The top superstar in the industry vs the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful director of the current century. The director of films like 3 Idiots, PK and the Munnabhai series, Rajkumar Hirani, has confirmed that his next film will release during the Christmas weekend this year.
In a statement, the director said “It (Sanjay Dutt biopic) goes on the floors today, January 14, and Sanju will give the clap. We are one big family. We hope to wrap it up by June and are targeting a Christmas 2017 release”
He added “It’s not a film about guns, drugs and the underworld. It’s a feel-good film about a father-son relationship with Paresh Rawal playing Sunil Dutt and Ranbir as Sanju. A buddy film with Sanju’s many friends adding up to one from the US, played by Vicky Kaushal”
It could be one of the most interesting clashes of all time, as Salman Khan has already booked the biggest weekend of the year for his keenly-awaited film ‘Tiger Zinda Hai’ directed by Ali Abbas Zafar.
On star-value, there is absolutely no comparison. Salman Khan is light years ahead of Ranbir Kapoor when it comes to sheer pan-India box office pull and ‘Tiger Zinda Hai’ is likely to be far more commercial too. But the factor that could tilt the clash in favour of the ‘Sanjay Dutt biopic’ is going to be content. The audience, especially at multiplexes where the ticket prices are high, do not usually spend on two films in the same week. Instead, they pick the better film.
The momentum shifts quite quickly too, like we have seen when Bajirao Mastani and Dilwale clashed at the box office during Christmas in 2015. Dilwale held a huge lead on the first day, but failed to sustain. Bajirao Mastani went from strength to strength, convincingly winning the clash by a fair margin.
The problem for ‘Tiger Zinda Hai’ could be bigger, because a Rajkumar Hirani film has never failed at the box office and his films tend to be far more entertaining and commercial as compared to a Sanjay Leela Bhansali magnum opus.
However, unlike the previous two occasions when his films smashed all-time records – Hirani doesn’t have a major superstar like Aamir Khan, who lends tremendous reach to his films. This time around, he has the most promising actor from the younger generation of stars.
The power that a banner like Yash Raj Films has in distributing films cannot be ignored either, it’s their biggest film of the year, a costly one too. They are expected to go all out to make ‘Tiger Zinda Hai’ the biggest film of the year.
Against any other actor or director, Salman would’ve smashed his way through. Even Sanjay Leela Bhansali, who first announced his film for Christmas, decided to keep his ‘Padmavati’ a full month away from ‘Tiger Zinda Hai’.
But Rajkumar Hirani, if in form, is in a different league altogether.
Update: To add one more point, budget-wise the clash will heavily be in favour of the ‘Dutt Biopic’. ‘Tiger Zinda Hai’ will be one of the costliest films of the year.
finally .SALMAN IS A STAR NOT AN ACTOR
2017 going interesting year day by day,
It begins with Kaabil vs Raaes
And end up with Dutt vs TZH..Too much fun…
Ranbir will ran eventually, wait and see, that’s my word
I think the clash will be averted.
If the clash takes place, it would be the most interesting one.
Sanjay Dutt vs Close friend, Salman Khan.
Ranbir vs Ex Katrina
Ranbir vs Salman (arch enemies)
Aamir (Hirani supporter) vs Friend Salman Khan
I mean there are many possibilities.
Bad time for Salman will be begun right after this clash ..waiting …
I mean maximum 50 crore loss for tzh if this clash will happen.
So, now Ali Abbas Zafar more concentrate his work out for Tiger Zinda Hai…! Ali Abbas Zafar again troll his haters just like he trolled making SULTAN better.
Earlier all said Gunday fame director and Ali trolled that people with SULTAN.
Srk fans will be happy till hirani anounce to move on other date.
Rajkumar hirani will definetly change the date of his film mark my word
Biopic of a terrorist without guns and bombs is a joke. Trying to buy sympathy for Sanjay dutt in his father’s name won’t work. At best, salman fans would have watched dutt biopic. Now, even that is gone.
And hiranis name could not sell ferrari ki sawari or saala khadoos.
Clashes are not new to Salman. One more won’t matter.
Is aamir behind all this to make sure salman doesn’t break his record? Last time aamir helped some b grade movie to release while sultan was running.
As someone has already mentioned above in comments that hirani is doing it just for publicity by using tzh……but i himself believe that tubelight needs to work big at box office…
lets analyse the clash
Stardom:- salman vs ranbir(salman light years ahead)
Actor:- salman vs ranbir(ranbir one of the best actor in indian cinema)
Actress:-katrina vs anushka and sonam (no comparision,katrina can’t act,anushka is far far ahead of kat and even sonam is 100 times better actress than katrina)
Beauty:-katrina vs anushka and sonam(even if we combine the beauty of both the actress,katrina can’t be beaten or we can say katrina is killing beauty)
director:-ali abbas zafar(jis school mai ali abbas padh raha h waha ka principal hai hirani)
producers:- aditya chopra vs vidhu vinod chopra(jungle m reh kar sher se bair)(aditya chopra sabka baap h)
distributers:-yash raj films vs utv(screens 6:4 ratio,4 in best case for utv or the clash will be averted)
music composer expected:-vishal shekhar vs pritam(51:49 ratio in favour of pritam).
