Curated By: Shrishti Negi
Last Updated: November 02, 2023, 07:31 IST
Sunny Deol reveals he didn’t want OMG 2 to clash with his movie Gadar 2.
On Koffee With Karan Season 8, Sunny Deol revealed that he had requested Akshay Kumar to not release OMG 2 with Gadar 2 but the latter refused.
Sunny Deol graced the latest season of Karan Johar’s popular chat show Koffee With Karan, along with his brother Bobby Deol. In the episode, Sunny talked about the blockbuster success of his comeback movie Gadar 2 and revealed that he was “hurt” by the box office clash of Akshay Kumar starrer OMG 2 with his movie.
Sunny told Karan Johar that he even called up Akshay and requested him to avert the clash because Gadar 2 marked his comeback on the big screen after many years. But Akshay said that it was the studio’s decision to release the movie on August 11.
“I haven’t had success for donkeys years. I didn’t want anybody to come along with it, but you can’t stop anybody. So obviously, it does hurt you. Then I was like, ‘it doesn’t matter let’s go along with it.’ But initially, when things were not working out for the longest time, I thought if nobody would release alongside your film then you would at least get theatres,” Sunny said.
When asked if he had a chat with Akshay at that point, Sunny revealed, “I asked him, ‘please don’t do it if it’s in your hands,’ but he said no, the studio, and all that… and they said that anyway two films can release, so I said, okay, go ahead. I can just request; I can’t do anything more than that.”
The month of August was a stellar one for the Hindi film industry. Both Gadar 2 and OMG 2, despite the box office clash, managed to stay afloat with tremendous results, thus shattering the notion that Bollywood was staggering in the post-covid era. While Gadar 2 crossed the 500 crore mark at the box office, Akshay Kumar and Pankaj Tripathi’s OMG 2 went on to earn around Rs 140 crore.
