Mustafa Burmavala, son of Abbas Burmavala.
Abbas Alibhai Burmawala and Mastan Alibhai Burmavala, who are known as Abbas-Mastan, is a famous filmmaker couple. The pair gave Bollywood many superstars and there was a time when the films produced by them became the new measure of commercial success. Both of them are known to make fantastic films like Baazigar, Khiladi, Race, Soldier, Stranger, Hamraj, Othraj and Mask. Abbas-Mastan is the only one to fly the career of stars like Shah Rukh Khan, Akshay Kumar, Bobby Deol and Akshaye Khanna. It is said that both of them established many stars in Bollywood, but the big thing is that they could not recognize their own Ladle through films.
First film flopped
Yes, Mustafa Burmavala, son of Abbas Burmawala, tried his best to make his place in films. Even after a big break, Mustafa could not get recognition. Mustafa’s first film, who received people’s praise from his goodies, proved to be a superflop and at the same time his career came to an end. Starkid, who came to Bollywood with the dream of flying, had to face the tag of a flop hero with the first film. The pair of Abbas-Mastan also could not hit their son.
Mustafa with family.
Debut with Kiara
In 2014, Mustafa Burmavala worked as an assistant director in Abbas-Mastan’s ‘Race 2’, the next part of the 2008 thriller film ‘Race’. It starred Saif Ali Khan, John Abraham, Deepika Padukone, Anil Kapoor, Jacqueline Fernandez and Amisha Patel. After this, Mustafa himself made up his acting and made his debut with the romantic thriller film ‘Machine’ in 2017. Kiara Advani was the lead actress with her in this film. The film proved to be a flop with the duo.
Kiara and Mustafa.
Earn only so many crores
The ‘machine’, built for Rs 30 crore, was a badly flop at the box office as it could earn only 10% of its entire budget, which was able to earn only Rs 3.50 crore. The film also featured Ronit Roy, Sharat Saxena, Johnny Lever and Dalip Tahil in supporting roles. The failure of ‘machine’ impressed Abbas-Mastan so much that he did not make any other film in the last 8 years. The film also had a remix version of Akshay Kumar and Raveena Tandon’s song ‘Tu Cheesi Badi Hai Mast Mast’. The film shook the horrific results Mustafa Burmawala and decided to quit acting.
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