Atlee Kumar, the director who’s basking under the massive success of his last theatrical outing Jawan (2023), has made some hot comments about ‘Thalapathy’ Vijay, that raised a lot of eye-brows in trade.
In the recent interaction with media, Atlee lavished praise on the Pan-Indian success of KGF series and Pushpa: The Rise (2021). He went on to say that ‘Rocking Star’ Yash and Allu Arjun are now Pan-Indian names with market across languages. But what made headlines on social media is his inclusion of ‘Thalapathy’ Vijay’s Leo in the same list of KGF series & Pushpa; putting Yash & Allu Arjun in the same bracket.
Vijay is undoubtedly the biggest star of Tamil Cinema with good market in Telugu and Malayalam as well; his last venture Leo (2023) worked big time across territories. But, admittedly, it ended up as a dud at Hindi box-office. Not a single film of ‘Thalapathy’ Vijay has shown any impact in Hindi belt. If thats the case, how is he a ‘Pan-Indian’ star? How can Leo be compared to the legendary KGF series?
In fact, all the recent blockbusters of Kollywood like Vikram, Jailer, Ponniyan Selvan series have also flopped at the Mumbai box-office. Having said that, fans across languages, particularly those of Yash and Allu Arjun, have started trolling Atlee for his immature comments exaggerating Vijay’s stardom.
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