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Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Aamir Khan’s latest movie Lall Singh Chaddha flops – could be removed from cinemas

Normally Aamir Khan’s movies are super-duper hits. However, his latest movie Lall Singh Chaddha is not doing well. Its performance at the box office has been miserable. Its business at the ticket counter fell by 85 per cent. It started off with a bang earning Rs 460 million in its first four days but lost its tempo. It dropped to Rs 18.5 million to Rs 21.5 million on its fifth day. Its total collection was Rs 480 million. This has come as a terrible setback and it is possible that LSC could be removed from cinemas. Aamir Khan’s Laal Singh Chaddha expected to be removed from cinemas six days after premiere. The total collection was less than Aamir Khan’s last release c which also failed to do good business.



The media says LSC has been in the news for all the wrong reasons. LSC is an official remake of Forrest Gump, a film of Tom Hanks. The budget of Aamir’s film was Rs 1.8 billion. However, it did not appeal to the Indian audience. There were campaigns to boycott it because it shows disrespect to Hindu sentiments and the Indian army. This is a bit strange for a Bollywood man who gave movies like Sarfarosh (1999), Lagaan (2001), 3 Idiots (2009), PK (2014) Dangal (2016) etcetera,



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Sunday, November 8, 2015

Kiran Rao is happy since people not just make small films but also like seeing them


Director Kiran Rao has expressed her happiness that people today are not just showing interest in making independent and small budget films, but are also interested in watching them. Film makers are able to chart this new territory of making independent, small budget films. And, with more people interested in watching and making such films it is good for the industry.
This has been reported in indianexpress.com dated 8 November 2015.
She brought the story of 'Lagaan’ - nobody wanted to make it except Aamir (Khan). he felt that it would be a great start to create distribution, exhibition, and funding for newer films. There is a need to build infrastructure as well. She is right now busy working on two films for Aamir Khan Productions (AKP) - one of these is “Dangal” and the other is to be directed by Aamir’s former manager Advait Chandan.
Incidentally, Kiran Rao is also director of “Dhobi Ghat” and is working on her next directorial venture.As the 41-year-old has admitted - she is in the process of writing a script.

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