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Bollywood’s 10 Greatest Action Films


As always, my choices are in perfect sync with the ppl’s verdicts.  those who wanna know if i plan it that way, well no, its natural! most of the films in the countdown are blockbusters and biggest hits of the year with top 4 being atbbs. only at the bottom end are some superhits.

 

10. phool aur kaante – it was an action film that was desingned as a romance but action was so overpowering that the only image that comes to mind is ajay devgan riding two bikes, 21 years after the release of the film. if you straint your brain a lot the other image that surfaces  is a fight in the college bathroom.

9. wanted/zanjeer  these two films have something in common. not not the cop hero dumbo. but the fact that the emotional content in the films is at par with the action and that makes the audience feel for the characters. technology wise both films are seprated by 36 years of progress but the emotional core makes them really like kaante ki takkar.

8. hukumat/ghayal – both had very raw action but sometimes it begins to grate on your nerves. however a section of the audiences lapped up this mindless kind of action too as was later seen in jeet, ziddi and many other films.

7. karan arjun/rowdy rathore- karan aarjun was essentially a reincarnation saga but the action overwhelmed like phhol aur kaante. rowdy rathore is out and out action film and looks like akshay finally got it right after years of martial arts practice and dozens of action films.

6. tezaab – anil kapoor is the most unlikely action hero but then thats the victory of this film. not only he does action but manages to look convincingly angry, perhaps the biggest requirement in any action film that many ‘tae kwon do’  experts fail to understand.

5. bodyguard – there was hardly 3 action scenes in bodyguard. it was a poignant tale of love, sacrifice, separation and reunion. but the 3 action scenes that it had were so impactful that ppl call it an action film, whether to  run it down or to praise it to the skies. again when salman gets angry, he gets really angry and you can see it in his blazing eyes. so blazing that many forgot the longing for love and tears they just saw in the previous scene.

4. don- amitabh bachchan’s was the original hero whose anger used to be in the eyes, not the fists. in this film he was helped by a slick camera work and taut direction.

3. ghajini/gadar- both have what is the the biggest requirement of a great action film  an emotional core. no wonder both went on to become atbbs when they released and shook the nation into punching and kicking in the sofa seat of the multiplex as well as the foyer of the rat infested singlex. .

2. dabangg – content wins again. with just 4 action scenes dabangg achieved those heights becoz of the strong characterization, a taut script, an emotional core and a comic interpretation of the suppressed feelings of the teeming zillions. natija – second biggest action hit in bollywood history.

1 sholay – no film will ever be able to come to the level of sholay wen it comes to action. imagine the real action hero – dharmendra coupled with the angry young man – amitabh, the most imaginatively written villain in the history of bollywood – gabbar (amjad khan) and a superlative actor like sanjeev kumar who did not have to move a limb to convey anger. sholay was, is and will always be the greatest action film india has ever seen.

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  1. come_fall_in_chat

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    khiladiyo ka khiladi has collected much bigger hit than u r phool aur kante n even mohra n rowdy rathore is bigger hit than karan arjun so stop u bullshit munna.

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    @comefallinchat – kk and mohra collected in 1996 and 1994. u have to take verdicts not collections. phool aur paththar is a super hit, kkk is just a hit.

    yes mohra is a superhit but it has two heroes. if u noticed i have taken mostly atbbs and bbs in this list but becoz of lack of them i took some superhits. now including superhits there were too many action films so my criterion was i only tookthose superhits that were solo hero for a fair list. hence phool aur kaante is there in the lsit but mohra is not.

    danish ke method mein bhi madness hoti hai. (matlab samajh gaye na?)

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      “u have to take verdicts not collections”

      Verdicts are subjective opinion …. we can’t take it.

  3. come_fall_in_chat

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    danish industry n boxoffice dosent go by u r thinking n by u r poinof view so its the thing of u r thinking why u take it here

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    @comefallinchat – and karan arjun inflation adjusted wud be atleast 200 cr today, much bigger than rowdy rathore. average ticket price in `1995 was 15 rs, today its 100 rs. now multiply karan arjun’s 30 cr by 7 and see the result.

    if u take footfall karan arjun gross at 52 cr means footfall was 3.5 cr. rowdy rathore gross wud be max 150 cr that is 1.5 cr footfall.

    also entertainment tax has fallen. if u take the gross karan arjun at 52 cr comes to 350 cr.

