Actor Kangana Ranaut has announced the OTT release of her recent film Emergency. Taking to her Instagram Stories on Friday, Kangana shared the news with her fans and followers but in brief.
On her social media platform, Kangana re-shared a post by her fans. It featured collages of Kangana and former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. She simply wrote alongside the post, “17th March releasing on @netflix.” Fans can watch Emergency on Netflix on March 17. It hit the theatres on January 17 this year. The film earned ₹21.65 crore gross in India.
Released on January 17, Emergency stars Kangana Ranaut as former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Kangana is not just playing the lead in Emergency but has also directed it. The film explores the 21-month Emergency imposed by Gandhi, from 1975 to 1977, often referred to as the darkest chapter of independent India.
Besides Ranaut, Emergency also stars Anupam Kher as Jayaprakash Narayan, Shreyas Talpade as Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Mahima Chaudhry as Pupul Jayakar, Milind Soman as Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw and Vishak Nair as Sanjay Gandhi.
Why Emergency Failed At Box Office
Kangana Ranaut’s Emergency and debutants Rasha Thadani and Aaman Devgan’s Azaad clashed at the box office, earning a lackluster start at the box office. Emergency and Azaad both saw poor opening days — like the rest of Bollywood — with Emergency earning a ₹2.5 crore and Azaad a ₹1.5 crore. Periodic drama Azaad, which also happened to be a biographical political drama, did not see any major change in subsequent days and went steady and utterly underwhelming.
Statutory estimates put Emergency’s opening week collection in India at ₹14.40 crore, which includes ₹1 crore added on the seventh day. Blue Film recorded a Hindi occupancy rate of 6.66 percent on Thursday, and Kolkata was best at 11.25 percent. While Ranaut’s popular decade-long career has given her several box office hits, the first-week box office figures of ₹14 crores haven’t lived up to the hype. Critics also said the film, depicting Ranaut as former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi during the Indian Emergency, did not get screened in Punjab because the Sikh community objected to the film — arguing it misrepresented them.
Join our whatsapp group for Latest updates