Bollywood families clash at the box office
11/12/2007 09:21:00 PM
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It was Farah Khan's Om Shanti Om V/s Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Saawariya or Sonam Kapoor V/s Deepika Padukone or Ranbir Kapoor V/S Shah Rukh Khan this Diwali. But many might have missed the fact that it Ranbir's debut film's opposition also had his father Rishi Kapoor acting in it.
Om Shanti Om , the very title was derived from a song from the film Karz in which Ranbir's father Rishi Kapoor danced to. That song was also included in Farah Khan's film. Apart from the archival footage used, Rishi also went onto make an appearance as well where he presented Om (Shah Rukh) for an award in the film. So you can say that even though Rishi wasn't the star of the film, it did release alongside his son's film. And also for the record Ranbir's cousin Karisma Kapoor too was part of the 'Deewangi' song in Om Shanti Om and had a couple of lines in the film as well.
However this was not the first time when relative's films clashed on the same day. Indiatimes Movies rewinds back into the recent past where relatives battled it out at the box-office.
Like this year's Diwali, the Diwali of 2004 also had family members competing against each other. First, it was Ram Gopal Varma's Naach which released with Yash Chopra's Veer Zaara . While Naach had Abhishek Bachchan in the lead, father Amitabh made a special appearance in Veer Zaara . While Veer Zaara proved to be fruitful to the producers, Naach bit the dust. Naach was a relatively smaller film and was the only failure that Diwali amongst the four films.
The other two films too had relatives though this was a different case altogether. Kareena Kapoor had her film Aitraaz releasing while the other film to release was the coloured version of K Asif's classic 1960 hit Mughal-E-Azam which had Kareena's great grandfather Prithviraj Kapoor in it. Now Kareena surely didn't expect that her film would one day be competing against her great grandfather's. In fact, Kareena was born five years after Prithviraj had passed away. Both films did good business and were also critically acclaimed.
However, Kareena was probably used to the situation by now. More than a year earlier Kareena had faced competition from another family member this time it being her own elder sister Karisma.
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