Sanjay Dutt’s Biopic Won’t Clash With Salman Khan’s “Tiger Zinda Hai” But…

Actor Sanjay Dutt’s life has been full of ups and downs, from success in Bollywood to jail sentence, he has seen and experienced a lot. We all know that a biopic is being made on Sanjay Dutt, the lead role is being played by actor Ranbir Kapoor and the movie is directed by Rajkumar Hirani.

The biopic was supposed to release in the year end but it was then going to clash with Salman Khan starrer “Tiger Zinda Hai”, which could have affected its business. However, now the biopic’s release is shifted to March 2018 as source disclosed,

“Vidhu Vinod Chopra is mounting this film on a huge scale and this might be the film Ranbir has been wanting for so long. Hirani can hardly go wrong with content, and is the most bankable director in the industry, so it would have been a ‘close match’ but the distributors and exhibitors asked the producers to delay the film’s release.”

There is no doubt that both the movies would have suffered because of the clash but more affected would have been Dutt’s biopic, the source said further,

“The exhibitors weren’t willing to pay more than Rs 70-80 crore for the film because if the clash had happened, the films would have suffered. Also, Salman’s film would have had an advantage when it comes to the division of screens. ‘Tiger Zinda Hai’ would have still done more than Rs 200 crore business, but Ranbir’s film would have done maximum Rs 150 crore, even if the content was terrific.”

The source further added,

“The Dutt biopic is a huge film, and will definitely do crazy numbers. But that’s only when it doesn’t clash with a superstar’s film, especially Salman’s. So the distributors agreed to pay them Rs 110 crore for the theatrical rights, on the condition that the film was pushed to a later date. Now, it has a solo release on March 30.”

We feel it is a correct decision on the part of makers of Dutt’s biopic, what do you think, do let us know.

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