rana wrote:
What makes a film a hit?
A film that broke allthe rules:
Opens on a Wednesday
Opens in February
An 'R' rated foreign language film
In two dead languages
Religeous theme
A whopping US $23.6 Million on its first day of its North American release. The first day take matches the biggest blockbusters off all time; Star Wars Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace ($ 28.5 Million), LTOR The Two Towers($ 26.2 Million).
Of course it's
The Passion Of Christ.
Its Box Office success took industry by surprise.
May be some Indian controversial religeous film in dead language Sanskrit, with Hindi/ English subtitles, opening on a day when India-Pakistan cricket test match is ON, may do the trick??
Rana
So you're suggestion a Sanskirt-language 'Mahabharata', with plenty of blood 'n' guts to give it an equivelent to an R-rating, it could open on Janamasthami or Diwali. You know what...it just might be a hit!
That of course depends on the budget being right as well as the actors and the right director!
Adi Shankaracharya is the only film made in Sanskrit and was popular with the art-house crowd even winning some awards, but I don't think it Hit commercially.
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