Dunki can co exist as it wouldn’t be releasing in 6k theatres anyways. It’s South where salaar can affect dunki but pathaan grossed more than Walter veeraiya and Veera simha Reddy in hyd multiplexes releasing around same time as them. Dunki will manage if movie is good which hirani will ensure
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Hahaha, taking a page out of Aditya Chopra brain. Great strategy and coming at the right time where it has already exhausted most of it’s collection. This should ensure 10 Cr 4th weekend despite Fukre3 and VW…
Kya bol rahe ho Z,
Could have waited one more weekend. It was anyways going to do 5cr Thu, 4 cr Fri, another 18 cr Sat to Mon. it is holding so well today it is better than Tuesday. Even with theatre loss tomorrow it would have gone to 5cr on Thursday due to the holiday.
Nonsense promotion already. Could have started from Oct 3rd (Tue)and announced on that day only. The weekend collections would be strong and you are losing audience from Sunday and Monday. Why would anyone have this promotion for Sat? Thu has holiday as well.
Yes, it is holding up very well and today it is actually doing just as well as yesterday if not slightly better.
This strategy is good because it will entice some audience to go for a big budget film vs new films.
At this point (3 weeks into it), everyone who wanted to see it has already seen it including repeat audience. Now it’s all about getting some additional audience and the repeat audience again; and buy 1 get 1 free gives them an incentive to go see it again.
At 8pm BMS was doing 4500 tickets per hour. At 10 pm it’s doing 10k tickets an hour
The 1 on 1 offer has doubled the tickets being sold but the revenue will be roughly same only. That’s why it made sense to wait for a week more
This is a very poor way to look at it IMO. It’s looking only at film collections.
This has doubled the footfalls in the complex and most probably doubled the revenue from Food & Drink. You’ve boosted the ecosystem.
As Z by in large anybody who wanted to see the movie would have already…this is driving repeat business and walk ins that may not have happened at higher ATP. The cinema benefits totally.
Now popcorn will be out of stock etc
I don’t get the ‘greed’ here. Film is already a blockbuster and this is a great opportunity to widen the reach.
Plus there is a hypothetical WoM opportunity here created that may not have existed prior at higher ATP.
I think this would be more for let’s say someone who don’t go to movies except special occasion like B-Day, Anniversary, etc and it’s someones B-day this Friday or Saturday, they’ll go for Jawan especially since it’s half price.
Repeat audience would have to be a SRK fans at this point to go see it 3rd, 4th time, not sure how many times an average movie fan will see movie more then once or twice.
My wife had wanted to eat popcorn while watching jawan so i went to get it, the large bucket bucket was $12. I went back empty handed and told wife the line was very long.
I usually bring those boxed M&Ms from DollarTrees, same candy at theaters is like $5.
Exactly! Here I would buy popcorn from outside. Rip off price in cinema. One of the highest marked up prices in the world in the West. You are literally paying 20+ times the price.
Look at Brahmastra last year
Weekend 2 drop = 67%
Weekend 3 drop = 47%
Weekend 4 drop = 82%
Day 13 Wednesday = 3.2
Day 14 Thu = 2.7
Day 15 Fri = 8.8, sat = 5.9, sun = 6.3 so 3rd Weekend = 21Cr
If you follow the normal lead up to the Weekend, there is no way off 2.7cr thu Brahmastra makes 21cr 3rd Weekend. It probably goes max Fri = 3cr, sat = 5cr, sun = 8cr to make 16cr (that’s the max).
The counter you may illustrate is its now picked up collections in Weekend 3 and forfeited future business. Yes Weekend 4 fell by 80%+ but I could argue it needed to maintain lower prices.
Simply put the daily movements pre and post cinema day for Brahmastra explains the dynamics of pricing perfectly. Going to the cinema has turned into a luxury product. Once it returns to something more people can afford you’ll see more footfalls. It can only be a good thing to have more footfalls. Not just theatre benefits. But travel & hospitality grows. Your malls are fuller and people spend way more than they would have otherwise.
I won’t step into a cinema now unless its £5 or below. And I’m earning decent enough money. So just imagine the rest.
Another way to look at is this. The price of one ticket if I look properly in UK is half the hourly minimum wage. At the top end its one hour of minimum wage.
I bet in India it’s not like this. I bet people are getting ripped off. Plus you don’t even know if you’d like the movie.
Cinema is not salt/bread/sugar. You could increase price on salt tomorrow and make more revenue. It’s a necessity whereas cinema is a choice. The multiplexes in India have started a vicious cycle in mid 00s that they can’t get out of. Every tentpole feels the need to outprice the previous.
We have lot of $5 shows in US as well at morning times at standard cinemeas. I recently went to Jawan in regular AMC and came out in 30 mins and couldn’t bear inferior watching experience after watching it in IMAX, so went and watched in Cinemark XD (next to IMAX). Those kind of screens are usually out in 2 weeks and then you have all these standard screens with much cheaper prices. I don’t think big scale action movies are enjoyed in them. I know many still watch it but I don’t enjoy it.
That is different. You actually care about your experience more than others. I haven’t cared at all. I’ve only watched handful of movies outside 2d format.
You are clearly a movie buff. You are like 0.001% of the worlds population in this aspect of being a movie buff. Rest mere mortals won’t care as much.
I say this from standpoint of economics and my degree. Cinema is unbelievably disposable for almost most people. The only way to turn that around is to make it affordable. If it’s cheaper it benefits way more other industries. Food, drink, travel, hospitality, leisure etc. I saw oppenheimer for £4.50. Now in doing so I travelled, bought a drink at a bar, played a game of pool…in the end spent probably £10. Now the retail price of the ticket I bought was £9 but I got 2 for 1. I wouldn’t buy at £9. So none of us would go. We each keep £9 in our pocket. But instead we all spent £10 – watched the movie, had a drink, played pool, all contributed to travel cost.
I’ve gone and said to another 10 people it’s good. Only 1 person out of that 10 needs to go and oppenheimer gets even more money. Instead of £0 they’ve made £9 from 2 people + whatever that 1 out 10 person paid plus a bunch of others have fleeced us for drinks and pool.
Lesson- everything has a price. A fanatic SRK fan in UK might pay £50 but not all can afford it.
I haven’t got into funding a family of 4 in UK to cinema + food & drink. You do it my way it would work out under £15. Do it how the cinema wants you to it’ll cost nearly £75.
Uk is sports crazy. Price of a football match (two top sides) is £100+. My cousin is going to Tottenham Liverpool next weekend, he paid £130. I understand exactly what you are saying. But cinema is not sports is what I’m saying at least for majority of people.
The same cousin is going to India and is offered India vs Pakistan tickets for £200. I said that is a bloody bargain. Everyone picks their own poison. Only I think on list of poison, cinema has become less relevant. I would pay £200 for India vs Pakistan even after learning it’s 10 times the face value of the ticket. Normal people would never pay 10 times the face value for a cinema ticket. That basically explains the difference between the two things.
The price is high for IMAX or XD but I think the difference is night and day with brighter screens and excellent sound systems. I couldn’t recommend any less and of you watch only 4-5 films in cinemas, you shouldn’t complain about pricing and watch it in best screens possible.
I go to movies maybe 3 times a year. (this year has been bad, i’ve already been 5 times including twice for jawan) so i try to go for XD screen. I didn’t enjoy the IMAX for Jawan, too loud, to a point where it’s all bass without proper difference in the channels. It’s like all channels are playing at same level with same sounds.
The XD at my place is great, the screen is actually wider then IMAX and the sound is simply amazing with front center, front left/right, rear right/left as well as atmos firing perfect sound.
Issue is not all Hindi movies are screened in that screen, did get to watch RRR and Pathaan in it.
Jawan was in IMAX.
2nd viewing of jawan was in very small screen and i think i have a better sound system at my house 🙂
I have a 7.2 setup for now with 2 ceiling atmos speakers.
Jawan putting up solid hold on Wednesday night shows. Better collection then Tuesday.
Master/Krish are probably right, this buy 1 get 1 will hurt Jawan collection. Jawan could have easily made 7 cr tomorrow. I think it will still get to 6 cr tomorrow if not more.
SATYAMSHOT 
September 22, 2023 at 1:48 AM
I think Salaar wasted such a great date for nothing. As Salaar was announced, Jawan picked up Sep 7 or else Sep 28 is the perfect date with 4 day weekend and Oct 2nd Monday and 2nd week has Dussera holiday.
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September 22, 2023 at 2:24 AM
WC is a road block week 2 onwards
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September 22, 2023 at 2:51 AM
How was box office during Last odi WC played in india ?
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September 22, 2023 at 3:24 AM
https://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/salman-khan-1000-crore-box-office-benchmark-101695359140287.html
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September 22, 2023 at 4:04 AM
When Salman talks we listen but I sleep
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September 22, 2023 at 5:34 AM
he will give you nightmare with his best trending movie…
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September 22, 2023 at 6:19 AM
Jawan box office collections: Shah Rukh Khan starrer surf past USD 38M Overseas, Nears 1000 crores Worldwide
The Worldwide box office collections of the Shah Rukh Khan powered Jawan has clocked Rs. 940 crores, with a phenomenal Rs. 622 crores coming from India.
Written by Jatinder Singh Updated on Sep 22, 2023 |
03:31 PM IST | 8.2K
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Shah Rukh Khan in Jawan (image courtesy of Red Chillies Entertainment)
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Jawan added USD 10 million to its international total in its second week, which has now reached USD 38.25 million. The film managed to outscore Pathaan in the second week, which had collected USD 9.35 million during the same time frame. Jawan still trails Pathaan after two two-week run but is closing the gap, which is down to USD 3.75 million as compared to nearly USD 5 million after the first extended weekend. Jawan shall cross the USD 45 million mark comfortably, with potential resting place of around USD 46-47 million.
The Worldwide box office collections of the Shah Rukh Khan powered film has clocked Rs. 943 crores, with a phenomenal Rs. 625 crores coming from India. Jawan will be joining the illustrious Rs. 1000 crores worldwide club during its Third weekend.
After two weeks, North America has earned USD 13 million, which is the second highest for a Bollywood film after Pathaan USD 17.50 million. Jawan is outscoring Pathaan in dailies and can go on for a final gross of USD 16 million plus. In the Middle East, it is running ahead of Pathaan with USD 12.60 million, with an expected final number of USD 15 million. Jawan is now the most-watched Indian film in Saudi Arabia, though in gross it is a bit short but will be able to hit that during the weekend. It can repeat the same in UAE as well.
Australia is just shy of AUD 4 million, pace being higher than Pathaan. It can go on to beat Pathaan full run record of AUD 4.72 million here. The underperformance relative to Pathaan has come in the United Kingdom (GBP 2.56 million), running 30 per cent short of Pathaan at the same time, though the gap has narrowed down in dailies. Elsewhere, Pathaan is the highest-grossing Bollywood film in Bangladesh (multifold of Pathaan) and Sri Lanka. The former is on a phenomenal run and can enter the top markets for the film at the end of its run. Other markets where Jawan has crossed Pathaan final number are Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong.
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The territorial breakdown for the overseas box office collection of Jawan is below.
Americas: USD 13,125,000
United States: USD 8,750,000
Canada: USD 4,200,000
Rest of America: USD 175,000
Asia/Oceania: USD 6,650,000
Australia: USD 2,550,000
Malaysia: USD 980,000
Nepal: USD 775,000 Approx
Singapore: USD 700,000
New Zealand: USD 480,000
Sri Lanka: USD 290,000 Approx
Rest of Asia: USD 875,000 Approx (incl. Bangladesh)
Middle East and Africa: USD 13,025,000
UAE: USD 7,400,000
GCC: USD 5,200,000
Africa and Rest of M.E.: USD 425,000
Europe: USD 5,450,000
United Kingdom: USD 3,200,000
Germany: USD 675,000
France: USD 370,000
Nordics: USD 300,000
Netherlands: USD 280,000
Rest of Europe: USD 625,000
Total: USD 38,250,000 / Rs. 318 crores
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September 22, 2023 at 6:36 AM
https://boxofficeindia.com/report-details.php?articleid=8040
Huge 2nd week. Third Best ever
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September 22, 2023 at 7:32 AM
4 tickets? Lol. Can we take interview of that 4 ppl?
