Q. Can Azhar biopic atleast collect 50 – 60 crore in India? – Prince
A. It most certainly won’t collection 50-60 on the strength of its opening. Content, like we have seen in recent times, can take a film way beyond what’s expected out of it.
Q. According to you, what would be the lifetime collection of Airlift? – Pushkar
A. We expect it to collect around 140-150 crore. Our final IndicineLBO prediction is Rs 143 crore. You can check the LBO page www.indicine.com/lbo
Q. How much shooting of Dangal has been completed? What are your expectations quality wise, from the film?
A. Most of the film is complete. Only portions of the film where Aamir plays a younger and fitter version of wrestler Mahavir Singh Phogat will be shot in June. Aamir will now be losing almost all the weight that he gained to play the older role. Expectations, obviously, are very high.
Q. I heard that Salman Khan again in trouble due to hit and run case. Can you please explain why? Can’t he be a free man in his remaining entire life? – Bhatta
A. The Maharastra government will be challenging the Bombay High Court’s verdict in the Supreme Court. If the highest and final court of the country upholds the High Court’s verdict, Salman will be free for life.
Q. Which film according to you will be the highest grosser of this year Fan, Raees, Sultan, Mohenjodaro, Dangal or Shivaay? – Hardik Lamba
A. If Sultan and Raees clash, then Dangal is going to be the trade favourite because Christmas is the best period to release films. Housefull 3 has a better chance than Fan and Shivaay, if it turns out to be an entertaining film.
Q. Will there be a 3-way clash on 12 August between Mohenjo Daro, Rustom and Hera Pheri 3 or will one of them back out and prospects of Mohenjo daro if a clash happens with only Hera Pheri 3? – Jaggi (similar question asked by Saksham)
A. Highly unlikely. There aren’t enough screens in India to release three big films on the same day. Atleast one film will be postponed to a later date. Hera Pheri is a hugely popular franchise, but without Akshay Kumar it wouldn’t be the same. Difficult to predict clash results, because it’s dependent on content. Even a film like Bajirao Mastani managed to beat arguably the biggest film of last year – which had everything in its favour, including star cast – director – music, except the fact that content didn’t find appreciation.
Q. How will u analyse Akshay’s career with Khans in last five years, as he has taken daring risks with OMG, Special 26, Baby, Airlift?
A. We wouldn’t call it daring because his others films haven’t performed well at the box office. In fact, nonsensical masala entertainers is the risky genre today. Also, it can be considered a risky career move only when you do one film a year and then decide to go off-beat, like Aamir Khan with Talaash and Dangal.
Akshay always has a new film to look forward to, if one doesn’t do well at the box office, he quickly moves on to his next. But for someone like Aamir Khan (Dangal) or Hrithik Roshan (Mohenjo Daro), one failure is equal to two years of their life. Having said that, Akshay is doing terrific films now. The multiplex audience is back to theatres, so it’ll be interesting to see if he can sustain the good work that he’s been doing. Also, genre doesn’t decide if a film is good or bad. Even Housefull 3 can be a good film if it manages to entertain the audience.
Q. Why is Akshay Kumar ignored in any award function? He should have got at least nomination for ‘Special 26’, ‘Holiday’, ‘Baby’, ‘Gabbar Is Back’. Do you think all the award functions are fixed?
A. In the industry, it isn’t difficult for top actors to win awards. They can win if they “want” to win. Wanting is more important. Actors like Salman, Aamir, Akshay, Ajay don’t want them, nor do they care.. which could be one of the reasons why they don’t win them.
Q. Why Salman Khan has never won any Padma awards like Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan, Padma Vibhusan?
A. Not too sure about this, but when he has / had criminal cases against him like 2002 hit-n-run (acquitted by High Court) and Black Buck Hunting case, don’t think he is eligible to be bestowed with country’s top civilian awards.
