Taking aim at Bollywood’s box office disaster is Vivek Agnihotri (Poster/Instagram Picture Credits)
Bollywood’s 2023 has gotten off to an exciting start owing to Shah Rukh Khan’s historic comeback in Pathan. The movie made over 1000 crores in revenue worldwide, shattering all previous records for a Hindi cinema. This gave rise to expectations that this year would be distinct from 2022, but reality quickly set in, and now Vivek Agnihotri has something to say about it.
Big budget movies like Shehzada, starring Kartik Aaryan, and Selfie, starring Akshay Kumar and Emraan Hashmi, flopped horribly at the box office after Pathan’s box office success. After Shah Rukh Khan’s triumphant comeback, nobody anticipated such a circumstance, hence it came as a huge shock to the industry. Even the most recent film, Bhola, starring Ajay Devgn, falls short of expectations.
About the same, Vivek Agnihotri criticized Bollywood on Twitter for paying celebs an unprecedented sum of money when they can’t even guarantee a successful opening for their movies. “Bollywood is in poor shape,” he wrote. re. It appears that the entire industry is content to give stars who can’t even guarantee an opening absurd and astronomical fees. The vanity and extravagant lifestyle of the stars consume the most of the funds. What is not right?
Take a look at the tweet below:
Bollywood is in bad shape. re. It seems the entire industry is happy to pay unrealistic and exorbitant fees to stars who can’t even guarantee an opening. Most of the money is wasted in the vanity and lifestyle of the stars. What’s going wrong? @mid_day pic.twitter.com/iRKQK5142F
— Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri (@vivekagnihotri) April 4, 2023
Because no other Bollywood film has been able to have a clear box office triumph outside Shah Rukh Khan’s Pathan, it is time to reflect on what is wrong with the industry. Tu Jhoothi Main Makkar, starring Ranbir Kapoor and Shraddha Kapoor, has achieved considerable success. Thought leaders like Selfie and Shehzada have utterly failed.
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