Vicky Kaushal just gave HiT last month.
Producer of Pathaan
Director of Dhoom 3, Thugs.
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September 22, 2023 at 7:42 AM
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September 22, 2023 at 7:47 AM
Munna, let me know what edits you make to link above.
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September 22, 2023 at 12:26 PM
changed x to twitter. It seems wordpress is not parsing xdotcom.
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September 22, 2023 at 10:42 AM
Rocky aur Ranii is now streaming on Prime !!
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September 22, 2023 at 10:44 AM
Nana on Fire!!
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September 22, 2023 at 11:10 AM
Manoj Desai on Nana
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September 22, 2023 at 11:33 AM
Great Bong ka Sultan of Delhi
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September 22, 2023 at 12:48 PM
This is pretty sad…
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September 22, 2023 at 12:50 PM
Congrats Mr. SRK
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September 22, 2023 at 3:48 PM
This so UP wala. Zakir Hussain be like- Bawala ho gaya kya !!LOL
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September 22, 2023 at 4:08 PM
* This is so UP Wala.
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September 22, 2023 at 3:52 PM
Reposting:
Finally the BAAP of all movies is releasing!! Can’t wait!!
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September 22, 2023 at 3:57 PM
BOI has made Gadar 2 cross Pathaan..
https://boxofficeindia.com/report-details.php?articleid=8039
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September 22, 2023 at 6:00 PM
Lol, clear bias. Only site which is saying it crossed Pathaan when when producers are not saying. Expected BS.
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September 22, 2023 at 10:43 PM
Guys whats going on with the site. i am not sure this message is reaching
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September 22, 2023 at 10:57 PM
Boi Himesh numbers in pinkvilla but producer numbers it hasn’t. Reason is boi and Himesh have the 512 numbers of pathaan and lower for gadar. Producers did lot of cooking last 3 weeks but they still need to find 2.5crs to cook. Not sure how they will manage this as movie is not running in many theatres.gadar 2 is biggest hit this year vis-a-vis budget but once they realised jawan will anyways beat them they should have stopped inventing numbers after week4.
I agree with Marcus on one thing he said that maybe in current scenario it is easy to get 500crs. Hence dunki need to go past 600 or 700cr yo establish a clear gap with rest and set a real benchmark
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September 22, 2023 at 11:15 PM
500 crs could be the new 300 crs and this was discussed during Pathaan as well. We need more data to confirm this. If Dunki cross 600 and 650 crs, we can call that but as of now, only couple of movies have done. Jawan was expected after Pathaan and only Gadar2 has been surprise. Regardless, I see Tiger 3 doing 500 crs as well snd I can’t fathom the whole Tiger franchise and fans of Pathaan and Jawan will skip Tiger 3. It is sureshot 500 crs.
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September 23, 2023 at 12:37 AM
WC and pre-Diwali will create issues. Also they cant possibly sell it with too much of SRK or else Tiger vs Pathaan loses its relevance. In any case WC is a big hindrance even if it was Tiger vs Pathaan that was releasing. Salman will get all the same areas excited which had Gadar 2 excited but WB, Assam, South and even Mumbai is not his forte
Jawan has done 170cr gross in just South and will cross 200cr Gross and this Gross hardly 10 original South movie would have done in their lifetime. These number are impossible for Salman in South and same goes for WB, Assam and Mumbai. Mumbai atleast will come onboard if movie is good but South needs to see lot of SRK in the trailor of Tiger.
Tiger vs Pathaan can do best of both worlds. Where SRK lacks in UP Bihar Salman makes up and where Salman lacks south SRK makes up
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September 22, 2023 at 7:57 PM
Gadar has pure organic collection from Mars and Jupiter from week 4 on 🙂
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September 22, 2023 at 4:01 PM
Gadar is real BO, real numbers . Pathan and Jawan are all corporate bookings, Fan clubs mass bookings of 2,000 rupees a seat tickets etc. etc.
Ganda hai par Dhanda hai….
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September 22, 2023 at 4:58 PM
“I’m not in the position of replacing anybody. These are things that we discussed over the years, I wanted to take a certain direction with the story, somehow we just couldn’t find common ground. We just parted mutually knowing that it’s probably for the best. So that’s where it is,”
“I’m really excited Ranveer’s on board. He’s so charged and so ready to go. It’s a big film, just purely from the point of view of an actor, it’s a big thing to do, and we’re really excited to have him on board. His energy is energizing us, so to speak,”
https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/farhan-akhtar-ritesh-sidhwani-don-3-jee-le-zara-1235727338/
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September 22, 2023 at 5:26 PM
Wah SRKbhai, real collection from all of the planet Earth, not collection from Mars and Jupitar 😉
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September 22, 2023 at 6:48 PM
Jawan song!
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September 22, 2023 at 11:01 PM
Munna, cant post from mobile as Login stuff dont appear there. Guess something has changed as even in laptop new buttons are showing
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September 22, 2023 at 11:17 PM
Yes, this double work now. I don’t see to enter login info. I enter comment and click reply and then I see 3 options and then selected wither wordpress/facebook/email login and then enter details. Multiple steps needed for single comment.
Munna, if possible, we need the old style back.
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September 23, 2023 at 1:48 AM
I have not done anything.
It is something on WP side.
Let me check.
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September 23, 2023 at 1:59 AM
It seems they are forcing users to create WP or gravatar accounts. Hopefully it is a testing phase. I checked settings and it is same; that is to comment, email and name are required.
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September 23, 2023 at 12:03 AM
1000 crs India Hindi only.
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September 23, 2023 at 2:30 AM
6.5cr 3rd friday
Should be 12.5 saturday and 14.5 sunday
3rd week-end 33cr approx
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September 23, 2023 at 3:08 AM
Dunki > Jawan > Gadar 2 > Pathan > Tiger 3 by end of 2023.
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September 23, 2023 at 3:53 AM
How far is Gadar 2 from becoming the biggest Hindi blockbuster?
– Just Rs. 2 crore! PATHAAN, the biggest so far, had netted Rs. 524 crore (Hindi version only). GADAR 2 closed its 6th week (which got over on 21st September) at Rs. 522 crore. Interestingly, even as GADAR 2 is inching its way to becoming the biggest Hindi blockbuster, Shah Rukh Khan’s JAWAN is also all set to overtake PATHAAN… and also GADAR 2. That means, GADAR 2 will enjoy the status of being the biggest Hindi film for a few days, after which it will have to make way for JAWAN to occupy the top position. Interestingly, it took six years for the record of BAHUBALI 2: THE CONCLUSION (Hindi dubbed) to be broken (by PATHAAN). It took six months for the record of PATHAAN to be broken (by GADAR 2). And it will take a couple of weeks for the record of GADAR 2 to be broken (by JAWAN (Hindi)).
https://filminformation.com/featured/you-asked-it-22-september-2023/
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September 23, 2023 at 6:20 AM
Normally jawan will overtake pathan on thursday
Its 480 after 3rd friday, will be around 510 after week-end, and 15cr will come on, weekdays,
And gadar maybe will not cross pathan before end of the week
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September 23, 2023 at 4:21 AM
https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/shah-rukh-khan-mumbai-house-mannat-pilgrims-8949600/
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September 23, 2023 at 6:18 AM
Solid hold on 3rs Friday.
7.1 Cr Hindi.
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September 23, 2023 at 6:20 AM
Jawan showing HUGE jump 3rd Saturday. Will collect at least 10 Cr hindi.
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September 23, 2023 at 6:26 AM
50 cr more to go…
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September 23, 2023 at 6:57 AM
Will be done on sunday night, in 18 days
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September 23, 2023 at 10:07 AM
As expected Jaideep Alhawat stealing the show..
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September 23, 2023 at 10:38 AM
Have you watched it?
I watched half of it and it is very good. It will remind you of Drishyam here and there but acting is top class by Alhawat.
One thing that is kind of annoying is constant old hindi songs playing in background.
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September 23, 2023 at 1:52 PM
One time watch.. nowhere near as taut as Drishyam
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September 23, 2023 at 12:43 PM
Gahs
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September 23, 2023 at 12:53 PM
Yes, Jaideep puts in a stellar performance but the movie is another pedestrian effort from Sujoy Ghosh.
Another underwhelming film i watched recently is A Haunting In Venice. Blah!
This blog has seriously gone to the dogs where below par films like Jaane Jaan and Haunting in Venice are claimed to be good films.
But then what else can be expected from this blog where 500 cr grossers are now worshipped 24*7 as if they are today’s Sholays. A little bit of perspective should give these fanatics some sense that yesterday’s 300 cr grossers are today’s 500 cr grossers inflation adjusted with similar 3 cr footfalls. Nothing earth shaking is happening with these films to justify this unhealthy obsession with these regular numbers. Laughing stock this blog has become. Shame!
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September 23, 2023 at 1:51 PM
Sujoy’s 3rd in line after Kahaani and Badla. Haunting in Venice is quite decent as well, at least a genuine effort at novelty after the underwhelming first 2 films. Cannot expect every films to be an Oppenheimer.
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September 23, 2023 at 2:40 PM
On a lighter note, someone swearing by Dune shouldn’t be talking of boredom 😜
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September 23, 2023 at 3:55 PM
Disagreed on Hindi cinematic expectations and also Jaane Jaan is a lot more gripping than a lot of the overrated Malayali thrillers coming in week in & week out and being praised to the hilts by the usual suspects, a certain ideology that’d praise everything about this useless communist wasteland without an iota of idea of ground reality.
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September 23, 2023 at 3:11 PM
Depends on what one’s expectations from a film are. The film has flaws but it has good production values and detailing and the maker managed to extract good performances from the cast. Ahlawat was too good. The film is certainly in the ‘watchable’ category.
One cannot expect a perfect film coming from a hindi film industry anyway. We have to make peace with anything decent that comes our way.
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September 23, 2023 at 11:16 PM
Even if i go with the normalization of a 500cr to a 300cr, we need to remember that There were only 6 or 7 Hindi movies which did 300crs. Its not that there were 100s and Pathaan and jawan are 101st and 102nd. So even in that sense it is a fantastic achievements. And Pathaan and Jawaan are also ATG’s and not all the 300crs in the list were that. And if Dangal was celebrated then why cant Pathaan or Jawaan be celebrated even assuming they are 300crs grossers.
Jawaan was also an original movie and an exceptionally risky venture taken when Pushpas and KGFs werent a norm and had one face on which the whole movie was sold. It deserves every recognition that comes its way way more than Pathaan (if i were to assume the preposterous theory that people actually came at 6am to see Pathaan to see Salman and not SRK).
Grossing 60 to 70 crs (final total) in Tamil and Telugu at 63Rs and 190Rs ticket points to roughly around 30 to 40 L non Hindi folks seeing the movie there.
And i will be also keenly watching which Hindi (forget original movie even a sequel is ok) movie opens at 65crs on a non working day too.
There is way way more to appreciate in Pathaan and Jawaan (and Gadar) then scoff at them by assuming that there are going to be further 100s of movie doing the same when only 6 movies did 300crs in first place.
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September 23, 2023 at 11:49 PM
Bollywood had given up on Baahubali 2’s 512 total long back. After covid movies were scoring 50-60 crs and even few crossed 100 crs and only couple crossed 200 crs. Then Pathaan comes and SRK out after a break and he hasn’t given even 250 crs ends up giving twice that expectation and while doing that also ends up beating the untouchable Bahubali 2 record looks like normal and nothing to be celebrated about. Lol. Kept hearing about much interior movies collections for years but folks have problem with celebrations of Pathaan’s 500 crs and Jawan’s 550 crs. Matlab kuch bhi!! Clear jealousy and nothing else.
Regarding Tiger 3, multiple times the credit was being given to Salman Khan when he wasn’t even officially confirmed and he has been doing cames all along(even SRK’s last movie Zero had him and also for full song). Now, SRK is such peak and every audience who has seen Pathaan knows he’s coming in Tiger 3 but hey…let’s give 0 credit to SRK now. Srk fans will throng the cinemas and they even did for Brahmastra as he was coming after years in guest appearance. When it’s SRK’s turn, all logic takes a hike. Kuch bhi!!
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September 23, 2023 at 11:20 AM
Abhee tak 49 to go nahee aaaya !! LMAO
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September 23, 2023 at 11:44 AM
48.99 ho gaya ya nahee ?LOL
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September 23, 2023 at 11:45 AM
kamaal key bawley log hain yaar.
