Akshay Kumar or Ranbir Kapoor – The bigger star?

Q. Can Akshay Kumar starrer ‘Main Gabbar’ cross 100 crore mark because on the same day one of the biggest franchise of Hollywood ‘Avengers 2’ is also releasing - Vishal Mehta

A. We can only answer questions about the box office prospects of films once the trailer has been released. The release of ‘Avengers 2’ will affect business at high-end multiplexes, but Main Gabbar is also targeted at the masses, so the impact is unlikely to be more than 10-15%. 100 crore or not depends on content.

Q. Can Roy break Gunday’s lifetime collection and become the highest grossing film of February? – Pratikshya

A. Roy has absolutely no chance of crossing the 50 crore mark now, so the Top 3 grossers of February will remain the same – Gunday (78 cr), My Name Is Khan (73 cr) and Special 26 (69 cr). This week’s release Badlapur has a chance if it does well for 2-3 weeks.

Q. Akshay Kumar or Ranbir Kapoor – the biggest star? – Vyom Mankad

A. Currently, it’s Ranbir Kapoor. The opening of his extended special appearance film Roy has bettered Baby both at multiplexes and single-screens. Akshay commands a huge following in smaller centres, but they wouldn’t come out in big numbers for a song-less thriller like Baby. As far as opening is concerned, Akshay has been fairly consistent but his following in bigger centres and multiplex dominated areas has dropped in the last few years. Brothers is his biggie, a film that could take a opening of 25-30 crore like Singham Returns (releasing on the same day too!). You can also check our latest ranking of stars – Top 15 Actors in India

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Q. Since Shahrukh Khan’s FAN is a content driven film can it earn 300 crore? - Jaggu

A. The key for a 300 crore film is favourable festive release period, fantastic word-of-mouth and universally appealing genre. A film has to perform extra-ordinarily well in all circuits to earn 300 crore. Chak De India was one of the most acclaimed content-driven films of its time, but earned about 20 crore less than Om Shanti Om which was a commercial entertainer. The reason why PK earned Rs 340 crore was because Raju Hirani / Abhijat Joshi are arguably the best minds in the industry when it comes to picking subjects that content with majority of Indians. Hirani is a master director too, the undisputed best today. That’s not to say the others aren’t capable. A film like Andaz Apna Apna would shatter records today.

Q. Why Akshay Kumar films don’t get record-breaking opening. Is this the end of his super stardom? – Kritagya

A. Akshay has been in the industry for more than 20 years now and has firmly established himself as one of the top actors. One or two flops is not going to affect him. Having said that, because he has 3-4 releases every year, he needs to either reduce the number of films that he does or get the economics (budget) of his films right. The only way to get the economics right is to reduce his acting fee or produce the film himself. Most of his films cost around 60-70 crore to make and the average collections of his last 4-5 films is around 70-80 crore, which means most of his films do not recover investment through theatrical business and instead rely on satellite and other rights. The satellite market has crashed, which is making recovery even more difficult.

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  • @tiger,really FAN couldn’t do 100cr?BTW let me tell this is not your bhai’s movie jai ho,lol.FAN will be 3rd consecutive 200cr film and another blockbuster .

    oh yeah ,really pk and 3i is ATBB due to perfaketionist then accept talash becomes disaster also due to perfaketionist.if he can afford 2 ATBB to raju hirani then why couldn’t give a hit to rima katgi?ha ha pk hai kya?

    in future a new question will be asked to akki fans very soon?when akki will take retirement?well it shouldn’t be asked who is bigger star among rk and akshay.it’s with out any doubt Ranbir Kapoor.it’s all due to akki’s over confidence.especially for not giving respect to his ELDERS like KING KHAN and he paid for that.

  • @shail007
    What made you think that i am gj007 that u wrote @babaji or gj007???
    gj007 is here since hny release while i am here since RaOne release..

  • OVERALL POPULARITY-AK>RK,ACTING-AK>RK,B O(AS OF NOW)AK<RK.rk movies get better opening coz his huge&stupid fangirls who prefer crap romantics like yjhd,roy.and ak dont do romantics.also promotionwise ak<<<rk.rk gets good directors unlike ak.overall let us see what happens in next 2 years.

  • The biggest problem of akki :he does not get good directors & top banners.i request to akki sir to do more content driven films and maybe atmost 1 comedy/masala per year coz 50 years later everyone will see films of high imdb rating.also avoid bad directors like pravu,sajid farhad etc.

  • Instead of fighting for who is number 5 between akshay and Ranbir. They should just concentrate on their films and try to get in top 3 instead of settling for no.5 It is going to be hard for them since the 3 khans are dominating and hro is right after them but that should be their goal.(although i don’t see either of them entering top 4 anytime soon).

