Film Information had prophesied in its review that Pathaan would prove to be a path-breaking hit. In its YouTube video of Pathaan review, we said that the film would go on to become a “super-duper blockbuster”, a “blockbuster of epic proportions”.
Well, that’s as far as the review is concerned. Much before its release too, Information had predicted huge success for the film. In fact, when every trade person was wondering whether the impact of the raging controversy surrounding the film, on the box-office fate of the film would be negative, here’s what we wrote:
In our ‘You Asked It’ column of 23rd December, 2022:
After such a raging controversy around Pathaan, will it open well?
– You bet, it will take a bumper opening. Shah Rukh will be coming to the big screen after such a long gap that there are all the chances of PATHAAN opening huge. Although those talking negative about the film and asking for a ban on its release would hate this, the fact is that they are all adding to the craze for the film and only building more and more curiosity around it.
We may add here that the phenomenal opening of Pathaan was partly because of vengeance viewing. A lot of people are seeing the film in the first few days as vengeance because they feel, Shah Rukh Khan has been victimised.
Here’s what we mentioned a week later, on 30th December, 2022, in the ‘You Asked It’ column.
What kind of an initial do you expect Shah Rukh Khan’s Pathaan to take?
– Bumper. The film’s trailer has been loved. Also, the ‘Besharam rang’ song from the film has caught people’s fancy notwithstanding the outcry against it and the controversy surrounding it. Two such big plus points are enough to attract the crowds to the cinemas.
It may be mentioned here that the public is going wild with excitement in the cinemas during the Besharam rang song. So also during the Jhoome jo Pathaan song.