‘It’s not easy to direct Salman Khan,” Indian filmmaker AR Murugadoss on ‘Sikandar’ failure.
Indian filmmaker AR Murugadoss, of ‘Sikandar’, says it’s not easy to direct Salman Khan, as he shares his experience of working with the superstar.
Despite being one of the most hotly anticipated movies of the year, the Salman Khan-led mega actioner, made on a massive budget and featuring an array of A-list stars, opened to mostly negative reviews this March and emerged as one of the most terrible box office duds of Bollywood.
Addressing the ‘Sikandar’ flop, South Indian filmmaker AR Murugadoss, best known among Bollywood viewers for his remakes of Tamil blockbusters, including ‘Ghajini’, ‘Holiday’ and ‘Akira’, hints at Khan’s star attitude for having a role in the film’s failure.
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“It’s not easy to shoot with a star. Even day scenes, we have to shoot at night because he turns up to sets only by 8 PM,” Murugadoss said in a new interview.
“We are people who are used to shooting right from early mornings, but that’s not how things work there,” he continued.
“If there were four kids in a scene, we would have to shoot with them at 2 a.m., even if it’s the shot of them returning from school! They would become tired by that time and usually dozed off,” the filmmaker further explained.
Notably, the Khan-led ensemble cast of the high-octane action entertainer also featured Rashmika Mandanna, Kajal Aggarwal, Anjini Dhawan, Prateik Babbar, Sharman Joshi and veteran actor Sathyaraj.
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Sikandar box office collection
Sikandar collected ₹176.18 cr at the worldwide box office. In India, it grossed ₹153.34 crores, with a net collection of ₹129.95 crores. Overseas, it earned ₹58 crores.
