Chocolate heroes lose out to offbeat ones at box office in H1 2018

The first half of 2018 also saw the first ever female-led movie cross the Rs 1 billion mark in the form of Raazi

So far, the year 2018 has belonged to the unconventional hero when it comes to box office success. Yes, there have been movies with the quintessential Bollywood hero saving the day in Race 3 or Baaghi 2, but the number of successful movies with unusual characters as leads in the first half of the year beats the conventional Bollywood fare hands down. 

From Alia Bhatt’s Sehmat Khan, a female Indian spy in the 1970s, or Rani Mukherjee’s Naina Mathur, an aspiring teacher with Tourette’s Syndrome, or Akshay Kumar’s Lakshmikant Chauhan, the social activist who introduced low-cost sanitary napkins, these characters