I don't know why Gangubai is cited but it had become one of the movies where the worldwide gross collection was taken to declare a positive verdict ... Sacnilk didn't give one, btw., as the India net collection wasn't favourable to the hit-verdict given by others:
India Net ₹ 132.01 Cr // Worldwide Gross ₹ 211.5 Cr // Overseas ₹ 56 Cr (a bit more than 1/3 of the India gross collection) // budget 180 cr
This may have been the reason why Bhansali had problems to get producers for Love & War...
Nevertheless - with a less elevated budget - Gangubai wouldn't have had a 'bad' outcome for an after-Covid movie with the leading protagonist being a female character and the movie being a biopic.
this is giving me stress

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