Is Kartik Aaryan the new Govinda?

Three years ago if someone told you that Kartik Aaryan will be or could be the new box office war horse you would have just laughed it off.

No, don't blame yourself it is no crime frankly for not being able to predict fortunes in Bollywood.

One would have not expected him to become such a rage so soon.

At best most of us had dismissed him as another actor whose five minute YouTube clip had become a rage.

In the process we also forgot that the YouTube video clip was from a movie called 'Pyar Ka Punchnama' and that has a cult status amongst youngsters.

Add the fact that if you saw the investment and box office numbers of both 'Pyar Ka Punchnama' movies trust me you would love to be the producer of the two movies.

Kartik Aaryan is a decent enough actor.

He understands his scripts and knows the pulse of his character.

He connects well with his audiences.

In fact, you could hear whistles when the trailer of 'Luka Chuppi' played out on a big screen.

Today just like that Kartik Aaryan has delivered his second back to back 100 crore plus movie in around one year.

Here is another glaring fact that emerges if you look closely at the box office numbers of his movies.

The dynamics of economics is similar to Akshay Kumar movies.

Keep the cost low, polish the content and deliver big at the box office.

So why exactly is Kartik Aaryan so under the radar? The answer is in a simple fact.

What the A-lister attention providers do not understand or like.

They do not recognise it.

Ayushmann in that sense was lucky that his cinema got the certificate of intelligence.

To be fair to Ayushmann, his choice of roles and characters were a little more sophisticated too but then maybe he was allowed to make that choice and Kartik Aaryan is yet to reach there.

So today, if you look at the career graph, you will find such amazing similarities to Govinda in Kartik Aaryan's still very young career.

In his initial days, Govinda was called 'Gareebon Ka Mithun'.

He could dance like Mithun or maybe better and his movies offered the same masala that was offered by a Mithun movie.

Govinda was initially struck in the image of a dancing star. Audiences loved him but the A-listers did not – something which Govinda carried almost till the end of his career.

Till David Dhawan arrived and suddenly Govinda was a big middle class and upmarket audience favourite.

Kartik Aaryan so far is getting stuck in a bit of an image too.

Apparently, roles that some women find offending because if all women did I doubt if his movies would rake in the kind of numbers they do.

His roles are becoming a little predictable in the sense he plays a part shrewd, part innocent, part emotional youngster in almost all his roles. Frankly, you cannot blame a young actor for that.

Amitabh remained stuck in an image for a far longer time.

The biggest similarity between Kartik Aaryan and Govinda as on today remains the lack of recognition from media and almost no big banner supporting him. As yet!

In a way it is good.

Kartik Aaryan is forming his own island of light we have seen how some actors while trying to please the purist media and A-listers lose all the box office clout and success that they have.

The most glaring example in recent years is that of Sonakshi Sinha wherein a bid to show the highbrows that she can do quality cinema too she cut out stuff like 'Rowdy Rathore' from her film lists and you will have to scratch your head to remember her last commendable box office money spinner.

It is an item song in much ridiculed 'Total Dhamal', which has given her some redemption.

Kartik Aaryan is self-made and is offering us another entertainment choice at the celluloid.

Unfortunately one day audiences will get bored of his one-track cinema list.

So, will some intelligent director step in and ensure this fabulous performer gets a longer life span in ruthless Bollywood?