Nikkhil Advani reflects on ‘massive disaster’ Chandni Chowk To China: ‘Studio head was test-driving Mercedes, bought Honda City after release’

“Chandni Chowk to China was a monolithic disaster. It had a superb archetypal half, 2nd fractional was just… But it is inactive 1 of the most-watched films connected Indian tv due to the fact that kids saw it.  I conscionable this conception who volition inquire maine astir thing similar Kal Ho Naa Ho, and past I volition conscionable these guys who archer maine they grew up connected Chandni Chowk to China!”

The filmmaker said that it was the clip erstwhile Aamir Khan’s Ghajini had released. Nikkhil said the Aamir Khan starrer was the archetypal movie to “advertise that it was a Rs 100 cr hit” and Shah Rukh Khan’s romantic-drama Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi besides dropped the aforesaid period and did “some numbers.”

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“At that time, radical said the adjacent large 1 volition beryllium by Akshay and we travel with Chandni Chowk to China. The caput of Warner Bros. was test-driving Mercedes S-Class earlier the release, aft the merchandise helium bought Honda City. That’s the level astatine which the movie plummeted. In fact, a media feline stood adjacent my gathering and said, ‘This is wherever Nikkhil Advani lives, who wasted your (audience) money. Throw stones here!’ It was vicious. I knew the movie was not going to bash well. I knew 2nd fractional was a problem.”

Nikkhil Advani, however, said Akshay Kumar had his back, and the adjacent day, erstwhile the “verdict was out,” the histrion called him. “He said, ‘Let’s commencement the adjacent one.’ That was incredible. When I chose to permission Dharma Productions, Salman Khan called maine and said let’s marque a film. I person got large enactment always,” helium added.

After the film, Akshay collaborated with Nikkhil Advani connected the movie Patiala House, and went connected to enactment successful his productions similar Airlift and Bell Bottom.