Sunit Jangir

Sunit Jangir

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As a Senior Editor at Sacnilk, Sunit Jangir leads our coverage on Indian cinema, box office analytics, and global entertainment trends. Passionate about Cricket, Sunit Jangir is an avid sports lover. He finds inspiration in other people's life stories and try to absorb them. Though introvert by nature, he doesn't feel shy when the topic is cinema and sports, particularly cricket.

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Thalapathy Vijay's 'Leo' Trailer Becomes The Fastest Indian Movie Trailer To Reach 1 Million Likes On YouTube
983 days ago
Kollywood

Thalapathy Vijay's 'Leo' Trailer Becomes The Fastest Indian Movie Trailer To Reach 1 Million Likes On YouTube

Chennai, October 5 - Thalapathy Vijay's gangster action drama Leo is the most anticipated Tamil movie of the year and a little glimpse of the sky-high buzz was seen after the launch of the trailer which is breaking records on YouTube and other social media platforms.## The trailer of the movie was launched on October 5 at 6:30 PM and within minutes, it started trending on top in every social media platform. On YouTube, it has become the fastest Indian movie trailer of all time to reach 1 million likes. ## The "Leo" trailer took just 21 minutes to reach this milestone of 1 million likes, beating the previous record of Thalapathy Vijay's own blockbuster "Bigil" which took around 1 hour to hit 1 million likes on YouTube. ## "Leo" is certain to break the all-time viewership and likes record for a Tamil movie trailer in the first 24 hours. In the first hour, it generated 10 million real-time views and 1.5 million likes. It has been released in Tamil, Telugu, and Kannada language while the Hindi trailer will be released at 9 PM on October 5 on Goldmines YouTube channel. ## Directed by Lokesh Kanagaraj and produced by Seven Screen Studio, the movie stars Thalapathy Vijay in the title role and Trisha Krishnan along with Sanjay Dutt, and Arjun Sarja in prominent roles. It will be released on October 19 in multiple languages.## ## Stay tuned...

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Thalapathy Vijay's 'Leo' Sells Over 50K Tickets In Advance For Opening Day At The Overseas Box Office
983 days ago
Kollywood

Thalapathy Vijay's 'Leo' Sells Over 50K Tickets In Advance For Opening Day At The Overseas Box Office

London, October 5 - Thalapathy Vijay's gangster action drama film Leo advance booking is continuing with great momentum at the overseas box office. Directed by Lokesh Kanagraj's, "Leo", with still more than two weeks left for the release, has sold over 50K tickets for the opening day overseas.## The movie has sold 29K+ tickets worth 3 crore in the United Kingdom so far. The UK was the first to open the advances of "Leo". The original Tamil language is dominating the pre-sales, followed by Telugu while Hindi has a low response so far. Overall, the movie has sold over 40K+ tickets for all days.## The UK aside, "Leo" is also getting a blockbuster response in North America and has already become Thalapathy Vijay's career highest premiere advance sales. It has sold over 20K tickets worth 3.80 crore. The pre-sales so far opened at 320 locations on around 760 shows. ## At the UAE box office, the movie has sold around 8500 tickets worth 1 crore so far. Overall, a total of around 58K tickets sold worth 8 crores in the UK, USA, and UAE for the opening day, including premieres. With still more than two weeks left, the overseas advances of "Leo" are expected to be around 100K tickets. ## About Leo - ## It is a Tamil-language action thriller film, directed by Lokesh Kanagaraj, who co-wrote it with Rathna Kumar and Deeraj Vaidy. It is a part of director Lokesh's Cinematic Universe (LCU) which also has "Kaithi" and "Vikram". Produced by S. S. Lalit Kumar of Seven Screen Studio, the movie stars Thalapathy Vijay in the title role, and Trisha, alongside Sanjay Dutt, Arjun Sarja, Gautham Vasudev Menon, Mansoor Ali Khan and Mysskin. The movie will be released on October 19 in Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Malayalam, and Kannada, languages in regular as well as in IMAX format.## Stay tuned...

