When Ajay Devgn’s Well Made Romantic Directorial Debut With Wife Kajol Flopped At The Box Office

This year, Ajay Devgn delivered his biggest blockbuster ever in the form of Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior, which is incidentally also his 100th film as a leading man. While as an actor he has been delivering hits, superhits and blockbusters at will, his debut as a director wasn’t really as awesome.

On this day today, back in 2008, he had lived his passion of turning into a director with U Me aur Hum. A heartwarming romantic drama, the film was also special since real life couple Ajay Devgn and Kajol were coming together on screen all over again and that too in a home production. The film managed to fetch quite some attention for itself on its announcement. However, many were surprised that Ajay Devgn was kick-starting his direction career with a romantic film, when most of the successes delivered by him over the years were action entertainers.

Nonetheless, the film got made in a lavish way with majority of the shooting happening on a cruise due to its setting. Expectedly, it saw good promotion, marketing and release for itself. However, the opening was just about average as audiences only at key multiplexes stepped in to watch the film, as a result of which the first day number just about went past the 2 crores mark. There were some jumps over the weekend to result in around 8 crores coming in by Sunday night. Though elite liked the film, it wasn’t enough as the lifetime crossed just 20 crores.