  • Roy opening proved Ranbir Kapoor Is a Superstar. Yes he Is a new actor and has a small career with only 12 films but his fan following is growing day by day. Now i feel Ranbir kapoor Is the 3rd biggest crowd puller of bollywood after Srk and Salman. Ranbir has a huge youth fan following and he also gets advantage of females fan following. Girls dying to see Rk on big screen. Recently I saw at my coching almost every girls were missing on 13th feb and all went to watch Roy.
    Ranbir Kapoor’s craze is everywhere and its continue increasing so its time to accept he is a Superstar and his era has begun.

  • @complan boy

    Dont start with the ‘billu 400cr storm coming’ nonsense again- you still getting over the non arrival of Charlies 300cr diwali storm from last yr n here you are working yourself up ahead of steam all over again… Chill out

  • Some of akki fans says, he should work with better directors. ha ha..do they think he will get Anurag kashyap, madhur bhandarkar or hirani to direct his films.will they ready to work with Akshay and destroy their reputation.So don’t cry fans let him do what he gets ,
    does their films work with masala. he can’t show an emotional expression in his face. Only he could know joker type comedy expression . and of course action thrillers, on action movie does not need much from facial expression, more from body and voice. let’s assume if he do an intense scene, emotions,crying, we probably laugh…

    To make us cry is a tough task rather than make us laugh…
    Salman ,HR,RK,AD all are succeeded in this

  • ranbir kapoor is media created star, mark my words all his future films bombay velvet, tamasha and so on will be flops like besharam. Are you kidding indicine by comparing him with akshay who is a self made superstar. NO doubt that he does 4 films a year out of which 2 are craps, still he gives movies like baby, special chabbis, omg. Stardom is not only about boxoffice collection it is also about your connect with audience and fans. IN my opinion at present there are only 2 superstars SRK and Akshay in bolywood as these are the only two who have made their mark even if they were outsiders in film industry

  • Some fans cry seeing bolly movies.i wonder what will they do if they see ‘on the waterfront’,’rain man’etc.neeraj pandey,rajkumar santoshi,priyadarshan,abbas-mustan etc.&south indian directors like shankar,a.r.m.,krish are also good directors.

  • akki is a bigger star but has a very low female fan following unlike ranbir kapoor who has a high female fan following

  • Wtf…ranbir no way bigger than akshay.Akshay’s film always get a good business inspite of regular releases whereas Ranbir sticks to one film every year.If Akshay is losing his fandom then why many producers keen to take Akshay in their movies…Think !!

  • what kind of stupid question is it? whose the bigger star akki or ranbir? obviously akki who is a self made super-star and is far more established than ranbir.. ranbir is amazing no doubt of that but he has a long way to go…

  • Currently, Hrithik Roshan is a bigger star than these two. Last year , Shahid Kapoor just got lucky with his film Haider which also had some of the finest actors from Bollywood (Irrfan Khan , Kay Kay Menon , and Tabu) and also showed some decent performance at the Box Office crossing 50 crore . Otherwise , Hrithik’s Bang Bang would’ve crossed the coveted 200 crore club . Akshay’s Highest Grossing film Rowdy Rathore collection of 131 is even less than Hrithik’s Bang Bang 181 crore .

  • Khan’s can’t do more then one or two movie per year it’s not because they don’t want to do, it’s because they’re getting old, easily injured and can’t do more then two films per year .,

    > SRK injured on the set of “till i live” & now on the set of “fan” (getting old quickly)
    – can do films 3 years max.,,

    > Salman injured on the set of “1 tiger?”, “Jai ho” & “Kick”.
    – can do films 4 years max.,,

    > Amir injured on the set of “2lash” & “d3”.
    – can do films 5 years max.,,

    > AKKI injured !!! When !! Never heard ?
    – AKKI is the unstoppable horse, he never tires & can’t be stopped At Least next 10 years?

    (All 3 khans & even AJAY will no more in Bollywood after 5 years but AKKI will go long as he’s so fit & his passion about films.,,)

    # Bollywood without khans after 5 years, RIP_KHANS.,,

    # AKKI will going to make 2007 again at the B/O this year in 2015.

    1) BABY
    2) GABBAR
    3) BROTHERS
    4) SINGH IS BLING

    AKKI CAN MAKE 1000 CROREs IN 2015.,,

  • If ranvbir is bigger star then akki then RANBIR definatly bigger star then khans too .,, even amir need his cameo for PK .,

    Wow ranbir is the biggest superstar bollywood ever had after akshay kumar .,,
    Sorry to say that khans r that coward too release their films on non festive days .,,

    I dont wanna excuse on that k they only have 1 films per year so they choose holiday to release their films
    .,,, main reson they’re now in 50 gettin old they’re no more after 3 yers .,,
    Amir-3 fimls max
    ajay-4films max
    Srkgy-5films max
    Salman-6films max
    In next 5 years don’t hope more

    Bt now talk about akshay 15 films atleast in next 5 years .,,,

  • Ranbir Kapoor zero h in compare to Akshay The selfmade superstar, Ranbir ko koi poochta bhi nahi agar wo Legend Raj Kapoor ke khandan ka na hota.

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