SRK & Ranveer Singh’s box office clash averted

Shah Rukh Khan and Ranveer Singh have new films releasing next year, with a box office clash that looked likely in December 2018.

According to reports, Khan’s Aanand L Rai film has already been given a 21st December 2018 release, while Singh’s ‘Temper’ remake was also due out on the same day. However, Pinkvilla reports that the clash has now been averted AFTER Singh’s film was pushed back by one week.

A source told the publication, “Rohit Shetty’s film has been titled Temper and the release date has been pushed further by a week. It will now release on December 28 and not Christmas week. While earlier it was to release on December 21, now two films are coming on that day – Shah Rukh Khan’s untitled next directed by Aanand L Rai and Abhishek Kapoor’s Kedarnath. Rohit has never been someone who likes his films to clash with others as he believes they cut into the box-office business. Also, he knows SRK well and the two had a word with each other about it. Both are big films in their own way, hence Rohit, who is co-producing the film with Reliance Entertainment, decided to postpone Temper by a week.”

The source adds, “There have also been reports that Ranveer may lend his name as a co-producer, under his mother’s (Anju Bhavnani) name, along with the producer of the Telugu film Temper, Bandla Ganesh. He has always supported young, first-time producers himself like Vikramaditya Motwane for Lootera and Zoya Akhtar for Gully Boy and may lend his name, without investing in it like Akshay Kumar and have a share in the back-end profits.”

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