More than 450 questions, so here we go..
Q. Why public response for Fitoor is so disastrous?
A. It’s because the appeal of such films is niche. Even metro city audience aren’t too excited about watching arty films in theatre. They wait for critic or social media reviews to find out if it’s worth a watch. Unfortunately for Fitoor and the industry, the response to the film was very poor. It scored 2.3 on our critic review scale, when such films usually need to get better reviews than what Airlift got.
Q. What will be the opening day collection of FAN? – Monu
A. It would depend on several factors like release size, theatrical trailer, music etc. 20 crore plus opening will be considered excellent for a film like FAN. Our first FBO prediction will be out as soon as the trailer is out, so stay tuned for that.
Q. Why the collection of Airlift is just 120 crore, with positive word of mouth, good review and more hype?
A. The lifetime collections of Airlift is excellent (which is 125 crore and not 120 crore). It should be compared to other off-beat films like Talaash and not commercial films like Rowdy Rathore or Dilwale. It’s the genre that limited the box office prospects of the film. It has little or no appeal outside 25 odd cities.
Q. Which hero till today has delivered the highest number of hits starting way back from Dilip Kumar or even before?
A. Such questions need a more detailed analysis, something which we cannot do in live QnA’s. It should be Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar with 35 and Shah Rukh Khan with 32 successful films at the top of the list. SRK has the best success ratio as he has done fewer films than Salman. Akshay has done 100 plus films, compared to Salman’s 70 plus and SRK’s 55 plus. We need to analyse Amitabh Bachchan’s career for a more detailed answer.
Q. When will Sultan’s teaser or trailer be released?
A. The shoot is still in progress so it’s way too early to discuss the teaser / trailer release. Even the makers wouldn’t know the date as of now. The trailer might come out sometime in May. They might release a teaser earlier.
Q. What is the total nett collections of Baahubali in India ? (All versions Hindi+Tamil+Telugu) What is the total Worldwide Collections of Baahubali?
A. The domestic collections of Baahubali, according to the makers of the film, crossed the Rs 500 crore figure (gross). The worldwide gross is said to be in the Rs 610 crore range.
Q. What do you think about Shahrukh Khan’s career in past 5 years. After My Name Is Khan his movies failed to achieve critical acclaim? – Rishabh
A. Critical acclaim is not important. Very few films that are loved by the critics, go on to do well at the box office. What’s important is doing films that the audience like. And today, the audience wants a film that has a good story to tell and also has entertainment value.
Q. In terms of fan base who is a bigger star among these.. Salman, SRK, Akshay, Aamir, Hrithik and Ajay? – Satyajit
A. Salman and SRK are the top stars, as far as fan-following is concerned. Salman leads in India and SRK edges him out overseas. You can see from the craze that even their Bigg Boss appearance generates, or for that matter the craze around their birthdays both amongst the audience, fans that gather outside their house and the media coverage that it gets.
Q. Who will be number one hero in next 5 years. When Khans will be not in contention as their age does not permit to be hero?
A. Khans (with all due respect, does not include Zayed, Fardeen and co) have lasted way longer than they themselves would have hoped to. Salman and Aamir are probably at the peak of their popularity and could sustain their stardom for many more years. Rajnikanth is still the top star in the Tamil film industry, romances heroines almost a third his age (Amy Jackson is 24, Rajni is 65). As they get older, it’s all about spacing films out and finding suitable scripts. It’ll be interesting to see if they move on to work with the next generation of top female stars.
As for who is the next big star.. it could be anyone. Ranveer are Varun are currently leading the race, but things could change with one or two flops, like it has with Ranbir. Becoming the top star in Bollywood and establishing your following is like running a marathon. It takes time, patience and a lot of hard work. Even Hrithik had to struggle after Kaho Naa.. Pyaar Hai. Salman has gone through low phases, even Aamir has. Akshay and Ajay didn’t have the following that they now have, back in the 90s.
Q. Have no question to ask. Just wanted to compliment you on the excellent work that this site is doing on bollywood reporting. Your box office analysis on various films/stars makes intriguing reading. The high no of questions that get asked on AskIndicine are a testimony to your increasing popularity. If you guys can also get interviews of stars/directors wherein the questions will be asked by you, it would be great.This is certainly one of the best and trusted sites which I often visit to get all the information on movies/box office. Keep up the good work.
