SRK can be gracious to Salman if he wants to.
By Dileep Thekkethil
BENGALURU: Shahrukh Khan and Salman Khan are once again on a collision course as their Eid release for 2016 will fight it in the theatres to prove who is the big boss of Bollywood.
Salman’s “Sultan” and Shahrukh’s “Raees”, both big budget movies, will surely lose some of the audience due to the sheer confusion of which Khan movie to choose. Or maybe the Khans will benefit as the audience will come out in numbers to watch both.
However, the best option available is to give way for the other, but the question is who will take that brave decision. Looking at the way things shaped up for both the movies, it is evident that SRK didn’t have any clue what so ever about the release date of Raees and if he intends to make a sacrifice for a friend with whom he reunited after a gap of six years, this could be the moment.
The release date of Sultan was announced way before by Yashraj Films and it was only later that the Raees team announced the release date, to clash with the release of Sultan. There were speculations that Raees could release this Eid, but that is not going to happen for sure. The next available slot for Raees is Christmas, but the uncertainty over the release doesn’t allow to pinpoint a date anytime this year. Now with the release of Sultan already announced for Eid 2016, it is time for the Raees team to take a call.
A go-ahead signal from SRK will bolster the newly founded friendship between the two big Khans of Bollywood and will also ease the anxiety of promoters of the films who are unnerved due to the clash of release dates.