Q. Is this a right decision by Hrithik to work with Sanjay Gupta? – Mishal
A. Only Hrithik would know what’s best for him. Sanjay Gupta is a fairly good director, he has directed films like Kaante and Shootout at Wadala. If the script is good, he could make a good big budget film.
Q. Which film release on 30 September 2016? There are many holidays 2nd October, then 2nd week Dussera, Muharam, Navaratri? Sanu
A. Vishal Bhardwaj’s Rangoon starring Shahid Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan and Kangana Ranaut releases on 30th September.
Q. Why PK was so huge in China? Do other movies not release there and if they release then why don’t they collect well there? – Abhishek Vishwakarma
A. China has a limit on international films releasing in the country. In a year, not more than 34 foreign language movies are given permission to release in China and most of the foreign language films that release there are Hollywood films. Apart from Aamir Khan, no other Indian actor has managed to make a mark in China. 3 Idiots, Dhoom 3 and PK are by far the biggest grossers.
Q. If both Raees & Sultan get huge appreciation from the general audience, & carries that “Must Watch on Big Screen” tag (Neutralizing the Piracy effect to some extent). Can’t they both exist & become Blockbusters? – Tanumoy
A. There is always a possibility of both films doing well; Lagaan and Gadar, Taare Zameen Par and Welcome are examples of two films doing well. But when both commercial films release on the same day, business will be affected. Aiming for a longer run doesn’t always prove to be beneficial because distributor’s share reduces quite considerably after the first and second week. It’s always better for two big films to avoid clash and aim for a solo release, even if that means a non-festive weekend.
Q. Don’t you think Indian films overseas success is highly overrated in media and among fans. Don’t you think we should take those figures with less interest – Sky
A. Domestic collections is what is most important. If local distributors don’t recover their investment, a film cannot be considered successful irrespective of how well it performs overseas. That’s how it has always been, and except rare cases, that’s how it’ll always be. Overseas business is a bonus, films should perform well back home in India – which is still the biggest market for 99% Hindi movies.
Q. Can Shivaay collect 250 crore in domestic without clash? – Akash
A. It’s funny that people these days have such unrealistically high expectations out of films. Only 3 films have crossed the 250 crore mark and those are PK, Bajrangi Bhaijaan and Dhoom 3. Two of those were arguably the most universally acclaimed movies in the last 10 years and featured top superstars in the lead. The other was the biggest franchise in the industry. Ajay Devgn films, apart from Singham Returns (which was a huge brand + holiday release), don’t really open big at the box office. His second best after Singham Returns is Bol Bachchan which did 12 crore. Shivaay would have to be beyond extraordinary to do 250 crore. A realistic target to start with would be 100 – 150 crore domestic. Long way to go though, the trailer would give us a better idea.
Q. What difference can one good movie make on an actor’s stardom? Can a good movie take SRK to the top again? And how Dilwale’s underperformance has affected SRK’s stardom and trade expectations from him?
A. Ranveer was struggling after Kill Dil and the trade wrote off Bajirao Mastani before its release. But in 3 short weeks, Ranveer is now being touted as the next superstar, has swept top acting awards this year and has a big film in Aditya Chopra’s Befikre. That’s how quickly career’s can turn around in this industry. As for SRK, he is in the late stages of his immensely successful career. One or two films falling below expectations won’t make a big difference to his career. He’s already too big to get bigger. It’s all about doing good films now. He has probably wasted a lot of his talent in films like Chennai Express, Happy New Year and Dilwale. None of those films actually gave him a chance to perform and we wonder if they gave him creative satisfaction. Only 3-4 films in the last 15 years or so have made use of the acting talent that he has and those would be Chak De India, Swades and My Name Is Khan. Fortunately, both his upcoming films promise good performances.
Q. Till now Airlift has IMDb rating of 9.4 with 12.5k votes. Is there any chance that Airlift will be Highest rated movie on IMDB beating Shawshank Redemption [9.3]?
