How one progresses in one’s film career largely depends on one’s star power and one’s ability to draw people to the theatre. Earlier, this mainly depended on an actor’s success and failure at the box office. Other factors were negligible. With the advent of social media, this has changed. Now, bankability depends on other factors too. It is probably why many actors continue to get big films despite not being successful at the box office. To a layman, this may look like nepotism or some other conspiracy, but the reason is rarely so clear-cut. An example of this is a “star kid” whose films keep flopping at the box office.
Arjun Kapoor’s career has not been quite as he would have liked it to be of late. The actor comes from an illustrious film family with filmmaker Boney Kapoor as his father and Anil and Sanjay Kapoor as his uncle. But despite a good start, Arjun’s career has failed to take off. His debut, Ishaqzaade was a surprise hit. Two years later, he starred in the only superhit of his career, 2 States. But since then, things have only gone downhill.
Since 2016, Arjun has acted in nine films, all of which flopped at the box office. These include Half Girlfriend, Mubarakan, Namastey England, India’s Most Wanted, Panipat, Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar, Ek Villain Returns, Kuttey and finally and most recently, The Lady Killer. Seven of these films have been termed as “disasters” by experts. This series of bad films has left netizens wondering if Arjun is “Bollywood’s biggest flop actor of our generation”.
But the box office success doesn’t seem to be affecting Arjun’s career. The actor is currently seen in two films. The first of these is a relatively small film – Meri Biwi Ka Remake. But he is also part of Rohit Shetty’s ambitious cop universe film Singham Again. The film, which stars several big names, reportedly has a budget of Rs 200 crore and is said to be one of the most expensive action films ever produced in Bollywood.
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