Rs 100-cr flop!

Salman Khan says he feels privileged when his movie makes Rs 100 cr, but is still called a ‘flop’

Salman Khan’s movie Tubelight was panned by critics, but the actor says if a film of his makes more than Rs 100 crore and is still called a “flop”, then he is honoured. Released last year, Tubelight did a business of over Rs 100 crore in India. The film, however, was panned by critics and went on to incur losses, which Khan later compensated.

The actor was supposed to make a father-daughter dance drama film with Remo D’Souza post Tubelight, but there were rumours he shelved that project as he didn’t want to do another emotional film. Asked if the failure of Tubelight was the reason for not doing the film, Khan told reporters, “Yeah. It did ver y badly. But it has still done much better than rest of the films, which I am really happy about. Even though we returned a lot of money, we had a lot of money to make in Race3. So, if you consider that a disaster, then I am really honoured and privileged to be in that position that my Rs 100 core plus films are considered disasters,” he said. Khan was speaking at the trailer launch of Race3. When asked again about why the dance film with D’Souza was shelved, the superstar said, “So, first I worked with Munni (Harshaali Malhotra in BajrangiBhaijaan) then with Matin (Rey Tangu in Tubelight). So, I thought let’s give kids a break and let me work with adults. Kids will grow up and can anyway work later.” Race3 also features Anil Kapoor, Jacqueline Fernandez, Boby Deol, Daisy Shah, Saqib Salemm and Freddy Daruwala. It is scheduled to release on June 15.