A. Absolutely no chance. For several reasons. One, IMDb ratings tend to drop over a period of time. Secondly, they only consider ratings from ‘regular users’ when ranking a film in Top 250. Thirdly, it has to receive minimum of 25,000 votes from ‘regular users’. IMDb doesn’t reveal what ‘regular users’ mean, it could be people who review a lot of films and those who have registered a long time ago. If Akshay Kumar fans register and vote in big numbers, it might increase the rating of the film, but it won’t take it to Top 250.
Q. Even though films like Dilwale, PRDP, Jai Ho, Talaash made their distributors in losses, why are they called as semi hits? Why not disasters?
A. How can films grossing nearly 400 crore worldwide be disasters? Even Talaash and Jai Ho did more than 170 crore worldwide. PRDP was more than a clean hit. As for why some films are declared above average / semi hit, it’s simply because some investors make money, some lose, some just about recover. Most verdicts these days are not ‘strict’, most are given on perception.
That’s the end of QnA for today. Hope you enjoyed reading the answers. Thank you.
@Abhay Malhotra Name the bollywood actor who is in industry from 30 years and has just 11 hits in whole career?? Ans: Chamir Khan. So Total 25 yrs mein chaamir ne 11 hits diye Hai ,Waahhh kya Stardom hai BC !!!
Lol overseas collection don’t matter for some people including indicine because srk rules there similar to like filmfare awards don’t matter because srk won most. Do u really think akshay ajay salman really deserve award for their performance even though akshay deserve last year for baby but it was his hard luck that ranveer’s performance turned brilliant. Sour grapes. Tell me other than which year these actors desrve any awards. And Amir was only deserve for pk after lagaan. But he didn’t collect. Actually he want to win every year and he is big jealous of srk. Your commentatory is similar to Boi. Don’t defame others achievement.
people got award if they want ??/ o really but why they stars didn’t want money for money they continuously made crap south remake masala Short duration same gern movie and suddenly luck by chance if they did one avg movie after 25 year of their career you became advocate of them what do you want to say Ranveer singh didn’t deserved Filmfare just go and watch BM you got ur answer. you can’t disgrade hardwork of other actors from these types of nonsense comment if even ranbir kapoor won two Filmfare hrithik won 3filmfare , sahid won Filmfare even ranveer singh won Filmfare so ???? if you are talented enough than you got the award srk miss some time with great performance but it’s OK tried hard for next year unlike othes who hardly did avg performance and and than blame to system these people suitable for “angoore khatte h” grapes are sour lol .
I wanna those some stars who boycott the awards plzz give some statement when their crap earn huge and became blockbuster so if they well aware that their movie was crap than return the money to audience or half the tickets rate but for money un logo ka zameer tab kha gya hota h so moral of the story if craps south remakes earn huge became blockbuster than it OK other hand a movie or performance like bajirao got award than it wrong why double standard???
the difference of srk and salman , aamir & some other stars
Aamir – after only one good movie rangeela in very early his career refused to attended award function instead of fight for next one than he went Oscar with lagaan and every where praised the system of Oscar but after loosing their he again raised finger on Oscar system and later In an interview he said that sulmdog millenior didn’t deserve Oscar bcoz he didn’t like it means angoore khate h
salman is well aware that he is not much talented compare than others buggies than he often attend award ceremony dancing hosting making money suddenly in recent when organiser introduced some other category like entartiner of the year blah blah but he didn’t go to received the award bcoz even he already know these are not make any impact in his career now.
so they both wanna show that we are above the award functions bcoz award is a thing that even sahid & Ranveer snatched but for money they never said no
and for srk – he won lots of international and domestic award most number of filmfare but recently he tweeted that I became retired if I will got national award even knowing that saif Ali Khan won it for hum tum against his sawdes which is far better than it but what a gentlemen he is if there is aamir and salu instead of him easily disgrade award system but he is a humble person. always give respect no matter she is a woman, kid , co actor or an award that make him different
@indicine, when are you posting the article of Top-5 grossers of the year since 2000 like you do every year? it’s my reminder to post that article as you update it every year’s January. Thanks.
