Earlier than Shabana Azmi tries to outrival herself within the Batwara 1947 and Awarapan 2 conflict, we have a look at different Bollywood actors whose movies launched on the identical day.
IMAGE: Shabana Azmi in Batwara 1947; Shabana Azmi in Awarapan 2.
Key Factors
- Shah Rukh Khan, Tabu, Preity Zinta and Amitabh Bachchan are among the many stars whose movies launched on the identical day.
- Some clashes produced clear winners, whereas others noticed each movies battle on the field workplace.
- Shabana Azmi’s uncommon August 14 double launch provides one other chapter to Bollywood’s historical past of self-clashes.
Shabana Azmi is pulling off an uncommon, if not unheard-of, double obligation on August 14, delivering two starkly contrasting performances on the identical day.
In Rajkumar Santoshi’s pre-Partition drama Batwara 1947, she performs a helpless, aged Hindu lady counting on a Muslim household to defend her from violent mobs. Going by the trailer, we will anticipate her function to be steeped in heavy melodrama and demanding deep sympathy from the viewers.
In the meantime, in Nitin Kakkar’s Awarapan 2, she swings to the exact opposite finish of the spectrum, taking part in a formidable gangster working deep inside an ethical gray zone.
It will likely be fascinating to see which of those polar reverse avatars permits the award-winning veteran to shine brightest, and which in the end leaves a heavier affect.
We now have had some very outstanding actors previously whose movies have clashed on the identical day, although by no means with outcomes that please all.
Sreeju Sudhakaran picks out 10 such stars (or star combos), who clashed with themselves on the field workplace and what occurred because of this.
Shah Rukh Khan
Motion pictures: Guddu and Oh Darling Yeh Hai India
IMAGE: Shah Rukh Khan and Manisha Koirala in Guddu; Shah Rukh Khan and Deepa Sahi in Oh Darling Yeh Hai India.
Between Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995) and Pardes (1997), Shah Rukh Khan hadn’t had a lot of a powerful run on the field workplace.
Two of them got here on the identical day, truly. Guddu was this household drama, directed by Prem Lalwani, the place he romanced Manisha Koirala and had him battle his mother and father legally in order that he might donate his eyes to her after blinding her in an accident.
Oh Darling Yeh Hai India was a black comedy satire set throughout the span of an evening, and had SRK reunite along with his Maya Memsaab director and heroine, Ketan Mehta and Deepa Sahi respectively.
Each are completely dangerous motion pictures, although Oh Darling Yeh Hai India had some attention-grabbing concepts, and each launched on July 31, 1995.
Tabu
Motion pictures: Astitva and Shikari
IMAGE: Tabu and Mohnish Bahl in Astitva; Tabu and Nirmal Pandey in Shikari.
Like Shah Rukh Khan, Tabu additionally had two movies popping out on the identical Friday, and each ended up flopping.
Astitva was a marital drama directed by Mahesh Manjrekar, the place she performed a housewife whose household life loses its peace after they discover out that she had a quick affair previously. The film featured a powerhouse efficiency from the actor, and was famous for its mature tackle relationships.
Tabu’s different launch of the day, Shikari was a thriller directed by Tezaab fame N Chandra, which was hyped then for being Govinda’s first detrimental function. The film additionally starred Karisma Kapoor as one of many feminine leads. Sadly, whereas Govinda was spectacular within the movie, it did not attract his followers like a few of his comedies on the time.
Each motion pictures had come out on October 6, 2000.
Preity Zinta
Motion pictures: Dil Chahta Hai and Yeh Raaste Hain Pyaar Ke
IMAGE: Aamir Khan and Preity Zinta in Dil Chahta Hai; Madhuri Dixit, Ajay Devgn and Preity Zinta in Yeh Raaste Hain Pyaar Ke.
Not too long ago, Dil Chahta Hai celebrated 25 years of its launch, however that wasn’t the one Hindi movie to have fun that milestone that day. Yeh Raaste Hain Pyaar Ke additionally got here out on the identical day, although we cannot blame you for forgetting its existence, regardless that it additionally starred Preity Zinta.
In Farhan Akhtar’s directorial debut, Zinta performed the curly-haired, dimple-chinned Shalini, whose one wardrobe for an opera attendance made Aamir Khan’s non-committal Akash re-evaluate his life objectives. Dil Chahta Hai was a cult hit whose legacy nonetheless stands sturdy and was contemplating in because the film that ushered in a ‘cool’ evolution for Bollywood.
