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Bollywood is known for making all kinds of movies but needs to explore the superhero fiction genre more. Filmmaker Anubhav Sinha tried doing just that with his film Ra.One. While the Shah Rukh Khan starrer movie did not perform well at the box office, the audience still remembers it as an overly ambitious project with great songs. The failure of Ra.One affected the director deeply, and accepting the facts took him a while.
Ra.One was released in 2011 and was one of the most expensive movies in Bollywood then. SRK played a double role in the film – of Shekhar, a game developer and G.One, a virtual superhero who had come to life. It also starred Kareena Kapoor Khan as the leading lady and Arjun Rampal as the main villain. Anubhav had high hopes for the film, but the audience response and SRK’s comments hurt him. Scroll on to learn more.
During an interview with Connect FM Canada, Anubhav Sinha said that while everyone declared Ra.One a flop, he never did. “It has been 12 years since Ra.One was released. People started calling it a flop soon after it came out, but I never did.” But, he was forced to accept the failure when Shah Rukh Khan called it a flop film in one of his interviews. “I saw Shah Rukh himself calling it a flop on TV. My heart was broken. I thought to myself, ‘How could Shah Rukh say this?’ After that, even I started calling the film a flop, until people told me it did fairly well,” he said.
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