Can’t expect every film to do business like Bajrangi Bhaijaan: Kabir Khan

Filmmaker Kabir Khan, who delivered two back-to-back blockbusters with Salman Khan in 2012’s Ek Tha Tiger and 2015’s Bajrangi Bhijaan, has expressed disappointment over the failure of their most recent film release ‘Tubelight’. The film was one of the bigger box office disappointments so far this year.

“You make a film with a lot of love and conviction and if it doesn’t do well the way it was expected to do, it’s disheartening. I am disappointed” Kabir was quoted as saying by the Press Trust of India (PTI).

Kabir also said every film cannot do business like the classic ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’, which went on to collect more than Rs 320 crore at the domestic box office. ‘Tubelight’ has collected 200 crore less, even though it was expected to ‘easily’ become the highest Hindi grosser of the year so far.

“We can’t expect every film to do the business like Bajrangi Bhaijaan. Every film of mine is put against Bajrangi Bhaijaan and it is unfair. I am extremely proud of Tubelight”

“It’s too early to analyse what went wrong with the film. Maybe people were not able to identify with the character of Salman. But I was happy with what Salman did and even he was playing this part” Kabir added.

‘Tubelight’ released in theatres during Eid this year.

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  • Dabangg BB
    Ready BB
    Bodyguard BB
    Dabangg 2 BB
    Jai Ho -Semi Hit
    Kick BB
    PRDP
    Sultan BB
    .
    .
    But
    ETT BB
    BB ATBB
    Tubelight Flop

    Eid me Bhi Flop
    Aur
    Woh Bhi Salman Khan
    Itni Ghtiya Movie
    I’m PRDP 5 Time Watch
    But Tubelight 1 Time Not Watch
    .
    .
    Kabir Khan Tumhara Kya Hoga
    Bhai Ko To Koi Mushkil Nahi Hai
    Kyonki
    Tiger Abhi Zinda Hai

  • Agree with Kabir. Expectations from Tubelight were sky high as the Salman – Kabir duo were returning after delivering an amazing Bajrangi Bhaijaan. Haven’t watched the movie yet but my gut feeling is it wouldn’t be as bad as it was made out to be. Guess those sky high expectations also would have impacted as people were expecting another high quality movie like BB.

    Anyways doesn’t matter. Failures happen and it will make both Salman-Kabir wiser and stronger.

    Even Salman haters/bashers know deep down inside (though won’t accept) that one flop doesn’t make much difference to Salman and he will come back very strongly with TZH. Once TZH gets a bumper opening, everything will be forgotten.

    There are six actors (SRK, Salman, Aamir, Ajay, Akshay and Hrithik) which I have always felt that they have survived long enough to be impacted by poor performance of their some movies.

  • I liked d movie but perhaps coz I had gone in with open mind ..just ti see d movie and not kp comparing …also its a one track movie basically devoid of heroism closer to real life where u CNT help few things …Indian audience ..a large part peehaps dnt connect WD such storytelling …subtle mostly dsnt work …..Salman was brilliant ..sohail good …supporting cast did Dr job …Zhu Zhu was breathtakingly beautiful …also d dialogue delivery wasn’t cringeworthy as hapoens in Hindi cinema Whn foreigners given Hindi lines to speak …matin was adorable
    Having said all DAT few issues:
    Scene of Zhu Zhu mking Salman understand and DAT speech Whr every other word was yakeen …DAT tested d nerves
    Srk scene ..DAT was underwhelming ..DAT was promoted as turning point in Salman character but I ddnt enjoy in terms of d movie ..felt stretched(now bfr srk fans say biased …he was OK ..I HV prblm WD d scene itself ….Kabir’s issue)

    Finally overall d film was good and d story as it was ..cldnt see how Kabir cld HV MD it different but certainly it ddnt bring those tears after a while coz felt scenes repetitive in second half ..DAT emotional connect was missing …Salman’s character cld HV bn gvn few dialogues in Dr or better edited instead of just long sequences of Salman crying…

    Now for critics
    Dey daid war sequences is poor …but DAT was good ….it was meant to show china troops more in no …it was shown ….den d battle was on huge plain sort of land …not much to hide ..so Whn attacked not much chance ….and d war was not a one day afdair …again shown nicely over tym …sohail growing beard ..lukin weary ..so as other troops …
    Preachy was anthr issue of critics …honestly bfr Watchin I thought DS must b true if nothing else but aftr Watchin it wasn’t lk DAT ..lot of subtlety …lot of social commentary thru scenes which was apt …if sm1 questions ur nationality dn u WL rply lk DAT ..only issue WD overuse of yakeen word …..dialogues few stood out but some places were very ordinary …
    Lastly Salman`s criticism was pathetic ..it looked lk Pre set ageNDA