Yeh Raaste Hain Pyaar Ke was a romantic thriller which additionally starred Ajay Devgn, Madhuri Dixit and Sunny Deol in an prolonged cameo.
Devgn and Zinta performed a con couple whereas Madhuri Dixit performed a lady whose husband was killed as a result of he regarded just like the swindler, prompting the latter to take his place and trick the widow out of her cash.
Dil Chahta Hai and Yeh Raaste Hain Pyaar Ke launched on August 10, 2001.
Amitabh Bachchan
Motion pictures: Khakee and Aetbaar
IMAGE: Amitabh Bachchan in Khakee; Amitabh Bachchan in Aetbaar.
Rajkumar Santoshi’s Khakee stands as the most effective Bollywood cop thrillers of the century.
Anchoring a stellar ensemble that included Akshay Kumar, Aishwarya Rai and Ajay Devgn as a ruthless antagonist, Amitabh Bachchan excelled as a weary cop defending a high-target witness.
Coincidentally, on the very same day, January 23, 2004, Bachchan performed one other fiercely protecting patriarch in Vikram Bhatt’s Aetbaar.
A remake of the Hollywood thriller Worry (1996), Aetbaar, co-starring John Abraham and Bipasha Basu, the movie sees Bachchan’s character doing all he can to avoid wasting his daughter from a violently poisonous boyfriend.
Expectedly, their field workplace fates had been polar opposites: Khakee earned sturdy evaluations and industrial success, whereas Aetbaar was largely ignored.
Rimi Sen
Motion pictures: Kyon Ki… and Garam Masala
IMAGE: Salman Khan and Rimi Sen in Kyon Ki…; Rimi Sen and Rajpal Yadav in Garam Masala.
This entry is a multi-whammy as a result of not solely did the 2 motion pictures have the identical actress, however they had been additionally directed by the identical filmmaker, Priyadarshan, with each being remakes of his Malayalam hits which starred Mohanlal within the lead (Mukesh, M G Soman, Jagathi Sreekumar, Maniyanpilla Raju and Lissy had been additionally a part of each Malayalam motion pictures).
Kyon Ki… was the remake of Thalavattam (1986), itself impressed by One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975), with Salman Khan and Kareena Kapoor Khan within the lead roles. Rimi Sen had an prolonged cameo as Khan’s love curiosity within the flashback sequences, whose tragic demise causes him to go insane.
Within the comedian caper Garam Masala, she performed the annoyed fiancée of Akshay Kumar’s character, who does not realise he’s dishonest on her with three air hostesses.
Each motion pictures additionally starred the late Asrani.
On the field workplace, it was Garam Masala that took the win, with the extra critical Kyon Ki… not drawing a lot of an viewers regardless of the presence of Khan and Kapoor, and Himesh Reshammiya’s songs.
Kyon Ki… and Garam Masala each launched on November 3, 2005.
Suniel Shetty and Paresh Rawal
Motion pictures: Phir Hera Pheri and Chup Chup Ke
IMAGE: Suniel Shetty and Paresh Rawal in Phir Hera Pheri; Paresh Rawal and Suniel Shetty in Chup Chup Ke.
Priyadarshan makes a return once more, albeit this time he did not conflict along with his personal film, however relatively the sequel to his hit, and ended up dropping the race.
Phir Hera Pheri was directed by the late Neeraj Vora, who had penned the screenplays for fairly just a few of Priyadarshan’s Hindi motion pictures, together with Hera Pheri (2000). And since this can be a direct sequel to Hera Pheri, Akshay Kumar, Suniel Shetty and Paresh Rawal returned to play the leads.
Phir Hera Pheri was an enormous hit on the field workplace.
Suniel Shetty and Paresh Rawal additionally performed necessary roles in Priyadarshan’s dramedy Chup Chup Ke, which was a remake of the Malayalam hit Punjabi Home (1999).
The film, which had Shahid Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor within the lead, did not work on the field workplace, although due to its comedy, it loved a cult following afterward.
Other than Shetty and Rawal, each movies additionally starred Rajpal Yadav and Manoj Joshi.
Phir Hera Pheri and Chup Chup Ke launched on June 9, 2006.