Sharam kar lo !!!
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September 23, 2023 at 11:47 AM
They are more worried about Sardar beating Pathan !! LMAO !!!
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September 23, 2023 at 11:21 AM
BR Interviews Vivek Agneehotri
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September 23, 2023 at 11:43 AM
LOL, GOB, boycott gang having sleepless nights.
Way to go SRKbhai, making hate mongers life miserable for 3 decades 😉
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September 23, 2023 at 12:42 PM
Wait, are we still In 2016 when Bahubali 2 had not released yet? How about RRR or KGF2 all India. These films never released? Suddenly you have films that been releared in the very territories where Hindi films are being played and these films collections are then discarded as they placed the bar too high for others. I guess that by that logic FIFA should have awarded Ballon d’Or or best football player to a specific category that is called best player outside Messi and Ronaldo for 2 decades!
What’s next now? Highest grossing film in Jhoomri Talaiyya??
This is just a PR process by people hell bent on trying to prove they are the biggest by omitting others and through specific criteria that only suit their agenda. I can still buy the highest hindi net category if one wants to discard Bahubali 3 ectc. But no serious person can take the highest all languages and deliberately omit other higher grossing films. It means Jawaan’s Tamil collections count, but Bahubali or RRR’s don’t? It is ridiculous.
Given my opinion here. I don’t even think it is worth a debate. For that I will leave it to those who buy into this stuff.
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September 23, 2023 at 1:58 PM
I guess it’ll be #5 or #6 in all time worldwide grossers after Dangal, Bahubali 2, RRR and KGF2. Among Hindi Gross numbers it’ll perhaps finally overtake Bahubali 2 (something which Pathan and Gadar 2 did not, I mean “Gross”).
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September 23, 2023 at 11:00 PM
How will it cross Bahubali Hindi gross? Whats the target?
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September 23, 2023 at 11:45 PM
Bahubali 2 Hindi global gross is 800 Cr.
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September 24, 2023 at 1:10 AM
Shivaay, Pathaan crossed 800cr global Hindi no? I still didnt get it
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September 24, 2023 at 2:19 AM
Was talking about domestic gross there.. my bad
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September 23, 2023 at 5:33 PM
Yep 💯
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September 23, 2023 at 11:00 PM
You seriously didnt get this? They are talking about a BW movie here.
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September 23, 2023 at 11:22 PM
Rahul bhai…you should write for PinkVilla. You are natural and has a gift with numbers and deductions.
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September 23, 2023 at 11:58 PM
It’s such a silly rant without understanding the context that Bollywood trade will worry about their movies and which release in their areas. They wouldn’t track or bother about 25 other Industries and their movies. If Bollywood site is saying, it’s for Bollywood movie(Hindi and it’s variations) released in India. So, you all trade to track all languages movie all over? That’s like 50 times the work and doesn’t make any difference to Hindi movie industry. Hindi Nett and whatever it does in dubbed languages which goes to same producer and movie is clear enough.
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September 23, 2023 at 3:42 PM
You didn’t get the main point, all of this is looked at from “Bollywood Film” perspective…
BB2, RRR, KGF2 are not “Bollywood Films”
Why were you so busy posting about how well Gadar2 is doing because using your logic G2 is nothing in comparison to BB2 all India collection.
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September 23, 2023 at 11:48 AM
Disappointing , Sirf naam hee kaafi hai Jumla nahee aaya, iss baaar !!
Kya Yaar ..LOL
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September 23, 2023 at 3:08 PM
Oh now there’s a narrative to reduce the 500 crs to just another 300 crs grosser. Let me give some background. Movies were unable to gross over 200 crs which was done by 3 Idiots which is an outlier like Baahubali 2 in Hindi. It took few years and some correct films to cross 200 crs again in 2013. First one was Chennai Express and then Dhoom 3 went past it easily in same year.
Then comes 2014, now 200 crs become normal for a huge hit and Salman’s Kick does over 200 crs then comes another outlier in PK which outgrosses Dhoom 3 by a distance and goes beyond 300 crs. Now, the rest of the movies by Salman, SRK are still doing 200s and then Salman Khan has an outlier in 2015 with Bajrangi Bhaijan as it went past 300 crs but falls short of PK. Then Salman had another almost 300 crs in Sultan in 2016 and by the end of 2016, we had another new milestone in Dangal which went past 350 crs.
Now, after this 300 crs became usual for huge hits like Padmaavat, War, Sanju, etc and a few falling short of 300 like Tanhaji, Kabir Singh, etc.
Now the high points were always celebrated from Chennai Express, Dhoom 3, PK, Bajrangi Bhaijan, and Dangal. There is always excitement whenever there is a huge grosser that beats the previous records. So, likewise, I see no difference when Pathaan, Gadar2, or Jawan break the 500 crs barrier but it has not become normal and this is still the early phase of 2014-2015 of PK, Bajrangi Bhaijan, and not the 2019 stage of War getting 300 crs.
So, to undermine the highpoint box office citing Inflation is logic only jealous folks do and no one else. Many are aware of this logic and have no find in understanding this and still have no issues in celebrating 500 for Pathaan crs and now 550 crs for Jawan. Every milestone needs to be recognized and celebrated. Citing Inflation means nothing..if so none of the hits will be bigger than Mughal E Azams and Sholays and we stop tracking boxoffice decades back.
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September 23, 2023 at 3:45 PM
This is too much historical facts.
SRK haters are complete dishonest trash and will fall down to any level.
Imagine what power SRK has that his haters cannot leave without thinking about him.
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September 23, 2023 at 6:43 PM
The only difference being that PK, Bajrangi and Dangal came over a span of 2 years and hence there was a novelty factor associated with their ATBB status. Here you’ve literally had 3 ATBBs in a span of 9 months and if Tiger 3 and Dunki cross 500 Crs as well, the entire essence of the term ATBB is gonna be lost with 5 in a single calendar year. So all those in the trade and here jumping at the prospect of Pathan’s record of 500+ and claiming it’ll stand for at least 2 years would now need to retrospect and change the classification of all these films to Super BBs and daresay if Tiger 3 and Dunki go the same way, they’d all be Blockbusters eventually (at least Brahmastra can deservedly be downgraded to Average that way!). Reminds me of 2006 when in January RDB crossed 2005s biggest grosser No Entry and the whole trade jumped at its Super Duper Hit status. By the time we had Krish, LRM and Dhoom 2, all that was left of it was a regular urban multiplex Hit.
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September 23, 2023 at 7:45 PM
2023 has been a great year for Bollywood so far. I expect that Tiger3 and Dunki will perform well too.
Agree, if both of these do 500 then the importance of 500 will be lost little bit.
But I don’t think that it will be a norm.
Assuming Tiger3 and Dunki do 500 cr too then there will be common factor of SRK being in 4 out of 5 of them.
SRK will have a much longer cameo in Tiger3 and there’s news of solo SRK poster for Tiger3.
We will need more non-SRK films to do 500 Cr to know if this is a norm now.
We already have HR fighter, Pushpa and probably 2 to 3 more for potential 500 cr club for 2024.
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September 23, 2023 at 8:05 PM
Underestimation of Salman by SRK fanboys seems to be the norm now. Tiger is the OG of spyverse and its first film came at a time when spy action films were hardly a thing in India. Salman delivered 600 Cr via just 4 films in 2011-12 at a time when 100 Cr was a blockbuster norm. Even at his lowest ebb a Tubelight performed far better than Zero & JHMS. If Pathan belongs to Srk, Tiger solely belongs to Salman Khan especially since its a decade old franchise. In no way would Tiger 3 ever be a 2 hero film on the lines of Tiger vs Pathan or even a War. As for Fighter, 500 Cr is far fetched. Its neither a franchise nor a universe and HR does not enjoy as much of a fanatical patronizing from a certain fanbase the way these 2 Khans do.
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September 23, 2023 at 8:53 PM
Damn, I wrote such a huge reply and before I submit, it vanished. This never used to happen with previous setup. Will come back to it a little later.
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September 24, 2023 at 12:15 AM
Good points.
Jawan and Pathan are blockbusters. But one film shall come that will push the box office to another level. Its just a matter of time that will make us realise the actual potential was missing.
Certainly one can’t expect every film to be a Bahubali or Dangal. But a Dangal-level accepted film should do at least 650 crores in today’s time
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September 24, 2023 at 12:44 AM
Dangal footfalls 3.8 and Pathan almost 3.5 crore included dub and 3.2 for hindi version according Bollywood Hunggama. So these number are not big defference if we take all india performances. The question can Dangal gather the same footfalls 3.7 crore given today ticket prices. No question Dangal more liked and far more critical film than both SRK film. By the way Jawan might challenge Dangal footfalls number if dubbed version were to be included at the end of its run.
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September 24, 2023 at 12:58 AM
There are some jealous journos as well who are saying if Gabbar is back would have released today, it would have done 500 crs as well. Lmao!!
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September 24, 2023 at 1:03 AM
The whole gist of such comments is to prove single point that “SRK stardom is nothing special”. Like all movies are doing or can do this 500 crs. Srk is barely matching some 300 crs of hits of last decade or anything. All that debates mean nothing when one knows the point they keep trying to make that SRK big hits are just pure luck or high price tickets or corporate bookings or some superstars 10 mins cameo. Srk movies become hit for everything else besides SRK and his stardom for folks on this blog! Once you understand that, there’s nothing to debate here.
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September 24, 2023 at 1:14 AM
Jawaan Tamil Telugu footfalls at 65cr and 130 to 150 ATP will come to 40 to 50Lacs. Imagine that many non Hindi speaking people watching the movie. Thats massive!!!. Fighter will beat it big time due to NTR but this movie has no big lead hero and for Telugu industry not even as popular cast as Tamil
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September 24, 2023 at 2:28 AM
Pathan footfalls are 3 Cr as per BOI and they are the only site tracking FFs for Hindi films (right or wrong upto debate). Jawan might at best hit 3.2 Cr in Hindi which is the same as Sultan. And these are hard facts, not some anti Srk rants as some fools out here continue cribbing 24*7. Its a known fact that he’s a huge megastar & easily the biggest of his gen alongside Salman, only a dunce would deny this.
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September 23, 2023 at 10:58 PM
Is there no way to post from phone?
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September 24, 2023 at 12:21 AM
Click on the mail icon
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September 24, 2023 at 1:08 AM
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September 23, 2023 at 11:14 PM
JailerReview ⭐⭐⭐
ThreeWordReview – Excellent in Patches
Jailer has 3 brilliant sequences of 10-15 min each. Apart from this 45 min of brilliance rest is pakaaoo.
But first hats off to Rajni sir. What a performer!!
Now back to review – Those 45 min of extraordinary brilliance are
1. Young #Rajinikanth in Jailer scene- Aag laga diya Rajini sir ne. Out of the world cinematic experience with terrific BGM by @anirudhofficial
2. Home attack with family at dining table – This is genius sequence by the script writer and Director #Nelson. The entire action scene gives you goosebumps. Amazingly shot with terrific BGM.
3. Effective use of cameos by #JackyShroff, #Shivarajkumar
And #Mohanlal. This lifts the experience of watching an action film.
Vinayakan is extraordinary as villain. He is set to corner all awards.
The entire Blast Mohan track is a failure and brings a halt to what would have been a superb film. The agonising 30 min of climax focussed on the stupidity of characters is a complete let down.
One time watch
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September 24, 2023 at 12:00 AM
Today, Sunday collections will go over the roof. Shows increased and advance huge, it’ll do 16 crs just Hindi.
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September 24, 2023 at 12:04 AM
After Sunday, new milestones are
Hindi only = 500 crs
All India = 550 crs
Worldwide = 1000 crs.
Yeah…itna normal lag raha hai bhai… pata nahi kyun. Any movie can do this, what’s big deal and why so much noise over such collections.
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September 24, 2023 at 12:41 AM
At least, overseas there’s no competition and silly debates!!
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September 24, 2023 at 1:48 AM
2nd Bollywood movie after Pathaan. RRR was 14.5 million. They did 2 re-releases later during Oscar’s. RRR also did 2 million with preview release with ticket prices over $50 and even first weekend tickets were $30-35. RRR collected 9 million in first weekend and final 14.5 million. Jawan has 7 crs first weekend and 14-15 crs final run with 1/3 ticket prices. No comparison at all. Even Pathaan had more ticket sales than Baahubali 2.