A. First of all, thank you for visiting and reading. As for interviews, it can be done. But we do not like the whole process of handling egos, waiting for stars. They usually give interviews prior to the release of their films and they do not like talking about box office. Hundreds of sites publish interviews and if you read even some of them, most sentences are repeated. ‘He / she was amazing as a co-star, it was great working with’, ‘signed the movie for its story’, ‘blown away by the script’, ‘the director is a genius’, ‘it’s my co-star’s best performance’. Hrithik said Katrina’s best performance was in Bang Bang. That says a lot, doesn’t it? Stars can’t be honest and frank in their interviews, so it’s pointless in a way. Having said that, what we would like to do is, take a list of questions from our readers and then get stars to answer them.
Q. After blockbuster hit PRDP, are Sooraj Barjatya and Salman Khan teams up again for another project?
A. The blockbuster part is not true and so are rumours of them coming together. There is a new website that is writing a lot of rubbish to garner publicity, most of what they are writing is baseless.
Q. Who is the main lead in Robot 2.0?
A. Same as Robot 1 / Endhiran. But Akshay has a meaty role to play, the makers have said the two characters are equally matched.
Q. Why is their difference between Producers figure and Trade figure of a film collection and which one is accurate?
A. Both are not 100% accurate.
Q. Which is Best Year in SRK’s career according to you – 1993, 1995, 2004, 2007?
A. 1995, one all-time blockbuster (DDLJ) and one blockbuster (Karan Arjun). Solo release-wise, 2007 because of Om Shanti Om and Chak De India. It was a great year simply because of the fact that one film was a acclaimed classic and the other became the top grosser of all time.
Q. Yesterday, you said that Fitoor needs to collect 70-75 CR just to recover costs only.. My question is why these filmmakers spend so much on a film when they know that there is a very little chance of recovery. In today’s time when we see that every second film is failing, then why spending so much on a movie with no face value?
A. From the makers point of view, Abhishek Kapoor’s first two films were also niche, Rock On and Kai Po Che. But both did fairly well at the box office. When Fitoor was planned, Katrina was the top female star in the industry and Aditya Roy Kapur was coming after a big film like ‘Aashiqui 2’. So they probably thought the interesting pairing might work, along with Abhishek Kapoor as director.
A lot also depends on the timing of release, because careers can change any Friday. Anurag Basu and Ranbir decided to produce Jagga Jasoos soon after the success of Barfi, look at where the film is now. It once had everything going for it, now almost nothing. Both the lead stars, who were back then one of the tops stars, are now going through the lowest phase in their respective careers.
It’s easy to ridicule the makers with the benefit of hindsight, but no filmmaker, actor or producer sets out to do a film that they believe is certain to fail.
Getting the economics right is also difficult, because every director has a certain vision for his films. Tamasha would have probably worked if it was not shot at a exotic foreign location. A film like Badlapur would fail if it was made on a budget of 35-40 crore. At the same time, if there is a compromise made on the budget and the product is not upto expectations scale and setting wise, it might again disappoint the audience and fail at the box office.
Q. Why do you think Komal Nahta tweeted that Raees is being postponed? Was it a promotional gimmick ? Please share your thoughts – Aban
A. We are not quite sure what happened there. From what we know, Komal and Ritesh are close, Komal does visit Excel office to watch promos, trailers etc and he gives his feedback prior to release and after release. So both the tweet and the denial did come as a surprise. Exact reason we do not know. To be very honest, we think we know the reason for the whole drama, but can’t reveal it on a public platform that’s read by many.
Q. Kapoor and Sons Trailer Rating?
A. 4 stars, loved it. Not many were eagerly waiting for the film, but after the trailer everything has changed. The film looks very promising now.
