At a time when most Bollywood biggies avoid an instantaneous clash on the box office, Anil Kapoor and John Abraham’s two new films — Race 2 and Shootout at Wadala, are prepared to release within every week of one another next January.
Date drama Incidentally, John and Anil star in both films. In Sanjay Gupta’s encounter flick set within the late 1970’s and early ’80s, Anil plays Isaque Bhagwan while John plays the don Manya Surve.
The other is Abbas-Mustan’s racy sequel to their 2008 thriller, also featuring Saif Ali Khan and Deepika Padukone. While the previous is scheduled to release on January 18, the latter is slotted on January 25, to take advantage of the Republic Day weekend.
The big overlap A well-placed industry source just about both the actors tells HitList, “They’re aware of maintaining a substantial gap between two films.
Moreover, they’re cautious to bypass the promotion of 1 overlapping with that of another. Meanwhile, Abbas-Mustan’s film releasing every week after Sanjay’s makes things look a tough for them.”
Also, both being quite big films and that too the early birds of the brand new year, there generally is a possibility of them affecting each other’s business. Besides, neither producer can be willing to re-schedule their respective release.
No choice? As he explains, “Already, Ekta Kapoor has deferred the discharge of her Sanjay Gupta directed film by over a month. Initially, it was scheduled to open in cinemas on December 7.
But with Sanjay’s police case (vis-à-vis the invite for the launch of the film) delaying the shoot and Aamir Khan’s suspense thriller postponed to November 30 has left Ekta and not using a choice but to push their film’s release to mid-January next year.”
At the similar time, the Abbas-Mustan thriller too was delayed, reportedly as a result of Saif prioritising his home-production, Agent Vinod. As our source elaborates, “Initially, producer Ramesh Taurani was keen to release it in end November. Now he has decided to release the film before the Republic Day weekend.” What is still seen is which producer will blink first. The race is on!
Courtesy: Mid-Day.com