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September 24, 2023 at 2:28 AM
I don’t attest to 500Cr is the new 300Cr hypothesis (yet).
1) footfalls have been coming down for decades for Bollywood. I don’t know if we can believe these numbers period. But if you take peak 70s and compare to peak 90s I am sure you will you see a % drop. If you then compare that to 2010s again you’ll see this drop.
2) the achievement is stellar. This is sounding a bit like a star rant rather than looking at the data. In 2023 3 films have cracked 500Cr and 1 more should follow (Dunki) and Tiger 3 has a chance. Never did Bollywood have 4 or 5 300Cr’s in one year.
3) lots of combinations of factors. But most are pointing towards SRK’s return. Immaculately engineered set of releases really.
4) in a free world nobody is stopping any other star from doing these movies so till somebody else backs it up it makes no sense to reduce the achievements here.
5) the (yet) comment is basically because of what shivaay mentioned on 2006. If people recall that year some sites had as many as 5 opening week records – RDB, Fanaa, KANK, Krrish & Dhoom 2. There was a steep growth in overall net grosses but IMO it was in the main a price thing. Because I doubt any of those films were iconic tentpoles like Gadar either. So we should remain open to this type of factor even today. You’ll only know if you have patience for 5 years to reassess 2023.
Separately NOBODY here who is trivialising 2023 would have predicted Pathaan in first place. The same people though deserve brownie points for suggestion of more films hitting the benchmark (which happened).
Can you not all be right? I.e. there is a chance that 500Cr is the new norm but thus far 2 out of 3 is SRK’s. The third is Gadar 2, a huge brand. Will Sunny Deol have another 500Cr realistically that has no Gadar or Border brand? I doubt that.
So for now realistically it’s SRK who’s doing it. Let Tiger 3 & Fighter release and then see.
6) though I think Dunki itself ‘might’ correct the debate. We shall see because Dunki might push the bar higher and make all else look smaller like Dhoom 2 vs LRM/Krrish/Kank/Fanaa/RDB.
7) Records are there to be broken. It’s a free playing field where every star has the chance to break the records. It’s definitely SRK’s year by a distance already. Let’s not forget the overseas performance either…outstanding there.
If somebody said SRK’s going to have a great comeback in 2023 – they told me he’s got these 3 films Pathaan, Jawan and Dunki. They told me the basics of producer, cast & director etc. They asked me to predict which of the 3 would be the biggest grosser and put my life on it. I 💯 would bet on Dunki. The truest strength of the market capacity is only tested with a WoM monster. We’ll know by January 24 IMO.
8) just give credit where credit is due IMO. If Akshay or Salman or Hrithik or Aamir give 2 back to back 500Cr’s then you have rights to enter the debate. In fact only a Sunny Deol fan can currently have one foot into this debate. SRK fans have 2 feet. Maybe 1.5 more by end of year because he will have a say in T3 (media will ensure this) and obviously Dunki.
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September 24, 2023 at 2:42 AM
And you really believe Salman or even Aamir have anything left to prove regarding their stardom, after all these years? SRK never had domestic records (barring 2 weeks of RNBDJ) so good for him that he’s finally gotten them which he deserves. As for the other 2, one is the opener of the 100, 200, 250, 300 & 350 Cr clubs while the other has been creating records since his MPK & HAHK days (yeah they’re Bhagyashree & Madhuri solo films as per a few!). Its like some dolt with Zero grey cells claiming AB Sr is unsuccessful based on his post 60 career 👏
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September 24, 2023 at 2:51 AM
None have much to prove. Srk had CE too. For all Salman’s dominance in 2010s he had 0 lifetime records. But they have nothing to prove. Aamir’s opened the 1k to 2k club globally too. And nothing from the last 15 years is bigger than HAHK. But as of now comparing the 3, SRK is ahead right now. Not talking about the career stats just who is dominating today. Now if T3 is 600Cr we can talk again. But right now if T3 manages 400Cr then SRK’s walloped Salman in 2023 no? And the pressure is firmly on Salman.
Aamir’s case we haven’t a clue. He’s off the radar as of now. His best days may well be over.
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September 24, 2023 at 2:58 AM
If they have nothing left to prove then there’s no pressure or competition beyond dumb fan wars on social media. I don’t think anyone intended to wallop anyone’s ass be it the 90s or the 2010s or now.
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September 24, 2023 at 3:05 AM
In this regard, I can speak for myself. I care and think SRK movies but I have no hatred or against any star. I have been on this blog supporting Sultan, Bajrangi Bhaijan, Tiger 2, PK, Dangal etc. Everyone is free to give bigger hits and that wouldn’t change a thing. It only matters when SRK movies are targeted like some folks here citing corporate bookings, fake collections and what not. I have said that Tiger 3 will also do 500 crs but SRK being part is well known and he should get bigger credit than Salman was in Pathaan. Rest all, nothing matters. Gadar2 – totally no issue as Sunny giving in 2001 couldn’t do anything, what’s he gonna achieve now after 65 yrs and reaching near 70 soon.
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September 24, 2023 at 9:59 AM
Some good discussion.
My take on everything is it’s okay to have different opinion, different likes/dislikes but respect someone elses opinion just like you want yours to be respected.
SRK fans like Master, Krish, myself were putting up Gadar 2 boxoffice number and celebrating it. We don’t come here day and night to put other actors down. We are not here constantly degrading any actor or movies.
Sorry but i will be blunt on this but the problem is:
1) Rocky – he comes here with agenda and hate and 99% of his posts reflects that. It’s there for everyone to see and guage.
2) Marcus – he talks about this blog has gone to “dogs” and doesn’t like when someone posts SRK movie box office number. This is the same guy who used spam the forum all day with posting same news from 20 different source, but he wants to complain when 1 post is made on SRK movie box office. He also has clear agenda of trying to undermine SRK blockbuster movies and ends up looking very foolish when he starts claiming corp booking, fake collection theory.
3) Random (like Rahul, bob cristo) – Who comes out of nowhere during Gadar 2 praising it’s collection as historic but then wants to undermine SRK Jawan when Jawan is doing consistent great business not just in Punjab or North but every territory of India (including South) as well as thru out the world.
I agree with Jay that lets not think 500 is the new 300. We need more data to prove it, and data from Bollywood movies. Let’s not start using South films (which is also very limited like BB2, RRR, KGF2) to give some credit to your argument, use Bollywood films for argument purpose.
Did movies like Vikram, Jailor release in Hindi belt. If they did, curious why it didn’t make any noise.
As far as any actor proving anything, none of the actors from 80/90s or early 2000 have anything left to prove. Not everyone can be a big star or superstar (term used very lightly nowadays). Each one of them did enough at their peak and the fact they’re still around says that they are in business. From that lot you have them delivering pathaan, jawan, sooryavanshi, tanhaji, gadar2, war, dangal, tiger, etc. With plenty big films coming from them, they’re not going anywhere.
And one can’t and shouldn’t disregard what SRK is doing currently at the Indian and overseas box office. We’ll understand the value of this in 5 years from now. Of course it could be otherway around where every big film collects 500 cr but time will tell.
Again, none of the actors from 80/90/00 has anything left to prove. HR would be the newest one from the lot and he’s been here almost 25 years. you don’t stay relevant for 25 years or in case of others (over 30 years) without being good at what you do and public wanting to see your films.
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September 24, 2023 at 11:00 AM
Dharmendra, Jeetendra, Rajendra Kumar, Dev Anand, Rajesh Khanna etc did not survive 30 years (even AB barely did since post 2005 he’s been irrelevant box office wise) does not imply they had lower stardom. Anyone denying the assistance of visual effects, franchises & cgi in prolonging & reigniting careers is living in fool’s paradise. SRK & Salman are easily the biggest of their gen just like Dharam & AB were of theirs and Dilip Kumar/Raj Kapoor of theirs. Comparing regular stars like Akshay & Ajay with Khans is as misplaced as comparing one generation with another.
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September 24, 2023 at 5:57 PM
Rocky Rocky Rocky
Sirf Naam hee kaafi hai Alphabet ko Daraaney key liye.
All his comments if not about hkl are about Rocky.
yeh darrr achcha hai !! LOL
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September 24, 2023 at 3:19 AM
Satyam was against TZH and found it won’t even do 300 crs but I was adamant and just quick search found my comment supporting it. Maybe surprising for folks who claim I’m stupid SRK fan. Similar comments for War as well.
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September 24, 2023 at 11:35 AM
Satyam was against every actor to show somebody on top. Though he showed some respect towards Amir just to stay relevant in fourms. Even this portal was opened to destroy Srk’s career but alas! Srk is going from strength to strength and i’m sure that Satyam must be finding it hard to earn his bread n butter somewhere in a tier C town.
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September 24, 2023 at 4:18 AM
From today and till the next week there will be lot of New benchmark and record for jawan.
Starting with the first with its all india total, with saturday collections, highest ever for bollywood beating pathans 545cr
Tomorrow with sunday numbers crossing 1000cr ww
And in coming days record for hindi in producers numbers and then record with BOI numbers ect….
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September 24, 2023 at 5:14 AM
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September 24, 2023 at 8:27 AM
3 Idiots was the first 3 crore+ footfalls film after Gadar. In between there were a lot of successes but the mass support was missing. Even the likes of Dhoom 2 had 2.4 crore odd footfalls and big successes like Krrish and LRM didn’t cross 2 crore footfalls. Reason: the masses had backed out and multiplex oriented films were on the rise. But Salman’s resurgence in films catering to SS and Aamir’s content films brought the audience back. In the mass cinema that saw a comeback, we hit the 3 crore mark quite a few times in the past decade.
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September 24, 2023 at 8:31 AM
K3G came after gadar and had more than 3cr ff
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September 24, 2023 at 10:45 AM
That’s not true.. its a fudged data on boi.. the archives on boi clearly state 47 Cr nett implying about 2.8 Cr FFs max. Even FI classifies K3G as a Hit & not Super Hit.
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September 24, 2023 at 9:33 AM
Forget Amir now. He is a history as you can’t see him delivering big hits anymore.
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September 24, 2023 at 10:48 AM
Even Ghajini was 2.5 Cr & Dabang was the same. Ticket prices were high, screen count was too low for higher footfalls. Only in mid 2010s post PK & Bajrangi did 3 Cr become commonality like the 90s.
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September 24, 2023 at 1:43 PM
SRK is in Sallu’s phase after Wanted…. That break made people yearn for him. People will watch anything he releases rn.. He can release a ‘Kisi ka bhai kisi ki jaan’ & still be a blockbuster. His fans have changed seats with Salman’s fans now.
Full agree and damn am loving it. The sheer joy of celebrating an actor’s movies, fighting for him with no logical sense at times is amazing. I now envy what a decade salman fans had and i look forward to what more is in store for us srk fans
👆via reddit, comments I fully endorse. Expecting some duffers who read their morning prayer in SRKs name to retort now, none of my concern.
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September 24, 2023 at 8:42 AM
Fastest 100Cr – #Pathaan
Fastest 150Cr – #Jawan
Fastest 200Cr – #Jawan
Fastest 250Cr – #Jawan
Fastest 300Cr- #Jawan
Fastest 350Cr- #Jawan
Fastest 400Cr- #Jawan
Fastest 450Cr- #Jawan
Fastest 500Cr- #Jawan
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September 24, 2023 at 1:14 PM
Jawan and Pathaan share the fastest 100 cr on Day 2 unless we are calculating the timings on Day 2 which it was achieved. I don’t think that’s the case.
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September 24, 2023 at 8:43 AM
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September 24, 2023 at 8:56 AM
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September 24, 2023 at 9:23 AM
PS: The worldwide gross of #SRK in 2023 is higher than the global gross of all other Hindi films put together in the year. SIMPLY PHENOMENAL & UNDISPUTED display of GLOBAL STARPOWER
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September 24, 2023 at 9:21 AM
Posting because someone was very concerned with if Jawan has 49 Cr to go but only about 20 Cr to go 🙂
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September 24, 2023 at 9:25 AM
It has probably already achieved 1000 by now since most of the shows in India and other part of the world are completed. USA still left so it’s a done deal but will post official poster tomorrow 😉
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September 24, 2023 at 5:53 PM
Yeh darrrr achcha hai !!
