After Pathaan's Success, Ajay Devgn Has "Fingers Crossed" For Bholaa

Bollywood star Ajay Devgn on Monday said he hopes his upcoming film Bholaa maintains the momentum at the box office set by Pathaan

Bollywood star Ajay Devgn on Monday said he hopes his upcoming film Bholaa maintains the momentum at the box office set by Pathaan. Pathaan, starring Shah Rukh Khan, emerged as "the all-time number one Hindi film in India" after raising Rs 1,028 crore worldwide since its release in January.

While Devgn said he is currently concentrating on completing the film's production, he is confident about "Bholaa" being a good movie. "We just have had 'Pathaan' which did fabulous and extraordinary business so just fingers crossed that all the next releases would do well. And Bholaa will come now and it will also do well," the actor told reporters here.

Devgn was speaking at the trailer launch of Bholaa, which also marks his return to direction after 2022's "Runway". Bholaa, is the Hindi remake of the Tamil hit Kaithi, which was written and directed by Lokesh Kanagaraj. The story revolves around an ex-convict (Karthi) who decides to meet his daughter for the first time after being released from prison but gets caught in a face-off between police and the drug mafia. Describing "Bholaa" as a "family story", the actor-filmmaker said the audience tends to enjoy a film if the stunts are backed by emotion.

"If you do action without any reason, there will be no reaction for it no matter how good action it is... I don't think there is a difference between mass and family audiences when emotions are concerned. Emotions are universal, like the emotion of a father and mother for their children is the same," he added. As an artist, Devgn said the idea is to "create something new of our own".