Q. Why media is always biased towards SRK? – Yuvraj
A. That’s like asking why our media is biased towards PM Modi. Anything that SRK says or does, is big news. People like reading about his films, his off-screen persona, everything combined generates extreme reactions. People wait to write him off, even when his films gross a massive 380 crore worldwide. His fans want him to succeed, there is another bunch who want to see him fail. This is not glorying SRK, but the truth. SRK related topics are interesting to read or talk about, whether you like him or not! So when a topic is interesting, media covers it. His PR is good too.
Q. Can Robot 2.0 become the first 400 crore movie in India?
A. Please do not ask us such questions, it’s impossible to answer. It’s like asking if the world might end in 2020. Who knows? Robot 2.0 might do 400 crore or finish at 200 crore or do 800 crore. All depends on content. Even S.S Rajamouli said, he expected Baahubali to open slow and then slowly gain momentum. But Baahubali was record-smashing opener and record-breaking grosser. Anything can happen. Robot 2 is a massive film under a fantastic director and popular stars. Akshay’s presence will further increase its reach. This is the best answer we can give at this point in time.
Q. What us the meaning of term Screenplay?
A. Apart from the script, it covers the visual aspects of film making. Like how a particular scene will be shot, where the songs will be included, the shooting locations etc. The Oscars awards are presented to the Best Original Screenplay as it includes the entire process of film making, which explains why you probably may have never heard of an award for Best Script – one of our many Bollywood awards might have one, but credible ones only have Best Original Screenplay. Original is also important, even screeplays that are based on novels or plays don’t win awards in that category.
That ends our QnA for today. We received more than 450 questions today, we will answer a few more questions after a couple of days. Hope you enjoyed today’s QnA. Feedback is welcome in the comments section below, we do read all your comments. Thank you.
What is the whole cast and crew of sultan including music director and d.o.p
My first question ever but an avid follower of indicine.Sorry no question in this comment only wanted to appreciate and specially thank you for your work.
Looks like I even wrote my point before you guys answered a question respect to highest numbers of hits.
With high and due respect to Amithabh and Dilip Sir though their era was quite different but Honestly at indicine ,the question was asked Who has the highest numbers of HITS not successful movies ? It’s a straightforward answer without a doubt it is A TIE BETWEEN SALMAN AND SRK.
BOth of them have 27 clean hits from ATBB to HITS. No any actor has achieved that . Had Srk Dilwale been a Hit Srk would have had 28 hits. As of now it’s a tie…
For Akshay you are right about numbers of successful movies but when it comes to hit am suprised you could not give a straight answer?
According to BOI
SALMAN…27 HITS 36. SUCCESSFUL (avrage-semi-hit)
SRK ….27 HITS 34 SUCCESSFUL
AKSHAY 20 HITS 39 SUCCESSFUL
AJAY. 19 HITS 34 SUCCESSFUL
AAMIR 10 HITS 22 SUCCESSFUL
HRITHIK 9 HITS(bang bang considered as semi hit) …..12 SUCCESSFUL….
Plsss… the gulf between SRK/SALMAN and the rest is quite huge and well known… it’s either you specify by saying SUCCESSFUL OR HIT ..rather the question was asked on HIT Not successful…. Dont DISCREDIT SALMAN/SRK CAREER…bhaki tumara marzi.. !!
SALMAN…27 HITS ..
@ Indicine : Thanks for answering my question. I know I asked a lengthy question so even half will do. Hope u will do someday a detailed analysis of heroes with most hits also including older some top stars such as Dilip Kumar, Amitabh bachchan and Rajesh Khanna. Detailed analysis can be done on two things: (a) the number of hits and (b) the hit percentage or sucess ratio. Since the number of hits alone can be deceiving therefore I feel the success ratio is more important. It gives a chance to actors like Amir Khan and Hrithik who do fewer movies. I remember probably around a year back u had published a similar article on todays actors and if I am correct SRK and Amir were the top two.
Also the same analysis on flop side.
Thanks anyways.
@ Indicine : Referring to that year old article about success ratio u can update that article as well.
Akshay Salman Shahrukh hve given highest hit films as indicine said. But akshay has around 40 successful films because BOI Site Wrote 33 successful films of akshay between 1996 to 2015 . So from 1991 to 1995 . He have given 7 or 8 successful films means around 40 successful films .