Maza aaya !!!
Mr 47.99 C…lmao
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September 24, 2023 at 12:24 PM
Watching reruns of GOT.
Despite the last two seasons reviewing middling reviews (everything falling in place conveniently), this is still one of the best series ever made.
The BGM is extraordinary.
The character superbly fleshed out. Not just a few. But about everyone’s.
So fleshed out the series doesn’t have a protagonist.
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September 24, 2023 at 12:27 PM
IMO this is ‘true’ first SPY Universe movie and promoted on 3 previous films – Tiger Zinda Hai, War and Pathaan on the poster itself. Movie will also end by introducing NTR Jr in the climax which Hrithik will take in War 2.
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September 24, 2023 at 12:31 PM
Greatest comeback ever in the history of Indian cinema. I’ve mentioned earlier as this is a FACT which no one can deny or repeat ever in cinema again. Giving 3 back to back ATG or 1000 crs films is not a joke when others are far away from even coming close to that number. Tiger 3 is the closest which comes but it’s already part 3 of popular franchise which has added War & Pathaan on it’s poster itself. That’s the biggest sell point ever!
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September 24, 2023 at 12:35 PM
While celebrating Jawan, let’s not forget Pathaan
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September 24, 2023 at 12:57 PM
Same guy who kept posting Jawan hype or craze is not even 10% of Pathaan.
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September 24, 2023 at 12:43 PM
Top All India Nett (Bollywood)
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September 24, 2023 at 2:35 PM
Jayshah: The biggest flip of discussions around here is if you check the statements before Pathaan and after Pathaan’s release. Before Pathaan, the consensus was that Bollywood movies were grossing low and all the 80 crs grossers pre-pandemic are now doing 30 crs post-pandemic. So, LSC doing 59 crs post pandemic is actually similar or better than Zero doing 89 crs in 2018. Runway 34 is similar to 70-80 crs grossers before pandemic and etc etc. So, in that situation – Pathaan does 500 crs and then you build new narrative flipping 180 degress that ‘this’ 500 is actually 300 crs of pre-pandemic. LMAO. So, the lower number is actually higher but the higher you goes, it’s actually lower? Matlab, my head is spinning.
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September 24, 2023 at 2:54 PM
Yes 💯
The narrative changed to ‘normalise’ 500Cr like it was 2019. It is not. The achievements are astonishing. But at same time a lot of Pathaan was a concoction of unique reasons. A 4 year hiatus. Big production. This all created a unique scenario. But Jawan following this with Gadar 2 too does suggest the troubles Bollywood had in 2022 are gone to some degree.
Great comeback for SRK and Bollywood too.
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September 24, 2023 at 4:44 PM
This is pre pandemic data
https://www.etintelligence.com/etig/researchchannels/sectors/mediaBollywoodTracker.jsp
You can use to see increase in multiplex pricing.. (just change dates at top)
https://web.archive.org/web/20091212013410/http://www.etintelligence.com/etig/researchchannels/sectors/mediaBollywoodTracker.jsp
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September 24, 2023 at 5:44 PM
Making junk vigilante films that celebrate the rogue socialist ideology is a feature of Tamils like Shankar & his sob protégé (T)Atlee funded by their DMK masters like Stalin Jr and co. Braindead films like Jawan, Jailer & Loki universe are a good pre election PR stunt for the INDIANs but since they’re so forgettable, I doubt the INC & its cronies like AAP, SP and TMC would ever get mileage out of them.
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September 24, 2023 at 7:38 PM
I don’t think there was any intention of having election results by SRK with jawan, otherwise it would have released few.month before election.
For that, wait until election time when properly timed/planned films will release like Delhi files, Emergency, etc…
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September 25, 2023 at 6:58 AM
We’ll have Donki from a far accomplished film maker talking about the poor condition of “innocent” refugees before that.. be rest assured.. amusing desperation at building up a failed propaganda 🥱
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September 25, 2023 at 7:47 AM
Still poor timed, well planner have them lined up for 2024 😉
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September 25, 2023 at 9:49 AM
The release dates are not yet known.. and yes I do hope they’re a strategic release and a stick up the commies bottoms.. Oink Oink 🐷 🐷
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September 24, 2023 at 5:59 PM
Vaccine War does not have Corporate bookings
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September 24, 2023 at 8:28 PM
Kabir Singh forcing his maid to watch Vaccine Ward..
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September 24, 2023 at 9:23 PM
Naa this is Sardar chasing Pathan..
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September 24, 2023 at 9:25 PM
Also Vivek agneehotri bajaoing Zoo Boar and his anti Bharat chelas who are out to discredit Bharat made Vaccine key baarey mein film. LMAO
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September 24, 2023 at 7:19 PM
Jay – what kind of shows do you guys consume?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/naked-attraction-brutal-full-frontal-nude-dating-show-quietly-added-to-max/ar-AA1hbSkm
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September 25, 2023 at 12:58 AM
Not these kind. Didn’t even know it existed!
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September 25, 2023 at 1:45 AM
Jawan doing 1000 crs is not the news but the speed at which it did is the news.
1000 cr club by SRK!
Pathaan : 27 days
Jawan: 18 days
This is truly outstanding to do it with that much gap within same year. By the time Tiger vs Pathaan comes along, I’m expecting 1000 crs in 7-10 days max.
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September 25, 2023 at 1:48 AM
Hindi 500 cr club
Pathaan: 28 days
Gadar2: 24 days
Jawan: 18 days.
Again from Pathaan to Jawan, the speed is over 10 days is incredible.
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September 25, 2023 at 2:00 AM
https://www.mensxp.com/entertainment/celebrities/144702-sanjay-dutt-arshad-warsi-shooting-with-rajkumar-hirani-munna-bhai-3-dunki-cameo.html
Munna Bhai 3 or Dunki cameo?’ Fans curious as Sanjay-Arshad spotted shooting with Raju Hirani
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September 25, 2023 at 7:41 AM
I doubt Hirani would be working on two films at the same time, especially when shooting of Dunki is not done.
Most likely a cameo.
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September 25, 2023 at 10:13 AM
It’s old news. It’s for an ad and already on air last week.
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September 25, 2023 at 10:28 AM
aah, would still be good to have cameo of them in Dunki to setup Munnabhai next.
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September 25, 2023 at 2:20 AM
Wed evening advance seems good for Jawan. I thought Thursday is a minor holiday is it a big holiday or what?
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September 25, 2023 at 5:38 AM
You’re in Bangalore right.. I heard the ideology behind ismart Shankar & 💩 Kumar films has declared a bandh tomorrow? 😜
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September 25, 2023 at 6:36 AM
Yeah every year 1 day they do the strike. some farmer group calls it…
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September 25, 2023 at 2:41 AM
Pathan was first 600cr for bollywood and
Jawan will cross 700cr
BB2 is the biggest hit all india ever made in india, no doubt
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September 25, 2023 at 7:44 AM
Wah SRKbhai…
Maza Aaya…
With many more big films coming up, good times for Bollywood.
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September 25, 2023 at 7:55 AM
For Hindi Language, 500 crossed.
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September 25, 2023 at 8:13 AM
From 3rd Monday on, Pathaan had collected additional 50 Cr and Gadar 2 collected 66 Cr.
I think Jawan will collect at least additional 45 Cr. It will cross 550 Cr in Hindi.
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September 25, 2023 at 9:25 AM
Wed to Sunday each day RCE estimates lower than sacnilk. Infact Sunday number of BOI is also higher than RCE actuals. Opportunity lost by SRK to increase some numbers, Sheesh!!
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September 25, 2023 at 9:35 AM
RCE should be ashamed. Missed opportunity.
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September 25, 2023 at 10:35 AM
Too bad RCE doesn’t have same team that is providing numbers for Zee 😉
BOI will report it high for one day while underreport for rest of the 6 days.
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September 25, 2023 at 9:28 AM
4 huge films in little over 2 months. From Nov 10 to Jan 25.
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September 25, 2023 at 10:25 AM
Himiesh just tweeted salaar wants to come on Dec 22nd that’s wild salaar vs dunki
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September 25, 2023 at 10:31 AM
No it won’t, Big South films now expects expects big returns from Hindi belt so they will not clash with big Hindi film which they know could beat their film.
Not only in hindi belt but hindi audience in overseas would go first for big hindi film, a film with SRK in it.
Both films will collect big but will eat into each other business by a lot.
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September 25, 2023 at 10:38 AM
Let’s see it’s all over social media let’s see if salaar team confirms, too many action movies coming out this would be a bad idea by salaars team
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September 25, 2023 at 11:46 AM
There’s a saying India.. giving milk to baby snake and when it becomes big, it ends up biting you. So much support from Hindi audience to south films and now they target biggest Hindi films and impact them openly. Shameless.
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September 25, 2023 at 12:11 PM
Clash won’t IMO but it’s a free world. I’m sure SRK’s clashed before and also been ruthless.
If they clash I go with what Z says, Dunki will come out on top.
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September 25, 2023 at 12:05 PM
My stand on this is same as what i had said when news of Pushpa 2 announcing same day release as Singham3.
Hindi audience should boycott it and i’m almost 100% sure that a lot of hindi audience will boycott salaar. Salaar will not get a single SRK fan to go see it in theater.
SRK fans will ensure Dunki has over 50 Cr opening.
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September 25, 2023 at 12:40 PM
Salaar will crush Dunki in overseas with Salaar ticket prices being double to triple of Dunki, but Dunki is NRI friendly movie and SRK has a strong fan following in overseas so Salaar should be little cautious. They will lose Hindi market and Dunki will eat out a lot from Overseas too.
It is a free world and you can’t blame Salaar for coming on this day, especially if there’s no big south release during Christmas.
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September 25, 2023 at 12:45 PM
Salaar is front loaded & Dunki is a runner. I don’t see much issue here. Salaar team though could have come week before or after. SRK’s been here before and nothing to worry about IMO.
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September 25, 2023 at 12:53 PM
US is where you have varied diaspora; I see more occupancy for South Indian movies. Other overseas outlets (Gulf, UK, APAC) are more SRK friendly.
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September 25, 2023 at 1:01 PM
There’s a huge South Indian population in Gulf so Salaar will do better if not just as well as Dunki.
Both movies will do well, it’s just that both will eat into each other business.
If Dunki is ready for Christmas, SRK will not back down. He never has.
Main negative for both films will be that if one of them is a bad film, it will tank very fast because audience will have a choice of watching another big film.
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September 25, 2023 at 1:17 PM
Salaar has confirmed it’s disaster tag
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September 25, 2023 at 1:29 PM
Googled; it is from same KGF director..And it is first installment. So they think it will do well to have multiple parts.
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September 25, 2023 at 1:45 PM
I just saw trailer, they all look the same now.
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September 25, 2023 at 3:08 PM
These movies are looking so generic now, I can’t even tell which is which from a trailer.
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September 25, 2023 at 3:47 PM
“I just saw trailer, they all look the same now.”
Which one? The teaser from 2 months ago?
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September 25, 2023 at 5:36 PM
90 seconds of Salaar on YouTube. Whatever it was Dunki will be miles better.
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September 25, 2023 at 6:34 PM
Forget Salaar, I saw the Mission Raniganj trailer and I couldn’t stop laughing as Naveen wanted that to clash with Dunki. It’s like a poor rendition of the last 1 hour of Kaala Patthar and even after 35 years, the VFX looks bad compared to the stunts done back then. Had to struggle to complete the trailer.
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September 25, 2023 at 11:35 AM
Salaar vs Dunki
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September 25, 2023 at 11:42 AM
Action movies >>> Slice of life films. So, Salaar will be higher than Dunki easily.
I doubt Salaar team would have dared to release against Jawan. Maybe they have news that Dunki is moving to Eid next year.
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September 25, 2023 at 11:46 AM
Let them clash would be fun, too many action films releasing dunki will be fresh. Srk and hirani movie don’t need to move, salaar will suffer in the Hindi belt
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September 25, 2023 at 12:08 PM
Prabhas was congratulating SRK after Jawan super weekend and SRK responded to him. I think team Salaar found out from SRK that Dunki is moving to next year.
