Kareena Kapoor Khan and Hansal Mehta opened up about the box-office run of The Buckingham Murders recently. Kareena said that the film had an entirely different audience and that it was a ‘cerebral, indie kind of movie’. The mystery-thriller film was released in theatres on September 13 and didn’t perform well at the box-office.

In an interview to Miss Malini, Kareena said, “Each film has a different audience, especially in today’s time. The audience that’s going to watch Singham is obviously not the audience for The Buckingham Murders, it was more English, cerebral, an indie kind of movie. But also, Jaane Jaan on Netflix audience is different than the audience that is going to watch Crew. You have to understand how to balance that out, and that, I think, I have learnt to do.”

Director of the film, Hansal said in an interaction with The Hindustan Times that there’s too much focus on numbers these days that it becomes reductive. “My time and effort is ultimately nobody’s business. Also, it’s the producers who have invested the money in the project, and yet people talk about it as if it’s their money. The problem lies in the fact that people don’t see the film for what it does to them, or for its story and characters. They are so interested in the numbers that it has become reductive,” he said. 

The Buckingham Murders also stars Ash Tandon, Ranveer Brar, and Keith Allen. It is written by Aseem Arrora, Kashyap Kapoor, and Raghav Raj Kakker and produced by Shobha Kapoor, Ektaa R Kapoor, and first-time producer Kareena Kapoor Khan.