2025 Box Office Disaster: 9 Mega-Budget Films, Including Ajay Devgn's 'Son of Sardaar-2', Flop

• The year 2025 saw 9 major Bollywood films, including 'Fateh', 'Emergency', 'Azaad', 'Deva', 'Lavyapa', 'Mere Husband Ki Biwi', 'Maalik', 'Son of Sardaar-2', and 'Dhadak 2', fail at the box office.
• Sonu Sood's 'Fateh' (budget 30 cr, collected 17 cr) and Kangana Ranaut's 'Emergency' (budget 60 cr, collected 17 cr) were among the early flops in January.
• Ajay Devgn's 'Azaad' (budget 80 cr, collected <10 cr) and Shahid Kapoor's 'Deva' (budget 55 cr, collected 35.1 cr) also bombed despite promotions.
• Mega-budget 'Son of Sardaar-2' starring Ajay Devgn, with a budget of 130 crore rupees, only managed to collect 44.9 crore rupees.
• Films like 'Lavyapa' (Khushi Kapoor, Junaid Khan), 'Mere Husband Ki Biwi' (Arjun Kapoor), 'Maalik' (Rajkummar Rao), and 'Dhadak 2' (Tripti Dimri, Siddhant Chaturvedi) also underperformed significantly.

Why It Matters: 2025 proved disastrous for Bollywood, with 9 big-budget, star-studded films failing at the box office.