Despite War and The Sky Is Pink's dominance, Joaquin Phoenix's Joker continues its dream run at the box office

Hollywood biggie Joker featuring Joaquin Phoenix in the titular role released alongside Hrithik Roshan-Tiger Shroff's War and Chiranjeevi starrer Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy. In fact, the film also faced a new competition last weekend in the form of Priyanka Chopra and Farhan Akhtar's The Sky Is Pink. Despite all that and being an R rated film, the psychological thriller continued its splendid run and crossed the Rs 50 crore mark at the domestic market.

#Joker nears 50 Cr Nett in #India

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The standalone film is being touted as an origin story as well as a character study of the Clown Prince of Crime. It premiered at the festival on August 31 and received an eight-minute-long standing ovation from the viewers. Phoenix negated being influenced by past silver screen Jokers. He lost 23 kgs (52 pounds) for the part, fully inhabiting his own version of the character which first appeared in the original Batman comic in 1940, reports hollywoodreporter.com. Losing weight in such a short time helped Phoenix get into his character.

"It turns out that affects your psychology. You start to go mad," he said. Director Todd Phillips also gave him a blank journal/joke book which helped him uncover his character as he began to fill in the pages, with words and images that are seen in the film. In 'Joker', Phoenix stars as Arthur Fleck, a man living in near-poverty with his mother (Frances Conroy), struggling to make ends meet as a clown for hire.

Affected by brain trauma, Fleck served time in a mental ward, is treated by a listless city social worker who oversees his seven different medications, and struggles with a condition that causes him pathological laughter at the most inopportune times. "He's so hard to define and you don't really want to define him," said Phoenix.

"We would get close at times where I found that I would identify certain parts of his personality or his motivation and then I would back away from that because I wanted there to be a mystery to the character. Throughout the course of shooting it felt like every day we were discovering new parts of his personality, up until the very last day," he added. Anyway, have you watched the film? Tweet to us @bollywood_life

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