‘Deool Band 2, Laalo made more money than Alpha’: Producer says ‘stars don’t matter’

3 min readNew DelhiJul 31, 2026 02:42 PM IST Alia Bhatt's Alpha couldn't cross the Rs 100 cr mark worldwide.Bollywood has been experiencing more misses than hits at the box office and while a film like Dhurandhar The Revenge did some excellent business at the box office, crossing Rs 1800 cr worldwide, no other Indian film has even made half that amount of money. Yet, several big-budget films release almost every month. Recently, producer Shailendra Singh spoke about the same when he compared Alpha, the Alia Bhatt film which was produced by YRF, and was mounted on a big scale, to smaller regional films like Laalo and Deool Band 2, that performed better than Alpha. Shailendra, in a chat with Cyrus Broacha, on his YouTube channel, said that the failure rate in Bollywood is as high as 94 perce