Yash Needs To Get His Next Choice Right

Yash has built a strong fan base not just in Kannada cinema but across India and other regional industries. His popularity reached another level after the success of KGF: Chapter 1 and KGF: Chapter 2. His next release, Toxic, showed once again that his stardom has the power to bring audiences to theatres.

Toxic received negative reviews after its release. Despite that, what stood out was Yash. He managed to deliver a strong opening, proving the strength of his fan base. Interestingly, there has been no major complaint about Yash’s performance. In fact, his screen presence has received widespread appreciation. His look, action and overall presence have been among the commonly praised aspects of the film. The effort, hard work and dedication he put into Toxic are also clearly visible.

However, this is where Yash needs to carefully look at the feedback. Toxic’s negative response teaches him an important lesson about selecting his future projects and the choices he makes. More importantly, he needs to understand how his involvement in the story and writing process can impact a film, especially when the script itself receives criticism.

Whilst he has already proved that he can carry large-scale films and command attention across industries, the next step should be to use that stardom with stories that have wider audience appeal. On the whole, Toxic has once again demonstrated one important fact that Yash’s stardom is bigger than the response to a single film. Now, the real challenge is to make the most of that stardom.

At the same time, Yash shouldn’t take quite a gap between his movies. An actor with Yash’s current reach and market potential cannot afford to spend several years on projects that may appeal only to a particular section of the audience. The long gap between KGF and Toxic is another aspect that Yash may need to reconsider. Yash cannot afford to take too many years between projects.

Yash has the popularity, market and screen presence to become one of India’s biggest pan-India stars. If he takes the feedback from Toxic positively, avoids repeating the same mistakes and makes carefully planned choices from here, his next films can potentially take his career to an even bigger level like Prabhas.

Coming to epic film Ramayana, it is not Yash’s direct film. He plays antagonist Ravana opposite Ranbir Kapoor who plays Rama. So, Ramayana can’t be counted as Yash’s film. Therefore, Yash’s next direct film choices become even more important. The expectation from Yash is no longer just to make a big film. It is to make the right big film and to do it without keeping his audience waiting for years.