Reason behind SRK's films not opening to Bumper numbers in USA ? Check

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Posted: 9 years ago
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Om Shanti Om in 2007 opened to record $1,764,131 from just 114 screens.

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Even 3 Idiots failed to cross that number in 2009.

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Then came My Name Is Khan (which was obviously expected a record start) did $1,944,027 in 2010. But i feel it should have crossed $2 mil as it was HUGE film compared to OSO 3 yrs ago. So not much jump in Business for MNIK.

Then offcourse Ra.One, Don2 all failed (though opened Big and were 2nd or 3rd highest at that time but not so BIG when you have SRK'a name attached to it)

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Then came Chennai Express which did record weekend of $2,220,497 BUT took 196 screens while OSO and MNIK did that huge in 114/120 screens. So even though CE was record weekend but just few collections ahead of OSO even after 6 long years.

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Then came Dhoom 3 which did take Massive opening of $3,423,508 which was missing for SRK after OSO, I mean opening upto its true potential.

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Then came Happy New Year which did average business in weekend as per the film and SRK's name attached to it. It did $1,977,264 which was lesser than CE and similar to MNIK .

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Then Came PK and did business upto its true potential $3,508,908 . Almost double than HNY after a month.

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Then came Bajrangi Bhaijaan which did superb and above expectations $2,621,282 in weekend.

Then same year Prem Ratan Dhan Payo came and it also did very good $2,425,585 in weekend.

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Then came Dilwale which did massive during weekend in Overseas ($8.5 mil) with clash BUT did just average business in USA and somewhat similar to Bajirao Mastani.

Dilwale - $1,920,402 (less than HNY, CE , MNIK)

Bajirao Mastani - $1,744,975

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Now this year FAN came as a shock by doing just $1,382,869 which is way too less. Should have atleast done close to $2 mil as even Talaash opened to $1.5 mil in 2012.

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So my question is , where SRK is going wrong as far as USA is concerned as He is doing Superb in Gulf and Very good in UK and rest of Overseas but USA is going down and down. Reason ?

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Posted: 9 years ago
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Infact top 5 USA/Canada openings for Bollywood are PK, D3, BB, PRDP, and sultan

Where'd he go
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Posted: 9 years ago
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Originally posted by: Maroon5.0

Infact top 5 USA/Canada openings for Bollywood are PK, D3, BB, PRDP, and sultan

Where'd he go


All 3 Salman's last film has entered Top 5 with 2+ M weekend for all of them. Slowly he is taking over Overseas also, while Domestic he has sidelined Srk completely.

Srk's overseas figures are impressive if we consider last decade's films also, this decade he has major downfall in overseas also except for 1 dilwale.
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Posted: 9 years ago
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age ho gayi and SRK is on decline
Salman bloomed late in his career , uska downfall will be like ponting meaning abrupt
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Posted: 9 years ago
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Originally posted by: Anachronist

age ho gayi and SRK is on decline

Salman bloomed late in his career , uska downfall will be like ponting meaning abrupt


They both are of same age.
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Posted: 9 years ago
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Originally posted by: ChingumSir


They both are of same age.

yes but salman became superstar pretty late after wanted and by that time SRK was on decline . So SRK is on the downhill and is in steady decline . Salman is going up and up at the moment with steep decline in few years
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Posted: 9 years ago
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Originally posted by: Anachronist

yes but salman became superstar pretty late after wanted and by that time SRK was on decline . So SRK is on the downhill and is in steady decline . Salman is going up and up at the moment with steep decline in few years


I am talking about overseas, where still Srk is ahead of both the khans if we see overall performance, talk about that, don't talk about domestic, as by your comment it is quite visible how much u know about salman films before wanted.
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Posted: 9 years ago
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Originally posted by: Anachronist


yes but salman became superstar pretty late after wanted and by that time SRK was on decline . So SRK is on the downhill and is in steady decline . Salman is going up and up at the moment with steep decline in few years


Mahaanji joke achcha hain and I needed a laugh 😆 nice DP by the way 😳
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Posted: 9 years ago
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after wanted
salman did 3 flop movies :main aur mrs khaana , london dreams and veer on the trot

before that yuvvraj , god tussi great ho were slop

in between partner ne izzat bacha li

before that marigold , salaam e ishq , baabul , jaaneman , kyunki , saawan all flop on the trot

just before tht main pyar kyun kia just about hit

before that lucky , phir milenge , garv not succesful

again mujhse shaadi karogi was there to help him

tere naam in 2003 was a success

before that yeh hai jalwa , chori chori chupke chupke , tumko na bhool paenge all flops

yeh hai salman's work from 2001 to veer

dimaag hoga chinngam toh samajh aa jega ki what I meant, yeh jo raita faila rahe thi u shown how much u know and all ka reply de chuka hoon



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Posted: 9 years ago
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Originally posted by: MiniRulz


Mahaanji joke achcha hain and I needed a laugh 😆 nice DP by the way 😳

mini normal toh baat boli hai

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