Bart S Saar,Bart S wrote:He was the producer, his production company is actually called "Amir Khan Productions' lol and he did make most of the money from Dangal. Most of the big actors have their own production companies and release movies under their own banner. Same for SRK as well with 'Red Chillies Entertainment'.Vips wrote:Making megabucks on a Super Duper hit is rare. You are assuming Aamir got all the money on Dangal in China but was he the producer of the film or did he personally distribute the movie in China? It is the producer who decides and controls the overseas rights and/or earning there of.
Actually it doesn't mean Amir Khan has made all the money of Dangal. The obscene amount of 5000 crs for Dangal in China only, if i got that right could refer to the business the movie did in China ( business including the theater refreshments and others). But even if the movie made the money by selling tickets it still wouldn't mean he gets "all" the money.
It all depends on the revenue sharing model that was mooted and this being one of the first/early bollywood film, the revenue for Amir Khan should/would naturally be low as they are testing waters in releasing a foreign language film there.
I will give an example of Bahubali when S.S. Rajamouli, the director in one of the telugu channel interview was congratulated/ asked about the 800 crs earned in China by Bahubali1, he mentioned this is only for bragging about the numbers collected and the Indian producer gets very less as every distributor took 50% cut for each step. The main company releasing in china gets 50% of the revenue generated and the sub distribution companies get further 50% of the available pie and so on and the producer of Bahubali got very little implied as there were 4-6 layers of 50% model sharing. (in the end they got about 30-50 crs was what he was implying)
ideally this should be for Amir Khan as well as his last film Thugs of Hindustan was a disaster, but if they are round tripping the money then it is work for ED in the future. I do agree that its more of brand being damaged on failure of his films. A couple of more disasters and people will stop remembering him as an actor. When was the last time SRK had a genuine hit that actually made money commensurate with his self anointed Bollywood badshaah title, Sallu mian movies make a bucket load of money, especially from abroad even though he is coasting/no acting in about all of them.