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Ajay Devgn's 'Son of Sardaar' Sequel In The Works For 2024 Start
983 days ago
Bollywood

Ajay Devgn's 'Son of Sardaar' Sequel In The Works For 2024 Start

Mumbai, October 5 - Last year, it was reported that Bollywood star Ajay Devgn would be returning to reprise his role of Jaswinder "Jassi" Singh Randhawa in the sequel to his 2012 movie Son of Sardaar. However, there have been no updates regarding the same since then until yesterday.## According to reports, Son of Sardaar 2 is officially in the works and it will go on floors around summer next year. It is said that Ajay Devgn is trying to turn SOS into a franchise and has been working with his team on the idea for the sequel to take the franchise forward.## Ajay and the team have finally locked an idea for SOS 2 and the official announcement of the movie is expected to be made soon. The sequel will have a completely new story and an entirely new cast except for Ajay Devgn who will play the role of a devoted Sardaar. ## Meanwhile, the "Tanhaji" actor will be taking multiple sequels apart from SOS 2. He will soon start Raj Kumar Gupta's "Raid 2", a follow-up to his 2018 blockbuster inspired by a real-life income-tax raid, along with "De De Pyar De 2", and "Golmaal 5". SOS 2 will start after "Raid 2" and then, Ajay will start DDPD2 by the end of 2024.## Stay tuned...

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Sunny Deol's Mega Blockbuster 'Gadar 2' and Akshay Kumar's 'OMG 2' Announce OTT Release Dates
984 days ago
Digital Media

Sunny Deol's Mega Blockbuster 'Gadar 2' and Akshay Kumar's 'OMG 2' Announce OTT Release Dates

Mumbai, October 4 - The biggest Independence Day weekend box office blockbuster of the Indian cinema ever, Sunny Deol's period action drama film Gadar 2: The Katha Continues has set the streaming release date.## Directed by Anil Sharma, the movie was released on August 11 this year and grossed 685 crores at the worldwide box office. The mega blockbuster movie has almost completed its box office run and now, it will be streaming on ZEE5 from 6 October, 8 weeks after the theatrical release date.## Gadar 2 is the sequel to 2001's all-time blockbuster, Gadar: Ek Prem Katha. Produced by Anil Sharma in association with Zee Studios, the latest blockbuster stars Sunny Deol, Ameesha Patel, and Utkarsh Sharma, who reprise their roles from the previous film. Simrat Kaur made her Bollywood debut with this while it also features Manish Wadhwa and Gaurav Chopra in crucial roles.## Apart from Gadar 2, Akshay Kumar, Pankaj Tripathi and Yami Gautam's social comedy-drama OMG 2, released on August 11 theatrically, has announced its digital release. Directed by Amit Rai, the movie will be streaming on Netflix from October 8. ## Based on sex education in India, OMG 2 is a spiritual sequel to OMG – Oh My God! (2012). Despite the clash with Gadar 2, the movie was a super box office success and grossed over 220 crores at the global box office. Akshay plays the extended cameo appearance as Lord Shiva while Pankaj Tripathi takes the central role with Yami Gautam.## Stay tuned...

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Ayushmann Khurrana To Join Sunny Deol In 'Border 2'; Shoot Begins Next Year
984 days ago
Bollywood

Ayushmann Khurrana To Join Sunny Deol In 'Border 2'; Shoot Begins Next Year

Mumbai, October 4 - After the historic blockbuster success of Gadar 2, Bollywood star Sunny Deol is set to headline more sequels to his iconic movies. Sunny, who just yesterday announced his reunion with Rajkumar Santoshi for a period action drama film Lahore 1947, has been in talks for the sequel to Border and there is finally good news regarding the same.## According to a report by Pinkvilla, actor Ayushmann Khurana is in the advanced talks to join Sunny Deol in this epic war drama sequel. The actor will play the parallel lead alongside Sunny in Border 2, to be directed by JP Dutta who will also produce it with Bhushan Kumar of T-Series.## The makers have planned to make Border 2 on a grand scale and have a vision to make it the biggest war drama film in Indian cinema. The movie is currently in the scripting stage and will start shooting in mid-next year. The makers are in talks with several actors and details regarding them will come in due course.## Meanwhile, Sunny Deol's Lahore 1947, which will be produced by Aamir Khan, will start rolling out around December this year. He also has an action drama, Baap in the pipeline. On the other hand, Ayushmann Khurrana, who was recently seen in the comedy-drama, Dream Girl 2, will be seen in Maddock Films' vampire horror-comedy film Vampires of Vijaynagar which will be released in 2025.## Stay tuned...

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December 2023 To Become The First Month To Register 1000 Crores Net Collection At The Hindi Box Office?
984 days ago
Bollywood

December 2023 To Become The First Month To Register 1000 Crores Net Collection At The Hindi Box Office?

