8 Points Why Bajrangi Bhaijaan Is More Successful Than Bahubali

Both ‘Baahubali’ and ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’ are doing amazing business in the domestic markets and outside. It has been nerve wrecking box office bursting weeks from the time these two movies got released. But equating a Telugu film ‘Baahubali’ with a Hindi film is not as simple and straight forward as matching two Hindi films. There are so many factors that discriminate the two film industries. We have listed some of the most important factors below. Lets find out why Bajrangi Bhaijaan is More successful than Bahubali 1. Entertainment Tax There has been ‘HUGE’ difference between entertainment taxes for Hindi movies and Telugu or any other regional film. For example Maharastra, Hindi films pay about 50% as entertainment tax though it varies depending on ticket prices, while Marathi films are tax free for the state. For example, if 10,000 tickets of Marathi and Hindi language films are sold at Rs 300 each, the net collections of Marathi film will be Rs 30 Lakhs, while the gathering of Hindi films will be just Rs 15 lakhs as about 50% goes in the direction of entertainment tax to the management. For Hindi films, entertainment taxes differ from state to state. Telugu films are charged 15% entertainment tax in home place, while the same tax as Hindi films would be possible outside Andhra territory that includes dubbed versions. 2. Language The second factor is language. Just like English films have a massive advantage all over the world, Hindi films too benefit due to the fact that Hindi is understood by a majority people in India. So a film like ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’ had a decisive benefit over ‘Baahubali’ as most people outside Andhra Pradesh and Telangana did not understand Telugu. Yes, ‘Baahubali’ was dubbed in several other languages, but the feel of watching a film in its original language is entirely different. 3. Actors and Stars Everyone knows Salman Khan very well. This actor has a fan-following in every nook and corner of the country, which considerably raises the business prospective of ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’. On the other hand, Telugu actors have partial appeal outside their home state. In fact, Rana Daggubati, since he has done a few Hindi films, is a better known actor in other states as matched to Prabhas. The biggest superstar in Telugu films, the likes of Pawan Kalyan and Chiranjeevi, are well-known, but the business that their films generated by them is limited to South Indian states. 4. History ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’ is breaking opening records in India, but even if it does well enough to beat the Rs 340 crore (nett domestic) record of ‘PK’, it will only beat the film by a small margin. ‘Baahubali’ on the other hand is not even opposing with other Telugu films. It has already more than DOUBLED the highest grossing Telugu film of all time and should go on to put up much bigger numbers. To give that some viewpoint, it’s similar to ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’ collecting Rs 700 crore at the domestic box office, thereby trouncing the present record of ‘PK’ and doing more than double the business. That’s how earth-shattering and record breaking the gatherings of ‘Baahubali’ have been. The previous highest grossing dubbed regional film was just Rs 19 crore, the Hindi version of ‘Baahubali’ has already which is 3 times the previous best! 5. Budget The two-part series of ‘Baahubali’ has been made at an estimated budget of Rs 225 – 250 crore. The scale of the movie is comparable to some of those Hollywood films. ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’ is a smaller film that was made on a budget of less than 75 crore cost of production. 6. Special Effects and Graphics: Bajrangi bhaijaan is a typical Salman Khan blockbuster. It’s more about the actor’s performance, story as well as his fan following.More action oriented than technical special Vfx effects. Bahubali is an epic drama which had loads and loads of graphic effects to woo the viewers, almost in comparison to international level graphics. 7. Characters On one hand where Bajrangi Bhaijaan is totally protagonist based movie where everything ends and starts with Salman Khan and Munni. Where Kareena Kapoor lost importance and was not much hyped. Bahubali has its every character sculptured to perfection and every character has its powerful imagery on the viewers. But then too it could not surpass the little girl in Bajrangi Bhaijaan. 8. Storyline The storyline in Bajrangi Bhaijaan is very contemporary to the circumstance prevailing right now. True to reality , while Bahubali is fictional epic movie. The originality of Bajrangi Bhaijaan touches the hearts of viewrs more than Bahubali. As these points are being discussed to confirm why Bajrangi Bhaijaan is more successful than Bahubali the scale of box office collections are going up side by side more and more for these movies. WE shall keep updating you the numbers in time.

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Murtaza Rangwala

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