The makers released this film without completing the shooting.
In the last 2-3 years, some such films were released on the big screen, which caused huge losses to the makers. These films flopped at the box office in such a way that the makers must have also held their heads. Be it Prabhas starrer ‘Radhe Shyam’ and ‘Adipurush’ or Akshay Kumar’s ‘Samrat Prithviraj’, Tiger Shroff’s ‘Ganpat’ also flopped badly at the box office. These films were made on huge budgets. Some had a budget of 200 crores and some had 600 crores, but neither the grand sets of these films were successful in pulling the audience to the cinema halls nor the gangs of big stars. Another film was released in 2023, which proved to be a disaster and not a mega-flop. Forget about crores, this film did not even collect a lakh.
The film made in a budget of 45 crores earned 1 lakh
The film we are talking about hit the theatres in November 2023. This film was made in about 45 crores and the surprising thing is that this film could not even touch the figure of 1 lakh at the box office. Yes, this film earned only 70 thousand at the box office. This mega-flop film is the suspense-thriller ‘The Lady Killer’, in which stars like Arjun Kapoor and Bhumi Pednekar were seen. But even after this, the film failed to pull the audience to the theatres.
released an incomplete film
No one even knew when this film came to the theatres and when it went away. After the failure of the film, the director of the film also made a strange revelation about it. According to Ajay Bahl, he had released this film incomplete without any promotion. The reason for this was the OTT contract of the film. The makers released the film half-incomplete due to the OTT contract. The script of the film was of 117 pages, but the last 30 pages could not be shot. Most of the shooting of the film was completed in September-October and the last part was to be shot in November.
Reason for releasing an incomplete film
According to the OTT contract, it was to be released on OTT in December. That is, the film had to run in theaters for 4-5 weeks before release. The makers did not want any problem in the OTT release of Lady Killer and then the investment to get stuck. In such a situation, the makers released the incomplete film in theaters without any promotion. The result was that this film made in a budget of 45 crores flopped at the box office with a collection of 70 thousand.
The story of the lady killer
The story of the film revolves around Rajendra Joshi, a playboy who runs a pharmacy in Nainital, who falls in love with a girl (Bhumi Pednekar) whose life is surrounded by mystery. This girl is very dangerous and is also committed to a playboy. But, there is someone else in the playboy’s life besides that girl, who belongs to a small town. Rajendra comes close to this mysterious girl while being with this small town girl and meanwhile he comes to know that this girl is also in a relationship with a Maharaj. Meanwhile, a murder also takes place, who has committed it is also a mystery.
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