@Sunny Akkiholic. I feel so sorry for you. For once can’t you give a very matured comment. What are you really trying to prove with Hrithik and Ajay. I request all fans not to bother answering this Ajay obsessed baby About Hrithik no comments too. As man to man was just trying to make your mental health services. Who creates fake ids we all know how many times you have been exposed. How impish Ajay and Hrithik too you especially Ajay? Everybody stays quite then cowardly bring in Ajaya name of recent Hrithik still no comments for you. Keep on burning but save some burnol out there. People like you if you hear from everybody just find you so irritating and jealous that’s the reason you see akki bashed always. If you care or not that’s left for you. You can’t stop both Hrithik and Ajay for who they are. You dare talk rubbish on Hrithik I make show I pull trousers of Akshay. Stay within your limit and don’t push me against the wall everybody knows I don’t just answer to lunatics but yours is worse
@Vinshal – First of all this is media created … They club all khans as 3 khans and mention them as superstars… No doubt they are and no one can take that away… Rankings might change but they are superstars in their own right
But to say no one else reached that status is bit exaggerated… Akshay is a big superstar and his movies even back then like mohra and main khiladi tu anari etc used to open big very big… From 2000-2008 he was more successful then both Aamir and Salman … SRK though most consistent in last few years lost the position to Salman in last few years… The rankings keep on changing
Also in Hrithik we got a superstar from day 1 who changed the game… He started winning awards giving biggest hits of the year.. His debut movie was directly pitted with then reigning superstar SRK … Even today on a given day he can give as big an opening like any khans or Kumars… Even his disasters like kite had opened big … If you recall day 1 of even chsndni Chowk was a big number for Akki so even he opens big
The situation keeps on changing and just like Hrithik we will have someone who will come and deliver big hits… It was expected about of Ranbir but I guess now he will follow a path like Ajay with moderate success… So far I think Varun has had 5 hits and 0 flops so you never know …Ranveer looks promising … To get a fan base you need a big movie I will say bm was Ranveers launch to superstardom frankly speaking no one in last 15-16 years got a launchpad like Hrithik that also hurt them
Yes awards depend on your relationship with organisers, relations with media etc… Salman arguably the biggest superstar has not got many commercial awards nor did Akki who has given so many big hits
On the other hand SRK got many… Even Hrithik has won handful of them… It’s just that they give importance to those awards and feel happy.. To them that is proof of their stardom … Same way amitji loved to get awards… Salman and Akshay don’t give a damn but they still might attend as they can earn money via their acts… In fact Salman started the trend not to perform for free way back !!
