Vicky Kaushal breaks silence on Sam Bahadur-Animal box office clash: ‘Ours was not a masala film. we knew it was a Test match’

Sam Bahadur and Animal released on the same day on December 1, resulting in a box-office clash

It wouldn’t be wrong to call the release of Vicky Kaushal’s Sam Bahadur and the Ranbir Kapoor-starrer Animal a massive ‘box-office clash’, especially since both films hit the theatres on the same day – December 1, last year.

While Sandeep Reddy Vanga’s controversial film Animal was an actioner, Sam Bahadur was a biographical drama based on the life of India’s first Field Marshal, Sam Manekshaw.

Recently, Vicky reflected on the clash between his highly anticipated film, which brought to life the story of Manekshaw, and Animal, telling The Week Magazine that he knew from the start that his film was a “test match.” He explained, “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 (sic).”

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