Dilwale crosses 100 crore mark
Dilwale remains ahead of Bajirao Mastani in the box office race. While the Shah Rukh Khan starrer crossed the Rs100 crore mark worldwide in its opening weekend, the historical drama, featuring Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone, minted Rs46.77 crore in India in three days.
Dilwale, Rohit Shetty's romantic action-comedy, has collected Rs121 crore in its opening weekend worldwide. It's India business stands at Rs65.09 crore, and it made $8.5 million (approximately Rs56 crore) from the overseas market. Both the films released on Friday.
Starring Shah Rukh, Kajol, Varun Dhawan and Kriti Sanon in pivotal roles, Dilwale is receiving a hearty response abroad, says trade analyst Komal Nahta.
“Dilwale Overseas Gulf - biggest ever opening for a Bollywood film, and the number one film this weekend, higher than Star Wars: The Force Awakens and other films,” Nahta posted on Twitter. (sic)
“Britain - highest opening for a Bollywood film in 2015. Australia - biggest opening of 2015, biggest ever for SRK. New Zealand - number two on box office charts. US - number nine in top 10 chart,” he added.
You have people voicing a certain opinion, if you think they are wrong you can correct them, but there is a manner in which you do it, with a certain degree of respect. | FARHAN AKHTAR
Salman Khan says that he gets emotional whenever he watches his 1995 released film Karan Arjun. “I was watching the film three months ago. Whenever I see Karan Arjun especially the scene where both the brothers were dying, it always brings tears to my eyes,” Salman said. Directed by Rakesh Roshan, the action-thriller film also featured Shah Rukh Khan who played Salman's brother in the film with Raakhee playing their mother.
Salman said, “The whole connect of the mother and son has been brought to a different level altogether” with the film.
Shah Rukh and Salman recently appeared together on Bigg Boss Nau to promote the former's latest release Dilwale.
In the special episode, Shah Rukh and Salman relived their 1995 film Karan Arjun days by entering into the famous dialogue “Mere Karan Arjun aaenge.”
Cowell calls Zayn Malik ‘rude’
Music mogul Simon Cowell has slammed former One Direction member Zayn Malik for his rant about the band's music. Malik said that he left the band in March it so that he could make “real music” for a change. Cowell reacted by saying that his words were “rude”, and claimed that he would eventually rethink his opinion.
“I think once he has had a chance to reflect on everything he will probably reconsider what he’s said because it was a very, very democratic process in the band,” said Cowell, who mentored the band while they were on the reality TV show The X Factor.
“It is a bit rude to the people who wrote all the hits with them. And to the other band members. They all wrote a lot of the stuff,” he added.
Cowell dismissed Malik’s complaints, as he added, “life could have been a lot worse, rightIJ”
Adding insult to injury after calling him “rude”. Cowell admitted that he hasn’t Malik much thought since he sensationally quit sending fans into a meltdown. “I don’t even think about it too much because as soon as he left we sorted him out with a label who really were enthusiastic about him and then my loyalty was back with the boys,” he said.