Salman Khan feels that the cheap tickets for his last release Jai Ho led to the film’s failure.
“An actor wants his next film to be better and larger than his previous film. Either that film can be convincing or sometimes it becomes too much. After Dabangg we made a realistic film [Jai Ho], where the hero is a trained man but he also gets hurts and falls. But it became a serious film in a way,” Khan said in an interview in Mumbai.
“I think the release time of January [was not good]. That time schools start and everyone is just out from holiday mood. And our ticket prices were Rs250 (Dh15.23) on weekends and even lower on week days which I think was the big mistake but we did this for our fans. Eventually it is a Rs126 crore ka flop, which is fine,” he said.
Jai Ho, the first big-budget release of 2014, could not get a big opening on the box office like Khan’s other films such as Wanted, Bodyguard and Dabangg’.
“I think if you see Jai Ho on television, it is the most amazing film that has a message of helping people, it has family drama and entertainment. But the music did not do well which we thought was amazing,” the actor said.
The 48-year-old actor seems all charged up for the release of his forthcoming film Kick, a remake of the Telugu film of the same name.
“The plot of the film attracted me to do it. There are changes in the way that film [Telugu film] and our film is made. The plot of their films [South Indian films] are very nice, so we adapt it and make it according to our sensibilities and it does well here,” Khan said.
“I cannot do a romcom and if I do, I have to do a film such as No Entry and Sooraj’s film. I can do such type of films. There is a larger-than-life genre for me which I enjoy doing,” he said.
