‘Kapoor and Sons’ box office collections: Alia Bhatt starrer’s take soars to Rs 150 cr, turns biggest film of 2016

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Kapoor and Sons' box office collections: Alia Bhatt, Siddharth Malhotra and Fawad Khan-starrer has recently grossed Rs 150 crore. The news was announced by the official Twitter handle of Dharma Productions. The tweet read, "It's immensely humbling to get loved like this! Special mention: overseas fans for it is now the biggest film, 2016!" (Bollywood Hungama)

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Along with the tweet, was a poster picture that read, "Kapoor and Sons ruling at the box office." Directed by Shakun Batra, the flick narrates the story of a man (Sidharth Malhotra) and his brother (Fawad Khan), who fall for the same woman (Alia Bhatt) while visiting their parents and grandfather in Coonoor, India. (Bollywood Hungama)

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Bollywood director-producer Karan Johar, who gave Alia Bhatt her big break with 'Student of the Year', is glad to watch his "little child" emerge as an actress of some calibre. The head honcho of Dharma Production, who has produced some of Alia'a successful films like '2 States' and 'Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhaniya' however expressed regret over 'Shaandar'. "Two years down the line, Alia has an amazing repertoire of films. I however apologise for 'Shaandar'. Besides that, she has had some amazing films like '2 States', 'Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhaniya' and 'Kapoor & Sons'; Alia is Dharma Production's proud girl and always the flagship girl of the company," Karan said at a meet to celebrate 'Kapoor and Sons' success. "When I launched Alia Bhatt and Sidharth Malhotra in their first film, I never thought I would see them come through this way on celluloid. I watched Alia in 'Highway'; I wept a little bit only because I couldn't believe my little child has emerged as an actor," Karan said. (Bollywood Hungama)

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Karan Johar also lauded actor Fawad Khan for taking up the role of a homosexual in the film. "His energy in 'Kapoor & Sons' is so magnetic. I have to say that he took up a role which many actors were worried to do, but it takes a brave man to play a brave part and brave part to make a brave film," Karan said at the press conference of "Kapoor & sons". (Bollywood Hungama)

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Siddharth was on the show to promote his upcoming film Aiyaari and when he was asked by Manoj Bajpayee to recite some dialogues in Bhojpuri, he did that by commenting that it gave him a feeling of being in the 'latrine'.

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However, there was some criticicsm directed at the actors. For instance, Actor Sidharth Malhotra reacted strongly when Kamaal R Khan made a derogatory comment about his 'Kapoor and Sons' co-star Alia Bhatt recently. And now the actor says that he is open for criticism for his films, but not if someone gets personal and cheap. "I think everybody is responsible and has number of followers and he has that too. He is entitled to criticise our movies but when he gets personal and cheap at times, it's not called for and that's it," Sidharth said when asked about his take on social media trolls and what made him react so strongly on Kamaal's comment, which went something like this: "Alia looks so bacchi in panty but still some people keep forcing her to wear it." (Bollywood Hungama)