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September 25, 2023 at 12:20 PM
Srk confirmed just last week at Jawan event dunki coming Christmas
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September 25, 2023 at 1:34 PM
Salaar is not Project K not sure why people are worrying so much. This is not a Pan India movie. Its a regular Telugu movie which will come as a dubbed movie and not a sequel too. No actors in it are Hindi apart from Prabhas who is the only famous face here. It might do well but i dont see it a threat to Dunki as Dunki dont need to release in huge number of theatres like Jawaan. I dont see Salaar like a KGF2 or Adipurush. One had Hindi faces in it along with Prabhas and was universal epic and other was a sequel. I think what Salaar is targetting is the core South market here and the overseas markets which Telugu movies usually target. And overseas there is never a theatre issue anyways. Think of Salaar as a regular South movie which might come in Hindi dub in around 2000 theatres outside South.
The North distributor market has earned a lot from SRKs last movies their loyalties will be very clear specially in multiplexes when it comes to show allotment
South is where Salaar will affect Dunki but then Dunki wont anyways be targeting interiors of South. Salaar Day 1 will be bigger than Dunki naturally as Dunki is not a Jawaan or Pathaan
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September 25, 2023 at 1:43 PM
Just check out Salaar’s interest on BMS without even a proper teaser being released. That should answer why it might be perceived as a threat to Dunki
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September 25, 2023 at 1:45 PM
People cried nonstop when Gadar2 clashed with Akshay guest appearance movie, now this is full fledged Prabas movie with KGF2 director and then action loaded. Dunki will get affected and what you loose in first 10 days, it’s hard to make up in January. Lifetime will be affected.
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September 25, 2023 at 1:46 PM
Lol
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September 25, 2023 at 2:13 PM
If indeed there is a clash..there will be South vs Bollywood narrative; Salaar is coming in five languages with KGF director; SRK is coming with two 500+ crore plus with Raju Hirani…
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September 25, 2023 at 2:14 PM
Project K is releasing on Jan 12, so why would you want to have 2 releases in 3 weeks? If Project K is moving, the have Salaar release on Jan 12. Or better make part 2 of Salaar and release same year, Lol.
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September 25, 2023 at 2:20 PM
“If indeed there is a clash..there will be South vs Bollywood narrative”
100%.
I disagree with Krish on that Salaar is just another south film releasing in dubbed version in hindi belt. Prbhaas is a big name and more than that the director is of KFG2 fame. It’s an action movie so it will do well. This is not Radhe-Shyam.
SRK/Team Dunki has nothing to worry about. Yes, it will take away a lot of money from first 10 days and you can’t easily recover that but stick to your guns and come on scheduled day.
Plenty of films have done well releasing on same day. As long as it’s not LSC/Raksha Bandhan type of deal, i’m happy 🙂
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September 25, 2023 at 2:21 PM
I haven’t checked BMS interest but I don’t think to know it’s a huge film with KGF2 director. One huge and another small film is fine but not 2 huge films.
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September 25, 2023 at 5:29 PM
SRK fantasizing fools willing to discredit Salman Khan’s superstardom and even claiming Tiger 3 is now an SRK film are amusingly sweating about some second rung star (in Hindi circuits) like Prabhas challenging a post Pathan/Jawan SRK collaborating with The Raju Hirani.. funny! Dunki vs Salaar (Hindi) is not even a contest. Salaar in Tamil/Telugu/Hindi might collect what Dunki would worldwide in Hindi as long as its at par with Hirani’s first 4 films.
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September 25, 2023 at 5:47 PM
Funnily, no one is actually worried about the clash, the only point is that it’ll unnecessarily damage Dunki in creating true records and you don’t get such actor-director combinations daily, so would have expected solo release and check the true potential of boxoffice in India. If movie is good, it’ll still do well but the potential of success will be damaged if those first 10 days screens are shared. No 60-70 crs single days and all that will eat up lifetime totals. No one’s sweating if Dunki will be success or will flop if Salaar releases but talking about the damage it can do which can hurt record grosser.
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September 26, 2023 at 12:24 AM
Tony, have been noticing it since long that whenever any Srk movie is about to release, you try to create some sense of fear among fans by bringing in different theories. What’s real motive behind all this, you might be knowing better. My conciousness says you are one of the biggest Srk haters by heart but trying to project yourself as a sobber/ reasonable person. Come on man! show your hatred openly as that will be appreciated more instead of acting like this.
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September 25, 2023 at 2:51 PM
https://www.123telugu.com/mnews/prabhass-salaar-shoot-resumes-in-hyderabad-deets-inside.html
An eight-day schedule without Prabhas has kick-started in Hyderabad on Monday, Sep 25.
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September 25, 2023 at 2:56 PM
There were some news floating around on this last week where Prabhaas and distributors who saw some glimpse were totally not impressed so this could be a reshoot from that feedback.
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September 25, 2023 at 3:53 PM
As I said earlier, Dunki should move to Eid and the Tiger 3 should come on Christmas and clash with Salaar. Two action movies.
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September 26, 2023 at 12:06 AM
KGF1 did half of Zero when Zero is huge flop. The history doesn’t look promising for them to use this piece to clash again.
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September 26, 2023 at 12:22 AM
I agree with Shivaay here. Prabhas is not as big a star in Hindi belt as people think he is and Salaar is not Pushpa 2 or KGF2.
Also The BMS thing for South movies work differently. Skanda is at 200K , Leo is at 300K does anyone here think this means these two movies will do well in North Belt. No? Why? Salaar BMS is also same thing, it is all the Telugu crowd from Hyderabad to Vijaywada clicking to show interest thats how it works for all South movies. The BMS interest is concentrated not like Jawan or Pathaan which is across states
Prabhas was big after Bahubali and Saaho opened big, even that was around 25cr if i remember. Then Radhe Shyam we know what happened to it in Hindi belt. Why couldnt it open if he is so popular? Adipurush was a different kind of movie again. Fan club in South will upp Salaar but North wont care. The North distrubutor also wont. Best of luck finding a good set of theatres. Salaar is lucky that Dunki is atleast clashable. It doesnt need 5000 theatres, Even without a clash it will open aroud 35 to 40crs IMO. I dont think this figure will change even with a clash.
Salaar wont open more than 15 to 20cr in Hindi belt. I will stick my neck on this. And the movie wont be bad as Prashant Neel is a good director too. But the reason he is clashing is it is a free date for Telugu market not because he is targetting Hindi belt. If he planned to target 300cr in Hindi he wont be releasing with Dunki. His target is Telugu market South and overseas. Dunki is a 100cr movie, Salaar is a 250 cr movie, Hence it is very important for Salaar to get a good date in AP/tel and Dec is a very good date for same in whole of South and OS. Hindi belt dont even lose sleep.
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September 26, 2023 at 12:34 AM
I meant to say Dunki wont open 50 to 60 cr anyway it will open 35 to 45cr and that wont change much as it wont need 5000 theatres
Srk has managed bigger and better screens before in clashes with Bhansali, Roshan before and those are bigger production houses. Here they are going against a relatively unknown production house.
Lastly the movie is a Hirani movie. If he has made a decent Hirani movie things will take care of itself
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September 26, 2023 at 12:41 AM
Agree, fine points. I don’t know why they are hell bent on losing Hindi collections. If KGF2 did over 400 crs, Salaar on solo release could have done 300 crs Hindi. Secondly, if Project K is coming on Jan 12, isn’t too close to both films? If not..then why not move Salaar to Jan 12th? Besides all this as Munna said this will be murky clash with all North vs South and dividing and losing the goodwill of south industry. Already they announced Pushpa 2 on Singham 3 date and now Salaar is doing same. You can’t openly hurt or challenge Hindi movie industry, the fans or trade won’t appreciate it.
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September 26, 2023 at 1:02 AM
Master you’re losing way too much sleep over this. This won’t hurt SRK at all.
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September 26, 2023 at 1:09 AM
Lol, okay. As Himesh puts it they didn’t announce officially and sent message to distributors and testing waters. They may not release it actually. Either ways, I’m not worried about SRK in the movie, I feel Dunki’s responsibility lies more on Hirani as compared to Pathaan or Jawan where it was SRK, the star at forefront.
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September 26, 2023 at 12:56 AM
Deadline tweet! The biggest Bollywood movie ever – got it right than many here!
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September 26, 2023 at 1:39 AM
Jawan Becomes The Highest-Grossing Indian Movie In Gulf Countries
“Jawan” has scored $14.10+ million so far in 19 days, crossing “Pathaan’s” $14.10 million lifetime collection.
*****
Many here claimed that Pathaan only succeeded that much coz its named Pathaan and attracted certain demographic. I wonder, how the hell did Jawan beat its lifetime collections in 19 days within same year without much inflation or any festive release. Matlab kuch bhi??
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September 26, 2023 at 1:45 AM
I like Vasan Bala movies. Alia Bhatt, the producer, the star.
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September 26, 2023 at 2:20 AM
Krish- why did RCE 3rd weekend collections are lower when everyone suggested it’s higher. Even BOI who’s giving lower daily gave 3rd weekend as 32.75 crs and RCE gave as 32.50. Lol. It should be easily 34.50 to 35.
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September 26, 2023 at 3:06 AM
Nothing to worry about the clash. Gadar 2 got to 500cr plus with OMG2 releasing on same day and collecting 150cr plus. There was Jailor in the South and it was a huge grosser there. A week or 2 later Dreamgirl 2 made it to 100cr plus.
Gadar 2 did it with 3500 screens and despite the clashes. if anything is liked, there is nothing to worry about. Both Salaar and Dunk can work. However, one should not under-estimate Salaar in the North. I remember LSC was to release alongside KGF2 and the narrative in this forum was that LSC would thrash KGF everywhere!
It seems that Salaar is being promoted upon the basis of KGF2 and in that case no one can under estimate it in the Hindi belt and Maharashtra.
If both films are good enough, they will work well alongside each other. Gadar 2 has just proven that.
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September 26, 2023 at 4:30 AM
Its wierd actually. Saturday was tracking around 12.5 just Hindi and Sunday 14.25..Sacnilk must be scratching their heads with their model what went wrong when they are tracking 80% cinemas these days. Even BMS ticket drops were indicating higher number both days. No wonder BOI is also higher than RCE which is a rare phenomenon by itself for any movie which doesnt do well in East Punjab.
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September 26, 2023 at 6:20 AM
https://tracktollywood.com/telugu-producers-upset-and-dissatisfied-with-salaar-makers-strategy/
Half a dozen major southern films to release on Xmas & they all are pissed at Hombale now.. rightly so
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September 26, 2023 at 7:03 AM
Dunki to release on Dec 21st in Overseas
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September 26, 2023 at 7:12 AM
Yeah just read himesh tweet they must be confident I think they should also release in India in 21st also
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September 26, 2023 at 7:06 AM
They have to be pretty confident to release 1 day early, they actually want the positive WOM to trickle into India
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September 26, 2023 at 7:16 AM
Great strategy if movie is great, salaar team should think about what they doing going against hirani and srk but let’s see going to be fun I want this clash it makes it exciting lol
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September 26, 2023 at 7:47 AM
It should release on 21st (Thursday) in India too. Jawan released on Thursday too.
I’m super confident that Dunki has nothing to worry about if Salaar releases on same day (I still think salaar makers are just testing the water to see what kind of feedback they get from hindi belt).
Dunki is made by Bollywood biggest director with biggest star, you can’t pretend like you’re a runner up with having two out of three ace in your film.
Genre is different too.
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September 26, 2023 at 2:19 PM
I see you left a message in feedback.
I see comments after that. I assume things are working now?
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September 26, 2023 at 7:30 AM
Jawan had a strong Monday with about 5 Cr in Hindi.
Tuesday is holding up about just as well as Monday.
I think it will collect decent 4th weekend too despite Vaccine War and Fukrey 3 releasing.
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September 26, 2023 at 8:44 AM
RCE gave 4.90 when everyone suggested over 5 crs. I think it’s on purpose, they just want it to cross 550 crs official and not more.
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September 26, 2023 at 9:43 AM
The Vaccine War team with Rubika Liyaquat !!
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September 26, 2023 at 11:04 AM
Multiple updates about Aamir Khan films!
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September 26, 2023 at 11:20 AM
Highway chase was too good on big screen!
