The superstar primarily of South India - Rajinikanth, has a major fan following all over India. There is none like the man himself and his effect on the box office is unbelievable. Bollywood has never really had a stable "box office lucky" actor till date. But with Salman Khan's recent stint at the box office, we might have to re consider.
The last few releases of Salman Khan have gone onto create box office records. One even won the National Award! Though he has given a no.of hit even before this, it is the "masala entertainer" avatar that the audiences have grown to love. The critics haven't been too easy on this Khan but his loyal supporters and fans have ensured that the critics do not spoil the party for Salman. This pattern almost resembles the pattern of Rajinikanth's relationship with the box office.
With all due respect, there is no comparison to this mega star's success. But truth be told, Rajinikanth's films have hardly been accepted by critics. There has been a few movies where his performance has been spoken about but it then reached a point where anything he did was a style statement. Even though his antics are almost always difficult to believe, it is those very antics that has the audiences world over going ga ga over him.
Salman Khan is now in a phase similar to that. When he did play some high intensity, meaningful roles, there was just a few section of the audiences that accepted it. The critics still had their share to say. But now, Salman's loyal fans have decided to support the star in full force in all his ventures and by the looks of it, Salman has in turn decided to give his fans what they need instead of trying to please the critics.
It is difficult to remember the last time a actor had a run of this sort at the box office. Maybe he is just plain lucky or maybe hos hard work is finally paying off. But for now, whatever Salman Khan touches is making crores of money and the fans are loving this avatar of their star. If you want any more proof of it, here are a couple of videos portraying the "Salman mania"!
So whose complaining then?
"Salman Khan today is what Akshay Kumar was in 2006/07/08. You cannot compare Rajinikanth to him. Rajini is a phenomenon. Salman's is more like a lucky streak! And Rajni is a great human being. Humble to the core. And he never killed people or animals or abused women or had underworld connections either"
ReplyDeleteDon't put together the "name" of Salman with Rajni saab please for god's sake.
ReplyDeleteThis is what we always do.. Once big hit and all of a sudden he is everything an industry needs. seriously there so many artists in the country who probably work twice as hard but get no recognition. when you all of a sudden put someone up so high it kind of demeans the efforts of other artists. This is true for all artists, not just salman. "he's a religion, he's a god of acting, he's a genious" really people? I wonder how badly he will be shunned when one of his movies do super bad.
ReplyDeletelol what was Salman before Dabangg? In 10 years he had like 20 films out of which 18 were flops. He is just lucky now. He will end up with flops soon!
ReplyDeletejoke of the century lol
ReplyDeleteNo matter what everyone says, Salman is a legend. God bless him..he's an amazing human being! To those people who have negative comments, you can say whatever you want, he will still remain at the top :)
ReplyDeleteLove you salman!!