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Producer Dil Raju launched two movies this Sankranthi: Shankar’s Sport Changer and Anil Ravipudi’s Sankranthiki Vasthunam. Whereas the big-budget drama with Ram Charan and Kiara Advani didn’t make a mark, the latter movie starring Venkatesh is bringing in huge bucks. The producer’s remark about flops being declared hits boomeranged again to him at a latest press meet. (Additionally Learn: Chiranjeevi’s mother Anjana Devi hugs him on her birthday; feeds Ram Charan cake. Watch)
Dil Raju will get defensive
Raju held a press meet in Hyderabad on Saturday with some distributors to show how huge successful Sankranthiki Vasthunam is. In keeping with Sacnilk, the movie, made on a small finances, earned over ₹170 crore web in India since its launch on January 14. The producers claimed that the movie earned over ₹276 crore gross worldwide in 13 days.
Speaking concerning the success, Raju informed the press, “Sankranthiki Vasthunam—we have now spoken about this movie’s success at many occasions earlier than this. Even when distributors face losses, the movie business initiatives movies as hits with out breaking even. However when you ask area-wise, you realise the losses. The tradition has modified now. We see 90% of failures on this business, however this movie is totally different.”
This got here again to chew the producer when he opened the ground to the press and was requested about claiming that Sport Changer revamped ₹186 crore gross worldwide on its opening day. In keeping with Sacnilk, it earned ₹80 crore worldwide on day 1. Raju defensively requested, “What are you aware about it?”
When the reporter answered that he was solely looking for readability on whether or not it was the manufacturing home’s choice to say that quantity or another person, Raju stated, “I’ve already stated we (producers) have weaknesses we will’t focus on. I admit that, no. Don’t you understand how a lot the movie has already collected? So that you calculate and put out posters for movies now.”
Distributor L Venkateshwara Rao additionally commented that even when ‘producers and distributors lie,’ the viewers doesn’t imagine it. “They’re laughing at our posters (claiming huge field workplace numbers), everybody is aware of it,” he stated.
Response to the Sport Changer poster
Whereas Raju continued to put up updates about how a lot Sankranthiki Vastunnam made on the field workplace, he stopped posting updates after day 1 for Sport Changer because of trolling.
After he was accused of inflating the field workplace numbers, Ram Gopal Varma got here to his defence on X (previously Twitter). He wrote, “I don’t know who’s behind this unbelievably naive lies, however for positive it may possibly’t be producer Dil Raju as a result of he’s a really grounded realist and he’s incapable of the fraud that’s being commited. (sic)”
Sport Changer, which additionally starred Kiara Advani and SJ Suryah within the lead roles, earned ₹130 crore web in India and ₹185.1 crore worldwide in 18 days of launch.
