Christmas hasn’t really been the merriest of times for Bollywood in the past few years.
Ever since 2018, this national holiday has somewhat been a curse to most films that were released around this time.
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We saw Shah Rukh Khan’s Zero in 2018 which didn’t perform very well. 2019 we had the Salman Khan starring Dabbang 3, which also didn’t do well with the audience.
In 2020 we had the lockdown due to the pandemic and in 2021 we had Ranveer and Deepika’s 83 which also tanked.
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The following years weren’t great as well. Rohit Shetty’s Cirkus which was planned for Christmas 2022 was a huge flop.
In 2023 we got Dunki. While the film wasn’t a flop, fans had really high expectations from the collab of the 3 Idiots’ director Rajkumar Hirani and the Badshah of Bollywood.
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This year we have Varun Dhawan’s Baby John. The journey of the film so far has the fans doubting that the Christmas curse will fall on this movie too.
Early reviews suggest that Baby John is also not up to the mark and the Christmas curse on Bollywood might continue.
The advanced bookings for the film were estimated to go up to Rs 25-30 Crores. But from its performance, it couldn’t even make it to Rs 12-15 Crores.
As if that wasn’t enough, this action thriller is a remake of Jawan’s director Atlee’s 2016 Tamil film Theri.
Will Baby John be able to break free from the Bollywood Christmas curse or will the film be successful, we will know in a few hours from now.
