Pathaan, starring Shah Rukh Khan, is a blessing in waiting for theatre owners. Because covid put business on hold.
The eagerly awaited movie encouraged the reopening of 25 theatres in North India that had to close because of the pandemic.
In order to meet demand, exhibitors added additional midnight showings after the movie received record-breaking advance bookings.
With over one million tickets sold by Monday alone, the spy thriller movie’s record-breaking advance bookings prompted the ticketing website BookMyShow to describe the public response as “phenomenal.”
According to analyst Taran Adarsh, the YRF-backed movie had the highest opening for a Bollywood movie after launching on nearly 8,000 screens worldwide.
Like admirers, critics drool over the King of Bollywood’s deserving comeback.
“Bollywood has returned. Shah Rukh Khan has returned “The Indian Express’s Shubhra Gupta published a movie review.
Pathaan is “a hero for today’s India,” according to film reviewer Deepanjana Pal, who called him in a piece for the FilmCompanion. He plays the part with well-known gestures but in novel and inventive ways.
However, the author claimed that the romantic hero had been replaced by an older, scruffier man who was determined to fulfil the obligations put on him by his circumstances.
Throughout the movie, Khan’s slick Indian agent Pathaan follows the action-packed story of his mission to stop terrorists from assaulting India.
Deepika Padukone and John Abraham both play major parts in Pathaan.