Releasing films during a festive date is stupid and uninteresting: SRK

In an interview with Hindustan Times, Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan has said that the preference given to ‘festive releases’ is stupid and uninteresting.

While his last non-festive release was ‘My Name Is Khan’ way back in 2010, Khan says “when I release a film, that should be a festival”.

Some excerpts from his interview:

No, it’s (Diwali) not my slot. As a matter of fact, I’ve stopped releasing films on festivals. I always tell everyone, ‘When I release a film, that should be a festival’.

Eid mein namaz padthe hai, Diwali mein puja karte hai (we read Namaz during Eid and do puja during Diwali). Now, it’s become all about releasing a film on a date. It’s stupid and uninteresting.

(I would) release a film the day it’s completed. Whoever wants to come, come, whoever doesn’t want to come, don’t come.

Khan’s upcoming release ‘Happy New Year’ releases on October 24 2014, a day after Diwali.

via Hindustan Times

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  • “Releasing a film during festival is uninteresting” says the man whose last non festive release was 4 years ago..he has already booked independence day release next year when the film hasnt even gone on floors yet..is it necessary to lie?

  • Khans true power lies in these festival dates. We saw it during jai ho. Ordinary release doing 15cr opening = Festival release doing 30 cr

  • nowdays every big stars film released during festive season because their films scale & budget are much higher than other movies . and that’s why their films need a bigger platform to release.
    thats fair enough because still khans are the most popular stars in india .
    so just enjoy their films in those festive seasons.

  • this time happy new year clash with two more movies…rang rasiya n one more…so happy new will not create any record i think…!!!

  • hahaha it’s my challenge I will reply to all haters on 25 oct when the first day collections of HNY come in… im sure most of them would be dead… if this so called ‘bad trailer’ have given them sleepless nights of making multiple ids,acting as a fake SRK fan and disliking the trailer… think what will happen to them when HNY releases… are bacho( specially this salman-aamir fansite) diwali aa rhi hai or vo tum sabka diwala zarur nikalega… till then peace out and keep barking against SRK as you have done from amny years coz your barking wont affect him even 1%… i dont have much problem with SRK haters like navin,sachin 11,sid-original but i hate one kid named babaji who has another id myanmar coz this kid praises every actor and is jealous of SRK to the core

  • Our king is right and it is just coincidence from last few years that our kings movie gets complete and a festival comes and our king cannot beg festivals to postpone as festivals dates are already decided according to calendar and position of sun;moon and planets

  • anyway he is not salman khan who gave flops continously….Criminal Salman’s JAI HO became a disaster this year….HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL TIME BLOCKBUSTER

  • Last 10 Films and Total of 3 Khans

    1. SHAHRUKH KHAN

    Much was talked about Shah Rukh Khan and his movies not able to break records in past few years but when we look into the collections of his last ten movies, he’s the only actor whose last 10 movies have consistently managed to cross 100 crores worldwide and has quiet significantly justified the tag of ‘KING KHAN’. Collections of his last ten movies are:-

    – Chennai Express: 425 crores
    – Jab Tak Hai Jaan: 249 crores
    – Don2: 238 crores
    – Ra.One: 240 crores
    – My Name Is Khan: 205 crores
    – Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi: 156 crores
    – Om Shanti Om: 150 crores
    – Chak De India: 109 crores
    – Don: 103 crores
    – Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna: 115 crores

    TOTAL: 1990 crores
    Average per films: 199 crores

    2. SALMAN KHAN

    He has been delivering back to back Blockbusters in India but his run at the overseas market has been pretty ordinary. While most from his last 5 movies has grossed 150 crs and more in India, it has failed to cross 75 crores at the overseas market, Kick being his highest grosser at the overseas market. Collections of his last ten movies:-

