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Its that time to hit break and have some movie dose from ‘HONEST CONVERSATION WITH A SELF CONFESSED MAVERICK’.

Sharukh Khan has having enough worries as last few days the Internet and newspapers have been using the words like juggernaut, tornado, earth shattering, historical, mind blowing, storming and box office carnage to describe the opening collections of Salman Khan starrer Bodyguard. 

Just to give a scale to the blog readers especially to the psuedo urban intellectuals who doesn’t understand the basics of what is acting and what is cinema all about- ya that’s right what is cinema all about, how can I assume them to understand what is box office collections. The so called psuedo urban intellectuals needs to know that entire life time collections of a Sharukh Khan biggie My name is Khan was equalled in mere four days by Bodyguard and left behind by 15 crores by the end of 5th day. Never in the history of India this has happened and I don’t think it would happen again until next year unless Sharukh Khan plays dirty in hiking the ticket prices as Aamir did for 3 Idiots.

Phewwwwwwww……..
Now beat that…………..

In my one of the earlier post (http://varunebox.blogspot.com/2011/08/ready-for-dabanggs-bodyguard-my-movie.html) I had predicted an opening of 12 to 14 Cr for Bodyguard but its first day collections of 21.5 Cr has certainly eclipsed the expectations and any more than optimistic calculations of any trade pundits and shown the high rise towers constructed by Dabangg, Ready and 3 Idiots are minuscule when it comes to Bodyguard super high rise tower.

There are many theory and debates going around of what are the reasons for this. Well we can debate this in some other post and I promise to come back on this as I had my own versions and theories behind this but for now lets concentrate on the subject itself. The big worry for Sharukh khan now is how his Random Access Version 1 would break the opening day and weekend collections of bodyguard. Up till few days back the bench mark was quite lower in the form of 14.5 cr set by Dabangg but now the workload for Sharukh has increased many folds.

Well I have no doubt that both the publicity and no of prints for Ra 1 would surpass Bodyguard. But I guess that’s not the issue anymore. Awareness of Ra 1 is there already from the times of cricket world cup. The bigger question is two fold – first does Sharukh khan has the kind of fan following which Salman khan has especially when it comes to single screen cinematic B and C grade cities and small tinsel towns. Well you all would be wondering what kind of question is this as all so called psuedo urban intellectuals believe Sharukh has better fan following or for that matter star power. Well I don’t think so he has.

Secondly the Ra 1 does not have an Indian appeal to it. However well made a film is, but if a common man cannot connect with it the film does not work in totality. Take the biggest blockbusters Indian cinema has and you would find the earthy appeal, Indian locations, songs that hit masses, action which people can relate to and heroism of certain kind in them. The story is of least concern. The script and characterization are important though. Certainly Ra 1 seems to be missing a trick here as far as I have seen in some promos so far.

Now its in news recently that Sharukh is trying to get his logo of Ra 1 on Schumacher’s car for upcoming F1 race in India. Obviously big money exchange would take place to happen this but is it of any use that’s the big question mark. My guess is as good as yours. What he needs to do if at all is take Ra 1 to B and C grade tinsel towns and promote there if the movie can work there especially in single screens. Otherwise it would be a big task to overhaul Bodyguard opening collections.

Anyways it would be interesting to see if Multiplex collections in majority can help in beating Bodyguard collections or Salman Khan would prevail for now…..

Lets wait and watch

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