Fri. Mar 29th, 2024
‘Padmavati’ delay upsets December release schedule, may jolt box office!

Last week, Viacom18 Motion Pictures, co-producer of the upcoming Indian period movie titled ‘‘Padmavati‘ deferred the release of the movie. The movie which has been made on the total budget of Rs 150 crore and the makers of the movie have not released the new date yet as they are waiting for the movie to get the clearance from the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC).

The movie ‘Padmavati’ has impacted more than anything else but they believe that broader the movie schedule for the entire season. After the release date of the movie ‘Padmavati’ got postponed and after that, there was a bunch of movies who have advanced their release dates while other movies are still waiting for 2018 to kick in.

The Editor of the trade magazine ‘Complete Cinema’, Atul Mohan said that whenever the movie like ‘Padmavati’ gets released many of the producers of the other movies avoid two or three windows around them. This thing generally happens in the view of the paucity of the screens and this creates the limited interest and the paying capacity for the smaller movies and this generally happens when the big movies like ‘Padmavati’ arrive in the theater.

Now, the first week of the December is free. There is two movie which is releasing on December 1st. First is comedian Kapil Sharma starrer movie titled ‘Firangi’ and the second is of Arbaaz Khan and Sunny Deol starrer ‘Tera Intezaar’ and both the movies are avoiding the clash with the earlier released movies like ‘Kadvi Hawa’. However, the movie ‘Fukrey Returns’ has advanced the date December 8 earlier the movie was scheduled to release on December 15. The makers of the movie Farhan Akhtar and Ritesh Sidhwani were avoiding the clash and they were expecting the movie ‘Padmavati’ hype to continue well beyond the first week.

Due the postponed of the release date, there are some of the movies which were benefited in their box office collection. The movie ‘Tumhari Sulu’ got a clear run as there was no other movie released on November 17. As the Hollywood movie titled ‘Justice League’, Coco and Murder on the Orient Express and there was no dearth of the movies at that moment and the exhibitors do not really have anything to play.

However, the movie ‘Tumhari Sulu’ has earned a total of Rs 27.01 crore at the last count and the Hollywood movie ‘Justice League’ earned about nearly Rs 25 crore and the movies Coco and Murder on the Orient Express probably managed to earn a sum of Rs 2.75 crore and Rs 3.25 crore respectively. This year there are some of the movies which got the respite and those movies are likely to be an underwhelming end to an even bleaker year for the broader trade circuit. The movies like ‘Jab Harry Met Sejal’, ‘Tubelight’, ‘Jagga Jasoos’, ‘Rangoon’ and many other and they have already ensured a dismal 2017 at the Box office collection

However, the movie ‘Baahubhali 2’ has been the highest biggest hit of the year with the collection of more than Rs 500 crore within the India alone. As far as the Bollywood’s box office is concerned then it has earned a Rs 200 crore for the movie ‘Golmaal Again’ and Rs 100 crore from the movies like ‘Judwaa 2’, ‘Toilet: Ek Prem Katha’, ‘Raees’, ‘Badrinath Ki Dulhania’. Karan Johar said that this year the box office collection has like to be 10-15% lower than the most of the year and now the delay in the movie ‘Padmavati’ is a huge blow to the industry and now the movie is expected to release next year.

The month of December has seen the most lubricant month of the movie business. From the past few years, Aamir Khan has changed the game by releasing the movies like ‘Dangal’, ‘P.K’, Dhoom 3′ on the Christmas. However, this December no promises of an offering from the Khan. There are only hope left with the Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif starrer movie titled ‘Tiger Zinda Hai’.

There are a lot of hopes which were rising from two of the movie, Padmavati, and Tiger Zinda Hai and the one is expected at least Rs 500-600 crore from both combined to overcome the loss of the 300-350 crore from this year box office collection and now given the Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s movie delay now all the hopes are with the Tiger to save the day.