Farah Khan's 2010 film Tees Maar Khan might not have done wonders at the box office but at least it showed the filmmaker who her fake friends were in the industry. Tees Maar Khan starred Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif in lead roles and was based on a con artist who decides to rob a train carrying precious treasure by pretending to be a famous movie producer and enlisting the help of a village in his heist. The film was made on a budget of around 30 crores and made around 60 crores at the box office and was declared a flop.
Talking about the failure of her film, Farah told an entertainment portal, “I don’t know if people’s perception to me changed but they definitely took a lot of joy in Tees Maar Khan not doing well. There was glee and there was ‘Oh thank god this one didn’t do well.’ That’s when I realised that you know it is a boys’ club and they don’t want a little girl, or a big girl, in it.”
She added that the film’s failure taught her to be kinder. “It taught me a lesson that you have to be kinder because Karma is a b*tch.”
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However, in a 2019 interview, she stressed that the film industry wasn’t male-dominated. “It’s about who brings in maximum money,” Farah explained at a book launch event. “You have to blame rest of the country for that, because who patronises the movies? It’s not the industry. It’s the country and people who want to go and see the movies. So, whoever brings in the biggest money will be the biggest superstar. The minute women start bringing in the big bucks, they will be the superstars. It’s a business model. I think at some point, women might rule the industry. In last 30 years, a lot has changed.”
(Source: Pinkvilla)