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      “if u take footfall karan arjun gross at 52 cr means footfall was 3.5 cr. rowdy rathore gross wud be max 150 cr that is 1.5 cr footfall.”

      “karan arjun inflation adjusted wud be atleast 200 cr today, much bigger than rowdy rathore”

      This will be even bigger than Dabangg, and you kept Dabangg at number 2 .. :D

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        So now what you will say about Dabangg lesser than KA .. and you kept it at no 2 ?

        and as i said in another comment, “If you don’t have all data, there is no point talking about scientific way to judge how much movie is liked. You can easily say that you don’t have enough resources to judge how much movie is liked and keep your list as your personal opinion.”

  5. come_fall_in_chat

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    so in which theory u put karan arjun n rowdy rathore in same no rr is solo n karan arjun is multi starrer.

  6. come_fall_in_chat

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    danish baseless criteria he considered verdict of the movie n when it goes to they date of release he start consider release year n multi star cast he just come up with one followed by othere fool excuse.

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    Then the title should be most successful action movies of bollywood

    bhai the word great is very noble…then according to you hf2 is the greatest comedy movie of bollywood but is it?and u wrote about the movie then y r u going to check 1hero or 2 and if it stands then sholay kaise list me aya? Tum pagal ho gaye ho jalan ke mare..just accept the truth.

  8. come_fall_in_chat

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    n the boi verdict u r talking abt i give u the example no 5 position sadak in year 1992 collection r more than no 6 sanam bewafa in same 1992 the erdict for sadak is hit n less collected sanam bewaffa super hit so whuch verdict u r talking abt.

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    @comefallinchat – aur kuchh nahin samjah sakte to kam se kam ye to dekh lo ki tumhaare karan arjun ke baare kein sawaal pooochhne se theek pehle maien answer bhi kar diya hai.

    off course i have to take the scale of success in mind. sholay is a two hero film and dabangg is solo hero both are atbbs. but i did not put dabangg above sholay becoz of scale of sholay’s success. i applied the same criterion to rowdy rathore and karan arjun and put them at the same pedestal.

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    @ranjit – i answered ur question about sholay in my response to comefallinchat. yaar main kitna intelligent hota ja raha hoon, pehle comefallinchat ka question sunne se pehle hi answer kar diya ab tumhaara.

    rahi baat greatest ki to main greatset khud decide nahin karta, audiences ko karne deta hoon

    and the greatest commedy of bollywood is not housefull but aankihein (govinda waali, not akshay waali. that one was unintentional comedy)

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      “greatest commedy of bollywood is not housefull but aankihein ”

      Greatest ?? greatest ka matlab samajhate ho ? Kabhi chupke chupke ya Golmaal(1978) dekhi hai ? Ya Angoor ?

      Ankhein was very big Hit .. but not greatest comedy. Greatest comedy vo hoti hai jo 40 saal baad bhi chehre pe big smile le aaye .. Golmaal, chupke chupke and Angoor comes in that category.

  11. come_fall_in_chat

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    who said dabaang is solo hero danish in dabaang u can see arbaaz khan vinod khanna how u say it a solo

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    comefallinchat – i think u are the solo hero of akshay kumar fan club though there are tashan, manish and others too. similarly i think dabangg is solo hero despite arbaaz.

  13. come_fall_in_chat

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    so than why didnt u calculatte foot fool for mohra n phool aur kate plz take u r doubble standard with me n if u come up with u r footfall than give us footfall of tezab.

  14. come_fall_in_chat

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    so why u connect u r thinking with people of india n i dnt think i am solo for akshay kumar fan club i m here not for akshay but even i support ajay abhishek n salman i always go the fact side n i think tashan bhai n manish bhai r the real akki fan club leader here.

  15. come_fall_in_chat

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    danish first of all u come up with a wrong title creates wrong interuption n use u r doubble standard as for u dabang is solo but if we go for a joker than it will multi starrer as there is shreyash.

  16. come_fall_in_chat

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    one more thing why sadak is hit n sanam bewaffa is super hit despite of releasing in samyear n sadak collected more than sanam bewaffa so why verdict diff by boi.plz give cleqrification n waiting for u r tezab foot fall.

