The Indian Premier League commenced today. A question on the minds of most of the trade analyst throughout the seasons of IPL has been "Will the bat and ball Dent the ticket windows?" The answer to this question lies on both- the 'type' of cricket played and the movies released during this period.
On a lighter note, we can also say that IPL/any cricket league decides who is the real boss of the house- the husband or the wife. A self respecting man cannot miss the live telecast of the match and a woman can't let a man prevail with the T.V. remote.
But on a serious note, these cricket tournaments have heavily dented the box office collections of the movies that 'dared' to take on this tournament. Movies like 'Tashan', 'Game', 'Thank You', 'Krazzy 4','Paathshala' flopped pretty much because of having horrendous performances or a clichéd script. But how can someone justify the failures of movies like ' 8X10 Tasveer', 'Go Goa Gone' 'Detective Byomukesh Bakshy' or lately SRK starrer 'Fan'?
But then there have been movies like 'Jannat', 'Housefull' ,'Vicky Donor', 'Heropanti', '2 States', 'Baaghi' and more lately 'Piku', that defied the myth of flopping during IPL and emerged successful at the cash counters. Not to forget, some of these movies had star power but most of them set the cash registers ringing because of their high appreciative/masala content.
The question after listing both the 'flops' and 'hits' is that "What does the audience really want?" If stardom, then why did movies like Fan and Thank You fail? They carried stardom of SRK and Akshay respectively. If content, then why did movies like Detective Byomukesh Bakshy, Go Goa Gone fail? They were lauded by almost each and every critic in the country. But then hits like Vicky Donor, 2 States, Baaghi and most importantly Piku question as to what do audiences actually want. They were given content but they rejected. They were offered mindless comedies which too they rejected.
Actually it seems after closely observing all the movies that were released during this period and became hits were not exactly high on content but they were actually high on something that movies are actually made for- Entertainment.
Hence, it can be concluded that star power or no star power, content or no content, only those movies shall work in this period which provide Entertainment because not always do 4s and 6s impress/entertain.
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