Films with historical and mythological themes and god references have worked brilliantly at the box office of late. Karthikeya2, Kantara, Akhanda and now Hanuman have done a terrific job at attracting the audience to the theatre. Prashanth Varma with a terrific climax set of 10 minutes took the movie to the next level and gave an unforgettable experience for people which resulted in massive box office numbers.
Hanuman is now inching closer towards 200Cr gross already. This success has once again brought the debacle of Prabhas’ Adipurush to the center stage. Films like Kantara, Akhanda, and Karthikeya 2 had references to gods and ancient scriptures. But Adipurush was a film made on Ramayana and directly featured the characters of Lord Ram, Sita, Lakshman, Hanuman, and Ravan among several others.
Despite having a strong theme and a terrific opportunity to tell the epic story in a grand manner, Om Raut and team completely failed and received a lot of criticism for not portraying our gods and Ramayana correctly.
Teja Sajja starter Hanuman on the other hand just proved that if only Adipurush was made with better vision and direction, it would have definitely been a bumper blockbuster at the box office and a minimum of 1000Cr was totally possible. Prabhas’ Om Raut and others missed a huge opportunity there.
Now Nitesh Tiwari is making Ramayan with Ranbir Kapoor, Sai Pallavi, and Yash and it is said to be a trilogy series. Based on starcast and the theme of the story, there is once again a huge opportunity in front of the makers and it needs to be seen if Nitesh Tiwary succeeds this time.
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