evidence: There is also the confusion over politics. All art is inherently political, yet the audience’s politics itself seems to be a bit of a cipher, or is perhaps being misread by the film makers. This is most apparent in the disastrous release of Samrat Prithviraj which was perhaps the first big star film to follow such an openly political promotional campaign. This is a stupid misinterpretation of the historic success of the Kashmir Files. A counter to this would be that any film deemed inappropriate by certain ideologies like Laal Singh Chaddha, Shamshera etc have all flopped this year. [...] The second is that Alia Bhatt is the biggest star in the Hindi film industry today. She boasts an incredible success rate of 90% with only Shandaar, Kalank and Sadak 2 as the failures. It isn’t even as though she has inconsequential roles, all her films except RRR have her in major parts that have earned the most praise. Two films, Gangubai and Raazi had no other star lead except her. This may be hyperbole but one would have to go back to Sridevi and Madhuri Dixit to find such a dominant female star. Her better half and her Sakhi may have had bigger openings and better hits, but they have been highly inconsistent so far. 2022 has been a spectacular year so far, and one wishes she begins 2023 with an adorable baby that breaks the internet and ends it with even more success that break the box office.