As Akshay Kumar spoke about commercial success of recent Hindi films, he also addressed why Mission Raniganj’s tagline was changed to ‘The Great Bharat Rescue’.

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Akshay Kumar with Salman Khan. (Photo: BeingSalmanKhan/ Instagram)

Akshay Kumar, on the sidelines of the Mission Raniganj promotions, emphasised on the need to stop measuring the success of films based on their box office success. Recently Salman Khan had commented that with the success of Shah Rukh Khan’s Jawan and Sunny Deol’s Gadar 2, the “Rs 100 crore club is not going to be a very big deal.” Akshay said, “Don’t pressurise a film by thinking that this film will do that business, let’s not just look at the commercial aspect of the film, some stories need to be told over and above that.”

Reacting to Salman’s remarks, Akshay has said that he hopes Bollywood churns out more hits like Jawan and Gadar 2. Akshay said, “I hope the industry gives more and more hits. I was very happy when Shah Rukh Khan’s Jawan did so much good business. There are many other films like Gadar (2), OMG 2 which also did well. So it is very good for the industry. Our industry went through a very bad patch during the Covid times, now things are moving and it is a great thing that Rs 1000 crore is a benchmark. Also hope that we make Rs 2000-3000 crore films like Hollywood, because the kind of cinema, the screenplay, the script that we have they don’t have.”