Aamir Khan is understood for being selective along with his movies, making fewer films however aiming for increased returns on the field workplace in addition to high quality content material. Whereas this has largely been true for the final twenty years, Aamir wasn’t as selective within the 90s. In that decade, the actor did a number of movies that didn’t work and have been critically panned as properly. Amongst them is that this 1995 launch, impressed from The Godfather, which could simply be his largest flop ever.

Aamir Khan’s largest flop, which additionally starred Rajinikanth
The 1995 movie Aatank Hello Aatank was a gangster drama that was loosely based mostly on Mario Puzo’s The Godfather in addition to Francis Ford Coppola’s movie adaptation of the guide. The movie starred Aamir, Rajinikanth, and Juhi Chawla, together with Archana Joglekar within the lead. The movie was directed by Dilip Shankar. Courtesy the presence of Rajni and Aamir – each of their prime – the movie was a much-hyped one. But it surely opened at solely Rs 31 lakh and wound up doing a enterprise of simply Rs 2.55 crore domestically. In distinction, two of Aamir’s subsequent three releases – Rangeela and Raja Hindustani – each crossed Rs 20 crore on the field workplace.

How Aatank Hello Aatank affected Rajinikanth and Dilip Shankar

By the mid-90s, Rajinikanth had been working in movies for twenty years. Within the Tamil cinema, he had change into the primary star following the success of Baasha (1992). He was nonetheless showing in Hindi movies like Hum and Chalbaaz, however largely with one other Bollywood star to share the load. Aatank Hello Aatank proved to be the ultimate such movie for Rajni although. He didn’t seem within the lead function in a Hindi movie after that, solely returning for an prolonged cameo in Bulandi in 2000 and a visitor look in RaOne (2011). However the actor continued to rule the field workplace down south, giving a number of trade hits like Chandramukhi, Enthiran, 2.0, and Jailer.

Dilip Shankar had it worse, a lot worse. The filmmaker had been on the helm of just one movie earlier than – the 1988 launch Kaal Chakra, which had no massive stars. Aatank Hello Aatank was his largest movie, and it turned out to be his largest failure too. The filmmaker made two extra movies – Nigehbaan and Married 2 America – however neither had any notable star, with Archana Joglekar, Sandali Sinha, and Sameer Dharmadhikari rounding off the lead actors in these two titles.