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If the mega-clash with Karan Arjun co-star Salman Khan on Eid next year wasn't enough, actor Shah Rukh Khan will be involved in a box office collision with two former heroines - Deepika Padukone and Priyanka Chopra - this December.
The
Dilwale vs
Bajirao Mastani box office
takkar will take place as per scheduled. Trade analyst Taran Adarsh, who happens to have seen the trailer of
Bajirao Mastani, tweeted:
Bajirao Mastani, directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali with who SRK made
Devdas, had booked December 18 for his film a while ago. In June, SRK announced that
Dilwale would release the same day. The grapevine suggested that Mr Bhansali was considering delaying
Bajirao Mastani to next year, partly because a shoulder injury put lead actor Ranveer Singh in hospital and partly because he apparently wanted to redo the much-discussed
Dola Re-like dance-off between Deepika and Priyanka.
The trailer, which the likes of us will be able to watch only when Salman Khan's
Bajrangi Bhaijaan releases this Friday, confirms that December 18 it is.
In November 2007, an SRK film clashed with a Bhansali movie and emerged victorious -
Om Shanti Om, which co-starred Deepika and
Saawariya.
Meanwhile, much has been made of the SRK-Salman clash of 2016, when their films
Raees and
Sultan will release on the same day. Neither Khan has confessed to any butterflies in the stomach although Salman has said that if anybody should be worried, it's him.
Dilwale, directed by Rohit Shetty, also stars Kajol, Varun Dhawan and Kriti Sanon.
Bajirao Mastani is a period piece with Ranveer as the eponymous Peshwa, Deepika as his second wife Mastani and Priyanka as senior wife Kashibai.