Mumbai: Just 5 months in 2024 have passed, and there has been a string of hits and flops this year. Only three films have been able to make it to the 100-crore club this year. This short list includes names like Fighter, HanuMan, and Shaitaan. However, only Shaitaan and HanuMan can be said as real hits, as Fighter was made on a big budget of Rs. 250 crores and was able to earn only ₹237.44 crore in India.
Bade Miyan Chote Miyan is remaining in cinemas due to lack of alternatives but collections are very low as the third week will not even be 50% of the competition Maidaan. It has probably done enough to ensure that Maidaan will not reach its total.
Bade Miyan Chote Miyan is heading for a 3.50 crore nett approx third week which will take it to a 57 crore nett plus total in three weeks and a close that will be somewhere in the 60 crore nett range. The film is facing a 50% drop in third week with no new release of any note and with collections at these low levels..It is not even able to trend a little in this vacuum at the box office.
The overseas collection of Fighter would make it to the hit films list. But several Bollywood releases like Bade Akshay Kumar and Tiger Shroff’s Miyan Chote Miyan, Ajay Devgn’s Maidaan, and Sidharth Malhotra’s Yodha among others were unable to do wonders at the box office. Most of these films are still running in theatres but are unable to even recover their making cost. Why have these films failed at the box office? Why did such big stars fail at pulling back audiences in the theatres?
For the unversed, a film is said to be a hit when it can earn its making cost and it is said to be a blockbuster when it earns nearly as double its cost. But what happens when a lead actor charges as much as the film costs in its making? Well, the recent box office numbers are an answer to such questions. Suchin Mehrotra, a film critic took to his X profile to count the reasons for such big budget failures.
In one of his tweets, Mehrotra wrote that ‘Indian producers have been called out for setting a dangerous trend of offering buy-one-get-one ticket schemes to the audience and also for breeding and empowering paid trade influencers, which have cast a massive credibility cloud on the industry.’ He further elaborated on the matter in a series of tweets and explained how unjustified demands of actors are leading to their films failing at the box office.
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