Prashanth Neel’s Salaar has debuted strongly in North America, grossing over $7 million and maintaining a steady pace.
However, let’s compare the performances of two of director Prashanth Neel’s films: KGF 2 Hindi and Salaar Hindi.
The Hindi version of Salaar falls significantly short of the numbers achieved by KGF 2 Hindi, highlighting the impactful nature of sequels, where KGF2 excelled while Salaar struggled to match up.
KGF2 Hindi: $3,645,754
Salaar Hindi: $1,239,145
Surprisingly, when we look at the director’s mother tongue Kannada performance in North America, it’s quite shocking. Salaar’s Kannada version performed extremely poorly, whereas KGF 2 fared much better.
KGF2 Kannada: $732,578
Salaar Kannada: $30,712 (so far).
Same issue with Tamil versions as well.
KGF2 Tamil: $265,498
Salaar Tamil (so-far): $89,415
In conclusion, despite Salaar surpassing KGF 2’s overall collections in North America, its Hindi, Kannada and Tamil collections are very disappointing.