Regarding Ajay he is never so much in media … He is a shy person and likes to not attend such events… That’s his nature
The problem with Aamir is he is crybaby as far as awards… Just because he did not get it for rangeela he started accusations… Same way in 1992 when Anil got for beta he was again complaining as he wanted for his movie.. Even when he went to oscars and did not win he started blaming them .., the point is you can’t complain as the jury felt that year although your movie was superhit one performance was better than yours… Big deal – but to keep on crying is stupidity
Caprio is so good but he has not won oscars… Hopefully he will this time but the reason is so far there was always a performance which was better.. By the way that does not mean oscars are clean as this year they have been accused of being biased and racist …
Just continuing to my earlier post it’s not that you should not raise your voice but to always think that you are correct is wrong… Who are you to say rangeela was better ? Even if you feel that why can’t you accept other people’s view… If you can’t then aren’t you intolerant ? And guess what you have problems with that… Isn’t it ironic because you label everyone wrong just because their views are different… Be cool like Salman and Akki
@hritic rules krish3 174cr Bang Bang 140cr YJHD 178cr BM 180cr
@Romance KING – You have under reported collections…Also although I like both Ranbir and Ranveer, Ranbir’s career as of today, if we don’t discuss it is better as I can tear him apart when compared to hrithik…but not interested as I said, like him and wish him good luck. Ranveer – come on, he is on his way to superstardom no doubt but we know what happened to lootera and kill dillm right ? let him show some consistency boss
@Romance King – Also Hrithik sir likes both ranbir and ranveer and hence can’t say lot of bad things about them
@akki chameleon. Hritik _rules. Hrithik ensuring bigger opening than Khan’s and kumar. kumar from where? manoj kumar or Ashowk kumar? you are an idiot to even compare Akki with Hrithik you chameleon @Sunny Akkiholic. What is Akshay biggest opening? what are the khan’s biggest opening? Aamir 36 Salman 41 Srk 45 that is why they are on a league of their own. Hrithik 27 Ajay 32 Akshay 19? so what are you trying to say chameleon. Listen I am a real.Hrithik fan not a chameleon that came out from Airlift release day. Respect yourself stop calling akki name with Hrithik forget khan. Do akki have any 200 grosser? Can he give a single opening day of 35 cr? the day he does it I will decamp from Hrithik camp. Idiot chameleon.
@Hrithik_rules change your name to Akshay_rules stop all these circus show especially with no.1 chameleon @Sunny akkiholic @harsh malhotra @sandeep raj @akkians @Lisa @name them just go to any airlift page and see over 10 names @sunny akkihiholic has. @Neeraj exactly we all know that that’s why not answer him very well. How guts you have to call Aamir cry baby. Salman perform for fees Ajay media shy. You now put flop actor name beside them. The masterpieces Aamir Salman Ajay has shown is way beyond your knowledge. I know very well of aamir and ajay not because they are media shy but because they lost credibility with them and their system read indicine reply even if they were dumb to even put Akki despite his craps after craps with longest streaks to his name most flop giving actor. It is choice just like how Aamir rejected daar ajay karan arjun special26 Salman Khan Robert 2 so do they have right to make a valid decision without giving a damn. When did Akshay give his award to Aamir? You put Akki name superstar with Khan and hrithik?? and omit aamir show how great your knowledge is. I still rate akki behind Ajay Ranbir Ranveer same with varun
@Neeraj you gave a fitting reply to that chameleon @sunny chameleon. His loser as his flop star.
@Anand fake idiot, who told Salman for doing so many filns and still giving back flops? Shame shame. Comparing that loser flops king Salman to megastar aamir khan. Aamir is not a b grade star like Salman to give classless torturous meaningless movies. He is isi mark of quality and he has made Indian cinema proud worldwide. Salman doesn’t poses any talent and just survived due to his illiterate blind uneducated followers like you. So mind your language you loser. Tell Salman to give highest grossr if all time first which he couldn’t do with even a so called great WOM movie BB. I know you loser will keep giving more excuses as it had no advantage and bla bla bla which will remain excuse for me.
And last but not the least, aamir’s total number of films are less than Salman’s total number of disasters. LOL. You fool talking about mela, then dont forget nishchay, majhdhaar, marigold, main aur Mrs khanna, yuvraj which didnt even watched by small insects. LOL.
@Anand fake one more thing, aamir has 17 hits. If srk and Salman count their flops as huts then why aamir’s movies which were decent success can be counted as non hits? Apply some brains. Even with less films aamir’s success ratio is much better than Salman.. If Salman would have done as less films as aamir then he would have hardly 8 hits in his career. So think before barking.
@md shah, what respect? salman fans abuse aamir by different ids, they mock his success by giving credit his directors while they never give credit to kabir khan who was indeed a major reason for BB’s success. the day other salman fans will learn to respect a legend aamir khan only then expect the same for salman.