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    Lol.. And on what basis ankhe topped the list of greatest comedy movie…i want to you to make a post of 10 great comedy movie of bollywood and accordin to ur theory.

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    hmmmm i think even someone’s to be wife will also need public endorsment varna yeh banda maanega nahi ;) :D … use varied public to have better endorsment from all stratas of society

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    @comefallinchat – mohra and phool aur kaante success scale didnt have huge difference, karan arjun and rowdy rathore did.

  20. reddemon

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    Danish ek faltu article likh deta h nd kuch log(read akshay fans) uspe argue krne me lage rehte h nd danish bichara unko sambhalte rehta hai

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    @yakuza – one more subjective perception! mere chehre ki smile aaj bhi aankhein dekh ke badi hotti hai chupke chupke nahin. so ksiki smile naapi jaayegi? 80s ke time warp mein phanse uncles ki? malls mein ghoomne waale pseudos ki? ya saare hindi cinema audiences ki?

    ifits the last then aankhein is the greatest indian comedy.

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      Your opinion is also subjective, because you are not taking into account Video cassettes sales, CD/DVD sales, collective TRP of all movies and inflation adjustments in to account to know which was liked more .. and of course we all know whose remake is in pipeline and most demanding .. ofcourse its not Aankhein .. its Golmaal(coming as Bol bachchan), Angoor (Shetty was planning with SRK) and chupke chupke(In pipeline) … Heck even Satte Pe Satta was much better comedy and is remaking now.

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    @comefallinchat – verdicts are given keeping in mind ROI also hence sanam bewafa is a super hit sadak is just a hit.

    tezaab footfall wud be roughly 5 cr at 16 cr gross (average ticket price around 3.25 rs)

    @ranjit – aanklhein topped the list of greatest comedies as the largest percentage of patronising population and perhaps the greatest number bought the tickets of aankhien.

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    deciding to make a remake of a film is the decision of one individual. not 121 cr ppl. the boxofficeverdict is the decison of the entire nation. and since there is no comprehensive data on tv/dvd/net viewership, u cant assume its higher for chupke chupke. in fact i can bet aankhein has higher trp than chupke chupke wen its telecast.

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      If you don’t have all data, there is no point talking about scientific way to judge how much movie is liked. You can easily say that you don’t have enough resources to judge how much movie is liked and keep your list as your personal opinion.

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    @yakuza – no sample size is ever 100% of the respondents. its very easy ti deduce the best actor/movie on the basis of a comprehensive survey that boxoofice is.

    personal opinion is ” movie A sold less tickets but was liked more than movie B which sold more tickets.

    its who u needs to keep ur subjective views to urself. i am very clear and scientific in my approach.

    i have atleast partial proof that aankhioen was liked more ppl than chupke chupke. but u have none of chupke chupke supremacy.

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      If we have 4 parameters . . Boxoffice, TRP, DVD and Casstetes for old movies then choosing only 1 is not enough sample. Scientific theory says that take some sample from all parameters and then come to conclusion. But you are taking 100% from boxoffice and zero from rest of three .. this is completely incorrect and rejected.

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    @yakuza – i kept dabangg at no 2 on two basis

    1. as i mentioned above, i gave higher rating to a solo hero flick if the verdict for two movies are equal.

    2. dabangg (atbb) has higher verdicts than karan arjun(bb) . my dilemma of which movie to keep at wat spot was in case of two movies with same verdict. rowdy rathore has same verdict as karan arjun but dabangg has higher verdict.

    and before u ask, in the shrunk universe of the year 2010 PP (patronisng population) dabangg percentage is higher than karan arjun and hence its verdict is justified.

    for instance dabangg has almost equal footfall (many say higher) compared to biggest grosser of its times (3 idiots) karan arjun footfall was one thrid of hahk, the highest grosser of that time. so dabangg ius an atbb, KA ia not.

    also there are conventional methods of finding verdicts on ROI etc which we all accept, however grudgingly.

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      ” dabangg (atbb) has higher verdicts than karan arjun(bb)”

      Verdicts are subjective .. talk scientific way.

      “in the shrunk universe of the year 2010 PP (patronisng population) dabangg percentage is higher than karan arjun and hence its verdict is justified.”

      Give me data of PP with links.

      So isn’t this applicable to RR as well when you were comparing RR to KA above ?

