There
are set be many clashes going forward as makers eye those three major festive
periods for release and they generate plenty of excitement to see who emerges
the winner. Clashes are nothing new and have been happening for the last fifty
years and one such clash happened on 4th November 1994. It was the Diwali clash
of 1994.
The interesting aspect of the clash was that there were double heroes on both sides as the Ajay Devgn and Akshay Kumar starrer Suhaag clashed with the Aamir Khan and Salman Khan starrer Andaz Apna Apna. It turned out to be pretty one sided as the Ajay Devgn and Akshay Kumar starrer ran out an easy winner.
The star power was different then compared to today as Salman Khan and Aamir Khan are among the top three stars today but at the time Akshay Kumar and Ajay Devgn were the bigger stars with Akshay Kumar getting amongst the top five with Mohra and Main Khiladi Tu Anari. Ajay Devgn was also a better better bet than Aamir Khan and Salman Khan.
Andaz Apna Apna had the plus of Rajkumar Santoshi
who was coming off films like Ghayal and Damini but in terms of initial that
was not going to help much and even the content did not either as the film
failed completely outside the metros.
The opening day collections were 55 lakhs nett for Suhaag and 31 lakhs nett for Andaz Apna Apna. In all circuits apart from Mysore, Suhaag took a better opening. In Mysore Andaz Apna Apna had the edge with 1.44 lakhs as against 1.12 lakhs.
The final result was little different as Suhaag went on to do a pretty
good all India distributor share of 3.625 crore while Andaz Apna Apna could
only muster up 2.38 crore.
