Ranbir Kapoor much-awaited biopic on Sanjay Dutt's life was to release this year but has been pushed to March 2018. With the delay, it avoided the clash with Salman Khan 's Tiger Zinda Hai.

About the clash, “Vidhu Vinod Chopra is mounting this film on a huge scale and this might be the film Ranbir has been wanting for so long. Hirani can hardly go wrong with the content and is the most bankable director in the industry, so it would have been a close match but the distributors and exhibitors asked the producers to delay the film’s release,” says the source.

Also confirms the source, “The exhibitors weren’t willing to pay more than INR 70-80 crore for the film because if the clash had happened, the films would have suffered. Also, Salman’s film would have had an advantage when it comes to the division of screens. TZH would have still done more than INR 200 crore business, but Ranbir’s film would have done maximum INR 150 crore, even if the content was terrific.”

“The Dutt biopic is a huge film, and will definitely do crazy numbers. But that’s only when it doesn’t clash with a superstar’s film, especially Salman’s. So the distributors agreed to pay them INR 110 crore for the theatrical rights, on the condition that the film was pushed to a later date. Now, it has a solo release on ,” the source said.

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