Diwali is not only considered the festival of lights but also a festival of good gains especially in terms of wealth and prosperity. Diwali is a big festival for bollywood industry as well especially for the producers and the directors. Bollywood's big filmmakers always queue up to release their films during Diwali so that their films make good profit at the box office. Diwali release is a big event in film circles. the Hindi film industry looks forward to Diwali to set the cash registers ringing.
This year we have two blockbuster films releases for Diwali. One is Rohit Shetty’s Golmaal 3 starring Ajay Devgan, Kareena Kapoor, Arshad Warsi, Tusshar Kapoor and Kunal Khemu and the second is Vipul Shah’s Action Replayy starring Akshay Kumar and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.
Let’s take a look at the earlier films which have released at the box office and also made good profit at the box-office:
Last year in diwali we had Rohit Shetty’s All The Best starring Ajay Devgan, Sanjay Dutt and Fardeen Khan along with Mugdha Godse and Bipasha Basu. This film made average gains at the box office
Earlier Rohit Shetty’s Golmaal Returns and Madhur Bhandarkar’s Fashion had made great profit at the box office in 2008 during diwali.
In 2007, we had two big block busters from two renowned film makers, i.e Farah Khan’s Om Shanti Om starring Shahrukh Khan and Deepika Padukone and Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Saawariya starring Ranbir Kapoor and Sonam Kapoor. Farah Khan desperately wanted her film to release during diwali as she considered it lucky and she thus took the risk of competing with director Sanjay Leela Bhansali and the risk was truly fruitful
Even Farhan Akhtar’s Don starring Shahrukh Khan had ruled the box office in 2004 in diwali.
Yash Chopra’s Veer Zaara starring Shahrukh Khan and Preity Zinta which released in 2003 during diwali worked well at the box office mainly because of the music which is based on old and untouched compositions by the late Madan Mohan. At the same time Sterling Investment Corp Pvt Ltd released the colored version of the 1960’s epic film Mughal-e-azam directed by K Asif. This film was again was huge success and ran for 25 weeks at the Box Office.
Similarly Yash Chopra’s Mohabbatein starring Amitabh Bachchan and Shahrukh Khan made the theatres housefull during diwali in 2000. Hrithik Roshan and Sanjay Dutt starrer Mission Kashmir directed by Vidhu Vinod Chopra at the same time was an average hit at the box office
In the year 1999, Suraj Barjatiya’s multi starrer film ‘Hum Saath Saath Hai’ and Eeshwar Nivas’s critically acclaimed direction ‘Shool’ starring manoj Bajpai and Shilpa Shetty has set the cash registers ringing during diwali
Karan Johar’s Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and David Dhawan’s Bade Miyan Chote miyan were also a big hit at the box office in the year 1998 in diwali.
Yash Chopra’s Dil Toh Pagal Hai, starring Shahrukh Khan, Madhuri Dixit and Karishma Kapoor ruled the theatres in 1997
The milestone amongst all these films is Yash Chopra’s Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge starring Shahrukh khan and Kajol which released in diwali in 1996. It not only gained huge success at the box office but it has created a history as it is still running in Maratha Mandir theatre.
Similarly Suraj Barjatiya’s Hum Aapke Hain Kaun starring Salman Khan and Madhuri Dixit which released in 1994 was also running in the theatres for pretty long time made huge profits
Yash Chopra’s Baazigar starring Shahrukh Khan in the negative role was also a major box office hit in the year 1993 in diwali
So these were some films which released during the diwali festival and are considered as Diwali blockbusters. So let’s see whether this diwali proves to be lucky for Vipul Shah and Rohit Shetty for their respective films
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