Insia Malik, a 15-year-old girl, lives with her Gujarati Muslim family in Baroda: mother Najma, brother Guddu, paternal grandmother, and father Farookh who often beats his wife. ( December 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. In China, it is the fifth highest-grossing foreign film of 2018, and the second highest-grossing non-English foreign film ever (after Dangal). The film is also the highest-grossing Indian film featuring a female protagonist, the highest-grossing 2017 Hindi film, the fourth highest-grossing Indian film worldwide, and the second highest-grossing Indian film overseas. Secret Superstar became one of the most profitable films of all time, grossing ₹965 crore ( $154 million) worldwide on a limited budget of ₹15 crore (US$2.0 million), with over 6,000% return on investment (ROI). It won three Filmfare Awards, including Best Actress (Critics) for Wasim, Best Supporting Actress for Vij, and Best Playback Singer (Female) for Meghna Mishra. Secret Superstar received ten nominations at the 63rd Filmfare Awards, including Best Film, Best Director for Chandan, Best Actress for Wasim, and Best Supporting Actor for Khan. Wasim won the National Child Award for Exceptional Achievement.
The film received overall positive reviews from critics. The film deals with social issues including feminism, gender equality and domestic violence. The film tells the coming-of-age story of a teenage girl who aspires to be a singer, uploading videos on YouTube while disguising her identity with a niqab, and her relationships with her mother, father and mentor. The film stars Zaira Wasim, Aamir Khan, Meher Vij and Raj Arjun.
That's a similar formula to the one that made Dangal China's leggiest movie ever, and it's also similar to the premise of China's current favorite animated feature, Coco, which is in the midst of its own record-breaking run.Secret Superstar is a 2017 Indian Hindi-language musical drama film written and directed by Advait Chandan, and produced by Aamir Khan and Kiran Rao under the studio Aamir Khan Productions. In order to succeed, the girl must break the rules imposed upon her by her elders, and maintain her joy and optimism in order to achieve happiness and self-fulfillment. The child is an artist and a dreamer in a world of no-nonsense, hard-charging “success” oriented adults. It focuses on a troubled young girl with a disapproving and unsupportive father who is hopelessly incapable of understanding the needs and desires of his child. The story has an aspirational message with the tone of a fairy tale, but is grounded in harsh real-world problems. Made on a miniscule budget of just 15 crore rupees ($2.3 million), Secret Superstar has already minted enormous profits, with its ₹129.9 crore domestic gross and its ₹49 crore overseas tally (4 th best among Indian movies in 2017) making it Bollywood’s 10 th biggest overall earner and single most profitable film of the year.Īpart from featuring Aamir Khan, Secret Superstar possesses several additional elements that have natural appeal for Chinese moviegoers.
I expect the advance has run up to a huge multiple over what the picture cost to produce. I don’t have a reported figure for the new film as as of this writing, but Khan’s starring presence led to presale deals for Dangal and for his movie PK before it, and with its enormous presale value it follows that Secret Superstar will have collected a substantial rights sum too. His last film to release in the PRC, the family wrestling drama Dangal, collected RMB 1.3 billion ($189 million) in Chinese theaters this past summer, the biggest total ever for a non-Hollywood foreign film.įor another thing, Khan, who also produced the film, has almost certainly already cashed in on the Chinese rights to Secret Superstar, via a big money pre-sale to distributors.
For one thing, the picture features a major supporting performance by Aamir Khan, arguably China’s favorite movie star. Such a long delay would normally present big financial problems for a foreign film in the PRC-given the opportunity it allows for pirated copies to circulate and put a damper on ticket buying-but Secret Superstar is a special case and won’t be subject to the same forces as most movies.
That’s a full three months after the picture debuted in India and in most of the rest of the world.