Vicky Kaushal in Sam Bahadur. (courtesy: vickykaushal09)

New Delhi:

Vicky Kaushal, in a current interview with The Week, addressed his movie Sam Bahadur‘s conflict with Ranbir Kapoor’s Animal on the field workplace. Sam Bahadur was critically acclaimed and had a good field workplace assortment, whereas Animal was a smash hit. When requested, “Did your film perform as per your expectations,” Vicky Kaushal replied, “With Sam, we always knew it was a Test match, we knew it was not the quintessential masala film that Animal was – it had the shock value and one knew it would create waves at the box office. We knew we needed that much time, that word of mouth, for the film to resonate with the masses. Because if it would not click with people, it would not do well no matter when it released. People started talking about it more and more as the weeks went by. We saw that through January, Sam shows kept going on, and that gives me tremendous happiness.”

Sam Bahadur delivered to life the story of warfare hero and Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, Sam Bahadur was directed by Meghna Gulzar and it additionally featured Fatima Sana Shaikh and Sanya Malhotra. This was Vicky Kaushal’s second undertaking with Meghna Gulzar. The duo have earlier labored collectively within the 2018 critically acclaimed Raazi, which was additionally a field workplace hit.

The movie opened to stellar critiques. Film critic Saibal Chatterjee, in his evaluation for NDTV, gave Sam Bahadur a 3.5 star ranking out of 5 and he wrote, “It would be easy to describe Sam Bahadur as a Vicky Kaushal show because it is who dominates every major scene in the film. But without the fine balance that Meghna Gulzar strikes between ambition and restraint, neither the spirited central performance nor its emotional (and cinematic) payoff would have been quite as remarkable.”