Mumbai, October 4 - The revival of the Indian box office, especially of Bollywood post the horror of the COVID-19 pandemic has been heartening. In 2023, the box office soared to new heights and has already crossed 8000 crores gross in India with still 3 blockbuster months left in the tank.## This year, the Hindi film industry rose from Phoenix and created new records at the domestic box office. It all began with Shah Rukh Khan's mega-blockbuster Pathaan in January and this box office juggernaut is continuing with his latest blockbuster, Jawan, starring SRK again. ## Such has been the response from moviegoers that 2023 recorded the biggest signal month collection of all time in August when Sunny Deol's monster blockbuster, Gadar 2: The Katha Continues and Akshay Kumar's OMG 2 released. With 814 crores net collection, August is now the biggest single month ever at the Hindi box office. The following month, September is second best with 689 crores net, thanks to Jawan which became the biggest Bollywood grosser of all time.## The Bollywood industry is hook-a-cook over the historic box office performance this year, but be rest assured, the potential biggest month of the year is yet to come. December 2023 is packed with, not one but multiple blockbusters. If there is no postponement from the current schedule, the last month of the year will potentially become the biggest ever in Hindi domestically.## The December month carnage will begin with Ranbir Kapoor's Animal and Vicky Kaushal-starrer Sam Bahadur on December 1st. The gangster action drama, Animal, which is directed by Sandeep Reddy Vanga, is particularly having a sky-high buzz and it is expected to emerge as Ranbir's one of biggest grossers ever. ## Sam Bahadur, which is based on the life of Sam Manekshaw who was the Chief of the Army Staff of the Indian Army during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, is directed by Meghna Gulzar and as far as the box office is concerned, it carried the potential of turning beast as Kaushal has proved his mettle with patriotic film in the past.## A week later, Sidharth Malhotra's aerial action thriller, Yodha and Katrina Kaif's Merry Christmas will take on each other on December 8. Originally scheduled for December 15, both movies recently advanced their release dates. Yodha vs. Merry Christmas is perhaps the lesser-hyped clash at the moment but it can generate buzz after the teaser/trailer launch and can emerge as the dark horse at the box office.## The biggest box office clash of the year, or possibly the Indian cinema, superstar Shah Rukh Khan's Dunki and Prabhas-fronted Salaar will take place on December 22 during the Christmas weekend. SRK, after delivering two back-to-back mega-blockbusters, will look to score a hat-trick and with Rajkumar Hirani in the director's chair, Dunki is already looking like a box office volcano.## Salaar, from the makers of the KGF franchise, can emerge as another big hit at the Hindi box office from South India. It is easily the most-awaited Pan-Indian movie and with superstar Prabhas in the lead role under the direction of Prashanth Neel, Salaar should score a big success in Hindi.## There is enough scope for the aforementioned films to make December 2023 the biggest month of all time, and eventually the first 1000 crores net or more. Dunki and Salaar are easily looking to contribute the major chunk of the total box office collection of the month, followed by Animal and Sam Bahadur in the clash. However, all the movies released in December will have to fight out for the screens, not only with each other but also with the holdover movies. It will be interesting to see how they manage to solve this screen-sharing crisis.## Stay tuned...

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Box Office: Fukrey 3 First Tuesday Early Estimates
984 days ago
Bollywood

Box Office: Fukrey 3 First Tuesday Early Estimates

Mumbai, October 3 - After the good extended holiday weekend, comic caper "Fukrey 3" sees a drop on its first working day. The drop from Monday, which was a Gandhi Jayanti holiday, is around 60% while the same is around 40% from Friday which is a bit higher than expected. ## On its first Tuesday/6th day, "Fukrey 3" scored an estimated 4.50 crores net collection (can go higher) which takes the total collection to around 59.50 crores in 6 days. A 5+ crore net Tuesday would have been a nice hold. The first 8-day extended weekend is looking to be around 67 crores. ## "Fukrey 3", despite the underwhelming first working day, is in a safe position due to the controlled budget. The movie is still in the race to join the 100 Crores Net Club, but if it falls short, the movie will be a box-office success. It should be able to cross the lifetime collection of its predecessor which scored approximately 80 crores net in 2017 in the second weekend.## "Fukrey Returns" had scored 50 crores net in the first week which the latest hit crossed in just 5 days. The trend is much better for the latest movie, which should ensure a healthy lifetime total for it though it has to face competition from Akshay Kumar's "Mission Raniganj" this Friday while Shah Rukh Khan's "Jawan" is already running strong.## Stay tuned...

