Bollywood superstar Salman Khan is set to dominate the Eid weekend once again, as the star power of the actor has earned his upcoming release ‘Sultan’ the second most lucrative release period of the year.
The under-performance of Dilwale and the failure of FAN is one of the reasons why Raees has moved, but to give credit where credit is due – taking on Salman Khan is not an option that anyone in the industry has at this point in time. His fan-following, especially at smaller centres, is light years ahead of everyone else and more so during the weekend that he has dominated for nearly 6 years.
Every Eid release, right from Dabangg in 2010 to Bajrangi Bhaijaan in 2015, has been a blockbuster or better – which is a phenomenal, never before achieved, record.
We had written an article just before the release of Chennai Express in 2013, which was titled ‘Bollywood clashes – Might Is Right‘. The article still holds true today. Unless the makers are extremely confident of the content of their films, it’s the bigger star who will always get the bigger dates.
It’s not about the history of your successful clashes or your past achievements, but for the trade, it’s all about an actor’s current standing in the industry. It’s all about business at the end of the day and whoever can generate higher footfalls in theatres, will be given the first preference (i.e bigger release at single-screens and higher number of shows at multiplexes – if there is a clash).
So it’ll be Sultan on Eid this year. Solo.
The film releases in theatres on July 6 (Wednesday), which would give it a 5-day extended weekend. It has 16 open days before the release of ‘Great Grand Masti’ on July 22. If content clicks, get ready for yet another Salman Khan blockbuster.
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@indicine What are chances Sultan will actually be a good movie? How many good movies did Salman make in his career, 2?
Tell me something do you think SRK fans have anything between their ears? It don’t seem that way have never come across such air heads. Salman has 9 back to back and you still have some morons calling them crap and this is because they are living in a make believe world.
Eid became a lucrative period when film makers chose Salman movies the rest is history.
Indicine can you tell me how many SRK movies released at Eid.
@ Satyam Salmanfan at 5:07 pm : Check my comments at 4:57 pm.
Sultan Ali Khan fir se Haryana kesri … ?
@Harbhajan
Means it’s Sons of Sardar vs Robot 2.0
Ajay announced booked two Diwali.. Shivaay n sons of Sardar…
Good to see clash Ajay vs Rajni Sir someone I respect alot!!
thank you shah rukh KING OF BOLLYWOOD for your generous gesture we appreciate your sacrifice for the sake of your producers friends which people are thinking he is scared. infact salman khan has been coward no guts to show his flims except EID. people dont dare to say against KING KHAN do we have to remind you he is only superstar of bollywood for 25 yrs and for many many yrs, have some respect of this legend.
@ indicine- how can irafan fan got 68 likes on 6 th page, manipulation or mistake?
@ Ank – others call wanted is Salman’s comeback but it is not 100% true. look at most of his movies from 2000 – 2010, he worked with b grade team and b grade producers for sake of friendship. whenever he got chance with big team and producers he gave mpk, no entry, mpkk, partner kind of successful movies. you can imagine srk in yuvvraj. can srk make yuvvraaj successfull? if you say yes i will ask then why he didn’t make trimurti successful? trimurti was made in subhash ghai’s golden days but yuvvraaj is made in his worst period.
If content clicks then sultan will be an all time blockbuster.. With mixed word of mouth it will be a blockbuster.. From Dabangg to Bajrangi bhaijaan every salman Khan Eid release has ended up as the second highest grossing film of all time..No one in the history of Bollywood has managed to churn out blockbusters after blockbusters of such a high magnitude.. This is the perfect release date and period.. A 5 day extended weekend will be earth-shattering and I expect sultan to earn 150 crore in its 5 day opening weekend…fingers crossed..it should also break the opening day and weekend records…
Good job indicine. You once again proved that you are a big chamcha of this south remakes and kabir khan dependent star whose career was nothing before 2010. Let him try a non commercial movie like talaash or even Fan and i will see if it can cross 60 cr or not. He is just lucky that he is getting solo releases and free weeks run othwrwise he has always been defeated by every clash. And even since 2010 he has been chasing Aamir’s records like a dog running for miles behind a car. Light years ahead? Then why BB his best word of mouth movie failed to come cose to pk’s record forget beating.
Dangal will crush and thrash Craptan black and Blue. Only Aamir Is Biggest Megastar. No one can comes close to his Megastardom. Dangal’s first week collections will be more than craptan’s life time collections. Aamir is light years ahead in Megastardom.
@ Ank – others call wanted is Salman’s comeback but it is not 100% true. look at most ofhis movies from 2000 – 2010, he worked with b grade team and b grade producers for sake of friendship. whenever he got chance with big team and producers he gave mpk, no entry, mpkk, partner kind of successful movies. you can imagine srk in yuvvraj. can srk make yuvvraaj successfull? if you say yes i will ask then why he didn’t make trimurti successful? trimurti was made in subhash ghai’s golden days but yuvvraaj is made in his worst period.
@ Yuvraj at 9:51 pm : I was just stating facts there and not the reasoning behind.
For example the fact is that he is the biggest star today. Some may say that it is mainly because of remakes etc but it doesnt matter to me what the reasoning is. The fact is that he is the biggest star with whatever route he took and that shall be accepted and appreciated.
Similarly it is a fact that he suffered at box office for a few years and the reasoning may be doing movies for friends etc. But it is a fact that he underperformed and then bounced back tremendously.
