Nitesh’s Women Day gift

Films usually do not run beyond a few days, but this year’s release Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior – which has already collected around `282 crore at the box office – is in its ninth uninterrupted week and running in over 75 screens in Maharashtra itself.

“Tanhaji has not done very well outside of Maharashtra, but the Maharashtra collections of the film are formidable. Despite many releases, week after week, Tanhaji has managed to hold its ground. In the eighth week it made around `1.5 crore with an average collection of `22 lakhs on a daily basis from the limited screens that it has. The weekends have still been stronger. Another action film Baaghi 3 released this week and that may perhaps have an effect on the collections now and stop the film from reaching the `285 crore mark,” a trade source reveals.

Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior, starring Ajay Devgn, Kajol, Saif Ali Khan and Sharad Kelkar, released on January 10 and has been directed by debutant Om Raut.

Incidentally, last year’s biggie – Uri: The Surgical Strike starring Vicky Kaushal was also directed by a newcomer – Aditya Dhar.

—Sanskriti Media

Nitesh Tiwari and wife Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari are great collaborators. The couple whose short film Ghar Ki Murgi premiers today will next move to a film based on Infosys co-founder Narayan Murthy and his wife Sudha. “Right now, I cannot reveal the take away from their life. I am going to meet him again very soon. It’s an honour to get to write about two great people at the same time. There is also a moral pressure to be able to do justice to their achievements and write a compelling story as well. I’m treading very carefully on writing it because I want to do full justice to the content that is there,” he says about the film, which will be directed by wife Ashwiny. Speaking about his Women’s Day release Nitesh says that the short story will attract all the generations. “I feel this story is for every generation. This film is made to sensitise the debate that a woman who plays such an important role in your life but you never give her the position that she deserves in the house. If you had made this film in sixties, even then, it would have been relevant because this opinion has never changed,” concludes Nitesh.

“If the film was made in sixties, even then, it would have been relevant because this opinion has not changed”