Too early to call Fawad Khan the next BIG Khan, reveal trade experts!

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However, he is surely going to be flooded with a lot of offers post Kapoor & Sons…

Fawad Khan is one of the BIGGEST stars in Pakistan and after he debuted in India with Khoobsurat, he became a household name here as well. With his second film – Kapoor & Sons rocking at the box office, he has established himself as an actor to look out for. Many have compared Fawad with a lot of actors in Bollywood, some have even suggested that he will be the next BIG Khan of Bollywood. So, we spoke to our trade experts – Akshaye Rathi and Amul Mohan, to get a better perspective and we were surprised by what they had to say.

While talking about people’s suggestion that Fawad Khan will be the next Big Khan, exhibitor and distributor Akshaye Rathi reveals, “To call him the next BIG Khan is a bit too early. While he is promising and very talented, the Khans had taken two decades to become the super duper stars they are today. It is a lot of consistent hard work that has got them there. So to compare him with an actor who has just two Hindi film releases so far, would be extremely unfair to them. It is way too early to call him the next Big Khan!”

Editor of Super Cinema and trade analyst Amul Mohan also mentions, “I think Fawad has a long way to go to be the next BIG Khan. He is obviously a very accomplished actor, people already know that coz he has great acting skills. We can’t attribute it only to the films he has done here coz he has just done a couple of films here. The main stuff he has done in Pakistan, he is very popular and people are opening up to him. Those shows are now available on Indian channels now, so people are taking note of it. There has to be a lot of permutation and combination in terms of kind of films he picks and kind of roles he wants to do. All of those factors are important for him to be labelled as the next BIG Khan. I think he has his own identity in terms of acting skill and caliber. I think he has a long way to go for that. But I don’t doubt that he can achieve it coz we know that he is a great actor.”

So, would he be of some competition to stars like Ranbir Kapoor, Ranveer Singh, Sidharth Malhotra and the others? Akshaye mentions, “Speaking about his generation also, I don’t think so. There are 350 + films being made every year, so there is enough work for everyone. Whether it is the A-list stars we have or the 10-20 new stars coming up, there will be enough scope for all of them because there are only a few actors currently who can draw in an audience on their own merit and there are so many movies being made. So, I don’t think he will pose a threat to them.”

Amul also adds, “No, I don’t think so. It all depends on the kind of movies he is doing. He hasn’t signed anything immediately after Kapoor & Sons. So you don’t know three other films that he is doing, but you do know what Ranveer, Ranbir, Sidharth, Varun and Arjun, these all young actors are doing. But having said that, it is a very difficult market to break in to. The newer actor bracket is very small anyway. So, I don’t think he is competition to anybody. He might be debuting in Bollywood just now, but he has been acting since a very long time in comparison to all these newer stars. Fawad has experience on his side, so he is not competition to these young stars. These stars are trying to patch themselves through different looks and ideas, but this guy has to figure out what kind of films are offered to him. All of those things will determine where he will land up.”

But, with the success of Kapoor & Sons, Fawad will certainly get more offers. As Akshaye suggests, “I certainly think that Kapoor & Sons is one of those successful A-lister projects that will give him the bandwidth so that more producers can approach him. He has done a very good job with his role, so I am sure he will have many roles landing in his lap very soon. He has Ae Dil Hai Mushkil coming up next, which is another A-lister project, so things certainly look good for him.”

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