Incidentally, it was also the time Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone clashed on the same day as well! But the audience only watched SRK’s film and checked the second one!Įven though Ranbir Kapoor had managed a sizeable fan following for himself even before the film’s release, SLB’s film failed at the box office thanks to the film’s incoherent storytelling and a very strong competitor in Shah Rukh Khan and Farah Khan’s masala entertainer. Salman Khan later joked, during PRDP promotions, that Jaan-E-Mann flopped because he had requested the viewers to watch SRK’s film first before they watch his. Though not everyone was happy with the idea of Farhan Akhtar remaking the Amitabh Bachchan classic with Shah Rukh Khan, the film did very good business at the box office trouncing Salman Khan and Akshay Kumar’s quirky romantic comedy, Jaan-e-Mann. Unfortunately for Priyadarshan, his remake of his Malayalam classic Thalavattom (that itself is a remake of Jack Nicholson’s One Flew Over A Cuckoo’s Nest), starring Salman Khan, Kareena Kapoor Khan and Rimi Sen, failed to stand against Akshay Kumar and John Abraham’s antics in Garam Masala, which incidentally also had Rimi Sen. It may happened for the first time that two films by the same director came out on the same day. There was also the third film, Naach, starring Abhishek Bachchan and Antara Mali, directed by RGV that no one wants to remember!
Though Shah Rukh Khan – Preity Zinta cross-border love saga, that also starred Rani Mukherji, was the biggest winner of the Diwali clash in 2004, Abbas-Mustan’s remake ofDisclosure also did well enough thanks to some wonderful performances from Akshay Kumar, Priyanka Chopra and Kareena Kapoor Khan. It happened with Dil and Ghayal, and later with Ghatak and Raja Hindustani! Another interesting fact about Aamir Khan and Sunny Deol was that when their solo films come out on the same day, they both emerge winners. The main reason that affected the standing was that Lagaan was nearly four hours long resulting in lesser shows. Yes…this may look unbelievable now, but Aamir Khan’s Oscar nominated film came second to Sunny Deol’s jingoistic drama, even though both were winners.