Jaaved Jaaferi believes good films will work irrespective of social media following; says, “Does Rajinikanth promote his film? Urvashi Rautela’s 70 million followers…”

Jaaved Jaaferi had managed to enthral audience with his unmatchable comic timing in Boogie Woogie, Dhamaal and other films. Having been a part of industry for quite some time, the actor has now shared his take on stardom and social media popularity being associated. He gave reference on how Urvashi Rautela, Salman Khan and Rajinikanth’s stardom also don’t always ensure a movie being box office hit.

Jaaved Jaaferi on Urvashi Rautela and Salman Khan popularity

In an interview with Humans of Bombay, the actor stated, “I don’t agree that these things make a star. You can have an initial push visibly. But you can have 70 -100 million followers but does that translate to ticket sales. It doesn’t. Urvashi Rautela has 70 million followers, does her followers translate to ticket buying audience. Let’s take 10 million of her followers which is 1 crore people, if those 1 crore people would have bought ₹250 film ticket, the film would have made ₹100 crore. It doesn’t work like that.”

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Jaaved also shared that promotions do not drive a film’s success, the trailer does. He added, “Rajinikanth sahab is the biggest star. Where does he promote his film? If it’s a good film it will run. At the end of the day they might come for a star but sometimes some stars don’t even get that kind of opening. A Salman Khan film can get a ₹10 – 5 crore opening and can also get ₹50 crore opening. It’s what the people sense with the trailer. All Salman Khan films aren’t getting ₹50 crore opening. It’s all about the trailer”.

On the work front, Jaaved is currently seen in JioHotstar series Oops Ab Kya, which is inspired by Jane the Virgin, a Latin American telenovela. The series, co-starring Shweta Basu Prasad and Sonali Kulkarni, will be released today, February 20.

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