@India good observations I have already talked about it in srk article today
@Neeraj1, Indian(like Aamir – fake one)
How much you bark what change the facts… Ajay doesnt go to award functions because he is anyways very shy but Aamir has vested interests… Ajay doesn’t even go to parties… Does he ? Ajay is genuine Aamir is not
Regarding superstardom Aamir was never 1st… Throughout 90s it was always SRK > Aamir
Some period in 2000s it was Hrithik and SRK who were compared neck to neck
2009 plus it was Salman .., for 2-3 years in 2000-2010 media considered Akki as number 1
Aamir in his entire lifetime was not number 1 not was he even compared with them reigning superstar … Today also it’s Salman vs SRK even in his lowest phase does media compare Aamir as he is not even worthy
Looking st the body of work and number of hits, it’s always
1. SRK 2. Salman 3. Akki 4, Hrithik and then maybe maybe Aamir
Today in the present times
1. Salman 2. Hrithik, SRK 3. Aamir 4. Akki but after 2016 this is what will happen
1. Salman 2. Hrithik 3. Akki 4. SRK and Aamir out of top 5
Aamirs best has been 3rd in 27 years because Akki was not delivering 100 crores now since his airlift is bb and hf3 2.0 etc all look sure shot winners Aamir is finished with a flop buster in his hand … Hrithik on other band will deliver mega hit all time blockbuster with mohenjo Daro
Salman will continue his dream run SRK is almost done in India will continue though just because of overseas for few years when finally Indian distributors will say no to even distribute his film after registering back to back losses
@Floppy rules 60 Cr club, your joker never was number 1. He has never delivered a single highest grosser of the year. This era only belongs to megastar aamir khan and then Salman khan but srk, joker are over. Hrithik is the only one who can come close to aamir and Salman. Stop pretending to be fan of all big stars you tiny 60 Cr club actor fan. Aami always was megastar and he will always remain the biggest megastar along with Salman.
@Hrithik rules why are you distracting yourself? are you stupid? @Sunny Akkiholic are you mad? akki 2000-2010 where was Srk Hrithik Salman late 2000. You are a big joke. Stop this useless analysis. I don’t know if Ajay is shy or not but it is clearly written even In his biography be it Wikipedia star stories clearly stating Ajay does not attend Filmfare because he take them to be a scam planned event which is true. Last warning you tiny crore actor borrowing Hrithik stardom look how foolish you implicate yourself as Hrithik fan saying Akki was no 1 from 2000-2010? You must be a very dull person. How many Hgoty he delivered how many 2nd highest grosser of the year he delivered. listen @babaji @Sunny Akkiholic Chechi you need treatment accept it you.are obsessed to a wrong thing and I hop it does not turn you to be a mad person. you dint even know how to use other id to praise 80 cr king.
@Rew allow the fools. I blame Indicine alot for the overhyping more. Look hoe they slammed Shivaay and Mohenjo knowing their budget is 100’150 cr and tipping houseful 3. Real bias and foolish site. Hope they post my comment accicine. Just watch. Raees Sultan Mohenjo Shivaay Fan will downsize your favorite Makki. Next time in your quest and answers please don’t answer 70 % of joker related topic if not tell us not to start asking questions.
@hritic_rules i have doubt whether mohenjodaro cross 140cr because last few films of Ashutosh goarekor were Disaster. Aki will gain ranking in 2016 due to back 2 back 4successful films n overtake hr n srk also gain ranking by Fan raees.
At present acc to indicine
1 Amir 2 salman 3 srk 4 hr 5 ranveer 6 varun 7 aki but after 2016 1 salman/srk 2 srk/salman 3 amir/aki 4 aki/amir 5 hritic #fact
@Romance queen have you gone mad? Aamir is already out of reach for both srk and Salman. After 2016 top 2 will remain same. Maybe hrithik will most likely take 3rd spot..
After 2016.
1. Aamir
2. Salman
3. Hrithik
4. Akshay/srk
5. Srk/akshay
6. Ajay
7. Ranveer
8. Varun
9. Ranbeer
10. Shahid