It has been 2 weeks since Fighter started streaming on Netflix India. The movie starring Hrithik Roshan, Deepika Padukone and Anil Kapoor in the lead roles was a decent success on the big screens. But, but, but
The real flight of Fighter began on OTT. The movie has officially become the most-watched Bollywood film in the first two weeks.
And you can be left astounded by the margin. Let’s give you a little dose of Maths. Below are some numbers that indicate the number of hours these movies were watched in the first 10 days of release on Netflix.
Mind you, we are using the official data from “Netflix Top 10”.
Fighter – 64000000 hours
Dunki – 24100000 hours
Animal – 39300000 hours
What does Maths say?
Let’s add up the numbers of Dunki and Animal. We still get a meagre figure of 63400000 Hours. Even after adding the views of the other films, they fall short of a massive 600000 hours of views.
It is simply insane a figure. Other than RRR, no other Indian film comes close to this figure, let alone any Hindi film.
But, the question arises. Why?
Perhaps because the movie is made for the urban pockets. Fighter did phenomenally well in Tier 1 cities at the box office. Since the majority of OTT subscribers hail from those areas, it became easier for it to achieve this impossible-sounding number.
To sum up, Fighter is an extremely successful film on OTT. Siddharth Anand must be thinking of the possibility that at least a fraction of this craze was reserved for the big screens. Alas, Fighter couldn’t fight against the destiny of the mediocre box office.