South actor Adivi Sesh on Saturday said he had to push the release of his bilingual film Dacoit due to the massive theatrical dominance of Aditya Dhar’s Dhurandhar: The Revenge.
Sesh’s film was originally slate to lock horns with Dhurandhar on March 19 but the film’s team decided to shift the movie to April 10.
‘We were going to release it on March 19 and for the South version the occasion of Ugadi, which is the Telugu new year is good, but we were not getting proper showcasing because of my friend, Aditya Dhar’s phenomenal Dhurandhar.
‘We thought we should find the right showcasing and when we were confident from our distributors about April 10 release date, and getting theatres and screen timing, is then we announced the (new) date,” the actor told reporters here at the trailer launch of the film.
Dhurandhar: The Revenge has taken the global box office by storm, earning Rs 1,500 crore worldwide within just two weeks of its release.
Comparing Dhar’s movie to the Indian Premier League (IPL), Sesh said that some films transcend the box office to influence culture.
Asked if Dhurandhar, which is still running in theatres, will impact his film, Dacoit, the actor said ‘I think it (Dhurandhar) will go on for another three-four months and it should continue to run (in theatres)’. (PTI)