Sanjay Dutt
Motion pictures: All The Greatest: Enjoyable Begins and Blue
IMAGE: Ashwini Kalsekar and Sanjay Dutt in All The Greatest; Sanjay Dutt and Lara Dutta in Blue.
Diwali 2009 made us witness a compelling field workplace showdown for Sanjay Dutt, with two of his main releases clashing on October 19.
Rohit Shetty’s All The Best: Fun Begins emerged because the clear industrial winner.
The comedy thrived on a traditional farce setup: Sanjay Dutt stars as a rich patriarch visiting his youthful brother (Fardeen Khan), whose monetary disasters and faux marriage are desperately lined up by a relentlessly scheming Ajay Devgn.
Dutt additionally took on the lead function in Blue, an undersea treasure hunt that got here with large hype for being considered one of Bollywood’s costliest movies (then) and for bringing Kylie Minogue to Bollywood.
Alongside Dutt, the film featured Akshay Kumar in a grey-shaded function, Lara Dutta, Zayed Khan, and a cameo by Katrina Kaif. However regardless of its lavish visuals and an A R Rahman soundtrack, Blue failed to draw good evaluations and left the viewers unimpressed.
Shruti Haasan
Motion pictures: D-Day and Ramaiya Vastavaiya
IMAGE: Shruti Haasan and Arjun Rampal in D-Day; Shruti Haasan and Girish Kumar in Ramaiya Vastavaiya.
In Nikkhil Advani’s cross-border spy thriller D-Day, Shruti Haasan delivered a memorable flip (presumably, her career-best efficiency) as a scarred, golden-hearted intercourse employee in Pakistan. Her tragic romance with Arjun Rampal’s undercover R&AW agent added emotional weight to the story earlier than her character met a grim finish.
On that exact same Friday, which is July 19, 2013, she switched gears in tone and style to headline the frothy romcom Ramaiya Vastavaiya.
Directed by Prabhu Deva, this remake of his 2005 Telugu hit Nuvvostanante Nenoddantana marked the performing debut of Girish Kumar. Though D-Day earned much better evaluations than its lighthearted competitor, neither movie made a lot of an affect on the field workplace.
Taapsee Pannu
Motion pictures: The Ghazi Assault and Working Shaadi
IMAGE: Taapsee Pannu in The Ghazi Assault; Taapsee Pannu in Working Shaadi.
On February 17, 2017, Taapsee Pannu was the only real feminine grownup solid member within the submarine thriller The Ghazi Assault, which additionally starred Rana Daggubati, Kay Kay Menon and Atul Kulkarni.
Regardless of having an attention-grabbing setup and good performances, The Ghazi Attack failed to attract within the crowds in theatres with Pannu’s function being criticised for being compelled right into a plot that did not want her.
On that very same day, a delayed romcom of the actress, Running Shaadi, additionally got here to theatres, the place she was solid reverse Amit Sadh.
The duo performed companions who run a web site that helps {couples} elope and get married. In contrast to its title, the film didn’t do any form of ‘working’ on the field workplace.
Abhishek Banerjee
Motion pictures: Stree 2 and Vedaa
IMAGE: Abhishek Banerjee and Rajkummar Rao in Stree 2; Abhishek Banerjee in Vedaa.
Abhishek Banerjee had fairly an attention-grabbing Independence Day conflict in 2024, the place he obtained to show his unbelievable vary as an actor.
He, in fact, had a scene-stealing return because the naïve Jana within the horror comedy Stree 2, with the actor changing into a everlasting mainstay of the Maddock Horror Comedy Universe.
Stree 2 can be the franchise’s greatest hit, having netted greater than Rs 500 crore (Rs 5 billion) on the field workplace.
Abhishek Banerjee additionally impressed as the primary antagonist in Nikkhil Advani’s Vedaa, the place he performed a robust and ruthless upper-caste politician.
Nevertheless, the film, which had John Abraham and Sharvari within the lead, underperformed within the face of Stree 2‘s field workplace blitzkrieg.
PS: It might be pertinent to notice right here that Tamannaah Bhatia additionally had essential cameos in each Stree 2 and Vedaa.
What’s extra, Akshay Kumar additionally had a outstanding cameo in Stree 2 whereas Khel Khel Mein, the place he was one of many fundamental leads, had additionally launched on the identical day as each Stree 2 and Vedaa.
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