Box Office Analysis: Why Adipurush Flopped

When the trailer and posters of Adipurush were being launched, we were left with high hopes and we anticipated that this film will be a blockbuster but it is very much clear now that we were wrong as the film has flopped on the box office. Did you watch the film? 

On Day 11, Adipurush could collect only 1.75 crores in India. Can you believe it? Whereas it collected around 87 crores on day 1, 65.25 crore on its first Saturday, and Rs 69.10 crore on its first Sunday. 

The movie opened big and created several records in its first few days but thanks to dialogues and a few scenes, it's collections dropped drastically. Many parts of the film had hurt the sentiments of the audience specially the dialogues of Hanuman and the way they have potrayed Ravaan in the film.

There have been a lot of controversies on many aspects of the film. The dialogue of Hanuman saying "Kapda tere baap ka, tel tere baap ka, aag bhi tere baap ki, aur jalegi bhi tere baap ki", had created a lot of buzz as we all know how polite and soft spoken Hanumanji was and he was never disrespectful of anyone. They showed Ravaan with a spiky hairstyle and in one of the scenes he was weddling which is just so unacceptable, how come Ravaan had such a modern hairstyle? And ya, he was evil but did he do weddling being the king of an empire? There have been questions on other characters as well, Meghnath had tattos all over his body in the film and also Vibhishan looked like he is just out from a salon. 

The movie deviated too much from the perceived notion of Lord Ram, Raavan, Hanuman, and other charaacters. The filmmakers shouldn't play around with such characters which are so close to the hearts of the people and are related to religions and beliefs as well.