So, Business of Cinema has updates for midweek.  According to them, Dilwale is facing a steep fall, while Bajirao has a steady climb.  However, they point out that Bajirao still has a ways to go to overcome Dilwale‘s very strong start last weekend.  And, they assign blame for Dilwale‘s fall not so much to bad word of mouth, but to the resurgent protests in multiple cities.

I care about this deeply, of course, but not as much as I care about free speech and speaking truth to power and so on and so forth.  And apparently Shahrukh agrees with me, since he recently avoided an opportunity to apologize and thereby end the protests, instead saying “I have not said anything that I should apologize (for). I will fall in my own eyes if I do that.”