Mahesh Babu always had a huge following in US and his films made big money right from Athadu. Pokiri then smashed all records in overseas market, and then Khaleja was also hit despite the movie was a flop in India and his Dookudu ran bigger than most big-budgeted Hindi films.However final closing share of Businessman in entire overseas market including US would be at R 3.5 Crs. The film is bought for Overseas is for Rs 4.6 Crs and with the inclusion of cost for prints (including digital), the final cost is Rs 5.2 Crores(Loss 5.2-3.5=1.7 crores)
Buzz says that in USA, films that have more entertainment quotient run well at box-office than the action entertainers. Athadu,Pokiri,Khaleja,despite flop talk and Dookudu provide very good humor quotient, but Businessman with no proper script didn't have the 'entertainment value' to entice the overseas audiences.Moreover movie has unrealistic elevation of heroism, which often doesnt make sense to A center audience,who forms majority of overseas crowd.Sources also quote that starting from 'piss' promos to Mahesh vulgarity,everything went against Businessman in overseas.
So in final analysis Mahesh Babu who stormed the overseas Box-office with Dookudu (that collected nearly Rs 10 Crores of share) failed to create his magic with Businessman.Hope Mahesh is listening to this.
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