Farhan Akhtar on ‘Raees’ – ‘Kaabil’ clash: Please don’t call it a clash

Farhan Akhtar is one of the producers of Shah Rukh Khan-starrer ‘Raees’. Their film will be releasing on January 26, 2017. It will be clashing at the box office with Hrithik Roshan-starrer ‘Kaabil’. Farhan recently spoke about the clash.

He said, “Please don’t call it a clash. We are not here to compete with Rakesh uncle and Hrithik’s film.There are just so many Fridays in a year. Then there are those weeks like the shraadh or pre-Diwali and pre-Eid when one can’t release one’s film. So where does one go?”

The actor-filmmaker sees no conflict when two films hit the screens together. Farhan said, “I truly feel — and I am not saying this because we’re coming with another film — there is room for two films to do well, as long as they are both good films with solid VFM (value for money). In the past, so many times there have been instances of two big films coming on the same Friday and doing well. Even our production house (Excel) has released films on the same Friday as other big films.”

“Quite recently ‘Bajirao Mastani’ and ‘Dilwale’ were released on the same day. They both did well. I’d wish and pray that ‘Raees’ and the Roshans’ ‘Kaabil’ would both do well,” he added.

He further stated, “I am the last person to wish ill for anyone’s film. So those hoping to get clash quotes on the ‘may-the-best-film-win’ topic may please look elsewhere. Roshan uncle and Hrithik are family. I want their film to do just as well, if not better than ours.”

Well, we quite agree with Farhan as in the past we have seen two films releasing together and doing well at the box office.

Murtuza Iqbal

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