Overview
- In new comments to Variety India, the director says Fighter was not a commercial war film but a character-led look at Air Force life.
- Anand maintains the film appealed to a limited audience by design and calls it one of the top three works of his career.
- He says Pathaan’s scale reset box-office benchmarks, making Fighter’s performance look weaker by comparison.
- Box-office tracker Sacnilk reports approximately Rs 358.83 crore worldwide against a reported Rs 250 crore budget.
- The film drew criticism for weak visual effects and a thin storyline, and Anand has since shifted focus to his next project, King.