Will Akshay Kumar return with Surffire?
Despite giving dozens of flops in the last 3 decades, Akshay Kumar is loved by crores of countrymen. People love to watch his films and he has his own distinct audience. He has entertained his fans a lot with his superhit films, but Akshay Kumar also disappoints his fans from time to time. This has been seen many times. Again, for some time now it has been seen that his films are not doing well at the box office. A film OMG 2 was also released in which Pankaj Tripathi had an important contribution to the story and Akshay was the second lead. But a superstar is one who doesn’t take the burden of flops and knows how to improve after every fall.
Many superstars have returned
Be it Amitabh Bachchan or Shahrukh Khan, there are many stars in the film industry who have faced many difficulties. Sunny Deol and Bobby Deol’s careers were considered almost over. But he made a comeback. The last decade has been a tough one for Shahrukh Khan. None of his films have been able to please the fans. But even after this, he made a comeback in 2023 and made a series of 3 blockbuster films back to back. Now the same has been seen with Akshay Kumar.
Back to back flops
Akshay Kumar’s last big film was Suryavanshi. In this film, he was seen splashing in police uniform. The film did well and became a super hit. But after this the actor has done 8 films out of which only one film has been a super hit. That film is OMG 2. Apart from this, his films like Bachchan Pandey, Raksha Bandhan, Ram Sethu, Selfie, Samrat Prithviraj, Mission Raniganj and Bade Mian Chhote Mian were flops. He got the biggest shock when his film Bade Mian Chhote Mian, made with a budget of Rs 350 crore, managed to earn only Rs 150 crore at the box office. Due to this continuous flop, the audience also started losing faith in Akshay Kumar. But not so now.
Akshay found the right path
Akshay Kumar has given the best performance of his career in the movie Sarfira. The story of the film is also tried and tested. Meaning, it is a remake of Surya’s film Sooraya Potru and is inspired by the life of Simplify Deccan founder GR Gopinath. The film is getting good word of mouth and it is clear that this film can get a good audience. When Akshay Kumar came up with the film Airlift in 2016, he broke the streak of 3-4 flop films. The movie ran.
After this, Akshay did films like Jolly LLB 2, Rustam, Gold, Naam Shabana, Toilet Ek Prem Katha, Padman and Kesari and Mission Mangal. The most common thing among these films was that either these films were biopics or were based on the schemes of the government and their successful missions. The audience connected with these films and the success of these films boosted Akshay’s career. After this Akshay turned to action films for some time and did spicy films. But the result was not positive. Now Akshay again learned from his mistake and followed the same track which was taking his career graph up.
But this is the biggest fork in the road
Now that Akshay is all set to make a grand comeback, this time he is facing two of the biggest superstars of the South. First, Prabhas’s Kalki 2898 AD is maintaining its hold on the box office and may do so in the future as well. Along with this, Kamal Haasan’s Indian 2 is also all set to hit the theaters with much fanfare. The film is releasing on a massive scale worldwide and has the potential to spoil Akshay’s game. Now it remains to be seen who benefits and who loses in the clash of these two films at the box office.
