Shah Rukh Khan, worlds biggest movie star - Page 27

Originally posted by: So-Sweet

Indeed... I too thought the same?

Originally posted by: kritz.anYa.vivu

I'd big to differ again. This is the reason why I stated the point about diversity. You have to understand by clubbing together the whole South Asian population , you are basically saying they all share the same culture , the same customs , the same language. It's as diverse a community as any out there. I would have understood had you talked about the Indian diaspora abroad and how they watch Bollywood because it reminds them of India but to say the whole of the community out there watches it because it can relate to the films is weird to say the least. . I'd infact say Shahrukh being as popular amongst the South Asian community speaks volumes about his stardom as well as how diverse his fanbase is. We can't club together a whole community just based on the color of their skin. One has to acknowledge the diversity within it as well.

I brought it up in the context of what you stated. The Indian population doesn't define the world neither does the Chinese's population or the American population. Let's get that out of the way first. I have often seen in this thread itself as to how it's a huge deal if a TC is popular in some Asian countries but not as a big a deal if Shahrukh is popular amongst the other nations in the continent. That kind of view makes zero sense to me because then it's you who is defining which country is more important. Inception did well at the Indian BO! Does it mean any Leo film will do well? Hell no! It doesn't work like that. A lot of the times in these countries that you just listed the genre of the movie matters a whole lot. Kung Fu Panda did well in a lot of the countries out there. Does that mean Jack Black is popular or does that mean animated movies are? A Inception would bring in the moolah as you put it in a lot of these countries but it doesn't mean a Revolutionary Road would do just as well. So like I said when it comes to Hollywood movies at the Indian BO , not a whole lot would attract the kind of audience you are assuming there.

Who said anything about it being a big deal! 😆 Like you said if a certain member has a right to drag in a certain celeb , I have the right to state my opinion as well :)

Wow! So just because he hasn't interviewed a Hollywood celeb, it automatically means he won't know much about it? He is not someone who interviews celebs for the most part. The particular interview with Shahrukh has a context to it. Kindly watch it and you perhaps would know why he interviewed him. He also interviewed Mukesh Ambani so like I said it'd be better if one watched the interview first before they draw their conclusions. Fareed is someone who generally focuses on the politics there if I'm not wrong.

Edited by srkjuhi - 9 years ago

Originally posted by: SunHarsh4eva

@srkjuhi

I guess it was my bad that i brought up TC in the thread , but trust me nowhere it was meant to heat up the argument . that day i had felt that TC probably ( IMO ) has done more iconic films and has a bigger legacy behind him and trust me i genuinely believe that SRK is the only global superstar from India . I felt that the biggest movie star should be declared by their individual achievements and not their net worth which the article has focused in. Anyways, lets agree to disagree and make out peace in here 😃

@Kritz and @sunflower.

I was talking about this survey .

Which Country Loves Tom Cruise the Most?

By Adam K. Raymond

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Tom Cruise's Edge of Tomorrow got smoked at the American box office over the weekend, finishing in third place behind The Fault in Our Stars and the week-old Maleficent. But even though the thing reportedly cost $178 million to make and earned only a measly $29 million in the U.S., it's no failure " because when you factor in foreign grosses, it's already made $140 million and should turn a profit shortly. It was the weekend's top-grossing movie worldwide because international audiences love Cruise, even if, since he jumped on Oprah's couch and blasted Brooke Shields's Paxil prescription, domestic ones have been lukewarm. But which country loves him the most? We crunched the numbers for his last ten starring roles (Collateral, War of the Worlds, Mission: Impossible III, Valkyrie, Knight & Day, Mission: Impossible " Ghost Protocol, Rock of Ages, Jack Reacher, Oblivion, and Edge of Tomorrow) and " assuming you're not stuck in a time loop that lets you see the future " the answer may surprise you.

Believe it or not, the U.S. is still the country that spends the most total on Tom Cruise movies " over $1 billion since 2004's Collateral. But that doesn't tell the whole story.

More and more of Cruise's grosses are coming from outside of the U.S., where, to most people, the weirdest thing about him is that he's not morbidly obese like other Americans. Here are his most recent ten movies, ranked by the percentage of their grosses that came from foreign audiences. International moviegoers even liked Knight & Day!

But who likes Cruise the most? Yes, the U.S. spends the most total on his movies, but there are 313.9 million people here and not all of them are pulling their weight. (How many times did you see Valkyrie in the theater?) For the true measure of a country's devotion, we need to look at amount spent per person on tickets to see Cruise's movies. So we divided the grosses for each country by population and a clear winner emerged:Iceland (population: 320,137), where the average citizen has spent a whopping $4.77 on Cruise movies since 2004. Cruise recentlyfilmed Oblivion there, so maybe he just knows everyone personally.

Which Cruise movies did Iceland like best? Here, his most recent ten films, ranked by how much they made there. Even in Iceland, Rock of Ages was a tough sell.

Originally posted by: Heisenberg3

So you agree that Hollywood movies are more widely released, which leads to more exposure, more reach, more business, more fans, but you refuse the accept the logical conclusion that a star like Tom Cruise is a bigger movie star than SRK? 😆

I club South Asia together because I am speaking in generalities, it's what we do when we want to talk about something that is generally true. Ofcourse, South Asia is diverse, but as diverse as we are, we are also more closely related culturally, linguistically, genetically, than say the Europeans, Africans or East Asians. Hindi-Urdu is the most spoken/understood language in the region, as a 1st language, and also as a 2nd and 3rd language. Bollywood is the hub of South Asian entertainment, and no matter which South Asian country you're in, it's the cultural familiarity and reliability of Bollywood movies that people connect to.

I used China and Japan as examples as neutral territories outside of the dominant western and South Asian markets for Hollywood and Bollywood respectively, nowhere did I claim that these markets primarily make one an international star lmao, the point simply is that Tom Cruise is bigger than SRK even in a countries that are not English speaking or Hindi speaking.

Point is basically, that Tom Cruise is more widely known in India than SRK is in America. Go on google trends and do a worldwide comparison between TC and SRK, you'll get your answer, the results confirm my point.

Originally posted by: Heisenberg3

How is stating facts degrading anything? Slumdog Millionaire was made on a low budget $15m. Fox Searchlight were the distributors, not the producers! lmao The film was made by British studios.

The fact of the matter is, no-one expected, not even the Danny Boyle or the cast, that Slumdog Millionaire would become this success story, if you were following the interviews back then, that's what they said themselves, it's a compliment if anything.