Utkarsh Sharma blames Allu Arjun’s Pushpa 2 and Varun Dhawan’s Baby John for Vanvaas’ failure: ‘Dono mein screens ki maaramaari thi…’ | Bollywood News
Filmmaker Anil Sharma’s son Utkarsh Sharma marked his debut as a lead actor with Sunny Deol’s Gadar 2, after working with him as a child actor in Gadar. The actor collaborated with his father again on the 2024 family drama Vanvaas, which also starred Nana Patekar and Simratt Kaur. However, the film, which received mixed reviews, fell flat at the box office. In an exclusive interview with SCREEN, Utkarsh opened up about the reason behind the poor performance of Vanvaas. He reasoned, “According to me, we analysed the whole thing and understood that our release date was a little wrong. It got subdued between Pushpa 2 and Baby John. Dono mein screens ki maara maari thi. Their screen war affected us a lot. Although, we were seeing a bit of growth in the first week, but due to very limited screens, we weren’t able to collect better. We were operating at 90-95% capacity. So, the demand was clearly there, but unfortunately, the screen war of these films impacted it. Sadly, we don’t have enough screens …




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