Karan Johar changes release date of Yodha to avert clash with Dunki and Salaar
Karan Johar changes release date of Yodha to avert clash with Dunki and Salaar
The makers of the Prabhas starrer “Salaar” scheduled the theatrical release of the film on December 22 and thereby clash with Shah Rukh Khan’s
much-anticipated and raved about Rajkumar Hirani directorial “Dunki”. This flummoxed the industry as it would be a clash with “Dunki”.
The action flick, reportedly was scheduled for theatrical release September 28. Now that it got pushed to the Christmas week, it has had an impact on the other releases of the month as well.
It is also learnt from source that Karan Johar as his regards for Shah Rukh Khan.opted for change in release of his Siddharth Malhotra-Disha Patani starrer “Yodha” which was scheduled for theatrical release on 15 December.
Karan realized that it’ll be difficult for Yodha to retain screens in the second week once Dunki and Salaar hits the theatres. Moreover, it’ll become challenging even for Dunki and Salaar’s distributors since theatres would not want to lose out on Yodha, especially if it does well.
The source continued that it is a well-known fact that Karan Johar enjoys a long association with Shah Rukh Khan, and moreover, he’s close to Prabhas as well since KJo presented Baahubali series in Hindi.
Hence, out of regards for
Shah Rukh Khan and Prabhas, he opted for a change in release of “Yodha” to some other date.
It isn’t clear if Yodha will be postponed to 2024 or whether Karan will prepone it to December 8 or some other date in November. In a few days a clear picture will emerge over the new date of release.
Meanwhile, Yodha features Sidharth Malhotra, Disha Patani and Raashii Khanna. It is helmed by Sagar Ambre and Pushkar Ojha.
An industry insider commented there are murmurs that Dunki might release on Thursday, December 21. If the film is released a day before in the international markets, then ideally it would be released earlier in India as well.
In such a scenario, Yodha would have got just 6 days to score before the clash of the biggies.
Yodha is not the only film that was going to be released on December 15. The Katrina Kaif-Vijay Sethupathi starrer Merry Christmas, too, has booked the December 15 date. It now remains to be seen if the makers of the Sriram Raghavan-directorial also change their date or if they decide to come a week before Dunki and Salaar, as per plans.
News Edit K.V.Raman