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Box Office: Jawan Scores Biggest 4th Week Net Collection In Hindi
985 days ago
Bollywood

Box Office: Jawan Scores Biggest 4th Week Net Collection In Hindi

Mumbai, October 3 - The biggest blockbuster of the year, superstar Shah Rukh Khan's Jawan rocketed to the top of the table of the highest-grossing films ever in the 4th week in Hindi language. ## Directed by Atlee Kumar, "Jawan" crossed SS Rajamouli's "Baahubali 2 The Conclusion" in just 5 days to score the biggest 4th week in Hindi. It scored 34.53 crores net in the 4th week in Hindi while over the 4th week collection of the movie is 35.63 crores net. "Jawan" is also the first movie ever to earn 30+ crore net collection in the Hindi language. ## Highest 4th Week Collection Movies In Hindi - ## 1. Jawan - 34.53 Cr## 2. Baahubali 2 - 29.40 Cr## 3. Uri The Surgical Strike - 29.28 Cr## 4. Gadar 2 - 27.55 Cr## 5. KGF Chapter 2 - 22.75 Cr## Produced by SRK's Red Chillies Entertainment, "Jawan" is expected to finish its run around 570 crores net in Hindi and 625-630 crores in all versions. The movie so far has scored 617.50 crores net in 4 weeks. Worldwide, it has grossed approximately 1108 crores, including 374.50 crores overseas.## Stay tuned...

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Maddock Films Announces Theatrical Release Dates of John Abraham's 'Tehran', Vicky Kaushal's 'Chhava', Shraddha Kapoor's 'Stree 2' And 7 More Films
985 days ago
Bollywood

Maddock Films Announces Theatrical Release Dates of John Abraham's 'Tehran', Vicky Kaushal's 'Chhava', Shraddha Kapoor's 'Stree 2' And 7 More Films

Mumbai, October 3 - Producer Dinesh Vijan of Maddock Films has announced the theatrical release dates of its 10 films that will debut in theatres over the next two years. Among the 10 films, "Happy Teachers Day" will release this year while 6 films will debut in 2024, and 3 films will hit screens in 2025.## Happy Teachers Day - Directed by Mikhil Musale, the movie stars Nimrat Kaur, Radhika Madan, Bhaygashree, and Subodh Bhave in prominent roles. It will hit screens on October 27, 2023. ## Shahid Kapoor and Kriti Sanon's untitled next - Bollywood stars Shahid Kapoor and Kriti Sanon team up for the first for this robotic romantic comedy film, billed as an impossible love story. Directed by Amit Joshi & Aradhana Sah and also starring Dharmendra, and Dimple Kapadia, the movie will be released on February 9, 2024, during Valentine's Day weekend.## Munjhya - A part of Maddock Films' horror-comedy universe, Munjhya stars Sharvari Wagh in the lead role alongside, Mona Singh, S Satyaraj, and Abhay Verma. Directed by Aditya Sarpotdar, it will be released on March 29, 2024.## Tehran - Directed by Arun Gopalan, the movie stars John Abraham, Manushi Chillar, and Neeru Bajwa in the leading roles. The movie has been in production since last year and was supposed to be released in January 2023. It will now be hitting cinemas on April 26, 2024.## Stree 2 - Easily the most-awaited movie from Maddock Films, "Stree 2" is the sequel to 2018's film which was the first movie in the studio's horror-comedy universe. Directed by Amar Kaushik, the movie stars Shraddha Kapoor in the title role alongside, Rajkummar Rao, Pankaj Tripathi, Abhishek Banerjee, and Aparshakti Khurana. The movie will be released on August 30, 2024.## Sky Force - Another big-budgeted war movie, which was recently announced. Starring superstar Akshay Kumar, and marking the debut of Veer Pahariya, "Sky Force" is based on India's first and deadliest air strike during the Indo-Pak war in 1965. It is directed by Sandeep Kewlani & Abhishek Anil Kapur and will be released on October 2, 2024.## Chaava - This historical action drama film is a larger-than-life biopic of Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj, the eldest son of the Maratha empire's founder and the great warrior king, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. Vicky Kaushal plays the lead role with Rashmika Mandanna as the female lead. Directed by Laxman Utekar, "Chaava" will hit cinemas on December 6, 2024.## Ekkis - Directed by Sriram Raghavan, and starring Dharmendra, Agastya Nanda, and Jaideep Ahlawat, Ekkis will be released on January 10, 2025.## Vampires of Vijaynagar - Another movie that is touted to be a part of the horror-comedy universe. Maddock Films hasn't revealed that cast yet, but reports say it will be headlined by Ayushmann Khurrana and Samantha Ruth Prabhu. It will be directed by Aditya Sarpotdar, and Maddock has scheduled it for February 14, 2025, release on Valentine's Day.## Diler - Directed by Kunal Deshmukh, it will hit theatres on April 10, 2025. The cast and other details have not been revealed yet.## Meanwhile, Maddock Films has not set a release date for Varun Dhawan's "Bhediya 2" which was announced earlier this year for a 2025 release.## Stay tuned...

