This 200 million Bollywood movie was the biggest disaster of 2022, the leading man cried after the failure
Starring Akshay Kumar samrat prithviraj, a film based on the life of Rajput king Prithviraj Chauhan of the Chahamana dynasty, was released in June 2022, but had very disappointing results at the box office. The film was criticized for its casting and distortion of historical facts.
Reportedly, the film was made on a huge budget of Rs 200 crore, but it failed to recover even half of the budget. by Dr. Chandraprakash Director Dwivedi recently revealed what went wrong.
Talking to Mukesh Khanna on his YouTube channel, Dwivedi said that viewers had sensed many elements of the film even before its release. samrat prithviraj And he was criticizing it. “They were against Akshay’s look in the film. One of the objections was that the actress (Manushi Chhillar) was so young and Akshay, who was 55 at the time, played the role of a 26-year-old king. It was about being.”
Further, “Then there were questions about his mustache, why he didn’t have a real mustache. They even said that his body skeleton did not resemble Prithviraj at all. Today , I would like to honestly confess that most of these objections were correct.”
The filmmaker said there was “no shame” in admitting that the team failed in its responsibility to the audience. “In this film, different people had different roles and responsibilities. I was the weakest among them. If people had fulfilled their duties, this question would not have arisen?”
He added after the debacle: samrat prithvirajhe and Akshay Kumar learned that “no one should tamper with history.”
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Published date: January 18, 2024 17:13:37 IST
