Last week, we informed readers that Rajkummar Rao starrer ‘Badhaai Do’ would release on February 11, 2022. It is the first Hindi film to hit cinemas since December 24, 2021. Thanks to the third wave of the pandemic, all the films scheduled for release in January got pushed ahead. Soon, it became clear that the cases dropped as quickly as it increased and that the numerous states would ease restrictions and allow cinemas to reopen or function till late at night in February. With this assumption, the makers of Alia Bhatt starrer ‘Gangubai Kathiawadi’ announced that, their film would release on February 25.
Akshay Kumar starrer ‘Bachchan Pandey’ was already announced for a March 18 release two weeks back. In no time, all the rest of the Fridays in March were taken over as Mumbai lifted night curfew and other states also gave or are expected to give relaxations in the next ten days. Amitabh Bachchan starrer ‘Jhund’ would be the first release in March 4. On March 11, Prabhas and Pooja Hegde starrer ‘Radhe Shyam’ would hit the theatres. The much-awaited period saga, Jr. NTR and Ram Charan starrer ‘RRR’, would release on March 25. And that’s not all. Ajith Kumar’s Tamil film, ‘Valimai’, would release widely in Hindi on February 24, that is, a day before ‘Gangubai Kathiawadi’.
The historic clash is about to take place on April 14 when Aamir Khan starrer ‘Laal Singh Chaddha’ and the Kannada film dubbed in Hindi, Yash starrer ‘KGF Chapter 2’, would arrive in theatres. The release dates of both films were announced long back. Unlike other films, these two films have not been pushed. The month of May, too, would see the release of films like Ayushmann Khurrana starrer ‘Anek’, Kartik Aaryan starrer ‘Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2’, etc., along with a couple of more films expected to release. All eyes are also on Shahid Kapoor starrer ‘Jersey’ as the film that was supposed to release in theatres on December 31, 2022. It is said that it might make it to cinemas either in February or March.
In short, the industry would come back to life this month and in March, the box office would be on fire.
