SRK's career without KJo and YRF - what would it be? - Page 9

Making a movie is a risk in general.

A PH (Production House) looks for a sort of consistency from ANY actor or actress.

The young new actor or actress obviously wants to get paid, but the PH mostly wants a profit in the RETURNS.

In SRK's case he was profitable for the PH ... AT THAT TIME 👍🏼

Originally posted by: atominis

KKHH, Kal Ho na Ho, K3G, MNIK are Dharma films.

Ra One and MNIK were not clean hits. They are given this tag now after adding all earnings from rights and overseas. Kind of same hit tag as Brahmastra.

Why leave out Dharma and also fact that K3G, KKHH, KHNH are multi starrers? Darr, DTPH are also multi starrers. 2 heroine or 2 hero flicks, foreign locations and big PH.

Pardes is a solo starrer. How many more films are solo hits?

OSO, MHN, CDI relied on his star power. Karan Arjun is multi starrer. DDLJ is solo vehicle but YRF film.

Forget YRF and Dharma, I wonder how many hits he would have without repeating jodi with Kajol.

Baazigar, DDLJ, K3G, KKHH, Dilwale, Karan Arjun, MNIK all reliant on Kajol jodi factor. He even brings other stars for special appearance to make film more watchable like multi starrer song in OSO or Kajol, Bipasha, Rani song in RNBDJ, Kajol and Rani in KHNH song.

How many other actors rely on one specific jodi with actress or multiple special appearances by other stars?

Also how many hits beyond lover boy (jilted or ideal lover)?

Originally posted by: atominis

With due respect, Dharma was always a respectable PH and worked with biggest stars like Amitabh, Zeenat, Shatrughan Sinha, Mithun etc when Yash Johar was spearheading it. It did not become a known name only after SRK worked with them.

One can debate about talent or abilities of Karan Johar but one can never say big stars did not work with Dharma prod earlier.

Karan seems to have learnt a lot from Adi Chopra and Yash Chopra and modeled Dharma along lines of YRF. His clear attempt to copy YRF and Chopras reflects in his films and choice of stars, music and interactions with media. The wannabe Chopra stamp is all over Karan's work except that Chopras were low key irl and Karan is this diva who is overexposed in media as an anchor, social commentator, social butterfly, gossip king and reality show judge.

More than SRK, I feel Chopra stamp and copying them has made Karan take Dharma to higher levels than his dad. SRK of course has a hand and so do Kajol, Big B and Rani in making Karan films so big.

Bachchans have also worked a lot with him due to friendly relations with his dad Yash Johar. Abhishek, Jaya, Amitabh, Ash, no one refused his films. He gets pick of big stars and star kid families be it Hrithik, Saif or Bebo. His family already had that network so it would not be too fair to say only SRK made K Jo.

SRK made Farah Khan though. Otherwise there is NO way a choreographer could turn into a successful director despite her utterly crap filmmaking skills. SRK gave her star power for her films. Even if it meant risking his own credibility with fluffy films when tide ws turning in favour of content oriented films.

Originally posted by: atominis

Other commitments was mostly dates given to YRF, Dharma and so called friends still giving him romantic roles.

How can you say Farah did not cash on SRK's romantic image? OSO is a love story. MHN, HNY are different but relied heavily on his romantic scenes with Sush and DPad or sultry songs with them. Somehow marketing of films has always focused on love story aspect even if main story is not about that.

CDI is the only SRK film which is marketed without iota of any romantic or love angle.

Even Don series was marketed on hype of SRK and PC affair or alleged affair. SRK has only himself to blame for his image and even in his Temptations tour he has positioned himself as representative of love.

I see CDI and to some extent Swades as only serious attempts to break romantic image.

SRK-movies with YRF:

Darr is a 1993 romantic psychological thriller

DDLJ, is a 1995 musical romance

Dil To Pagal Hai is a 1997 musical romance

Mohabbatein is a 2000 romantic drama

Veer-Zaara is a 2004 period epic romantic drama

Chak De! India is a 2007 sports film

RNBDJ is a 2008 romantic comedy

JTHJ is a 2012 romantic drama

Fan is a 2016 action thriller

Pathaan is a 2023 action thriller

SRK-movies with KJo:

KKHH is a 1998 romantic comedy-drama

K3G is a 2001 family-drama

KHNH, is a 2003 romantic comedy drama

KANK, is a 2006 romantic drama

My Name Is Khan is a 2010 social drama

Out of these 14 movies, only 3 (!) movies almost exclusively deal with the romance between leading man (SRK) and leading woman (Kajol, Madhuri, Preity).

So, why the heck did media and journalists labeled him as "King of Romance"?!

He definitely wouldn't have become a romantic hero.

Yash Raj is one thing. But it's bizarre to me that anyone thinks KJo made SRK. KJo has spent his whole career trying to recreate DDLJ. Until YJHD and Agneepath, Karan had nothing to show without SRK.

Even for YRF, SRK has bailed out YRF multiple times and now once again it looks like it's on SRK to bail out YRF. It's pretty obvious who the bigger name is in both cases.

Originally posted by: zehreeli.kheer

Karan practically launched Dharma's second innings with KKHH.. dharma wasn't a big name in any way..

They werent big Or we’ll known

Originally posted by: HearMeRoar

I mean... it's like asking would Amitabh have been successful without Manmohan Desai?

Salman without Barjatya?

Madhuri without Subhash Ghai?

The difference between Khan Saab & Stars whom you have mentioned above is that they have given much bigger hits other than those directors/studios, while Khan Saab left with only 2 studios to back him till the time he was able to launch his own studio.

By the way, how come Farah Khan didn't make Shah.. just because she's a woman her contribution is dismissed? She made Shah too