And I never said that he was a flop star or something. He has always been a top star since his very first movie MPK and there have been some ups and downs.
Anyways the intention was to highlight his incredible rise and not to demean him in any manner.
If we have any disagreement here we can disagree and no issues.
@ Ank- do you know why i like to discuss with you because you are among those rare peoples who can understand how to talk about others achievements. it is better to discuss bollywood topic with you instead of some stupid fanatics who don’t watch movie, don’t look at starcast, producer but only talk about clash and box office collection.
SALMAN THE BLOCKBUSTER KHAN
EID USKI THI
EID USKI HAI
EID USKI HI RAHEGI
THIS YEAR SULTAN
COMING YEAR KABIR KHAN’S NEXT
… and d words of ds article r just awesome…. Salman has unprecedented fan following in d smaller centres also unlike others… Whn Box Office model in India shifted to plexes . He suffered a bit coz lack of theatres plus modest ticket prices while others just on plex business gv hit mvz…. His mvz footfalls on Avg were almost always good….
Now WELCOME TO THE SALMAN KHAN ERA
@xzone : Read the article again, he is getting Eid release because no one deserves that more than Salman. The trade expects a Salman starter every Eid, that says all. No matter how much you cry or take credit from him. Your idol almost tried everything but nothing has worked for him except CE (read in absence of Salman) !!!!!!!!
@Ak fan
Shut up you moron. Only Salman Khan rules Bollywood. Dont compare him with 2 foot actor.
Aamir is nothing without Hirani, Dhoom brand and christmas.
Only Salman rules Bollywood.
@Pheku Salim : Salman still have ETT, PRDP, KICK & BB ahead of Jungle Book. What SRK have apart from CE & HNY (Deepika) ? Looser !!!!!!!
@Rahul look who is talking? 50 years old unmarried virgin steroid body and 2 ft none actor’s fan is talking about India’s biggest megastar and King of Bollywood? Amir is ruling, he was ruling and he will always rule your fat buffalo lallu is nothing but a 2 ft in stardom as well as acting in front of Megastar Aamir Khan lallu is a nothing in front of Global Emperor Aamir Khan.
@Ak fan Aamir is a flopstar with zero stardom, surviving only coz of Hirani , christmas and dhoom brand.
Only Salman rules.
@Rahul Malhotra, who cares about “stardom”? Seriously, you Salman Khan fanboys are the only ones who are crazy about “superstars”, because as an artist Salman Khan is beyond subpar, and no where close to the level of Aamir Khan.
Salman is the worst actor of his generation among Srk, Aamir, Ajay Devgan and Akshay Kumar, yet he is currently the most popular one. Speaks volume about indian moviegoers, who prefer movies such as Kick, Dabangg2, Wanted etc. over good movies with content.
Only on the subcontinent can somone was talentless as Salman Khan be as successful as he is. And this I am not saying as a fan of anyone, but good cinema. Salman Khan is a joke internationally, you do realize that? Its because of the likes of him Bollywood has the reputation it does.
Sultan
Waiting for power of Sultan
Wasnt any doubt bcoz exhibitors wanted only 1 movie this Eid n not a market stall trader selling Knocked off Baadshah Rice…!
Seems like the jobless PaglaPOORians have so much spare time on their hand that they are impersonating Aamir / Bhai fans…!
You would think that surely they must be some irrelevant online poll about Queen that needs their urgent attention/ dedication…
Not happy about the release date though as imo the last Fri before Eid is just as good a date for long sustainable collections provided content is half decent.
@1:48pm spamZone
Listen in the free world outside Tihar Jail where you live noone forces ppl to watch movies- period…! No example proves that point more than Kings recent Pankha where King said heres my tribute to my billions of loyal slaves n yet only afew million went n saw the crapfest…!
Biggest weekend n first week records for 2016 confirmed.
Can it claim the HGOTY tag from Dangal though…
2016 is all about the big boys ie top 2 Khans
So excited to watch 2 wrestling movies within 6 months of eachother despite some youtube fans saying 2 movies with similar genre must be a RIPOFF
What if SS Rajamouli or shanker or bhansali think of making the great epic ‘Mahabharath ‘ with Bollywood actors on a scale never seen before on the Indian screen and just imagine the casting!
Big B as the invincible Bheeshm pitamaha.
Salman as the mighty Bhim or the great karna (Bcos of his physique he would most likely get to play Bhim but would personally want to see him as the ‘Dhaana-veera-shoora karna’)
Aamir as the great karna (karna to me is the most significant & a dream like character in the entire epic and my personal favorite, I remember aamir saying that if ever there was one character which he would like to reprise from the great epic it is that of karna’s)
Ajay d as Arjun or karna (He would be equally great in both these characters).
Hrithik as lord Krishna.
Akki as Arjun.
srk as Arjun or yudhistir.
Anil kapoor as yudhistir.
And then comes Duryodhan, such a powerful & strong character , I seriously can’t find a Bollywood actor powerful & convincing enough to pull off a Duryodhan , may be sanjay dutt or manoj bajpai to an extent but seriously only actors like Prabhas or Rana can do full justice to such a role.
Sakuni – Nawaz / anupam kher
Shatrughan sinha as Guru dronacharya .
Paresh rawal as the blind king dritarastra.
Vidya balan or priyanka as drapaudi , I would rather prefer vidya as she looks more Indian.
I would welcome other users to give some more interesting inputs on the casting of our reel heroes as the heroes of the great Indian epic!