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Fiji has a strange liking for Bollywood disasters. While critics and audiences slammed Himmatwala alike, it is shockingly a Hit in Fiji. So what really struck the natives there to like Himmatwala. Perhaps the overwhelming loud colors, the dash of bold frames and dancing around the trees song sequences appeal to the Fiji cine goers.
Bollywood is always left a mark in world cinema for its flashy sequences more than the nature of its artistic inclination. Mainstream Bollywood has always been identified on the ornate lines. While cinematic geniuses like Satyajit Ray are celebrated Indian film makers known for the genius of their understanding of films, mostly Bollywood is expected to be flamboyant and mindless.
Fiji too has similar expectations and hence cinema goers in Fiji prefer the thorough entertainment of gibberish film to the ones with a greater artistic bent. Apparently Akshay Kumar’s disastrous Joker was also a hit in Fiji. It is clearly not by fluke and more by preference that mindless ventures like Himmatwala and Joker are the preferred avenues of entertainment for natives there.
While most will have a grand laugh over this news piece, there’s one who is already working out his next vacation to Fiji – Sajid Khan owes it to those himmatwalas out there!
Meanwhile, Himmatwala is a bigger disaster than Joker in USA. Rather the movie is a disaster at the Overseas Box Office.
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