The Vipul Amrutal Shah collaboration shot 80 percent of its footage abroad before August turned into October, and social media is already picking apart the math.
Akshay Kumar's sci-fi action thriller Samuk has wrapped most of its shoot before the project even crossed the two-month mark, and the internet has noticed.
According to Mirchi9, the Vipul Amrutal Shah production, directed by Kanishk Varma, began filming in August this year. The team reportedly completed 80 percent of the shoot during its UK leg, and the unit now moves to Mumbai for a final 20-day schedule. No release date has been announced yet.
That's a quick turnaround for a film being pitched as a big-scale sci-fi outing, and it's exactly what's got people talking. Fans crunching the numbers online pointed out that a project of this scale, with VFX and action sequences presumably in the mix, usually takes longer than a few months to shoot properly. Several commenters brought up Akshay's pattern of wrapping films in 30 to 40 days, a habit they say has already hurt his box office track record.
The Haiwaan Hangover
The criticism isn't happening in a vacuum. Akshay's last release, Haiwaan, underperformed badly, and that failure is clearly shaping how audiences are reading this new update. A section of social media users argued that if Akshay has learned anything from that outcome, it's to slow down and let Samuk breathe rather than rush it through post-production on the back of a sprint shoot.
There's also a layer of goodwill at play here that makes the pace sting more. Akshay and Vipul Amrutal Shah haven't worked together in a while, and their reunion was supposed to be an event. Fans who were looking forward to that pairing say the film deserves more than a few months of filming squeezed into an already packed year for the actor.
Not everyone is pessimistic, though some of the pushback is more about expectation management than the film itself. A few supporters made the point that if a project is going to be announced and shot this fast, the makers need to be upfront about that timeline from the start instead of letting speculation fill the gap. Their issue isn't necessarily with the schedule, it's with how little has been communicated around it.
As it stands, there's been no response from Akshay Kumar or the Samuk team to any of this chatter. The Mumbai schedule still has to wrap, post-production hasn't even been discussed publicly, and a release date remains unannounced.
Whether Samuk ends up justifying the speed or becomes another data point in the conversation around Akshay's shooting habits will depend entirely on what shows up on screen, whenever that turns out to be. For now, the film's biggest talking point is a calendar, not a trailer.
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