Anyways I think u picked right question this time nd all idiots who were not aware tht akshay has given most successful films will know it now ? Akshay Salman Shahrukh Have given maximum hits . 3 pillars of film industry.
on which base you select these question to answer?
even you never ans my any questions.
why u never answer my question? ?
why why why???
Thanks for your weekly answers
Humse koi personal dushmani hai kya?
@indicine you guys are doing great job, I don’t comment regularly but follow indicine daily and have to say its one of the best site of bollywood related articles, keep up the good work guys.
@SSS D, thank you.
@Aman, the same god would know if we are biased or not, so leave it to him ;) Anyway, thanks for reading.
@indicine you say amir and salman can sustain their stardom many years u dont say about srk.like rajesh khanna was overshadowed by ab can same also for srk
@Aisha you r becoming the biggest joker nd frustrated user of Indicine ??? sorry but it’s true.
Rightnow I can give u 30 hit or semi-hit films name of akshay . 40 successful films by akshay kumar.
Nd u follow BOI very much then Accroding to BOI legend devgan shahb has given only 2 100 cr movies tht too franchise both Golmaal 3 nd singham 2 . This is stardom of Ajay.
He hasn’t given any big opener from a long time apart from franchise Golmaal 3 nd singham 2 . Don’t be a fool or a hatred of akshay. Do u want me to say more about ajay’s stardom? ?? Ajay is most easy actor to bash for me because they r very Loose points in his Carrer so u decide ?
Read this girls cmnts u will always smell the hatred she hve against akshay. LOSER . She can’t like if indicine Says good things about akshay nd indicine team would hve noticed it . I hope u continue to Say big things 4 akshay because he deserved it .
I don’t understand this site. You hardly praise our movies industry or try and make us not superior robot 2 is a Rajni Sir film. Where did you hear Akshay is having meaty role same with Rajni Sir are you guys mad? He was a last minute call up. Bahubali has no bollywood actor still biggest grosser so who told you Akshay is going to increase its value. Stop degrading our industry please. We respect bollywood and their heros. Most number of hits should be Shah rukh Khan with about 26 hits Salman and Akshay and may be Ajay are following next so how come Akshay has 33 hit.
Indicine answers only questions of 1st 2-3 pages..
I doubt if they read all questions.450 questions contains atleast 50 better questions than these answered questions..
Indicine u should hve also answered tht guy question who asked why media ignores Ajay devgan nd he didn’t get attention like khans akshay.
But I will like to answer it
: first of all its not only about media ,even public doesn’t hve much intrst in ajay devgan. See media only Hype or give coverage to Those actors who holds big fan following nd Nobody is intrsted in ajay much. He doesn’t hve the Charm nd personna tht a superstar carries. That is y he is least popular actor of bollywood in media nd public behind then even varun ranveer ranbir now . FACT
But yes he can give hits nd big flops too like tez nd Akrosh because of less stardom.
Anybody can give hit if he work in big budget movies with big directors on a good movie .
Even with great word of mouth like bajrangi bhaijaan, harshali the biggest real hero of the movie, and brilliant director kabir khan, and still Salman failed to give all time highest grosser while aamir has given all time highest grossers 4 times in last 8 years with 2 ordinary scripts dhoom 3 and ghajini. Buy burnol Salman fans. I have been saying from day 1. Salman’s popularity and fan following id nothing compared to his baap AAMIR KHAN.
Thank Indicine !
Indicine counted Kuch Kuch Hota Hai , No Entry , Partner as Salman-starrers and Dil To Pagal Hai and OMG-Oh My God as Akki-starrer . That’s why their Hit count came to 27 and 20 respectively .
Revised Hit count of Salman : 24
Revised Hit count of Akki : 19
Successful films of Salman : 32
Successful films of Akki : 34
Hit count of SRK : 27
Successful films of SRK : 34
indicine plz make ur site as srkindicne plz . all answers r related to haklu khan .. and plz dont say tat it does not matter whether we like srk or not it does it does matter it does matter bcoz only we people have made haklu khan ,his status is made by we people .. indicine y r u disrespecting indian people i know u will moderate my comment .. but not of god… hrithik rocks
@Indicine
M the most confused at the moment and crazillyyy wanna know abt the taran adarsh tweet…plzzz plzzzz plzzz share plzzz..what u know and what was that????
