Actress Swara Bhasker shared the primary factors that may be causing Hindi movies to perform less well than expected at the box office. One of them is also connected to the confusion surrounding Sushant Singh Rajput’s passing, which damaged the industry’s reputation. She also made a comparison between the circumstance and what occurred with Congress leader Rahul Gandhi.
Films like Laal Singh Chadha, starring Aamir Khan, Dobaaraa, starring Taapsee Pannu, and Raksha Bandhan, starring Akshay Kumar, failed at the box office due to boycott movements on Twitter. In order to urge people to boycott the movies, many users also retrieved earlier tweets. In the meantime, according to the trends on microblogging websites, future movies like Liger and Pathaan are also encountering the same difficulties.
Swara emphasised that audiences’ post-Covid-19 thoughts may also be to blame for movies not performing well in theatres.“The fourth reason is after the unfortunate and tragic suicide of Sushant, Bollywood has been painted as a really dark place, that is only about drugs and alcohol and sex.” She continued by saying that those who merely disagree with them frequently “discredit” the industry.
Swara also compared Rahul Gandhi, who is mockingly referred to as “pappu,” to the current state of Bollywood.“Everyone kept calling him pappu, so now everybody believes it. I have met him and he is a perfectly intelligent and articulate man. With Bollywood also, this ‘pappufication’ has happened,” explained the actor who will be next seen in Jahaan Chaar Yaar.
