Hrithik Roshan within the movie. (courtesy: YouTube)

New Delhi:

Hrithik Roshan and Deepika Padukone‘s Fighter didn’t carry out as anticipated on the opening days on the field workplace. Now, the movie’s director Siddharth Anand acknowledged that the movie confronted challenges as a result of its distinctive style and the truth that it explored uncharted territory within the Indian movie business. In an interview with Galatta Plus, Siddharth stated, “Fighter is a huge leap. As filmmakers do this in the country, and the kind of genre it is. It’s a space that is unexplored, and is absolutely new. It has no reference point for the audience, that means what they are seeing is a little… accha… such big stars, a commercial director, accha ye planes kya kar rahi he [what are these planes doing?] I am like is this my film, I don’t know this.” 

“If you realise, there is a huge percentage of our country…I would say 90% who have not flown in planes! Who have not been to an airport! So how do you expect them to know what’s happening in the air?” Siddharth Anand added.

Released on January 25, Fighter crossed the 150-crore mark on Sunday. On day 9, the film, which revolves round India’s airstrike in response to a terrorist assault, earned ₹5.35 crore, in line with a Sacnilk report. The whole earnings for Fighter now stand at ₹151.85 crore. The movie has been collectively backed by Viacom18 Studios and Marflix Pictures.

Before Fighter‘s theatrical launch, Siddharth Anand shared insights concerning the movie in a BTS video dropped by the makers. He stated, “The mission was to make a film on the Air Force which they can be proud of and is authentic. Obviously, we could not do any mockups. We used the real planes, real choppers, real bases, and real hangars. Fighter is something which has taken years, an insane amount of prep. (It) has taken hundreds of people, and thousands of storyboards.”

He continued: “Apart from that, I wanted the manoeuvres of the plane, what they do, how they train, how they brief, what is the lingo they use.”

In addition to Hrithik Roshan and Deepika Padukone, Fighter stars Anil Kapoor, Karan Singh Grover, and Akshay Oberoi in key roles.