Budget:-150 cr vs 90 cr.
Content:-in worst case also content will be better of dutt biopic.
Expected collection(expected imdb rating)
TZH:-5 and DB-8(220cr TZH and 145 cr DB)
TZH:-6 and DB-8(275 cr and 110cr)
TZH:-7 and DB-8(310cr and 85 cr)
TZH:-7.5(best case) and DB-6.5(worst case)(340 cr and 55cr)
Dear viewers. Can someone answer why salman want tiger zinda to release on christmas but not eid 2018? Raju hirani first announced dutt for christmas and when salman heard about it and being against ranbir, salman decided to boycott dutt by insisting to release his next crap in christmas.
Now, i cannot wait to see 2 of the best actors namely paresh ji and ranbir as father son and that also directed by the best director. Tiger zinda hain is for bhaitards while dutt is for sensible people.
Hirani film, if it turns out to be a superb/entertaining movie will be a strong threat for TZH. It is a no brainer that First day & first weekend will belong to TZH but lifetime will belong to the better movie. Whatever happens you have to give it up to Salman that he stands strong like a rock today. Not many can dare to take him on today. Just like SRKs downfall was enjoyed by many same way many are now waiting for a Salman movie to be trumped but Salman has not yet given a chance. Hirani though now is a big name too.
Which movie I will watch FDFS? Will choose a Hirani directed movie over Salman – Ali abbas movie. Were it Tubelight vs Hirani movie then it would have been 50/50 due to Kabir Khan factor.
Hirani just said he’s targeting Xmas 17. He hasn’t said it is the officially confirmed release date while TZH has been confirmed. Remember how even a film with Eid 2016 attached in its teaser was finally postponed. So, some fans, don’t be over happy. Your party time will be badly ruined when it finally gets postponed. Ha ha ha
And why on earth do some people think Dutt biopic will be full of content? Remember Aditya Chopra also has made films like Befikre. These days, Salman is making films with universal contents.
RANBIR snatched the izzat of bhabijaan in 2008 CLASH.
RANBIR snatched Katrina by made bhabijaan feeling like a “rape woman”.
But ON THIS CHRISTMAS,RANBIR KAPOOR is going to make THE END of bhabijaan’s career.
RANBIR destroyed koyla,now It’s the time of lallu bhabijaan,ha ha ha ha.
GOD BLESS YOU RANBIR KAPOOR,YOU’LL ALWAYS SHINE LIKE A STAR IN CLASH/WITH OUT CLASH.THIS CHRISTMAS BELONGS TO YOU ONLY.CONTENT IS KING,AND BY USING THAT HIRANI SIR/RANBIR will make THE END OF lallu bhabijaan’s career,rofl.
Jiyo mere bhai Ranbir pahle kaluwa ko barbad kiya ab lalluwa ki baari ?
Go ahead my boy we are with u ?
Before Sultan director abbas ali zafar was crap for multiplex audience because of gunday. From multiplex audience i mean those who think metro citizens are most intellent and those who belongs to small cities and villages are fools. As you know mostly metro citizens are using twitter, Imdb, Indicine and other media so obviously they are biased towards hirani.
Now Wr r happy :v
Salmaniacs got an excuse if Chinkada ZindaHai fails 2 beat Dangal thy ll blame DUTT
First flop of Rajkumar Hirani. Sala RK Hirani Pagalagaya hai.
Robot 2.0 is the costliest film of the year not the tiger zinda hai….
vidhu vinod chopra won’t change his date so clash is on
Looking at current situation i dont think that SRK-A.L.Rai film can get a solo release on X-mas 2018!!
CHINKADA ZINDA HE won’t cross 175cr as Salman is weekend star and Hirani movies do well in long run
It will not happen, u heard it here first , Dutt biopic will move . Hirani will be making a suicidal mistake if he goes ahead. He just wants to the film to garner momentum by associating it wth TZH.
In lesser screens, lower ticket price and NON holiday, YJHD did almost same collections(only few crore differnce) than ETT which had 3-4 days holiday(Eid, Independence, Rakhi etc)
BTW there was clash between bachna ae haseeno and god tussi great ho as well
And Sultan worked due to ver-hype and stardom. Stardom humesha saath nahi det!!!!
hahaha bring it ….is sanjay dutt biopic a worth í ½í¸?í ½í¸?í ½í¸?haha
Wow. extremely excited about this film. Christmas is a great period. clash or solo
release doesn’t really matter as its all about content. youngistaan has already won all the clashes v hv appeared so far – srk &ajay both were defeated. v nvr think much abt d rival film & waste our time in bashing trolling the rival stars. v will do the same this time also.
All d best sallu. Your fans have already started abusing trolling ranbir. seems like they haven’t learnt any lesson from srk & ajay fans :p
Can’t wait for Dutt Biopic this Christmas.