

With the overwhelming response to the Hindi version, Siddique feels vindicated.

“ The response when the film released in theatres made me question my creativity, I wondered if our time had passed! But the response on YouTube makes me happy, there are people who have watched it four-five times on it.” An action film,īig Brother, starring Mohanlal and Arbaaz Khan in main roles, is the story of ex-convict Sachi (Mohanlal) who tries to make a living as a free man after lengthy incarceration. He confesses to feeling disheartened by the response to its theatre release, made on a budget of around Rs. In his opinion, this film has found “the right kind of audience, who embraced it without preconceptions or prejudice”. This happy turn of events is cause for cheer for the veteran director, who was unhappy with how the film fared at the BO. However, the tale is different in Hindi that version, dubbed by Sunshine Movies and released on YouTube, garnered more than 25 million views in just two weeks of its release on May 16.Īlso Read | Get ‘First Day First Show’, our weekly newsletter from the world of cinema, in your inbox. This comment features in a thread of more than 4000 comments below the Hindi-dubbed version of the Malayalam superstar’s film,ĭirected by Siddique, the film, which released in January 2020, tanked at the box office after a couple of weeks in theatres. A Pakistani subscriber of YouTube channel Sunshine Movies declares ‘Mohanlal is better thn all Bollywood actors.Love from Islamabad’.
