He continued with films such as ‘Jab Harry Met Sejal’, ‘Zero’ and ‘Dear Zindagi’, and when he tried to be different in movies like ‘Ra.One’ (a superhero film), ‘Fan’ (self-aggrandizement) or ‘Raees’, he had chosen the wrong subjects, ones which failed to change his image.Īkshay Kumar seemed to be doing all right with varied subjects, which were away from the routine and gaining popularity as well as a fan following. Why these two remakes, ‘The Little Boy’ (a failure, otherwise), and ‘The Outlaws’, which was unbearable?!Īs for Shah Rukh Khan, he faced the same problem that eventually all actors whose careers are built on romantic films do. Is it that easy to control the underworld anywhere in the world? It looked as if the film had been made by putting together bits and pieces of action scenes deleted from previous Salman films. The film did not bother to introduce its characters and it had no storyline.Ī villain had just arrived in Mumbai and taken control of the underworld. The audience, Salman fans, were again taken for granted in yet another home production, ‘Radhe’, a remake of the South Korean film, ‘The Outlaws’. And there was a dearth of side actors to fill up the screen a la ‘Ready’ or ‘Bodyguard’. Was Salman Khan playing a mentally challenged grown-up the same as the young boy in the American film? Apparently, it was not. The original was an American film, ‘Little Boy’, about a boy in search of his father who went to fight in World War II. So we got ‘Tubelight’, where he plays a mentally challenged man out in search of his brother who has been missing since the India-China War of 1962, a war that nobody wants to remember. ‘Dabangg’, ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’, ‘Sultan’ and ‘Tiger Zinda Hai’ benefited because of his new action image.īut then, it was assumed that folks want only Salman Khan.
Enough to carry a film on his own strength. These films brought Salman Khan back into the reckoning. His films that followed - ‘Bodyguard’, ‘Ready’ and ‘Kick’, and so on - were all South remakes, reshot without noticeable changes, and proved to be hits. Take for example the Salman Khan films post his comeback with ‘Wanted’, a South remake. To add to that, the audience is taken for granted by stars-turned-filmmakers. So, what ails the Hindi film industry, what do its makers lack? Hindi films lack all that the South films count heavily on. The film collapsed big time in the days that followed because it lacked substance. Of course, in the case of ‘Thugs Of Hindustan’, the opening draw was purely because of its star combination.
While garnering Rs 100 crore in two days, ‘KGF: Chapter 2’, also set a new first-day record of collecting Rs 53 crore, against the previous best of Rs 51.6 crore by ‘Thugs of Hindustan’, which starred two of the biggest stars of Hindi films, Amitabh Bachchan and Aamir Khan. And, no, the South films do not need to issue inflated collection figures to the media. The recent South-dubbed film, ‘KGF: Chapter 2’, did at the box office in the first two days what a major original Hindi film takes four to seven days to match - that is, touch the Rs 100-crore mark.