When Chhaava is doing well at the box-office, what was the need to do block bookings in advance booking?
– There are more than one reason why the producers may have block-booked tickets in advance booking. For one, nobody can be sure about the fate of a film before the film’s release. Secondly, there may have been the urge to project the film as a bigger success than what it would turn out to be. Thirdly, there may have been the desire to show a certain figure as the film’s opening day’s collection.
When I started to read your review of Chhaava last Friday, I had the nagging feeling that you would criticise the film. Although I’ve known you to be an unbiased trade analyst, who believes in impartial reviews, your exposé video about block bookings, which seems to have not gone down too well with producer Dinesh Vijan, and your subsequent tweet about Dinesh Vijan not inviting you for the press show of his Chhaava because of the exposé video, gave me a feeling that even an honest person like you would this one time give in to the emotion of revenge and give the film a negative review. But I was pleasantly surprised to see that you had praised the film and predicted that it would succeed at the box-office. Had Vijan made peace with you before your review was out?
– No, Dinesh Vijan has not made peace with me — neither before nor after my review. But, to put things in perspective, my honesty and integrity don’t change by the minute as they are not defined by the actions of a handful of people. Besides, I review films, not people or their character.
When will Atlee’s film with Salman Khan roll?
– Maybe, never!