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Sunny Deol Reunites With Rajkumar Santoshi For A Period Action Drama Film, Titled 'Lahore 1947'; Aamir Khan To Produce
985 days ago
Bollywood

Sunny Deol Reunites With Rajkumar Santoshi For A Period Action Drama Film, Titled 'Lahore 1947'; Aamir Khan To Produce

Mumbai, October 3 - Bollywood star Sunny Deol is basking on the mega box office success of "Gadar 2: The Katha Continues". The movie has grossed around 685 crores at the worldwide box office, emerging as one of the biggest all-time blockbusters. ## After "Gadar 2" became a box office monster, Sunny Deol is now planning his future films carefully, and in this process, the actor has reunited with director Rajkumar Santoshi for a period action drama film, titled Lahore 1947, which is said to be based on Asghar Wajahat's acclaimed Punjabi play, "Jis Lahore Nai Dekhya O Jamyai Nai".## "Lahore 1947" will be produced by Aamir Khan's Aamir Khan Productions. "I, and the entire team at AKP, are most excited and happy to announce our next, starring Sunny Deol, directed by Raj Kumar Santoshi, titled Lahore, 1947. We look forward to collaborating with the immensely talented Sunny, and one of my favourite directors Raj Santoshi. The journey we have embarked on promises to be the most enriching. We seek your blessings", the statement by the studio reads.## pic.twitter.com/gGvDcefWc5— Aamir Khan Productions (@AKPPL_Official) October 3, 2023 ## Sunny Deol and Rajkumar Santoshi have been one of the most successful actor-director duo in Bollywood. They worked on the three films together in the 90s and all three movies were big successes. Their last film was "Gathak" in 1996, and now, after 27 years, the duo is coming together for their 4th film.## Stay tuned...

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Shahid Kapoor and Kriti Sanon's Untitled Rom-Com Gets Postponed; New Release Date Revealed
985 days ago
Bollywood

Shahid Kapoor and Kriti Sanon's Untitled Rom-Com Gets Postponed; New Release Date Revealed

Mumbai, October 3 - Bollywood star Shahid Kapoor and Kriti Sanon's yet-untitled romantic-comedy film that was scheduled to release on December 8, 2023, has been postponed to February 2024. ## Billed as An Impossible Love Story, the movie is written and directed by Amit Joshi and Aradhana Sah while Dinesh Vijan's Maddock Films has produced it. December 2023 has been packed with many blockbuster releases, keeping a very short gap between the two movies.## The robotic romantic-comedy movie will now be released on Valentine's Day 2024 weekend, on February 9, in the best interest of the movie. The movie's theme is in sync with Valentine's Day which will appeal to the youth. Apart from being a unique love story, the movie also rides on strong music which said to be its major USP.## Meanwhile, as officially announced earlier, Katrina Kaif and Vijay Sethupathi's "Marry Christmas", which was supposed to be released on December 15, has been preponed by a week and will now be hitting big screens on December 8. Siddharth Malhotra's "Yodha" has also been advanced to December 8, 2023.## There are currently 5 much-awaited movies scheduled to release in December 2023. Ranbir Kapoor's "Animal" and Vicky Kaushal-starrer "Sam Bahadur" will take on each other on December 1st, followed by "Marry Christmas" on December 8, and Shah Rukh Khan's "Dunki" and Prabhas-fronted "Salaar" will battle it out on December 22nd. ## Stay tuned...

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Box Office: Fukrey 3 First Monday Early Estimates
985 days ago
Bollywood

Box Office: Fukrey 3 First Monday Early Estimates

Mumbai, October 2 - After the good extended opening weekend, "Fukrey 3" holds really well on its first Monday which is a holiday in the form of Gandhi Jayanti. The drop from Sunday is around 25% which was expected as tomorrow is a proper working day which means the night shows are as strong as they were on Sunday.## "Fukrey 3", on its first Monday/5th day, scored an estimated 11-11.50 crores net collection, taking the total collection to around 55 crores. It all boils down to Tuesday which will be the first litmus test for the movie. If it holds well, then the first 8-day week can be around 70 crores net. ## A good hold on Tuesday will also keep "Fukrey 3" in the race to top 100 crores net collection which will be a win for the makers. The second weekend, however, will be crucial for it as there is Akshay Kumar's "Mission Raniganj" releasing this Friday which will make some dent in the progress of "Fukrey 3".## "Fukrey 3" should also comfortably beat the collection of the second instalment of the franchise, "Fukrey Returns" which scored 80 crores net collection. It only remains to see how far it can go beyond the collection of its predecessor. ## Stay tuned...

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