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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

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

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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 …

Vanvaas: Is it indeed Baghban 2.0? Nana Patekar is the saving grace in this Anil Sharma film about old age | Bollywood

Vanvaas: Is it indeed Baghban 2.0? Nana Patekar is the saving grace in this Anil Sharma film about old age | Bollywood

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Amitabh Bachchan and Hema Malini’s soppy Baghban has gone down in pop culture as THE film children can’t watch along with parents, for obvious reasons. 21 years later, we have a film which borrows from the same school, and at the end literally tells you ‘Go… hug your parents’ in capital letters. Is this another film you would be hesitant to watch along with your parents? Read on. A still from Vanvaas. Anil Sharma is back after the massive (nostalgia fuelled) success of Gadar 2 in 2023. This time though the waterworks are limited to the eyes and not hand pumps. Deepak Tyagi (Nana Patekar) is suffering from vascular dementia. He has three sons and their wives taking care of him. He leads a lonely life, with memories of his wife Vimla (Khushbu Sundar) haunting him. With their eyes on his house, his children hatch a plan to abandon Deepak without his medicines at Benaras, and declare him dead back home in Shimla. What happens next is the plot. Also read: Anil Sharma says he …

Vanvaas Review: Nana Patekar and Utkarsh Sharma led family-drama falls prey to outdated screenplay, clichéd storytelling and long length, despite noble intentions

Vanvaas Review: Nana Patekar and Utkarsh Sharma led family-drama falls prey to outdated screenplay, clichéd storytelling and long length, despite noble intentions

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Name: Vanvaas Director: Anil Sharma Cast: Nana Patekar, Utkarsh Sharma, Simrat Kaur, Rajpal Yadav Rating: 2/5 Plot Vanvaas, directed by Anil Sharma, revolves around Deepak Tyagi (Nana Patekar), a widower suffering from dementia who lives in Shimla with his three grown children. After his children abandon him in Varanasi under the pretense of his death by drowning in the Ganges, Deepak wanders, all disoriented. He encounters Veeru (Utkarsh Sharma), a local orphan and petty thief. Initially, Veeru exploits Deepak but soon, he realizes the gravity of the situation when he learns about the plight of many abandoned elderly in Varanasi. After an attempt to send Deepak to what he believes is an ashram in Vishakapatnam, Veeru’s girlfriend, Mina (Simrat Kaur), reveals that it’s a fraudulent setup for kidney theft. The narrative then follows Veeru, Mina, and others as they strive to save Deepak, take him back home to Shimla to confront his disrespectful children, and seek justice for him. What Works for Vanvaas Vanvaas has a heart in the right place. It does not shy away from portraying a …