Actor Sushant Singh Rajput hanged himself on Sunday at his Mumbai house, leaving a permanent void in our lives. The actor was reportedly suffering from career-related depression for the past six months, which supposedly egged him to take this extreme step. The fact that he was all of 34 and had a long life ahead of him makes his demise even more tragic.
Sushant was last seen on the big screen in Nitesh Tiwari’s Chhichhore, the movie collected over Rs 153 crore at the box office, it became the actor’s top grosser ever. But you would be surprised to know that it is the tenth most successful Hindi film of all time according to Aamir Khan’s box-office formula.
The formula involves evaluating a film’s success by comparing its weekend collection with its lifetime collection. The lifetime collection is divided by the weekend collection and the higher the ‘Weekend to Lifetime Multiple’ is, the better the response to the film. For example, Aamir’s 2009 film 3 Idiots had collected Rs 200 crores in its lifetime, whereas its weekend collection stood at Rs 40 crore. 200 crores divided by 40 crores, which is ‘Weekend to Lifetime Multiple’ of 5, indicates strong content as the audience, possibly due to the word of mouth, went to watch the film in the subsequent weeks.
Sushant Singh’s Chhichhore, had earned Rs 153.09 crore in its lifetime, whereas its weekend collection was Rs 35.98 crore, which implies a ‘Weekend to Lifetime Multiple’ of 4.25. It is only behind films Uri – The Surgical Strike, Queen, Hindi Medium, Baahubali: The Beginning, 3 Idiots, AndhaDhun, Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior, OMG Oh My God! and Gully Boy on the Top 10 list.
Chhichhore also featured Shraddha Kapoor, Varun Sharma, Tahir Raj Bhasin, Naveen Polishetty, Tushar Pandey, and Prateik Babbar in important roles.
