The Bollywood, which is the shock after the lockdown, has almost returned to track. After the brake on business from the epidemic, the industry, who is looking for great success, has got its biggest films- Jawan, Pathan, Animal, Gadar 2, Chhava, Stree 2 after lockdown. In the top order of Bollywood, all three Khans have started getting strong response again and Ranbir Kapoor’s name is being taken with him.
In the middle order, Ajay Devgan has started taking out two hits a year. Sunny Deol, who is running out of form before the lockdown, has also returned to a bang avatar. But here two things are still unusual. The year before lockdown, Akshay, who was Bollywood’s biggest box office star in 2019, is still waiting for a strong hit. And Ayushmann Khurrana, a very reliable player of middle order, is still out of form.
Akshay is at least struggling this year and has made strong efforts like ‘Kesari Chapter 2’, ‘Jolly LLB 3’. But Ayushmann disappeared from the whole scene. Now his new film ‘Thama’ is coming on Diwali. The trailer of the film is just in the way. But before this, Ayushman’s record has been disturbed.
Ayushman’s record was very powerful before lockdown
Ayushmann Khurrana started with a hit like ‘Vicky Donor’ (2012). But till the passing of 2017, he had successful films in his account, as much as flop. In August 2017, ‘Bareilly Ki Barfi’ was counted more than the final flops in Ayushmann’s account. And then increased so fast that the rest of Bollywood stars were left watching.
From 2017 to 2020, Ayushmann gave 8 hit films from the line. In this time period, only one star has given more successful films than Ayushmann, Akshay Kumar. But in terms of business, Ayushmann did not play less role than Akshay for Bollywood at that time. All the films of Ayushmann are made in the budget less than 35 crores. But their gross collection, worldwide has been up to 450 crores.
The reported budget of his iconic film ‘Andhadhun’ (2018) was 32 crores and the gross collection was 456 crore worldwide. Meanwhile, his two more films ‘Badhaai Ho’ and ‘Dream Girl’ also crossed the worldwide 200 crore mark. That is, in the middle budget, Mr. Ayushman was reliable at that time in the case of films that gained strong profits.
Not only box office but also confidence of content
Ayushmann’s strike rate was strong, the public had a different trust in the matter of content on his films. Be it the story of ‘Bala’ or ‘Shubh Mangal Savdhaan’ with a sexual problem like ‘Andhadhun’ like Cult thriller and ‘Article 15’, or ‘Shubh Mangal Savdhan’ … Ayushmann has been in the role of a star through which filmmakers have made some most interesting stories on the big screen.
Along with this, Ayushmann’s strong acting performance was also winning the hearts of people. He was in such sensitive and real characters that people were relaxing him a lot. And without mentioning Ayushman’s comedy with all the elements of the story, work cannot be done. He is one of the most fun expressions and Bollywood timing Bollywood actors. But all his eyebrows lasted before the lockdown.
Twist in Ayushman’s story after lockdown
There was a lot of damage to Theitical films in the post Kovid era and the choice of the audience also changed. The trend became that the rest of the films did not work except for the big films. In this era, the social drama films made in the middle budget were the worst, the segment was leading in Bollywood.
Ayushman’s ‘Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui’ (2021) was released and flopped in the months after the lockdown was removed. After this, in 2022, films like Ayushmann’s ‘many’, ‘Dr. Ji’ and ‘N Action Hero’ also went back to back. Whereas after coming to OTT, people saw that the work of Ayushmann in these films was very alive.
In 2023, the sequel of Ayushman’s biggest hit ‘Dream Girl 2’ was also released. But in this film, neither the story was as strong as the first film, nor its business was able to cross the business of the first film. Where ‘Dream Girl’ (2019) was Ayushman’s biggest film with a net collection of 142 crores. At the same time, ‘Dream Girl 2’ could only go up to 105 crores. Although a hit was a hit due to low budget, it can be counted among the weakest films of Ayushman’s career.
Now Ayushmann will be seen in theaters two years after his last release. His new film ‘Thama’ is set in the horror universe of Madock Films, which have hits and strong films like ‘Stree’, ‘Wolf’ and ‘Munjya’. The horror universe, which has shown the horror of ghosts and creator (wolf), is coming up with the story of Vampirs in ‘Thama’. The film stars Rashmika Mandana along with Ayushmann, who are coming with a bang of ‘Animal’, ‘Pushpa 2’ and ‘Chhava’.
‘Thama’ is Diwali release and the makers’ confidence says that his film is made strong, provided the audience does not deny this. In such a situation, ‘Thama’ can become a big film for Ayushman, which is pressing the reset button of career, which he is waiting for not only since the lockdown, but has already been doing it. How will the atmosphere of the film be made, it will be decided by the trailer. And in the trailer of ‘Thama’, now just a few hours are waiting.
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