PadMan Versus Padmavat: Which Movie Is Winning Over The Internet?

The biggest clash of 2018 in Bollywood is almost 15 days away now. After all the tough times that Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Padmavati, now titled Padmavat has gone through, it’s finally releasing but clashing with Akshay Kumar’s PadMan.

While both the movies are poles apart in their concept, a popular online conversation teases them as follows: “It’s a period movie versus a movie on period.”

We explored how users are searching about Padmavati and PadMan on the internet, and which movie has greater buzz. While a lot of you can argue that Padmavati has greater search volume because of the over stretched controversy, the user search patterns do give some insight. The graphics refer to the movie as Padmavat, but the search term is Padmavati since the movie has been retitled just few days ago. 

This is how the search terms moved over the web in graphs over time for PadMan and Padmavati. 

Here are the top 5 cities that are searching Padmavati and Padman. 

And this is how the world is reading about the biggest clash of 2018.