SRK on Diwali release superstition

Since the 1990s, Shah Rukh Khan’s movies have been creating fireworks at the box office during Diwali festival. And the superstar’s latest ‘Happy New Year’ continued the trend by turning out to be a money-spinner. But King Khan rules out any superstition associated with the release date of his films. Movies like ‘Baazigar’ (1993), ‘Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge’ (1995), ‘Dil To Pagal Hai’ (1997), ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai’ (1998) and ‘Om Shanti Om’ (2007) all released during Diwali and all were runaway hits.

Shah Rukh Khan‘s ‘Happy New Year‘ released a day after Diwali and he says superstition has got nothing to do with it. “It is good to release films on a holiday,” he adds.

“You get that extra benefit of a day off…I am lucky. The movies (that released during Diwali) have done well, but I am not superstitious like that. Any day is good if I get a good holiday,” Shah Rukh Khan, whose 2013 blockbuster ‘Chennai Express’ released in August to coincide with Eid festival, told IANS on phone from Mumbai. Riding high on the success of ‘Happy New Year’, the 48-year-old is not certain about how much generous Goddess Lakshmi will be this time too. But he is happy that the audience is liking the Farah Khan directorial, which minted a record Rs.44.97 crore on the opening day of its release. “I was expecting a lot of people to watch the film as it was a holiday. And the number is indicative of the fact that so many people came to see the film.” “If they came and didn’t like it, it would’ve been sad. I’ve gotten to understand that 70 to 80 per cent liked it as a family film,” said Shah Rukh, whose Red Chillies Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. produced the heist drama that is packed with typical fluff and humour of Farah Khan.