Thanks to the success of ‘Kannum Kannum Kolliaiadithaal’, ‘Sita Ramam’, ‘Kurup’ and ‘Chup’, Dulquer is now one of the sought-after actors in India.
With successive hits in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi, Dulquer Salmaan is now a pan-India star. (dulQuer/Twitter)
As per the opening-day reports of Dulquer Salmaan’s latest release Chup: Revenge of the Artist, the Hindi film has netted close to ₹3 crore. This is yet another decision of actor Dulquer Salmaan that has gone right.
Directed by R Balki, Chup also features Sunny Deol, Shreya Dhanwanthary, and Pooja Bhatt in crucial roles.
This year, DQ — as he is fondly called by the industry and fans — has pulled off the impossible. He played a hero in four different languages, and all of them have been hits; Sita Ramam is a blockbuster.
Dulquer has been acting in films outside the Malayalam industry for quite some time now, and he did see moderate success.
The film that brought him into the limelight in other industries was Mahanati. A biopic on Savitri Ganesan, the 2018 Telugu flick got Keerthy Suresh the National Award.
DQ could not lay claim to the film’s success in Andhra and Tamil Nadu circles. This was in 2018.
Keerthy spread her wings to become a pan-Indian actress and DQ went back to Kerala.
SUNNY DEOL – DULQUER SALMAAN: TERRIFIC ADVANCE OF ‘CHUP’… Post-pandemic, #RBalki‘s #Chup ranks amongst the top-ranking films at the advance booking counters… 1.25 lacs tickets sold already and counting!https://t.co/roVejkMno5#ChupInCinemasTomorrow #ChupRevengeOfTheArtist pic.twitter.com/nkkuWaNJAL
— taran adarsh (@taran_adarsh) September 22, 2022
It’s not like he isn’t trying to get the pan-Indian tag. Since he studied in Chennai, Kollywood has fascinated him.
His father Mammootty caught the Tamil filmgoers’ imagination with his Malayalam film Oru CBI Diary Kuripuu (1988). Things would have been different if there were social media to write about it back then.
At the Chennai box office, the flick holds a record for earning the highest collections among Malayalam films.
Alphonse Puthren’s Premam (2015) tops the list and is followed by Dulquer’s Bangalore Days (2014), which was helmed by Anjali Menon.
We saw DQ in Mani Ratnam’s OK Kanmani (2015), which was rated the worst of the actor’s performance on IMDB. Even before this, he appeared in a Tamil movie directed by Balaji Mohan: Vaayai Moodi Pesuvum (2014). It was a dud.
He came back in 2020 with Kannum Kannum Kolliaiadithaal, directed by Desingh Periyasamy. It was a box office success. We got Solo from Bijoy Nambiar in 2017, but it sank.
His Malayalam movies like Kurup (2021) had a good audience and the collections were far better than those of his Tamil outings.
Choreographer Brinda teamed up with Dulquer for her Tamil directorial debut Hey Sinamika (2022), which was yet another disaster for him in Kollywood.
While Srinath Rajendran’s Kurup kept DQ’s star slot intact, Sita Ramam got him an unexpected boost in Kollywood and Tollywood.
The Tamil version of this Hanu Raghavapudi directorial also did well at the box office. And for the first time, the actor was credited for the film’s success in both Tollywood and Kollywood.
In 2018, Dulquer debuted in Bollywood with Akarsh Khurana’s Karwaan, which received mixed reviews. And now, his latest outing Chup competes with R Madhavan’s Dhoka: Round D Corner.
Fresh off the success of Rocketry, Madhavan should have seen Dhoka take first place in the openings, but R Balki’s team beat it to the spot. Reviewers gave the Malayalam star a thumbs up.
With successive hits in Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi, Dulquer can now be called a pan-Indian actor. However, he needs to rework his home turf.
Sita Ramam did not excite the Kerala box office the way it did elsewhere. Interestingly, its producer announced that he would be making another film with DQ and the team.
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