Ayushmann Khurrana’s Thamma promised chills, but delivered a comedy of errors — a festive fraud packaged as horror. What was hyped as the next Stree turned out to be Bollywood’s biggest bluff, stuffed with lazy jump scares, forced cameos, and zero soul. The film’s 70% box office crash isn’t just a flop — it’s a wake-up call for an industry high on hype and low on honesty.
Quick Insights:
- Hype Over Story: Festival buzz and star power couldn’t hide a hollow script.
- Predictable Plot: The Betal transformation and horror elements felt recycled and uninspired.
- Stars Can’t Save Weak Writing: Even big names and cameo appearances failed to lift the film.
- Audience Rejection: Initial curiosity faded fast; viewers demanded substance over glitter.
Star Power Over Substance: The Biggest Scam of the Season
Ayushmann Khurrana, once hailed as the “everyman hero,” now looks like a box-office liability.Bollywood’s star parade — Ayushmann Khurrana, Rashmika Mandanna, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Paresh Rawal, and cameo appearances by Nora Fatehi, Malaika Arora, Sathyaraj, and Abhishek Banerjee — couldn’t save the film from turning into a predictable, cliché-riddled mess.Directed by Aditya Sarpotdar, the story follows a journalist who, after meeting a mysterious woman, transforms into Betal, a vampiric creature, and fights to save humanity from an ancient evil. A promising concept, but in execution, it crumbled under clichés, forced humor, and jump scares recycled from decades of horror-comedy failures.
Hype, Numbers, and the Brutal Reality Check
The opening looked promising:
- Day 1 (Oct 21, 2025): Rs 24 crore
- Day 2 (Oct 22, 2025): Rs 18.6 crore
- Day 3 (Oct 23, 2025): Rs 13 crore
- But by Day 4, the first Friday (Oct 24, 2025), the numbers collapsed to Rs 3.79 crore, totaling Rs 59.39 crore.
Thamma failed because hype outweighed story, the plot was predictable, and star power couldn’t save weak writing. Overhyped marketing built expectations the film couldn’t meet, and audiences quickly rejected the empty spectacle.
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