Last year, the success of the sequels of the films ‘Drishyam’ and ‘Bhool Bhulaiyaa’ has attracted the attention of Bollywood filmmakers. This is the reason why he is now insisting on making a sequel instead of a remake. In this episode, work has started on the sequel of Akshay Kumar’s blockbuster film ‘Rowdy Rathore’.
The success rate of movie sequels has always been high. Due to the popularity of the first part of the film, its sequels often earn well at the box office. Sometimes the sequel earns more than the first part. If you don’t believe then take a look at the earnings of the first part and sequel of the films ‘Bahubali’ and ‘KGF’. The earning of ‘Bahubali’ was Rs 650 crores, while ‘Bahubali 2’ collected Rs 1350 crores. Similarly, the earning of ‘KGF’ was Rs 240 crores, while the collection of ‘KGF 2’ was around Rs 1300 crores. Last year, the success of the sequels of the film ‘Drishyam’ and ‘Bhool Bhulaiyaa’ has once again attracted the attention of Bollywood filmmakers. This is the reason why work is going on fast on the sequels of many films. In this episode, work has started on the sequel of the 2012 blockbuster film ‘Rowdy Rathore’. But it is being heard that Siddharth Malhotra is being cast in place of Akshay Kumar. The film’s director Anees Bazmee himself is talking to Siddharth in this regard.
The sequel of the film ‘Rowdy Rathore’, ‘Rowdy Rathore 2’ is being produced by Shabina Khan in association with veteran filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali. It is being told that Shabina Khan has been engaged in the preparation of the sequel of this film for some time. At present, he has locked the core idea of ‘Rowdy Rathore 2’. She is in talks with Siddharth Malhotra for the role of a police officer in this film. Siddharth has also shown interest in this character. But right now he is considering whether he should play the role of a police officer outside Rohit Shetty’s Cop Universe. Anees Bazmee, who has given great comedy films like ‘Welcome’, ‘No Problem’, ‘Singh is King’ and ‘Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2’, is going to make a comedy film with Shahid Kapoor. But due to the problem of dates, the shooting of this film is currently going to start from August. In such a situation, he has decided that he will shoot ‘Rowdy Rathore 2’ before August. This is the reason that this film will go on the floor in May. A target has been set to shoot it in three months.
With this information, Akshay Kumar may get a big shock once. This film could have become a ray of hope for Akshay, troubled by the continuous flop films. But like ‘Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2’ and ‘Hera Pheri 3’, this film also seems to be going out of his hands. His film ‘Selfie’, released earlier this year, was like an ordeal for him, but after the flop of this film, the actor seems dejected. If we look at the track record of his films in the last two years, he has given eight flops so far. These include the names of the films ‘Bell Bottom’ and ‘Atrangi Re’ released in the year 2021 to ‘Bachchan Pandey’, ‘Emperor Prithviraj’, ‘Raksha Bandhan’, ‘Puppet’ and ‘Ram Setu’ released in 2022. However, this has happened earlier in his career as well. Once his 16 films were flopped in a row. Then he had made a plan to pack up and shift to Canada. But suddenly his luck changed. After this he never had to look back. Now waiting for the same miracle.
Talking about the film ‘Rowdy Rathore’, it is a Hindi remake of the Telugu film ‘Vikramarkudu’ (2006). Ravi Teja and Anushka Shetty are in lead roles in this Telugu film directed by SS Rajamouli. Its sequel is also being made. Currently Rajamouli’s father K Vijayendra Prasad is writing the story of ‘Vikramarkudu 2’. It is not yet decided whether its remake will be made in Hindi or a separate story is being worked on for the Hindi version. By the way, Akshay Kumar was in the lead role in the film ‘Rowdy Rathore’. His opposite actress Sonakshi Sinha was seen. The film was directed by Prabhu Deva, while Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Ronnie Screwvala are its producers. Made at a cost of Rs 60 crore, the film did a business of Rs 281 crore at the box office. In this way it was the blockbuster film of that year. Amazing craze was seen among the people regarding this film. For the first time people saw a Bollywood actor doing action in the style of South stars. For this film, Akshay took training in Special Combat Karate.
In such a situation, the big question is whether Siddharth Malhotra will be able to replace Akshay Kumar in this film? Because the image of Akshay Kumar in the character of Rowdy Rathore is enshrined in everyone’s mind. In such a situation, only time will tell how much people will be able to accept Siddharth in his place, but it will be a bit difficult for Siddharth to replace Akshay, a master of action films. However, it is not too challenging either. Because Siddharth has already shown his skills in films like ‘Sher Shah’. Apart from this, he is playing the role of a police officer in the web series ‘Indian Police Force’ being directed by Rohit Shetty. Its shooting has been completed. If he agrees to play the role of a police officer in ‘Rowdy Rathore 2’ as well, then his image may be in danger of being tied to such a character. As usually happens with Hindi film actors.
Let us tell that the trend of making sequels of films in Bollywood is very old. Talking about its history, the Hindi film ‘Hunter Wali’, released in the year 1935, was made a sequel for the first time. In this film, the famous stuntwoman of that era Fearless Nadia was in the lead role. The film was blockbuster at the box office. Its sequel film ‘Hunter Wali Ki Beti’ was released in the year 1943, which was super-duper. If we look at the sequels of Bollywood films, Rohit Shetty is the most successful film maker. His two film franchises have been superhit. The first Golmaal series films, including ‘Golmaal’ in 2003, ‘Golmaal: Fun Unlimited’ in 2006, ‘Golmaal Returns’ in 2008, ‘Golmaal 3’ in 2010 and Golmaal Again in 2017 were released. The other is the films of the Cop Universe franchise. These include ‘Singham’ released in the year 2011, ‘Singham Returns’ released in the year 2014, ‘Simba’ released in the year 2018 and the film ‘Suryavanshi’ released in the year 2021. All these films of Rohit Shetty have rocked the box office.
