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After seeing Ranveer Singh’s performance as Sultan Alauddin Khilji, Bhai opted for a clear pass making sure Dabangg 3 doesn’t clash with Simmba

Talking about the clash game at box office, Salman Khan’s Dabangg 3 will not clash with Ranveer Singh- starrer Simmba. After looking at Ranveer’s performance in Padmaavat, Salman has decided discretion was the better part of valour even if the hero is a Dabangg one. Earlier the makers — brothers Arbaaz and Salman Khan — were looking at the last week of December for the film’s release. But after realising that Simmba was being slotted for the week after Shah Rukh Khan’s Zero, they decided not to opt for that date and push the film ahead by a month.

This decision makes sense for the makers, as they will be adjusting the shoot of two films — Bharat and Dabangg 3 directed by Ali Abbas Zafar and Prabhudeva respectively. Thus, ensuring that the shoot as well as the release can be phased out. Now, Dabangg 3 will release on Republic Day. — Sanskriti Media Ahmed Khan’s Baaghi 2 is one of the biggest openers of 2018 and also of Manoj Bajpayee’s career. The actor admits commercial success has been hard to come by in his career.

“I would be the last person to get cynical about something as successful as Baaghi. You have to understand that a success as big as this opens windows in my career constantly to do the cinema I believe in,” reiterates Bajpayee.

But doesn’t it get hugely disorienting to hop skip and jump from the realism of Aligarh and Missing to the outlandish hijinks of Baaghi 2?

“Who am I to judge the logistics of commercial cinema?” he questions. “I am just happy to be part of something as successful as Baaghi 2, more so since I was treated with utmost respect by the entire unit. This was my first with film producer Sajid Nadiadwala, and not for a minute did he let me feel like an outsider. I was given the most reverential treatment — I was paid well and well looked after. The director Ahmed Khan is so focused on his work, so eager to learn all the time. That hunger to better oneself is something I completely identify with,” says the actor.

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Not easy, admits Manoj. “You have to give me credit for going from the realistic cinema I am identified with into something so largerthanlife. It’s not easy to make something as highpowered as Baaghi 2. And the kind of audience acceptance it has got, it must be respected. The man who play character? pays squa doesn Ma avata Miss plete ing in I nev and This inno manc succe 2. Th films film