‘Deool Band 2, Laalo made more money than Alpha’: Producer says ‘stars don’t matter’
Bollywood has been experiencing more misses than hits at the box office and while a film like Dhurandhar The Revenge did some excellent business at the box office, crossing ₹1800 cr worldwide, no other Indian film has even made half that amount of money. Yet…
Yet, several big-budget films release almost every month. Recently, producer Shailendra Singh spoke about the same when he compared Alpha, the Alia Bhatt film which was produced by YRF, and was mounted on a big scale, to smaller regional films like Laalo and Deool.
In the days that followed, the film saw a slight uptick in collections during the first weekend, but soon after, the collections dropped massively. The film did not receive good reviews so the word of mouth did not help the film either.
What Happened
YRF has not declared the budget of the film, but one can safely presume that the film was made on a massive budget as its cast members included the likes of Bobby Deol, Anil Kapoor and a cameo by Hrithik Roshan.
Bollywood has been experiencing more misses than hits at the box office and while a film like Dhurandhar The Revenge did some excellent business at the box office, crossing ₹1800 cr worldwide, no.
Shailendra, in a chat with Cyrus Broacha, on his YouTube channel, said that the failure rate in Bollywood is as high as 94 percent and added that it doesn’t matter who stars in the.
He claimed that the Gujarati film Laalo made ₹140 crore, and the Marathi film Deool Band 2 made over ₹90 crore, while Alia’s film couldn’t even cross the ₹50 crore mark.
Key Details
The Alia Bhatt film made only ₹58.60 crore in India during its run, and its worldwide collection couldn’t cross the ₹100 cr mark, as per trade tracker Sacnilk.
In the case of Laalo, the film was made on a minimal budget of ₹1.2, and went on to make ₹120 crore at the box office, which means that the film made.
Even Deool Band 2, which was reportedly made on a budget of ₹8-10 crore, earned ₹120 crore at the box office.
Alpha failed to make a mark at the box office right from the beginning as the film opened with just ₹9.25 cr, which was the lowest for any YRF Spyverse film so far.
What Reports Say
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Continued reporting by The Indian Express as more details emerge
