Kabir Khan on Chandu Champion failure: 'There have been repeat viewings on OTT'

Kabir Khan ’s directorial Chandu Champion , which featured Kartik Aaryan in the lead role, failed to elicit expected response at the box office. But the filmmaker is not bogged down by it, and says he is more concerned about the love he gets from the audience and the legacy it created. Also read : Bhuvan Arora comments on underperformance of Chandu Champion at the box office: It's a loss to the industry Kabir spoke about the film’s underperformance at the box office in an interview with Mid-day after attending the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne (IFFM) to represent the film.

Kabir not affected by the debacle In the interview, the director stressed that box-office figures matter to him, but not as much as the audience’s love. “Any filmmaker who says that box office doesn’t matter is not speaking the truth; it does. But it’s not the only parameter to judge a film.

The most important for me is how much the film is remembered and spoken about, after some time passes. With Chandu Champion now and 83 (2021) earlier, there have been repeat viewings on OTT,” Kabir said. He added, “People kept going back to the film.

That shows a film’s legacy and how long it stays in people’s memory. In terms of box office numbers, my first film, Kabul Express [2006] was the lowest out of all my films. But after 18 years, people come up to me and say they loved it.

So, there are lots of different parameters today through which you judge how deeply has a film connected.” The fi.