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September 26, 2023 at 11:21 AM
Fun times ahead…
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September 26, 2023 at 12:23 PM
Taran gives Fukrey3 4 stars.
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September 26, 2023 at 2:44 PM
Charlie Chopra and the Mystery of the Solang Valley
Sittaford and Exampton become Solang and Manali in this well-renditioned version of Agatha Christie’s murder story, with some additional character arcs and subplots.
The cinematography does apt justice to the setting of the novel, and the story moves ahead at a brisk pace. Bhardwaj exercises a strong control over the narrative and one can say he is in better form than some of his directorial features lately. I think this man is in the best of form when he’s working on adaptations rather than original stories penned by him. Matru ki bijlee etc was IMO an interesting attempt at a stoner black comedy and satire but that was a major misfire.
IMO the best decision he took was to make this into a series format instead of a film version, which allows the plot to breathe and characters and setting to take shape. The result is a satisfying, if not flawless, attempt. The Teesri Manzil references were golden (one instance where Prem Nath is confused for Prem Chopra) to drive an important point is a writing triumph.
Better than Branagh’s efforts for sure. Looking forward to more Bhardwaj adaptations of Christie’s classics
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September 26, 2023 at 5:44 PM
https://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/naseeruddin-shah-couldnt-watch-rrr-pushpa-due-to-hypermasculinity-101695743221762.html
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September 26, 2023 at 6:43 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/may/01/born-to-fly-review-chinese-top-gun-puts-tech-propaganda-in-the-frontline
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September 26, 2023 at 7:02 PM
Good VFX.
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September 26, 2023 at 7:17 PM
Anybody has Hotstar here in USA?
Do you have to get Disney bundle?
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September 26, 2023 at 7:51 PM
I have it as part of Hulu. It is not straight forward navigation (there is hub section, and you can access programming there). If you have student in house, then:
https://www.hulu.com/student
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September 26, 2023 at 7:54 PM
Oh, that’s great. I have 3 in UCONN.
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September 26, 2023 at 7:55 PM
I think world cup will be on Hotstar and my dad needs to watch like every single game.
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September 26, 2023 at 8:27 PM
I think games would be on Willow or ESPN+. Alternatively JioSports using VPN.
I think, Hotstar no longer owns the cricket broadcast rights.
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September 27, 2023 at 6:01 AM
https://www.wionews.com/sports/icc-world-cup-2023-live-streaming-9-days-to-go-heres-how-to-watch-world-cup-in-your-country-639749
Its Hotstar in India, part of the star tv network. Willow & Espn+ in the US.
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September 27, 2023 at 12:24 AM
Saying that on VRA’s face. Woh mera apna hai! good.
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September 27, 2023 at 12:38 AM
Again saying, it’s good to say Nana back on screen after that stupid Me too fiasco. I was probably only one here supporting openly that Tanushree Datta got it completely wrong and Nana is far from a person abusing women. He’s rough but never an abuser. That’s the worst allegation for any celeb in recent times.
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September 27, 2023 at 7:56 AM
VRA is a self centered prick who is using current govt to his advantage by playing to the gallery, just like kangana.
Give it 5 years time and his tune will start changing little just like how kangana is now changing seeing her career is going nowhere.
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September 27, 2023 at 12:46 AM
Tiger 3 teaser in about 45 mins here.
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September 27, 2023 at 1:38 AM
Not really teaser but the scale looks good. Waiting for better teaser.
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September 27, 2023 at 3:40 AM
Tiger 3 from its first teaser has the potential to outgross Jawan/Pathaan if it connects.
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September 27, 2023 at 4:18 AM
I think there is going to be a film in the very near future that is going to blow every record (Hindi) away and hit the 650-700cr mark. The so-called records of right now, be it Pathan or Gadar 2 or Jawaan are not going to last too long.
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September 27, 2023 at 5:51 AM
With today ticket price those figure is achievable but still you need maybe 4.5cr over footfalls to get there. I think this is the hard part because higher ticket prices will likely reduced number of repeated audiences. 650-700cr for hindi alone you may need more or more 20% watched more than 1 times.
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September 27, 2023 at 6:51 AM
Yep. Gadar 2 is a great example of a movie released on 30%+ less screens (and I assume lower ATP compared to Pathaan/Jawan) but still reaching ballpark range of Pathaan and Jawan.
If you take Gadar 2 + OMG 2 you can find a situation where a film appeals to both demographics and finds a good release date and can push towards 700Cr.
The occupancy for Gadar 2 judging from sacnilk data is more optimised than many wider releases.
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September 27, 2023 at 8:11 AM
“If you take Gadar 2 + OMG 2 you can find a situation where a film appeals to both demographics and finds a good release date and can push towards 700Cr.”
Not sure I agree with this. Because that would be like saying if you take Sholay + Jai Santoshi Maa (both blockbuster in their own rights), and you have a film that caters to both demographic. This means every single film has not reached capacity including sholay.
I think the capacity is about 500 to 550 Cr, max 600 Cr. What will get you over 400 Cr is the repeat audience and number of times they watch it.
Think of Rohit Shetty argument during Sooryavanshi, he was saying if his movie had released on double the screens it would have done 350 Cr. It certainly would have done more than 200 Cr but just cause you release it on more screens doesn’t mean it will double in collection too. Because the movie was doing like 50 to 60% capacity first weekend. you can’t fill the screens you have, what makes you think if you double it up that capacity would remain same?
I think a movie that will really give us good indication on the cap (if it’s 550, 600 or more) will be Dunki or Pushpa (not too sure about Dunki since it’s not an action film).
Tiger3 may actually touch 550 if it clicks with audience and if there’s a longer Pathaan cameo.
No matter how we look at it, 2023 has erased the bad memories of past few years for Bollywood, fun times ahead.
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September 27, 2023 at 8:33 AM
600 Cr capacity is only forgettable popcorn films that have no long term value apart from fanatics & militant fans milking posters before release. A universal entertainer with brand value and anticipation like Bahubali 2 can comfortably surpass 800-900 Cr in Hindi alone. Even urban entertainers with high repeat value 3 Idiots and Dangal are well over 700 Cr by today’s pricing and taxation. Dunki has every chance of that of its as accepted as 3I and PK.
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September 27, 2023 at 7:53 AM
“The so-called records of right now”
This gives it away but for now Pathaan is the record holder and will soon be passed by Jawan.
“I think there is going to be a film in the very near future that is going to blow every record (Hindi) away and hit the 650-700cr mark”
Dunki can do that.
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September 27, 2023 at 9:32 AM
Be it Hollywood or Bollywood all top 3 earning films right now were dominated by action genre. No matter how good and well received Dunki i still find it very hard to pass over 600cr. This is even more difficult to pull it off considering Dunki high in urban comedy and drama which is not major attraction to audiences at B and C centres. But in oversea i have no doubt it will pass 50 million in its first worldwide release. I still hope Hirani prove me wrong.
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September 27, 2023 at 9:52 AM
Agree, and if Salaar releases at the same time, it will take big chunk of audience away with it’s action theme.
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September 27, 2023 at 8:16 AM
Strong and more importantly, steady hold in week 3.
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September 27, 2023 at 8:44 AM
Raju Hirani during AskSRK session!
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September 27, 2023 at 8:45 AM
Fixed hai..
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September 27, 2023 at 9:12 AM
SRK will not back down because of Salaar or any other movie. Only reason it will move is if the product is not ready just like how they moved away from June for Jawan (decision rightly made).
Has Salaar makers officially announced Christmas release?
Lots of people in South will be pi$$ed because it’s going to hurt crowded South Christmas release more than Dunki.
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September 27, 2023 at 9:33 AM
No action..
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September 27, 2023 at 9:35 AM
SRK forcibly added action even in DDLJ climax and not in s ript which they shot in 2 hours without proper care thinking not to keep but then everyone loved in editing room and they kept it. It was best decision by SRK to add action even back then.
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September 27, 2023 at 9:50 AM
If you look at any interviews of SRK past 30 years, he has always insisted on doing action films. it’s just romance bought great success and then all makers took that route but deep down in his heart, he always wanted to do more action films.
And with Pathaan and Jawan, he has proven how natural he is at action films. SRK has a very fluid body and doesn’t look stiff like salman/aamir.
I hope Dunki does have one of those small DDLJ or Pardes type of Climax action sequence.
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September 27, 2023 at 12:28 PM
Finally, one can never know..Salaar can back off just 1 week before release. So, let’s leave it for now. We have almost 3 more months.
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September 27, 2023 at 10:08 AM
You guys are underestimating SRK/Dunki/Hirani now the same way you were underestimating Atlee after initial songs of Jawan came out. Only Shivaay and Jay have got it right IMO. Salaar will get swallowed by Dunki in Hindi belt.
There was never any question of backing down. SRK + Hirani would never back down when they have announced 2 years back the date. If anything Salaar kickstarted the promotion of Dunki early. I will also confirm that the Telugu industry is completely pissed by Salaar makers and there is lot of internal pressure for them to stop this release because it has created a big problem for movies already planed on that date.
The Telugu fan clubs can only do so much up North. But SRK now has a very organized fan club too which functions very well if you know what happened in pathaan and Jawan. All of them will help to promote now. A movie like Dunki is fine not to be promoted much but now there wil be more attention to it
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September 27, 2023 at 10:43 AM
I don’t think anyone is underestimating SRK/Dunki/Hirani.
But you can’t disregard the director of KGF2 completely, especially salaar being action film which will cater to B&C centers.
I do sense that there may be silent boycott of salaar by many in hindi belt.
“SRK now has a very organized fan club too which functions very well”
This i think is very much underestimated by non-srk fans. I don’t think they realize how strong and big SRK-Fan base is at promoting SRK movies at ground level and SRK movie getting a great opening.
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September 27, 2023 at 11:05 AM
Krish, south will impact hugely. For areas like Bangalore, AP where we had over 800 shows for Jawan, and Pathaan, they will get around 250 shows now for Dunki. Secondly, for North, Multiplexes showing 8-9 shows for Jawan will settle for 5 shows max and 2 each for Salaar and Aquaman. So, the impact will be there just in giving shows. Forget about acceptance or the movie being good or bad. The shows will impact the collections. Single screens can actually prefer Salaar over Dunki outside metros.That what’s I’m mentioning.
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September 27, 2023 at 11:14 AM
Master and I are same page. It’s not about over or underestimating any films. Simple logic/math is that screens will get divided so you’re not capitilizing of full potential.
If there are 100 people waiting in line for lunch and one guy has a masala dosa stall and another guy has pav bhaji stall, based on taste/like, it will get divided. maybe 70 will go for masala dosa, the other 30 will go for pav bhaji.
Now if there’s only masala dosa stall, all 100 people will go for that.
The issue comes if masala dosa has bad taste and pav bhaji stall is available, next day, majority will start going to pav bhaji stall cause there’s a choice. But that doesn’t help with the revenue you lost on day 1 or the whole weekend.
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September 27, 2023 at 12:09 PM
I don’t think your comparison makes sense. There’s tremendous excess capacity shown by occupancy %”s and Gadar 2 shows on less screens you can still hit great lifetime milestones.
The only true impact of divided screens is if a film is operating at near capacity. The numbers suggest at average occupancy levels this rarely happens.
I guess it happened a bit with Gadar 2 judging by articles out there but there are so many shows now that losing screens shouldn’t matter. If it matters in short term it only matters more for a disaster film. For a WoM film it won’t matter in the end.
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September 27, 2023 at 12:18 PM
BOI keeps repeating that Gadar2 could have done 600 crs with solo release. Similarly, OMG2 could have crossed 200 crs. It’s very rare to achieve full potential with a clash. It used to happen 20 years back but it can’t be anymore and specifically the bigger films. If it’s medium budgeted films, it’ll get its audience eventually but a bigger film is always gonna lose some % during clash. Here both Dunki and Salaar will lose some and possibly Salaar more. Salaar could get 2500 screens now and if solo anyway, it could have done 4000 screens. Dunki could have gotten 6000 screens and now will get max 4000 screens. It’s just math. Both Kaabil and Raees couldn’t touch 150 crs. Both Shivaay and Ae Dil Hai Mushkil couldn’t touch 150 crs and if solo, at least 3 of these 4 films would have touched 150 crs during that time.
