What Next For ‘Lucky’ Dulquer Salman?

At a time when entering another language market in itself is a task and a half for superstars. But in the case of Malayali superstar Dulquer Salman, he appears to have found a way to appease the Telugu audience with his films. The same can be understood if we look at the way he is delivering one success after another in the Telugu market.

Dulquer has kept the success streak going with his recent release Lucky Bhaskar as the film is going great guns at the box office. The film has grossed over Rs 75 crores already and the chances are that it could’ve gone further up had it released with a better release plan advantage.

The fact that Lucky Bhaskar was released in competition with Ka and Amaran with both of them garnering good word of mouth took away some of the box office prospects from it. Otherwise, it could have gone on to touch the Rs 100 crores gross already.

In this context, now the discussion is about Dulquer’s upcoming Telugu films. As per reports, he has lined up a couple of Telugu films, including one with Vyjyanthi Cinemas which is still in discussion. In addition to this, Dulquer has reportedly agreed to do a film with director Pavan Sadineni which is bound to be announced soon.

As it turns out, Dulquer is happily sticking around in Telugu cinema as he appears to be on the task of setting up multiple Telugu projects at the rate of knots. He is one the verge of announcing a couple more Telugu films sooner than many anticipated.

OTT Or Theatrical: What Next For Samantha?

Samantha is one of the biggest names in Telugu cinema and the actress has been actively making films a couple of years back. But in view of the medical condition that she had been suffering from, she had slowed down a bit.

Due to the gap in filming, Samantha is now mostly confined to OTT shows. Her latest outing Citadel: Honey Bunny is now streaming on Amazon Prime Video. Luckily for Samantha, despite the ordinary reviews for the Amazon show, it could catch the attention of the OTT audience worldwide and gain a fair bit of traction.

Apparently, it has clocked viewership readings in nearly 200 countries which is a big deal.

However, the issue here is that the OTT boom for Samantha will keep her closer only to OTT stuff henceforth and gradually take her away from theatrical films.

In accordance, Samantha doesn’t have any theatrical projects at hand. The chances are that Amazon might approach her with another OTT project in the due course.

Does this essentially mean that the OTT boom for Samantha results in a subsided theatrical interest? Only time will answer this question, it must be said.