Dulquer Salmaan scores hat-trick of success
Young superstar Dulquer Salmaan had hit a purple patch recently as he had scored 3 consecutive box office successes in 6 month time. The first among these 3 successes was Charli directed by Martin Prakatt, which released as last year Christmas release in Mollywood. It was a blockbuster success and collected around 40 crores from worldwide run as per reports. The film had also won great critical appreciation along with 8 state film awards. Dulquer Salmaan had won his first state award for best actor as well for his performance as Charlie in this movie. Parvathy had played the female lead in that movie.
The second success for him came in March this year. Kali directed by Sameer Thahir was attracted the youngsters more and it had grossed around 14 crores from Kerala alone in its total run here. Sai Pallavi played the female lead in it and that too helped it to attract youngsters to the screens. It had set a first day collection record as well by grossing around 2.33 crores from Kerala, breaking Charlie’s first day collection record of 2.18 crore.
The third success of him was Kammattipaadam directed by Rajeev Ravi and written by P Balachandran. The flick had won great critical reception and support from film lovers. Even though it lacked the support from family audience, it had manage to cross the 10 crore mark here from Kerala alone and likely to gross near 14 crore before it ends its run here in Mollywood.
He had a success in Tamil as well last year. Mani Ratnam directorial film OK Kanmani was a box office success in Tamil Nadu. It was an April release of last year. Dulquer’s previous year had begun with a flop as the film 100 days of Love directed by Jenuse Muhammad was failed to create any impact at box office. Later, he had come back strongly with 4 successes and a hattrick in Kerala box office.
