Is this the worst BO run for a BW actress ever? - Page 7

I just love how certain male actor's fans just cannot get over Ash that they keep making threads on her. 😆

Coming to facts, Aishwarya has never focused on being this huge box office star, her filmography attests to that. If she wanted to she could have had numerous BO blockbusters - she has turned down films like Troy and Hancock, the biggest Hollywood moneyspinners, n-number of Rajnikanth type blockbuster movies in the South and in Bollywood too, from her first offered film Raja Hindustani up until the point of the latest "big blockbuster" film Happy New Year, she has turned down them all and mostly tried doing risky, challenging cinema. Aishwarya's career never revolved around Bollywood alone. She has always strived to make a mark in different languages. I don't expect certain fans who live and breathe box office and count crores every day to get it. It's cinema first, business later.

She has done very few commercial films throughout her career. After a huge success like Devdas, she goes ahead and does a small film like Chokher Bali in Bengali. It was a hit at the BO, but let's pretend it does not exist. She does excellent cinema in the South too, and they were all box office hits as well (except for Iruvar, which won numerous awards), but let's pretend they never happened. Her film Provoked which was primarily a UK film did decent business and she got a hell lot of critical acclaim. Her film which rode on her shoulders alone (Bride and Prejudice) made a 150 crore even before this 100-crore concept existed, years before the Khans had their first 100 crore film.

She is not the most popular actress without reason. She has essayed iconic characters like Nandini, Mansi, Paro, Jodhaa, Binodini, and etched her place in audience's hearts. And to answer the question, whether it is the worst record for an actress, no. Madhuri Dixit has only around a dozen hits out of 70-odd films that she did. She didn't have success in English, South or Bengali cinema either. But that does not matter. How well you connected to the audience is what does, and that shows through their popularity. Asin did five films in Bollywood, four of them 100 crore blockbusters. Where is she now? That just reiterates the fact that it isn't box office that matters in the long run, but the impact you made through your films/performances. Ash swept all the best actress awards within the first two years of her career. How many actors do that? Of course BO success is important, but it's not the be-all and end-all of everything. There are far more important things and they have made Ash the icon that she is.

I will quote Anushka Sharma here.

"Aishwarya (Rai Bachchan, actor) once told me that at the end of my career, what I'll remember are the experiences I'vehad " the hits and flops won't make a difference. I probably didn't understand it then." - Anushka

Haha so biggest disaster of next year will belong to plastic 😆

Originally posted by: ponymo

I just love how certain male actor's fans just cannot get over Ash that they keep making threads on her. 😆

Coming to facts, Aishwarya has never focused on being this huge box office star, her filmography attests to that. If she wanted to she could have had numerous BO blockbusters - she has turned down films like Troy and Hancock, the biggest Hollywood moneyspinners, n-number of Rajnikanth type blockbuster movies in the South and in Bollywood too, from her first offered film Raja Hindustani up until the point of the latest "big blockbuster" film Happy New Year, she has turned down them all and mostly tried doing risky, challenging cinema. Aishwarya's career never revolved around Bollywood alone. She has always strived to make a mark in different languages. I don't expect certain fans who live and breathe box office and count crores every day to get it. It's cinema first, business later.

She has done very few commercial films throughout her career. After a huge success like Devdas, she goes ahead and does a small film like Chokher Bali in Bengali. It was a hit at the BO, but let's pretend it does not exist. She does excellent cinema in the South too, and they were all box office hits as well (except for Iruvar, which won numerous awards), but let's pretend they never happened. Her film Provoked which was primarily a UK film did decent business and she got a hell lot of critical acclaim. Her film which rode on her shoulders alone (Bride and Prejudice) made a 150 crore even before this 100-crore concept existed, years before the Khans had their first 100 crore film.

She is not the most popular actress without reason. She has essayed iconic characters like Nandini, Mansi, Paro, Jodhaa, Binodini, and etched her place in audience's hearts. And to answer the question, whether it is the worst record for an actress, no. Madhuri Dixit has only around a dozen hits out of 70-odd films that she did. She didn't have success in English, South or Bengali cinema either. But that does not matter. How well you connected to the audience is what does, and that shows through their popularity. Asin did five films in Bollywood, four of them 100 crore blockbusters. Where is she now? That just reiterates the fact that it isn't box office that matters in the long run, but the impact you made through your films/performances. Ash swept all the best actress awards within the first two years of her career. How many actors do that? Of course BO success is important, but it's not the be-all and end-all of everything. There are far more important things and they have made Ash the icon that she is.

I will quote Anushka Sharma here.

What about Her international hits

Pink panther 2

Bride and prejudice

Mistress of spices

Provoked

YA didn't count these mega hits
😃

So she is just a plastic beauty.
If u remove her plastic face, there is nothing special in her career.

Originally posted by: Franco

What about Her international hits

Pink panther 2

Bride and prejudice

Mistress of spices

Provoked

YA didn't count these mega hits
😃

Their hindi releases were disasters

Originally posted by: Shaitan-Haiwan

Its too bad most people here will not understand what you said and will continue to make lame remarks 😆

Note how a big hits like Bride and Prejudice, Robot were omitted from the list. If they were omitted on the basis that they were not Bollywood then how come The Mistress of Spices is mentioned? Also other successful films like HDDCS, Taal, Jeans appear to be missing.

Anyhow if you look at her career as a whole she's got a good success rate, despite all the acrimony she invited by standing up against the abusive bully Khan. And I love the fact that she's almost never played a flowerpot and then claimed credit success for that film. Be it opposite any big star, she has always had meaty, substantial characters to play, and never relegated herself to a flowerpot.

i actually enjoyed watching

Originally posted by: Deathstroke

Their hindi releases were disasters