The ones who were rooting to witness a big box office clash between Akshay Kumar's Mission Mangal, Prabhas' Saaho and John Abraham's Batla House. there may be a disappointment waiting for you. As per a recent report in Bollywood Hungama, the makers of Khiladi Kumar's next, have decided to prepone its release by week and it will now hit the screens on August 9. The movie was earlier expected to release on Independence Day, however with so many movies coming together, they decided it's only wise to alter their film's release date. Unaffected by Copyright Issues, Taapsee Pannu and Team Mission Mangal Continue Shooting.

A source close to Bollywood Hungama was quoted saying, “The makers of Mission Mangal are thinking of preponing the film and looking forward to release the film on August 9, 2019, instead. Since there are three releases on Independence Day – John Abraham‘s Batla House, Mission Mangal and Prabhas’ multilingual Saaho – and none of them has budged as of now, the makers are planning to prepone by a week. They plan to make the official announcement shortly.” Dulquer Salmaan in Karwaan, Akshay Kumar in 2.0 to Vidya Balan in NTR Biopic, Nithya Menen in Mission Mangal: Celebs Crossover in Cinema.

Earlier Rajkummar Rao's Made in China was also announced as an Independence Day release. However, after the announcement of Prabhas' Saaho and Akshay's Mission Mangal, they decided to postpone it by a month. Later there were reports about John Abraham's Batla House being pushed to a new date. Since T Series is producing both the movies (Batla House and Saaho), they can't have their own products clashing with each other. And Saaho being Prabhas' immediate release after Baahubali, it's no brainer that it would attract more viewers and audiences. Now with Mission Mangal preponing its date, seems like Saaho will have a solo release. And that's a victory for them already.

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