Last quarter of 2012 isn’t exactly going as per plans. ‘Jab Tak Hai Jaan’, ‘Son of Sardaar’, ‘Talaash’ and ‘Khiladi 786’, all biggies boasting of superstar actors, were expected to put the box office on fire. Wait, before the box office comes in, they were also expected to be classics. Okay, let’s keep ‘Son of Sardaar’ and ‘Khiladi 786’ out of it. After all, the makers never promised a film that will be remembered or acclaimed for it’s content.
Jab Tak Hai Jaan – Son Of Sardar – Talaash
However, ‘Jab Tak Hai Jaan’ and ‘Talaash’ were expected to be on these lines, at least amongst the audience. One can go on and on about the ‘wow-this-film-looks-fab-on-paper’ conversations that were centred around the Shahrukh Khan and Aamir Khan starrers. In fact at the beginning of 2012, no one would have doubted the box office journey that these films would take. Content or no content! In the middle of this all, there came ‘Son of Sardaar’.
The results though have been a tad underwhelming!
Despite the centuries that two of these films have already scored, the fact still remains that they couldn’t score in two departments – ‘universal acceptance’ and ‘instant coffee results’. Yes, the argument would be that quite a few ‘so-called’ Bollywood blockbusters in the 100 crore club haven’t quite seen all around acceptance coming for them. Agree. However what they scored was providing ‘instant’ results.
For Diwali biggies it was always going to be difficult to accomplish that due to a clash. However if only there was ‘universal acceptance’, they would have at least continued to score ‘heavily’ in the second week. That didn’t happen and the results were there to be seen when Irrfan Khan’s ‘Life of Pi’ had collections higher than JTHJ and SOS.
With all films set to end their run by the time ‘Dabangg 2’ arrives next week, JTHJ collections would be best ever for Shahrukh but only a little better than ‘Ra. One’. As for ‘Son of Sardaar’, it too has just scraped through the 100 crore mark, as was the case with ‘Singham’ and ‘Bol Bachchan’.
The question that arises is – ‘Is this all that was expected from these films?’ Leave aside the crores earned and the profit/loss figure, weren’t these films expected to provide wholesome entertainment to audience? These are early days for ‘Talaash’ but same holds true for that as well which, after being pitched as THE Aamir Khan movie in the offering, it hasn’t quite seen all around accolades either from audience or critics.
Didn’t audience deserve better? Was the wait for these biggies indeed worth it?
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The biggest disappointment this year has been Talaash. It did not get universally great reviews & positive WOM that an Aamir Khan film gets. It came after a wait of 3 long years. And one doesn’t expect a half baked mish-mash of supernatural/drama stuff from Aamir Khan Productions & Excel!! Performances or film nothing was outstanding about it. Just passable, okay okay stuff. It’s a kind of film which didn’t merit a visit to theatres. It was more like a telefilm! In fact telefilms on Star Bestsellers & DD used to be better. After 24 years in showbiz you don’t expect Aamir Khan to come up with such routine stuff.
The box office collections are low, trending is poor as per Aamir Khan’s standards. Same man made a blockbuster out of TZP, a film on dyslexia! But Talaash is barely a hit. There’s no suspense in it! Aimless drama with a hackneyed twist! Neither art film nor commercial. It’s a film which is not even memorable unlike Aamir’s past films. Big thumbs down!
@indicine
pls answer @Mustafa Shuaib Ansari’s comment.
Indicine where is JOKER ???? Why not EK THA TIGER (about story) in this list
SOS is a BIG disappointment the story revolves around the house only ter naal love ho gaya was way much better didnt see JTHJ so no comments Khiladi786 is ok compared to SOS though the action scene exagerates a bit bt thats ok . And for those who credit SOS don’t have the power to watch a good film so plz dont say that SOS is its pure irrelevant. Only god knows how you guys supported to watch the whole movie in the theatre thank god for DVDs
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JTHJ was disappointing to the youth – that is why it failed. My son could just not handle his favourite actress Kathrina acting opposite SRK. Only Anil Kapoor/Akshay can act with actresses way younger than him and it will be accepted. Talaash was fantastic.
Actually Talaash was the worst disappointment of all…it was a rehash of a concept taken from the hit hollywood movie 6th sense and that too very badly made with so many loopholes in it. . Tell me something if Kareena Kapoor’s character was killed 3 years ago in the movie, why was she taking revenge after such a long time. And a very convenient explanation somewhere in the movie..those who don’t go on the other side can take a human shape. Wonder why nobody can see her when she takes a human shape. If it was not for Aamir Khan’s aura the movie is not worth a watch…and Aamir khan is the most overrated actor anyways…