MUMBAI: Bollywood bad boy Salman Khan’s latest movie opened in Indian cinemas Friday but film analysts are sceptical it will have the same box office success as his previous Eid blockbusters. It is something of a tradition in the Hindi film industry for Khan to star in the big release of the Eid holiday to mark the end of Ramadan, which this year is expected to fall on Monday. “Tubelight“, an adaptation of 2015 American movie “Little Boy“, is Khan’s fourth straight Eid release and his seventh since 2010. “For audiences Salman Khan is synonymous with Eid and for distributors Eid is synonymous with Salman Khan,” trade analyst Akshaye Rathi told AFP. In 2015 Khan was cleared of killing a homeless man in a hit-and-run more than a decade earlier.

Source: New Strait Times June 23, 2017 07:18 UTC