Originally posted by: mystic786
Lol the only connection Tiger has is with Sajid Nadiadwala 😆
If his connection with the audience is sooo good then why didn't SOTY work? 😆
If it wasn't for Hrithik, people wouldn't be interested in War either. Tiger looks like his sidekick in the teaser and rightly so. The guy can't act, doesn't have screen presence and is average looking at best.
Well everyone gives flops and under preformers, that doesn't change their popularity with certain audience. The comparison here is between him and Vidyut, and their genre. Tiger is a more popular name in the action movie scenes than Vidyut Jamwal who has gained the reputation of being a side actor/villain. His movies as lead don't have same hysteria as Tiger's.
War, is still about Tiger vs HR, HR coming back to this genre after years have obviously people turning their head and talking more about him. But core interest of the action loving audience is still Hrithik and Tiger coming together and giving some of the best action scenes.
Obviously he has got better padding, but that padding has also helped him get a launde lapade audience, who have a certain image of him. Since he isn't a good actor, he fails miserably when it is not his core strengths, which results in having flops were the emotional connect is required, eg. underdog in SOTY2, person trying to find his passion in Munna Michael and a superhero in Flying Jatt. From this only Munna Micheal was in his ally, but that movie was so badly made, while his character needed him to act like a person whose desire is suppressed, but he isn't a capable actor at all hence he failed there, and movie eventually flopped.
Obviously he isn't Sallu level star, that every crap he throws will be accepted, since the mass audience doesn't like it when their star acts different from the image they have for him.
While obviously he isn't the biggest star in the country, but he is a legit star with mass connect and following.
Did he get better opportunities than Vidyut? Yes.
But does that mean, all his success and popularity is manipulation of and forcing the audience by a filmmaker? No.

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