Political-themed Films Are Crashing At The Box Office

Whether you call it a coincidence or a planned strategy, whenever the year of election arrives, a host of political-themed films crop up. Some skillfully pass off as genuine artwork, while others have their agenda written on their sleeves.

With that, 2024 is no different from 2019, except for one thing: box office fate. With the lone exception of ‘Article 370’ [directed by Aditya Suhas Jambhale Aditya Suhas Jambhale is an Indian film director, >> Read More... ], most political-themed movies are turning out to be huge disasters, the Telugu region bearing the most of it. Yes, we’re not making this up, amongst the slew of political films released this year, barely one or two have even managed to cross the bare minimum of recovering the budget.

To begin with, Mahi V Raghav returned with his next installment in the Yatra Click to look into! >> Read More... franchise, based on the Reddy family. While the original ‘Yatra’, starring Mammootty as former CM YS Rajashekhara Reddy, at least managed to impress a certain section of viewers, its sequel ‘ Yatra 2 Click to look into! >> Read More... ’ failed to achieve even that.

If that was not enough, two more films revolved around the ruling party of Andhra Pradesh. While one of them, “Raajadhani Files”, aimed to expose the wrongdoings of the current administration, the other, titled “ Vyooham Story soon >> Read More... ”, aimed to show the political tussle between two former stalwarts of Andhra Pradesh. Despite the latter being directed by Ram Gopal Varma Ram Gopal Varma is a famed Indian film director an >> Read More... , both films crashed at the box office.

Even Bollywood was no better. Despite the presence of an actor like Pankaj Tripathi Pankaj Tripathi is an acclaimed Indian film actor >> Read More... , “Main Atal Hoon” failed to impress the viewers. Only Yami Gautam and Priya Mani drew audiences with a taut political thriller like “Article 370”, which has earned way more than its budget of 20 crores.