2017
is
one
of
the
most
unfortunate
years
in
the
history
of
Bollywood.
Why?
Because
even
the
biggest
Superstars
of
the
B-town,
failed
to
create
magic
at
the
box-office
and
their
films
faced
rejection
from
most
of
the
audience.
In
an
interview
with
Scroll.in,
Salman
Khan's
father,
Salim
Khan
reveals
why
the
films
of
Salman
Khan,
Shahrukh
Khan
and
Ranbir
Kapoor,
couldn't
perform
well
at
the
box-office
and
you
will
surely
agree
with
him
at
some
of
his
points.
He
Started
With
The
Tubelight
Failure..
Speaking
about
Tubelight
debacle,
he
said,
"It
was
a
good
film,
which
would
have
done
well
if
any
other
actor
had
starred
in
it,
but
to
have
an
action
hero
like
Salman
getting
constantly
beaten
up
and
crying
all
the
time
just
didn't
work
with
the
audience."
'Salman
Doesn't
Have
That
Sort
Of
Image'
"Someone
like
Raj
Kapoor
could
do
any
role,
the
common
man,
the
lover,
the
comedian,
but
Salman
doesn't
have
that
sort
of
an
image.
The
audience
kept
expecting
him
to
fight
back
and
when
he
did
retaliate
a
bit
towards
the
end,
the
entire
audience
cheered
for
him,
but
it
never
went
beyond
a
couple
of
blows."
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'Love
Story
Was
Missing
From
Tubelight'
"Also
missing
was
a
love
story
and
in
fact
the
little
you
see
was
added
later,
there
wasn't
any
initially,"
added
Salim
Khan.
Why
Did
He
&
Salman
Compensate
The
Distributors
"The
reason
for
compensating
the
distributors
was
that
the
price
it
had
been
sold
at
was
in
expectation
of
it
making
Rs
250-300
crore
at
the
box
office
like
most
Salman
films,
which
it
didn't.
If
Tubelight
had
been
sold
reasonably,
it
would
have
been
a
hit."
Salim
Khan
On
Ranbir,
Salman
&
SRK's
Flop
Films
"The
reason
for
this
is
very
simply
that
we
have
been
making
bad
films.
And
the
cause
is
that
we
just
don't
have
writers
of
any
calibre
and
that
is
because
people
have
forgotten
how
to
read."
Salim
Khan
Feels
There's
So
Much
Of
Poverty
Of
Talents
In
The
Industry
"Let's
talk
about
today's
filmmakers.
What
is
their
inspiration?
Invariably
it
is
Mother
India,
Ganga
Jumna,
Pyaasa,
Salim
Javed
films,
Bimal
Roy
and
BR
Chopra
films.
But
they
don't
make
films
of
that
standard.
Their
excuse
is
that
they
don't
want
to
make
those
types
of
films.
But
the
fact
is
that
they
can't
make
those
films.
They
have
made
this
out
to
be
a
virtue."
Salim
Khan
Comments
On
SRK
&
Ranbir
"Then
there
is
the
fact
that
they
want
to
make
offbeat
films
but
want
big
actors
in
it
because
those
are
the
actors
with
the
draw
and
the
audience
and
the
ones
who
will
get
them
money."
"Earlier,
the
filmmakers
who
made
these
films
would
take
good
actors
and
make
a
small
film
with
a
limited
budget,
which
reached
its
intended
audience.
But
if
you
take
a
Shahrukh
or
a
Ranbir
you
have
to
make
a
film
to
suit
their
image,
which
their
storyline
doesn't,
and
so
the
film
does
badly."
Mr
Khan
Lauds
Akshay
Kumar
In
the
same
interview,
Salim
Khan
praised
Akshay
Kumar
for
his
work
and
said,
"I
have
to
say
for
Akshay
Kumar
that
the
way
he
has
improved
as
an
actor
is
something
that
no
one
else
has
been
able
to.
The
journey
that
he
has
covered
is
almost
impossible
to
imagine."
Who's
Better?
Akshay
Or
Salman
"Today
Akshay
Kumar
is
an
actor
who
can
tackle
every
kind
of
subject.
Other
actors
like
Ajay
Devgn,
Aamir
Khan
and
Salman
have
also
improved
over
the
course
of
their
careers,
but
none
like
Akshay."
Salim
Khan's
Advice
To
Industry
"Very
simple:
we
need
to
make
good
films.
What
filmmakers
seem
to
have
forgotten
is
the
importance
of
the
screenplay.
They
focus
on
the
story.
Very
frankly,
if
we
had
narrated
the
story
of
Deewaar
to
anyone,
we
would
have
been
thrown
out
of
the
office.
What
made
it
exceptional
was
the
screenplay."
Do
you
agree
with
the
words
of
Salim
Khan?
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us
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