      “for instance dabangg has almost equal footfall (many say higher) compared to biggest grosser of its times (3 idiots) ”

      There is no solid proof from any official source.

      “karan arjun footfall was one thrid of hahk, the highest grosser of that time”

      1/3rd ??? How ??? Any proof with links ? and again how come RR doesn’t come in your list if you accept that it is as good blockbuster as KA ?

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    @yakuza – last things 1st. aankhein khol kar dekho rowdy rathore shares spot no 7 with karan arjun in my list.

    as for dabangg and 3 idiots footfall, u urself have participated in adiscussion on naachgaana on this matter where i think doga or shetty (it can be shetty actually) had posted a news saying dabangg has higher footfalla nd utkal had reacted vehemntly.

    ppp are rough calculations based on the ticket sales and average ticket prices and u can make them urself.

    by the way i just visited mumbai and went to maratha mandir where the balcony tickets for ddlj is just 20 rs. so here goes ur theory of rs 35 average ticekt price in 1994 (hahk) being 35 rs. i made a video of it which i will soon post. abhi cable nahin hai.

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      ” rowdy rathore shares spot no 7 with karan arjun in my list.”

      Then i take my words back .. i didn’t check your list yet. Its just ur argument with Akshay fan above looked like that u didn’t put RR in list .. :D

      “so here goes ur theory of rs 35 average ticekt price in 1994 (hahk) being 35 rs.”

      My theory ?? I never said its 35 .. it was 16/- written in my blog .. u can see.

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    @yakuza – yaani chalti bus mein kood kar chadh gaye wo bhi bina number dekhe. khair koi baat nahin.

    also is it possible that ticket prices at marath mandir, one of the best thetares in mumbai has not had any price hike since 1995 despite multplexes causing 3 times average ticket price in 10 years? no.

    also hahk itself had caused near 50% ticket price hikes in single screens (there were no multiplexes at that time)

    the fact remains that the ticket prices in 1994 cant be more than 10 rs, may be even lower. they became 15 after hahk caused a revival of thetares, and 18/20/24/30 between ddlj and gadar. so boi fraud that gadar had higher footfall than hahk is also paid propoganda.

    at 10 rs and 121 ghross hahk footfall comes to 12 cr, much higher than my earlier estimates.

  28. come_fall_in_chat

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    @danish go n check boi how much diff in scale of mohra n phool aur kate than coment.

  29. come_fall_in_chat

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    @danish can u tell me the budget of sadak which is also solo movie n mahesh bhatt movie so we all know he always made movie on low scale n u r so called sanam bewafa budget also so we can judge how roi works if sanam befa has less budget that means despite of atbb debut mavie sanjay dutt paid more means he is bigfer than salman?

  30. come_fall_in_chat

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    @danish i asked for tezaab footfall that u calculate for rr n karan arjun not the ticket price n collection.

  31. come_fall_in_chat

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    @daniah if u dnt belive boi than why u clme up with his data why not u start u r salman pr agency where u can prove salman best by using doubble standard that u use every time n it has proved

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    @comefallinchat – i gave u tezaab footfall. at 16 cr gross it wud be close to 5 cr at average ticket price of 3.25 rs.

    obviously i wont know the exact budget of sadak but it is definitely possble that sanjay dutt was paid higehr than salman as he must have singned that film in 1990 or may be 1989 when salman had just begun. but that high price was not for any achievements (he had not a single clean hit till 1991) but for being the son of sunil dutt. salman was paid for sanam bewafa watver he wqas for deliveriing an atbb. and so wat even if his saajn fees was less than sanjay. look at wher he si today and compare their fees.

  33. come_fall_in_chat

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    @daniah in our town place at the time of karan arjun tickites rate r 20 rs so in city it is heigher n u r footfall calculation is total wrong.

  34. come_fall_in_chat

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    so same thing i can say that u are raising that akki has not gud time till 2007 who is he u see today where he is paid more tax every year than salman getting higher amount as a brand ambasador n one more thing if sanjay dutt paid higher than because of sunil dutt n salman khan on his own kya bat he isi liye kehta hu danish ke tu doubble standard use karta he n u r not trust worthy.

  35. come_fall_in_chat

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    @danish for u r kind information salim kah the father of salman khan is a very damous in industry.

