Street Dancer opens far ahead of Panga

This doesn’t look like a very favourable year for the women heroes. While 2019 was a virtual celebration of woman power, with female actors dominating the box office in Badlaa, Mission Mangal and  Manikarnika 2020 has opened poorly for the biggest female actor Deepika Padukone with Chhapaak failing to create a splash.

Now Kangana Ranaut who had a fairly successful January release (Manikarnika) in 2019, has opened  to  an  underwhelming  audience  in Panga. Friday audiences have come  away  disappointed by  the film’s predictable  arc and the lack of USPs. Not a heartening  opening for director Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari whom  one expected  to move to the next level  with Panga after the moderately  successful Bareilly Ki Barfi.

Remo D’Souza’s Street Dancer opened on a high note with audiences taking to the dance and drama wholeheartedly.

Early  reports  from leading multiplexes  predict  another big hit for Varun Dhawan and  producers  T- Series whose previous January release  Tanhaji is still running to full houses all across  India and overseas.

An unnamed  personnel from  a leading multiplex chain told  this writer on  Friday, “Going by early trends it looks like Street Dancer is far ahead. Panga hasn’t  gotten itself  enough shows, even the shows that they  have got are  not  primetime slots. So it’s bound to suffer.  I’d say  it was  a  mistake  to release Panga with a  big 3D spectacle.”