‘I Can’t Even Try To Recreate The Magic & No Another DDLJ’, Says SRK On ‘Jab Harry Met Sejal’ Box-Office Results
It has been just two days and Bollywood Ka Badshah Shah Rukh Khan’s ‘Jab Harry Met Sejal’ has flipped its wings at the box office. With no positive response from any critic and neither from the audiences, the movie performed badly at the box office.
With no rise in the following day’s collections, JHMS has barely stood firm, this movie has literally marked as the third consecutive below average movie of SRK.
Unlike the expectations that were high when the news of Shah Rukh Khan and Imtiaz Ali collaboration came out, results are however sour. People didn’t accept ‘Jab Harry Met Sejal’ for a good romantic movie. Many critics followed the same fashion, some fared it even worse.
Taking into account these things, Imtiaz went saying, “I am sure that a lot of people do not think that Jab Harry Met Sejal is an intellectual masterpiece, but I did not intend it to be one.”
“Some said you really need to be intelligent to understand an Imtiaz Ali film. For me, that was a blow. I feel that I have never been part of any intelligent club. I wanted to make a very simple film with all my heart. I have not made this film for praise. You know I would like to be the director who can make different kinds of films. This one is made to reach the maximum number of people. Not to just get praise for myself,” added Imtiaz.
However, post this media approached SRK for his opinion on the movie’s performance at the box-office. He has a very logical explanation, was quoted as saying, “I have always believed the film should go beyond the subject and create some magic. I also believe people come with preconceived notion that they have seen already.”
SRK went talking about comparing the movie with his earlier hits like ‘Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi’ and ‘Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge’, added his opinion on recreating the magic of older flavors.
He added, “I am speaking on his (Imtiaz Ali’s) behalf. I think sometimes the bigger feeling is to try something new. I have been in the business long enough to try a formula film and to try a film with no formula. Succeeded and failed at both. So, I understood that I can’t even try to recreate the magic. Take ‘Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge’, for example. I have worked with Adi (director Aditya Chopra) again. Me and Anushka have (in ‘Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi’). But there will never be another DDLJ. So every writer or director does not want to go back to the same magic because he/she does not know how it was created.”
He then took a dig on the idea of experimentation and being failed.
“Some critics have talked about the magic being missing. I think he would not like to recreate that magic that he has done in the past. This one has a new magic. It’s a new trick. Maybe just the newness of it is going to take some time for people to understand the magic of the film. Working with Imtiaz was quite magical,” concluded Shah Rukh.
Well, his answers quite definitely made sense and as he said it is better to experiment than to use a single boring formula in spite of expecting the successes.