Akshay Kumar admits he is disenchanted about Bachchhan Paandey’s field workplace: ‘Would have preferred it to do higher’

He advised Hindustan Times that he’s ‘elated’ about The Kashmir Files’ success and mentioned it has upended the notion that solely these movies with large budgets and of a sure sort are assured successes. “Yes, I’d have preferred Bachchhan Paandey to raised than what it’s doing however not as soon as do I blame the Kashmir recordsdata for it. That movie is a storm and we got here within the eye of it,” he added.

He was additionally requested by HT about allegations that he solely does remakes of South Indian films. He responded by saying that that is not “entirely true” and he additionally does authentic scripts. He named upcoming movies similar to Prithviraj, Raksha Bandhan, Ram Setu, OMG2, and Gorkha as an example his level. “Yes there are also some remakes,” he admitted, including “however that is as a result of these are movies I’ve watched and cherished and I’m excited to carry to our viewers as I really feel the marketplace for the identical hasn’t been tapped. And it is not a one-way deal, even South Indian movies borrow scripts from our trade. In latest instances, my very own movies like Special 26, Oh My God! and so forth. have been remade within the south.”

Apart from The Kashmir Files, Bachchhan Paandey’s tepid field workplace efficiency might also need to do with blended to detrimental evaluations. The Indian Express movie critic Shubhra Gupta gave the movie just one star. She wrote, “The kindest thing I can say about this Hindi remake of Karthick Subbaraj’s ‘Jigarthanda’, in which a wet-behind-the-ears director sets about making a film about a notorious gangster, is that it’t have been attempted at all.”