Originally posted by: atominis
Entertain with social message is also not everyone's cup of tea. SRK flopped with Swades. His only social message film which succeeded was CDI.
BTW, 'entertain with social message' genre is more difficult to pull off so that audience does not get bored.
Not everyone can pull it off. Shahid tried a message film like Paathshala but despite a promising subject, the film failed both critically and commercially. SRK's Swades flopped.
Anyday entertain with social message is better for an actor at any age rather than middle aged men still playing lover boys.
Only Aamir could have played an ageing, flabby dad and still broken records with Dangal when other actors of his age were still stuck in romantic roles and would refuse to age onscreen.
I am glad you made point on Dhoom 3. The success of Ghajini and Dhoom 3 proves Aamir can break records even if script is not great. It proves those people wrong who claim Aamir gets success only due to scripts (as if choosing good scripts and having good script sense is wrong! lol! ).
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