Akshay Kumar’s Rustom is not just performing very well at the domestic box office, but the film has completely decimated and annihilated the other release last week – which was one of the year’s most anticipated films starring Hrithik Roshan in the lead.
Now, there are clashes that are won by a small margin and there others that are won by a big margin. Mohenjo Daro’s director Ashutosh Gowarikar himself was at the receiving end when a film like ‘Gadar: Ek Prem Katha’ went on to be the biggest grosser of all time, more than doubling the business of a classic like ‘Lagaan’.
But the scenario back then was completely different. Gadar was a massy action film with chartbuster music. Lagaan did well at the box office too, but the appreciation that the film received was unprecedented. It went on to be only the third film in the history of Indian Cinema to get a Oscar nomination. While Gadar was the box office winner, Lagaan was the better film.
There was another big clash that took place in 2006, when the combined star power of Akshay Kumar and Salman Khan in ‘Jaan-e-mann’ wasn’t enough to beat Shah Rukh Khan’s ‘Don: The Chase Begins’, which collected nearly two times more than the Shirish Kunder directed romantic film.
However, the Mohenjo Daro vs Rustom clash particularly stands out as Mohenjo Daro was the bigger film and also appealed to a wider section of the audience. Yet, Rustom could eventually collect nearly 2.5 – 3 times more than Mohenjo Daro.
Even before the release, it was a forgone conclusion that Mohenjo Daro would lose the clash, but the biggest shocker has been in the way in which it has lost. Even much smaller films like Ki and Ka, Baaghi and Udta Punjab have comfortably gone past the 50 crore mark.
In an industry that survives and benefits from perception, Rustom could be a game-changer for Akshay Kumar. It’ll change the way the trade looks at his upcoming films like ‘Jolly LLB 2’ and ‘Crack’. If those films open like Rustom has, he’ll take more credit than he otherwise would for the massive opening of ‘Robot 2.0’.
2016 has been an extraordinary year for the superstar and 2017 could be better. If he does step it up, the purple patch that he has now hit could well be bigger than what was previously though to be his career-high in the mid 2000s.
@sss : Its like crying over why a man could not achieve 80% marks in his primary school when he is the national topper in MBA !!!!!! Bhai, toh aur tera sense naa both stinking !!!!!!!!!
The present reality is Srk is way behind Salman & Aamir in terms of Box Office. Whether his fans accept it or not. They have been fooling themselves by living in 2006 era even in such era SRK could not achieve what Salman & Aamir has achieved in last 5 years. The more srk fans brag about past the more it will harm them & their idol. Period !!!!!!!!
Let them live in rotten glories.
@hrithik (lallu fan) you idiot, first stop these bhai fans to stop blabbering about making up stories like Raju Hirani and brand every time. Enough is enough. Morons like hypocrite bhai fans bash megastar aamir all the time and you are expecting us to keep quiet? Shame on you. Don’t be hypocrite. If you want to say anything then tell losers like @Salman khan Flop KING khan, @Mr.Bollywood (Lallu) and @Sandy !! who blabber against Aamir all the time. I am bashing salman because of these loons. If they will stop I have no time to spend for any other actor except Megastar.