Akshay Kumar admits Mission Raniganj ‘hasn’t done well’ at the box office: ‘I own up, but it is one of my best films’

Reflecting on the poor box office run of his latest release Mission Raniganj, actor Akshay Kumar came out in defense of the survival thriller, and said it was not a typical “commercial” film.

Released last Friday, Mission Raniganj had a disastrous opening of merely Rs 2.8 cr and has so far netted Rs 15 cr at the box office. In an interview with Times Now Navbharat, Akshay Kumar said that although the film has been a commercial non-performer, it ranks as one of his best. “It is not a commercial film. It has not earned as much as it should have earned. But, I have come here knowing that the film has not done well, to own the film–and I have done some 150 films by now–and say that this is one of my best films,” he said.

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When the journalist said actors don’t usually own up when their films don’t do well, Akshay added, “Main ulta hu (I am the opposite). Film has not worked, but I want to own up and say it is my best film.”

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Barring Sooryavanshi and his August release OMG 2, all of Akshay’s post-pandemic films have been box office flops– from his big-scale historical Samrat Prithviraj, the actioner Bachchhan Paandey, Diwali release Ram Setu, Dharma Productions’ Selfiee, to the drama Raksha Bandhan.

The actor would hope to make up for the losses next year, as he gears up for releases like the Soorarai Pottru remake, Ali Abbas Zafar’s Bade Miyan Chote Miyan, Sky Force and Welcome to the Jungle.