Female centric films flopping left and right - BOI

The Family That FLOPPED Together

Tuesday 31 March 2020 14.00 IST Box Office India Trade Network

There have been these four films in the last 4-5 months which have basically looked like a family and cousins of each other and normally you would expect one member of the family to pass but thats not the rule in this side of the film industry as all the family members flopped and saw total rejection.

The similarities in these films were huge as all were female lead with ridiculously bad trailers whiche offered nothing and on top seemed to be pushing some social awareness message but the problem becomes with this sort of netflix cinema you dont have any reach to push whatever social awareness you want to show and on top the audience may not want to understand from you anyway as there are other better ways to learn than from cinema. 

The fact these films came up in just a few months is a surprise  which probably means that a part of the industry probably sees female driven films as the way forward. But its never about female or male driven films but about good films. The other side of the industry will believe its difficult to make good female driven films but thats not the case either as a Mother India and Hum Aapke Hain Kaun stand with the male testosterone driven Sholay and Gadar as historic blockbusters in Hindi cinema.

Recently there has been The Dirty Picture and the Tanu Weds Manu series which not only scored at the box office but also post their release on sateliite. The big difference between these films and the family which we have seen in the last few months is enteratinment. If entertainment is there then the audience will not even look if its female driven or male driven. There has also been Mardaani 2 which is a female film but that was simplistic with a protagonist v antagonist theme which will reach a wider audience therefore gettig some numbers.

The final domestic, overseas and worldwide results of this family which flopped together is as follows. The numbers tell the story of the rejection be it domestic or overseas.

Saand Ki Aankh 

India - 23,36,00,000

Overseas - $400,000

Worldwide - 30,59,00,000

Chhapaak 

India - 32,54,00,000

Overseas - $1,650,000

Worldwide - 49,78,00,000

Panga

India - 22,46,00,000

Overseas - $1,110,000

Worldwide - 34,30,00,000

Thappad 

India - 29,70,00,000

Overseas - $1,180,000

Worldwide - 43,78,00,000

Yes, they are flopping.

I would of like to see what would of happened if Panga and Chhapaak had solo dates. I still think it would be a flop because of the subject but it would of done better.

A Tapsee Pannu film doing near 30 crore is not really that bad!

Few years back almost all female centric films were becoming hits left right and centre.

Kahani

english vinglish

tanu weds manu returns

the dirty picture

queen

BOI didn't posted any such article then.... why  ??

Any movie regardless of female or male centric will work if it is well made and clicks with the audience.

ps: these failed female centric films are just few handful ones. but everyone knows almost 80% MALE CENTRIC films flops every year....so there we go (and why not an article over those 80%+ flop male centric films every year by BOI ???

Female centric ke matlab yeh nai u make any boring movie and expect people to watch. Even male centric flops when it is boring.

Originally posted by: taniya.91

Few years back almost all female centric films were becoming hits left right and centre.

Kahani

english vinglish

tanu weds manu returns

the dirty picture

queen

BOI didn't posted any such article then.... why  ??

Any movie regardless of female or male centric will work if it is well made and clicks with the audience.

ps: these failed female centric films are just few handful ones. but everyone knows almost 80% MALE CENTRIC films flops every year....so there we go (and why not an article over those 80%+ flop male centric films every year by BOI ???

If you read BOI articles regularly, you would find they have a hate boner for "artistic" or "indie" or "female centric" films or any film that goes against the tried-tested formula of Masala movies. They kind of celebrate if such films flop

Whereas they would give you quite a few reasons why masala male centric films like Street Dancer3 flop and such reasons would be anything but bad plot.

Originally posted by: Elvis12

A Tapsee Pannu film doing near 30 crore is not really that bad!

Her Chashme Badoor from 2013 made over 40 crore. A decade later she cant even do it ??? 😆

Females run gazillion dollar po rn industry. BOI doesn't talk about how those movie will flop if they were male centric

Definitely more due to the content than the fact that they are female oriented...many female oriented movies have succeeded in the past...