Bollywood can survive beyond the Khans - Page 7

Originally posted by: goldenword

I think it is a rather presumptuous statement to make that Hritik will always reamain a dad made star. We have a D2 to prove that wrong and wait for Jodha Akbar. If you are going purely by history then all the Khans singulalry and put together have more strings of flops than Hritik, Abhshek and John singularly or put together.

Obviously it is purely your opnion that NOBODY can ever replace the Khans, a sentiment and opinin not shared by all. In my view the more the better - because competition instigates better perforamnce and better quality of cinema rather than relegating numero uno position to an actor and star for donkeys years despite some of their mediocre performances. Hritk is Numero Uno for the year 2006 along with perhaps Aamir but even I will not be so dog headed to assume and presume that he will continue to command that numero uno position forever. Nobody is unassailable at the end of the day. Cinema like any other proffession will always welcome new talent and breed good actors.

And by the way your stat about Koyla is wrong. It is a FLOP. If u go thru Box office India and run through their records it does not even feature as an average. For proof you can go through the official SRK website (pro - SRK) which gives the track record of all fims. Koyla features as a FLOP.

http://www.shahrukhkhan.org/index.php?option=com_content& ; ; ; ;task=view&id=216&Itemid=86

may be i got the info. wrong, thanx for clearing that

On the website u mentioned above, i got this

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http://www.shahrukhkhan.org/index.php?option=com_content& ;task=view&id=76&Itemid=43

its the very last para. So this means that Koyla did well (may be not a hit) but it did do well, and we are talking about whole world int his topic, arent we?

Btw, looks like you got it wrong. I said that they can or anyone else can dethrone khans only when no label is attached to them. I m NOT For or Against Khans/new Gen.

looking at things from both sides.😊

Originally posted by: scorpion134

I have been following the Indian Box office very closely and actually was also in India when Koyla was released. As far as I recall, every website then whether it was Box office India IMBO, decalred it as a FLOP. It had difficluty recovering its cost. Don't just go by interviews of stars. According to SRK Don may be the biggest hit of his career yet the stats suggest otherwise. There are lots of discussion forums also where you can get this information that KOYLA, KAROBAR, KHEL, KALA BAZAR, are FLOP MOVIES DIRECTED BY RAKESH ROSHAN. I provided u with this link becasue it is a SRK site which will speak most of the time pro SRK only and even this site declares it as a FLOP. Koyla was a Box office flop so let's not even say that it did well. It calls Swades and Paheli averege whereas Indiafm declares PAHELI and SWADES as FLOPS and since they do not even feature as an Averege in Box office India as Average they are FLOPS. Regarding the discrepancy between films doing well in India and overseas is a different story altogether. When Koyla was released in the 1990s the overseas market was a very small quantum of the total business. It would have just been max 3-4% of the total business. as there were not that many multiplexes and print release was significanlty low. It is a different ballgame in the era of 2000 esp 2004 onwards with the increase in the prints, multiplexes etc. If we have to count overseas market then a DISASTER MOVIE LIKE UJ SHOULD also be counted as doing well coz it made very good bucks in US and UK.

When giving box office reference it is important to refer to sites like Box Office India, IMBO and Indiafm. The first uses figures from Filmi Information, and the last is by the trade expert Taran Aadarsh. These are the only sites which will give a fairly accurate picture of Box office stats.😃

Edited by goldenword - 18 years ago