In a recent interview, actor Kartik Aaryan discussed his most recent film, Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2, and how it helped to “revive” the Hindi film industry. In a recent interview, Kartik expressed his confidence that the movie will gross at least 100 cr worldwide, but he didn’t anticipate it to join the 200 cr club. He also discussed how the movie did well despite the release of other movies like Samrat Prithviraj, Top Gun: Maverick, and Jayeshbhai Jordaar.
In an interview with News18, Kartik said, “I was confident of the content and knew that the film will do at least ₹100 crore at the box office. But I didn’t know that we will be able to revive the industry. We never thought it will cross ₹200 crore mark. It is above our expectations. It was my first theatrical release after the pandemic so I was nervous about the reaction from the audience. There was a lot of buzz in the market that if the film crosses ₹80 to 90 crore, it will be good considering the times that we are in. But like I said, it is doing exceedingly well.”
He also added, “We were confident that family audience will enjoy it as it is an entertaining film. What amazed me was the reaction of kids, like three-year-old children, are singing Hare Ram. It all feels unreal. We never thought it will penetrate so much. Jayesbhai Joradar released a week before us. We had Top Gun a week after us and later we had Samrat Prithviraj. Later Jurassic World Dominion came in which also opened well. We are in our sixth week and the film is running in theatres and is even in the top five on Netflix which is unreal in today’s time.”
On May 20, Anees Bazmee’s Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 was released in theatres and was well-received by critics and audience. Kiara Advani, Rajpal Yadav, Tabu, and Sanjay Mishra are also featured in the movie. The film, which was produced by Bhushan Kumar’s T-Series and Cine1 Studios, has so far brought in 230.75 crores globally.
