Salman Khan at a recent event said that the coveted Rs 100-crore club will soon become obsolete and films nowadays should aim for Rs 1000 crore in order to be considered successful at the box office.
Speaking at the trailer launch of the Punjabi film Maujaan Hi Maujaan, starring Gippy Grewal, Salman said, "I think the ₹100 crore mark is going to be the rock bottom now. Everything would be ₹400-500-600 plus now for the Punjabi industry, Hindi industry, every industry. Even Marathi films are doing these numbers. ₹100 crore is not going to be a very big deal. I think the benchmark should be ₹1000 crore for a film right now.”
At the event, Gippy also said that given Salman's statement, he also hopes that his film makes it big at the box office. "When our films used to do business of ₹10-15 crore, we would be surprised. Last time, when asked if our film can do ₹100 crore, we didn’t know what to say. But by God’s grace, everything went well. If Salman sir is saying, then something huge will happen.”
Cheekily replying to this, Salman said, “Mere pe mat jana bhai, picture pe jana, kyuki mere khud ke predictions meri films pe nahi chal rahe (Don't go by what I say brother, go by the movie as my predictions about by own films don't seem to be working).”
Salman's last release Kisi Ka Bhai Kisi Ki Jaan, earned Rs 132 crore at the box office as per industry tracker Sacnilk. Comparatively, his contemporary Shah Rukh Khan's film Pathaan made over Rs 1000 crore.SRK's latest Jawan has also made over Rs 900 crore at the global box offic