It was from sultan team or from Raees team???
@Raees, it was not from Taran. Please read the QnA again.
@ indicine- you misunderstood my question. Salman has more controvercial off screen personality than srk thats why media criticized him but do favour in srk. now things are changed so salman get more importance than past. what i was questioning is when srk’s ra one failed to recover budget in 2011 media declared it hit just because it collected 100 plus. but when Salman’s jai ho did same numbers with less budget he got semihit. i know that world is not fair enough but this kind of biasness overshadows others good work.
Dilip Kumar don’t ve too many hits, he did limited movies and has good success ratio. Most number of Hits belong to Amitabh and Dharamendra .. with a difference that Dharam has many movies from 60’s which were kind of family or heroine oriented one. Amitabh has maximum hits with classic status and moreover his fandom during 70/80 and even 90’s is unparalleled and unimaginable. Most of his movies did as good business as initial release during re-runs. even his flops were gold mines for distributers.
@The Phenom 9.18. Yes exactly that is the official record I knew Srk had the highest.
@Sunny Akkiholic what he @aisha said was true and the figures are okay. She mentioned 20 phenom 19 revised so why arguing blindly. Is Ajay that bad? no he is not ofcourse not Khan and Roshan level but @ Indicine mentions Ajay and Akshay almost everytime. So what’s your problem.
@aisha good point. You are not fare away.
@Indicine loved ur answer for Robot 2.0
Question..!!!!! Good job..!!!
One more thing can u plz ans..
Don’t u think Akshay Kumar has been extremely unlucky if we compare it with other stars… Films like TMK , brothers , ouatimd … Were potential big money spinners at box office before their release but their directors completely ruined the movies.. Karan malhotra made a brilliant remake of agneepath but spoiled Brothers
Milan luthria after giving two classics like the dirty picture and ouatim gave us a shit movie like ouatimd and Farah khan after giving us decent entertainer like oso and main hoon Na gives us TMK..????
Also god knows that why Akshay sir said that yes to joker..???
Ur view on this…!!!
@ b l chaudhary – suppose you have 25 bananas how can you distribute in 450 peoples? indicine can’t satisfy all his users in one q & a. can you answer all these questions? i am asking my questions from first q & a session and first time they gave answer.
lot of peoples knows the answer of questions but they ask just for hype their hero just like – who is more consistent hero? actually each hero who do more than two movie in a year has series of failures salman, srk, amir or any other so what kind of consistency they are talking about? i am not sure. rajesh khanna gave 15 continues success in 3-4 years but srk had ra one kind of failure between mnik and dilwale and he took 7-8 year already for reaching that record. i hope indicine don’t reply such questions like who is srk? otherwise one day someone will ask who was hero of maya memsaab?
@indicine as i sadi i am most confused so in confusion i wrote taran
I know very well that it was from komal nahata the trade analyst and the host of bollywood business on ETC
You know that i was talking about komal nahata so u should reply instead of correcting me
You never answer my questions
I am one of the oldest user of INDICINE and my friends shout on me cause all the day i just keep on visiting INDICINE just to see whether there is an article which i dint rad…..
I suggest mah frnds ur site and many of my friends have also became the daily visitor of indicine
And @aisha he says 39 successful more than anybody and you say 40. What’s the difference you are getting frustrated. Phenom says it’s revised so it’s 39. Argue with @Phenom and prove them wrong
U only confusinh ur visitors….either u should have revealed everything or u should not say tht we know what was the drama…..
U dont know us (Srkian)
We can face up with flop but we can not see raees moving from eid…
I have already announced on ur site only that if raees postponed then will stop following SRK sir and will delete everything related to bollywood
Aap humse humari jaan maang lete gum khushi khushi de dete lekin aapne to humse humara guroor hi chheen liya..
This dialogue can explain the feeling of Raees releasing on eid
U are correcting me instead of giving answer to my ques.
Beforw corrceting me just check ur anushka related last article and see in comment section
I was the first who commented to u that post an article about komal nahata and ritesh sid tweet