Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Director Shankar's comeback ! Amazon buys Game Changer for Rs 50 cr


  Game Changer literally  is what has happened to Director Shankar. This Ram Charan film has been bought for Rs 50 crores by Amazon Prime, says trade. This is the highest amount that a Ram Charan film has been sold for. Given that Ram Charan track record as an actor at the box office is excellent , it may not be any great shakes to the actor but for Shankar, it is a biggest  shot in the arm. Apart from this, Game Changer is releasing for Pongal in January 2025 and as Chiranjeevi and other major Telugu films have moved away from this date, the clean unopposed run at box office is assured. In fact it is expected to run better than Devara, Similarly, the North Indian box office has no major opposition on this dates.

Look at the scenario. The film Indian 2 has bombed badly and so badly that media reports say that the third part is going for an OTT release and skipping theatre. The reports put the blame on Shankar for taking a second part that had no link to the first part and then using the remain portions for a third part. This was seen as a bad move to  squeeze in a second part that was not needed and put in the entire project in doldrums. Shankar's direction came into attack as it was seen as outdated and archaic.

Shankar has never faced such harsh backlash in his life. It started with his dispute with Producers Lyca and Vadivelu. After much dilly dallying, it was solved. The second sequel bombed box office and content wise. Music wise and in terms of visuals , the song sequences were a damp squib. In short it missed the Shankar trade mark. Game Changer came under a cloud. Now all that has moved away.

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