He claims that Prabhas crowd-pulling prowess is tested once again and box office figures that are floated around are a mix of GST (18 % added) and gross collections (40 to 45% needs to be deducted) and other components. “Some distributors are flashing big numbers and are trying to woo audiences to recover their investments. Actually, distributor share for the last two days is stuck around Rs Rs 55 crore plus without GST and gross collections. It has dented Prabhas crowd pulling prowess a bit,” he adds.
With a hard core mass audience in B & C centres failing to turn up in big numbers, the sci-fi action adventure is finding it hard to garner big collections since Prabhas role wasn’t exciting enough for his fans to jump in joy. “Fans expected Prabhas to be the protagonist who will lead from the front, but it got diluted and missed its target and collections too,’ he concludes.