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September 27, 2023 at 12:19 PM
Son of Sardaar vs Jab Tak Hai Jaan, again impacted each other.
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September 27, 2023 at 12:32 PM
Inside sources is saying Salaar is doing this for publicity and get back the hype and finally will move to Jan 12th date of Kalki. Now, it’s all over the news with just this news.
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September 27, 2023 at 1:08 PM
The dosa analogy works only if movie is running out of capacity and is extremely front loaded. A movie like dunki won’t need so many screens and the 50 who didn’t see it will anyways come back later to see it. I am not saying there won’t be any impact but impact is more for the front loaded movie. If jawan was in a clash it’s worrying. Dunki can co exist as it wouldn’t be releasing in 6k theatres anyways. It’s South where salaar can affect dunki but pathaan grossed more than Walter veeraiya and Veera simha Reddy in hyd multiplexes releasing around same time as them. Dunki will manage if movie is good which hirani will ensure
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September 27, 2023 at 1:23 PM
I guess i’m sthinking from perspective of what if a person has enough money to eat just masala dosa or pav bhaji (not both)?
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September 27, 2023 at 10:08 AM
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September 27, 2023 at 10:10 AM
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September 27, 2023 at 10:22 AM
Great Interview of Vivek Agnihotri
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September 27, 2023 at 10:30 AM
Superb take on Propaganda by Vivek
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September 27, 2023 at 10:46 AM
Hahaha, taking a page out of Aditya Chopra brain. Great strategy and coming at the right time where it has already exhausted most of it’s collection. This should ensure 10 Cr 4th weekend despite Fukre3 and VW…
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September 27, 2023 at 10:49 AM
Kya bol rahe ho Z,
Could have waited one more weekend. It was anyways going to do 5cr Thu, 4 cr Fri, another 18 cr Sat to Mon. it is holding so well today it is better than Tuesday. Even with theatre loss tomorrow it would have gone to 5cr on Thursday due to the holiday.
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September 27, 2023 at 11:00 AM
Nonsense promotion already. Could have started from Oct 3rd (Tue)and announced on that day only. The weekend collections would be strong and you are losing audience from Sunday and Monday. Why would anyone have this promotion for Sat? Thu has holiday as well.
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September 27, 2023 at 11:02 AM
Yes, it is holding up very well and today it is actually doing just as well as yesterday if not slightly better.
This strategy is good because it will entice some audience to go for a big budget film vs new films.
At this point (3 weeks into it), everyone who wanted to see it has already seen it including repeat audience. Now it’s all about getting some additional audience and the repeat audience again; and buy 1 get 1 free gives them an incentive to go see it again.
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September 27, 2023 at 10:49 AM
Taran gives VW 4 star.
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September 27, 2023 at 1:02 PM
At 8pm BMS was doing 4500 tickets per hour. At 10 pm it’s doing 10k tickets an hour
The 1 on 1 offer has doubled the tickets being sold but the revenue will be roughly same only. That’s why it made sense to wait for a week more
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September 27, 2023 at 1:09 PM
Yep.. but why Sat? Thu & Fri still fine but Sat is off-limits. It’s weekend, Lol.
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September 27, 2023 at 1:17 PM
I hope SRK hired Zee Accountants 😉
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September 27, 2023 at 1:18 PM
This is a very poor way to look at it IMO. It’s looking only at film collections.
This has doubled the footfalls in the complex and most probably doubled the revenue from Food & Drink. You’ve boosted the ecosystem.
As Z by in large anybody who wanted to see the movie would have already…this is driving repeat business and walk ins that may not have happened at higher ATP. The cinema benefits totally.
Now popcorn will be out of stock etc
I don’t get the ‘greed’ here. Film is already a blockbuster and this is a great opportunity to widen the reach.
Plus there is a hypothetical WoM opportunity here created that may not have existed prior at higher ATP.
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September 27, 2023 at 1:29 PM
I think this would be more for let’s say someone who don’t go to movies except special occasion like B-Day, Anniversary, etc and it’s someones B-day this Friday or Saturday, they’ll go for Jawan especially since it’s half price.
Repeat audience would have to be a SRK fans at this point to go see it 3rd, 4th time, not sure how many times an average movie fan will see movie more then once or twice.
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September 27, 2023 at 1:31 PM
In US, movie ticket was $4 but concession pricing was $17 🙂
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September 27, 2023 at 1:52 PM
My wife had wanted to eat popcorn while watching jawan so i went to get it, the large bucket bucket was $12. I went back empty handed and told wife the line was very long.
I usually bring those boxed M&Ms from DollarTrees, same candy at theaters is like $5.
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September 27, 2023 at 1:59 PM
Exactly! Here I would buy popcorn from outside. Rip off price in cinema. One of the highest marked up prices in the world in the West. You are literally paying 20+ times the price.
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September 27, 2023 at 2:12 PM
Cinemas typically don’t allow outside food. It is their (private)property, their rules.
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September 27, 2023 at 2:09 PM
Small one is quite big and there is not much price difference between sizes.
With popcorn you need soft drink 🙂
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September 27, 2023 at 1:55 PM
“I went back empty handed and told wife the line was very long.”
I hope she’s not reading this blog.
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September 27, 2023 at 2:17 PM
“I hope she’s not reading this blog.”
She would understand.
We went on Tuesdays when ticket price was like $6 so $12 for two tickets, no way she would be okay with paying $12 for a bucket of popcorn.
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September 27, 2023 at 2:18 PM
Multiplexes make money only with food. Thats a fact. Just movies alone will never survive plexes.
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September 27, 2023 at 1:56 PM
Look at Brahmastra last year
Weekend 2 drop = 67%
Weekend 3 drop = 47%
Weekend 4 drop = 82%
Day 13 Wednesday = 3.2
Day 14 Thu = 2.7
Day 15 Fri = 8.8, sat = 5.9, sun = 6.3 so 3rd Weekend = 21Cr
If you follow the normal lead up to the Weekend, there is no way off 2.7cr thu Brahmastra makes 21cr 3rd Weekend. It probably goes max Fri = 3cr, sat = 5cr, sun = 8cr to make 16cr (that’s the max).
The counter you may illustrate is its now picked up collections in Weekend 3 and forfeited future business. Yes Weekend 4 fell by 80%+ but I could argue it needed to maintain lower prices.
Simply put the daily movements pre and post cinema day for Brahmastra explains the dynamics of pricing perfectly. Going to the cinema has turned into a luxury product. Once it returns to something more people can afford you’ll see more footfalls. It can only be a good thing to have more footfalls. Not just theatre benefits. But travel & hospitality grows. Your malls are fuller and people spend way more than they would have otherwise.
I won’t step into a cinema now unless its £5 or below. And I’m earning decent enough money. So just imagine the rest.
Another way to look at is this. The price of one ticket if I look properly in UK is half the hourly minimum wage. At the top end its one hour of minimum wage.
I bet in India it’s not like this. I bet people are getting ripped off. Plus you don’t even know if you’d like the movie.
Cinema is not salt/bread/sugar. You could increase price on salt tomorrow and make more revenue. It’s a necessity whereas cinema is a choice. The multiplexes in India have started a vicious cycle in mid 00s that they can’t get out of. Every tentpole feels the need to outprice the previous.
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September 27, 2023 at 2:03 PM
We have lot of $5 shows in US as well at morning times at standard cinemeas. I recently went to Jawan in regular AMC and came out in 30 mins and couldn’t bear inferior watching experience after watching it in IMAX, so went and watched in Cinemark XD (next to IMAX). Those kind of screens are usually out in 2 weeks and then you have all these standard screens with much cheaper prices. I don’t think big scale action movies are enjoyed in them. I know many still watch it but I don’t enjoy it.
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September 27, 2023 at 2:21 PM
That is different. You actually care about your experience more than others. I haven’t cared at all. I’ve only watched handful of movies outside 2d format.
You are clearly a movie buff. You are like 0.001% of the worlds population in this aspect of being a movie buff. Rest mere mortals won’t care as much.
I say this from standpoint of economics and my degree. Cinema is unbelievably disposable for almost most people. The only way to turn that around is to make it affordable. If it’s cheaper it benefits way more other industries. Food, drink, travel, hospitality, leisure etc. I saw oppenheimer for £4.50. Now in doing so I travelled, bought a drink at a bar, played a game of pool…in the end spent probably £10. Now the retail price of the ticket I bought was £9 but I got 2 for 1. I wouldn’t buy at £9. So none of us would go. We each keep £9 in our pocket. But instead we all spent £10 – watched the movie, had a drink, played pool, all contributed to travel cost.
I’ve gone and said to another 10 people it’s good. Only 1 person out of that 10 needs to go and oppenheimer gets even more money. Instead of £0 they’ve made £9 from 2 people + whatever that 1 out 10 person paid plus a bunch of others have fleeced us for drinks and pool.
Lesson- everything has a price. A fanatic SRK fan in UK might pay £50 but not all can afford it.
I haven’t got into funding a family of 4 in UK to cinema + food & drink. You do it my way it would work out under £15. Do it how the cinema wants you to it’ll cost nearly £75.
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September 27, 2023 at 2:29 PM
Jay,
I think USA is little different. IMAX is very big here and normal. All big movies gets a release in it and most do go for that. Especially with kids.
People here spends crazy amount of money on entertainment, be it movies, sports, concerts, etc..
I go to about 2 to 3 Football games a season and they can easily add up to over $600 for two people. But i love going to games.
You’ll be surprised how big even college football games are, a lot of college draws about 75,000 attendance every saturday.
Beer will be $11 a bottle, and a slice of pizza $8.
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September 27, 2023 at 2:51 PM
Uk is sports crazy. Price of a football match (two top sides) is £100+. My cousin is going to Tottenham Liverpool next weekend, he paid £130. I understand exactly what you are saying. But cinema is not sports is what I’m saying at least for majority of people.
The same cousin is going to India and is offered India vs Pakistan tickets for £200. I said that is a bloody bargain. Everyone picks their own poison. Only I think on list of poison, cinema has become less relevant. I would pay £200 for India vs Pakistan even after learning it’s 10 times the face value of the ticket. Normal people would never pay 10 times the face value for a cinema ticket. That basically explains the difference between the two things.
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September 27, 2023 at 4:18 PM
https://www.studocu.com/en-gb/document/aston-university/intro-to-microeconomics/elasticities-of-demand/13829436
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September 27, 2023 at 2:36 PM
I still have Tiger 3(1 or 2), Animal(1) and Dunki (1-3) by this year end. That’s like 5 more times min this year.
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September 27, 2023 at 2:09 PM
The price is high for IMAX or XD but I think the difference is night and day with brighter screens and excellent sound systems. I couldn’t recommend any less and of you watch only 4-5 films in cinemas, you shouldn’t complain about pricing and watch it in best screens possible.
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September 27, 2023 at 2:23 PM
Agree 100%.
I go to movies maybe 3 times a year. (this year has been bad, i’ve already been 5 times including twice for jawan) so i try to go for XD screen. I didn’t enjoy the IMAX for Jawan, too loud, to a point where it’s all bass without proper difference in the channels. It’s like all channels are playing at same level with same sounds.
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September 27, 2023 at 2:31 PM
You have been complaining about your IMAX screen sound system from the time of Dunkirk. Go and tell them to fix it at least before Dunki. 😆
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September 27, 2023 at 2:33 PM
XD is great in itself… you don’t need IMAX unless it’s IMAX shot. But definitely standard is boring and would always prefer XD.
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September 27, 2023 at 2:54 PM
The XD at my place is great, the screen is actually wider then IMAX and the sound is simply amazing with front center, front left/right, rear right/left as well as atmos firing perfect sound.
Issue is not all Hindi movies are screened in that screen, did get to watch RRR and Pathaan in it.
Jawan was in IMAX.
2nd viewing of jawan was in very small screen and i think i have a better sound system at my house 🙂
I have a 7.2 setup for now with 2 ceiling atmos speakers.
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September 27, 2023 at 2:57 PM
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September 27, 2023 at 1:53 PM
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September 27, 2023 at 2:58 PM
Jawan putting up solid hold on Wednesday night shows. Better collection then Tuesday.
Master/Krish are probably right, this buy 1 get 1 will hurt Jawan collection. Jawan could have easily made 7 cr tomorrow. I think it will still get to 6 cr tomorrow if not more.
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