 "'Salman Khan's stardom or 'Urvashi Rautela's 70 million Instagram followers can’t guarantee blockbuster opening,' says Jaaved Jaaferi: 'Rajinikanth Sahab is the...'")
Veteran actor and presenter Jaaved Jaaferi, who is known for his acting and dancing skills, recently shared that the actor’s social media numbers cannot translate into box office numbers taking examples of Salman Khan and Urvashi Rautela.
“I don’t agree that these things make a star. You can have an initial push visibly. But you can have 70 -100 million followers but does that translate to ticket sales. It doesn’t. Urvashi Rautela has 70 million followers, does her followers translate to ticket buying audience. Let’s take 10 million of her followers which is 1 crore people, if those 1 crore people would have bought ₹250 film ticket, the film would have made ₹100 crore. It doesn’t work like that,” Jaaved said while talking to The Humans of Bombay.
“Rajinikanth sahab is the biggest star. Where does he promote his film? If it’s a good film it will run. At the end of the day they might come for a star but sometimes some stars don’t even get that kind of opening. A Salman Khan film can get a ₹10 – 5 crore opening and can also get ₹50 crore opening. It’s what the people sense with the trailer. All Salman Khan films aren’t getting ₹50 crore opening. It’s all about the trailer,” he added.
On the professional front, Jaaved Jaaferi’s latest web series Oops Ab Kya, which is inspired by Jane the Virgin, a Latin American telenovela, premiered on Jio Hotstar on 20th February. The show also features Shweta Basu Prasad, Ashim Gulati, Amy Aela, Abhay Mahajan, Apara Mehta and Sonali Kulkarni among others.
Jaaved Jaaferi, who garnered fame with the dance reality show Boogie Woogie, featured in popular films like 100 Days, Salaam Namaste, Ta Ra Rum Pum, Meri Jung, Dhamaal franchise, Bang Bang, Singh Is Kinng, Sooryavanshi & 3 Idiots among others.