Cinemas bank on 'Vikram Vedha' vs 'PS1' duel after 'Brahmastra' success

The big-budget Vikram Vedha and Mani Ratnam's 'Ponniyin Selvan1' , which are hitting the screens this Friday, are being marketed as potential blockbusters

Superstar Hrithik Roshan is back on the big screen this Friday after a hiatus of three-and-a-half years with ‘Vikram Vedha’, the remake of a 2017 Tamil film of the same name. And locking horns with it for theatre space will be Mani Ratnam’s ‘Ponniyin Selvan 1’ (‘PS1’), a Tamil historical extravaganza on the Cholas, which has been also dubbed in Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada.

But industry experts say that it might not actually be a battle royale between the north and the south for wooing the Hindi speaking audience. The films’ producers feel that while ‘PS1’ will dominate screens