  36. come_fall_in_chat

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    finally danish has accept in his last coment that sanjay dutt paid more because of hus father means is industry me jiska family back ground hota he use advantage milta he same applicable to salman so the real star who made him self in industry without any filmi connection is akshay kumar.

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    @comefallinchat – wen i reply to ur tezaab footfall query, u talk abt karan arjun. wen i say sanjay must have been paid higher for sadak than salman for sanam bewafa, u go to another topic. zara ek baat par to stick karo.

  38. come_fall_in_chat

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    akshay is the one of the self made superstar who achives everything on his own not like salman baap ke nam pe a gaya.

  39. come_fall_in_chat

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    @danish i m always stic on one topic i have raise all this quetion because u r error in this post so its obvious this question r raised.

  40. come_fall_in_chat

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    if u come up with foot fall n inflation than why u r not considef the loss happening due to piracy or due to cable tv.

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    comefallinchat -wen have aiever said salman did not have a slight advantage over akshay (very slight as he was not son of a big star and had to start with a samll role in a sidey film biwi ho to aisi but yes access to producers office for auditions etc wud have been a lil easy for him compared to akshay) wat i say is that akshay’s poor lil chandni chowk boy image is a fraud and he went to don bosco mumbai and was a shool mate of sajid nadiadwala and many starkids.

    but as far as popularity, talent and boxoffice is concerned (and for me all 3 are same) akshay is nowhere near salman.

  42. come_fall_in_chat

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    u put phool aur kate in top 10 n not mohra giving excuse that it has similar verdict but mohra is multi starer but in case of rowdy u put with karan arjun coz have same verdict at that time u come up with foot fall i think if u go by foot fall than tezzab fllt fall is higher than dabang so ‘ut tezzab with dabaang all this things shows its a totall error in u r post so come up next time with better home work.

  43. come_fall_in_chat

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    @danish i think u r doughg has been cleared by the post that every big school has poor people advantage its reall fact that he is poor boy n he has achived it on his own sajid nadiadwala havent launch him ok n therd r lots of parents who have passion to teach his son in higher quality education n having less money so kep u r logic with u

  44. come_fall_in_chat

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    yes akki is no where near salman coz he is much ahead of salman

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    CFIC ne iss highly (un)scientific post ki dhajjiyaan uda di

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    @comefallinchat – i thnk i said above that dabangg is clearly above tezaab as it has an atbb verdict. my dilemma on which film to put above or below was about films with similar verdict. tezaab is just abb and hence there was clarity. its only in the case of films with similr verdicts that i had to use my criterion (two hero, scale of hit etc) for the rest, as a simple law abiding citizen of naachgaana i went by boxofficeindia verdicts on which we all agree to disagree.

    abhi clear hui baat.

    and the govt has just given notices to hundreds of schools for not giving poor kids admission. the schools do it just to get free land/grants etc but no poor student goes to don bsco. i challenge u to show me a single poor studenty in don bosco mumbai.

    besides sajid nadiadwala was from the nadiadwala family the bigtime producers. apart from sajid’s family akshay had relations with the romu/raj sippy family too that launched him. thats how he got a much bigger launch than salman khan, the son of the proud nawaab fallen on bad days, salim khan.

    akki is ahead of salma then how come he doesnt have a single biggest hit of teh year?

    @prg – if u think CIFC’s repetetive commenst are really that strong and my articulate, detailed explainations are not then good for you.

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    Danish,Salman had advantages over Akshay.
    Salman has proved himself as a big star.Akshay had a middle class to upper middle class background and became a big star.But didnt have advantages that Salman had.Salman got a big film like MPK with a well known banner because he is the son of salim Khan.

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    @SV – if u r being so rational u shud also be able too see that salman’s acheivemnst and akshay’s acheivements in bollywood are miles apart. salman’s records only match those of amitabh bachchan and dilip kumar and akshay is nowhere in the race to the top spot except 2007. and 2012 is not over yet.

  49. Kumar3798

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    Best Action Films zanzeer, Ghayal . Sholey Mohra Wanted , KKK Gadar,Dabbang.,RowdyRathore

  50. Kumar3798

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    Best Action Films zanzeer, Ghayal . Sholey ,Ghatak,Mohra Wanted , KKK Gadar,Dabbang.,RowdyRathore

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