    Kabir and Salman just for attempting DS kind of movie weren’t gvn much credit befr d dissection ….I think DS was ballsy for dz guys coz of current climate of hyper nationalism and also racism within our country directed towards Indians by Indians ….
    To end wld say Kabir and other writer failed to engage aftr second half as assuredly as in first half (not entire sec half)….overall I enjoyed but sayin DS coz d movie was rejected by audiences so Dr has to b few issues ….I m no expert in filmmaking but I wrote what I felt after introspection …
    To Salman and Kabir dnt b disheartened and if similar genre kind of script excites u in future dn go ahead mk it and try to mk it better and not b scared of DS result

    Salman haters …see d promo of DS movie ..u only claimed Dr wasn’t much buzz ABT it and all ….and DS was no commercial cinema ..Masala …still Salman scored 60 plus CR in opening weekend …stardom .
    Dnt question it mindlessly ..but dn Dats askimg too much from u fellas

  • Megastar Salman was crossing the 150 cr mark with ease
    then came tubelite which featured an outdatd hero’s cameo and the result(LT) felt every1 shockd

    power of Kung khan

  • still didnt figure out….????
    its bcoz of sohail …. even if u hd taken arbaz it would have wrkd…. bt sohail….a complete no….

  • Jagga jasoos jumped on Saturday to collect 11.75 crores. Weekend estimates now revised to 34-35 crores

    Word of mouth is above average- collection is similar to film like baby

  • This is a reality check Mr.Kabir Khan. You are nothing without salman khan. Just because of him you have hit movies and even a name…. we still remember you saying on release of ek tha tiger that Salman can only give me an initial but then my direction and content takes over…totally different story ( did it have one )….forget being different but mediocore but only salman made it a blockbuster. For once salman surrenders to the directors way and we have a flop…. So stop taking credit of his success…and look lost and clueless when u falter….the success only belongs to salman. This is not only for you but also so many other losers like farah khan on SRK’s name, some of Amir’s directors….all of salman’s directors i guess…. Man Makes a movie and says ” It’s too early to analyse what went wrong with the film”….. loser talks….go take some classes from jim cameroon, Christopher nolan, raju hirani, raj mouli on consistency and continuous improvement…people who know wat they do and not clueless like you….. Salman, SRK you should start working with people who know wat they are doing. Stop feeding them for life… I hope my salman fans agree with this.

  • Thime prob here is with the story …bb story was sweet but tublight was draged in such a manner that it looked like an ordinary movie …..salman was good in d movie but the hangover of bb clearly seen with both kabir & salman….

    Still i will rate kabir a fantastic directior …

  • if failure of tubelyt is nt due to sallu then success of bajrangi wz also nt due to sallu….simple as dat u lallupurians

  • Dear indicine,
    Can you just block this idiot srk jabra fan?
    Who doesnt even know A of acting and B of box office and shows as if he is the best critics and sparks fan wars…. Idiot

  • It’s got to do with being a happy film, a big festival release has to be a happy film. Even the wonderful Guzaarish was a flop because it was a sad film. And Salman’s macho man image made for the worst casting ever. Just watch how Tiger-2 with muscular Salman succeeds without any storyline a-la Kick Ready, Bodyguard, Wanted, and numerous bullshit movies. I’d rather see him in a PRDP than in commercial blockbusters like his Sohail & Arbaaz Khan productions.

  • For me the Best entertaining director s of Bollywood are 1) raju Hirani 2) Rohit Shetty 3) David Dhawan

  • Though Tubelight was not a great entertainer, it was still a good and different film especially from Salman. I applaud your and Salman’s effort. Sometimes the result is not what we want. But, hey, such is life.

  • Over confident director I hope bhaijaan never works with this loser again. His only good film as a director was bajrangi bhaijaan. Even abbas ali zaffar is better than this garbage known as kabir khan. Bhaijaan will rise back again with success this Christmas with tzh.

  • @hrithik ka fan first of all tell your papa’s boy to do slapstick comedy films like every actor in this industry has done except your so call papa’s boy hrithik who is too busy doing childish films like krrish.

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