Abhishek Bachchan’s I Want To Talk Earns ₹1 Crore in 3 Days: A Look at His Last 5 Movies’ Box Office Performances

I Want To Talk Earns ₹1 Crore in 3 Days: Abhishek Bachchan hasn’t had a windfall at the box office in almost a decade now. His solo flops have been going on for even longer.

Abhishek Bachchan is back on the big screen with his latest release I Want To Talk. The slice-of-life drama based on the life of activist Arjun Sen has got good reviews but has not opened the cash registers.

This is part of the pattern of Abhishek’s recent releases all of which have got great reviews but have flopped at the box office.

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I Want To Talk directed by Shoojit Sircar opened at ₹25 lakhs and collected just ₹1.30 crore net in the opening weekend. The figure is less than half of what his last release Ghoomer had managed.

The Saiyami Kher starrer sports drama had collected ₹2.80 crore in the opening weekend. In fact no Abhishek film has collected as low as I Want To Talk since Phir Milenge which had collected ₹88 lakh in the opening weekend 20 years ago.

Over the last few years most of Abhishek’s films have been released directly on streaming and he has been bypassing the box office scrutiny that comes with a theatrical release. Films like Dasvi, Bob Biswas, The Big Bull and Ludo were released directly on OTT.

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The actor has also been in the web series Breathe: Into The Shadows during this time so his theatrical releases have been few and far between.

Before I Want To Talk Abhishek’s last release was Ghoomer which had collected ₹80 lakh on the first day and ₹4.83 crore net in its entire lifetime.

The sports drama collected just ₹7 crore gross worldwide and was a flop. Before that Abhishek was seen in Anurag Kashyap’s 2018 romantic drama Manmarziyaan which was also a box office bomb.

The film also starred Taapsee Pannu and Vicky Kaushal and collected ₹27 crore net in India and ₹40 crore worldwide.

Abhishek’s last five theatrical releases have been spaced out over nine years. Before that he had a phase when his films worked at the box office but they were largely ensemble films.

He was part of superhits like Happy New Year (worldwide gross ₹394 crore), Dhoom 3 ( ₹559 crore) and Bol Bachchan ( ₹165 crore) but all of these had bigger stars as the face of the film. Abhishek’s last solo hit was Bunty Aur Babli way back in 2005.

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