    – Kick: 380 crores (expected)
    – Jai Ho: 180 crores
    – Dabangg 2: 255 crores
    – Ek Tha Tiger: 310 crores
    – Bodyguard: 228 crores
    – Ready: 185 crores
    – Dabangg: 216 crores
    – Veer: 34 crores
    – London Dreams: 30 crores
    – Main Aur Mrs Khanna: 18 crores

    TOTAL: 1836 crores
    Average per films: 183.6 crores

    3. AAMIR KHAN

    He started the league of 100 crore with Ghajini and did the same for 200 crores with 3 Idiots, there was lots of expectation from Dhoom 3 to be first film to gross 300 crores in India but unfortunately it was not able to do so but became first Bollywood film to gross 500 crores and more worldwide. He is at the third spot on this list with his last ten movies collection being.

    – Dhoom 3: 530 crores
    – Talaash: 150 crores
    – 3 Idiots: 385 crores
    – Ghajini: 190 crores
    – Taare Zameen Par: 90 crores
    – Fanaa: 102 crores
    – Rang De Basanti: 90 crores
    – Mangal Pandey: 54 crores
    – Dil Chahta Hai: 90 crores
    – Lagaan: 58 crores

    TOTAL: 1739 crores
    Average per films: 173.9 crores

  • We want our king to prove this and release all his upcoming movies on non holiday like we want our king to release fan before 1 week of independence day

  • Srk does not care about overrated YouTube views but he made sure that hny trailer reached everyone :D

  • Whenever our kings movie releases it becomes festival day for us and even if our king releases movie on 1st april that that day will be like eid and diwali for us and we will celebrate on that day

  • what was he trying to say ? srk wants only his film release on festival because without festival he is nothing and present time he dnt want to clash with any star

  • Ha ha ha
    Joke of the century
    All three khans are nothing without festivals release
    1.SRK=KING OF DIWALI VACATIONS
    2.AAMIR=BIGGEST COWARD
    KING OF THE CRISMUS (MAXIMMUM VACATIONS)
    3 SALMAN =KING OF EID VACATIONS
    4. HrithikRoshan And Akshay =Real King

  • srk always want to do a multistarer film. bcoz he scare to do a solo film.
    kkhh – Salman is part of the movie.
    dtph – akki is part of the movie
    khnh – saif is part of the movie
    kkkg – hrithik, amitabh is part of the movie
    mohhabate – amitabh is part of the movie.
    klnk – abhishek is part of the movie.
    Karan arjun – Salman is part of the movie.
    srk got hit bcoz of these big actor.
    otherwise srk is nothing infront of salman
    WHERE IS SHAHRUKH SOLO HIT.
    ce, oso, ddlj, vz, rbdj, mnik. these r few
    otherwise srk is nothing.
    we can’t compare with salman.
    bcoz Salman is BEST
    HE is SHAHENSHAH of Bollywood.

  • Yest HNY crossed 66M views & now they are trending 1crore views of HNY .So SRKians are changing laws of Mathematics.Acc to them 1cr > 66M

  • What kinda statement it is? ? Was it not the same person who requested jeetu jee to postpone OUATIMA so that CE would get a solo release on eid? ?
    Why did he release raone,jthj etc in diwali ? ? It shows his double face! I feel he’s a bit depressed after not getting any festive release in 2015-16.

  • Yest HNY crossed 66M views & now they are trending 1crore views of HNY .So SRKians are changing laws of Mathematics.Acc to them 1cr 66M.

  • @Riju
    so just enjoy their films in those festive seasons.

    Which Khan film is enjoyable in last five years except 3 idiots and kick
    Rest all are shit
    Eg ett bodyguard raone jthj main aur mrs khanna, dhoom 3

  • All Eid,Diwali and christmas dates for next 2 years have already gone from the hands of SRK so he has no other option but to say this bcoz he never said like this before as he got all major festival dates before in his last few releases and also maybe he is indirectly telling Salman, Aamir or Karan to not release their movies during festivals and leave that dates for him.lol

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