Bollywood box-office report of the week
April 2, 2008 2:49:37 PM IST
Abid, Bollywood Trade News Network
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Unlike the last few weeks, the coming Friday will witness multiple releases. The list goes something like this - Milind Soman's BHRAM, KAHAANI GUDIYA KI, Pakistan's KHUDA KAY LIYE and the clear front runner, Samar Khan's SHAURYA. In fact, it is likely to be a straight contest between Naseeruddin Shah's KHUDA KAY LIYE and the Rahul Bose, Kay Kay Menon, Jaaved Jafferi, Minissha Lamba, Deepak Dobriyal starrer SHAURYA. Chances are that SHAURYA will take the poll position, thanks to its stellar cast, splendid and exciting promos, melodious and apt music and of course Samar Khan's adapt handling of the subject.
Last week's Ashwani Dhir directed comedy flick, ONE TWO THREE, featuring Sunil Shetty, Tusshar Kapoor, Paresh Rawal, Upen Patel, Esha Deol, Sameera Reddy, Tanisha Mukherjee and Neetu Chandra, was off to a mixed response. While Bombay saw a fair start, the opening was fairly nice in U.P. and Rajsthan, but not up to the mark in C.I. and C.P. Berar. But as we had said in our last column, its reasonable price and quite a steady weekend may just about take the film to safety or even into the profit zone. However, the biggest surprise is the performance of ONE TWO THREE in the Overseas, considering its face value, star cast and price. The film manages to gross an impressive $246,724 from the US and a decent $76,473 from UK, and with almost a similar print average.
Tips Films' Abbas-Mustan's directed RACE yielded excellent shares in India and abroad during the first week. One must mention here that the film did see a noticeable fall on Monday and it got pronounced on Tuesday. Featuring Anil Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan, Akshaye Khanna, Bipasha Basu, Katrina Kaif and Sameera Reddy, RACE collected 5.70 crore from Bombay, 1.86 crore from Ahmedabad, 3.15 lakhs from Patan, 1.10 lakhs from Mehsana, 2 lakhs from Deesa, 1.65 lakhs from Visnagar, 1.25 lakhs from Kalol, 1.20 lakhs from Kosamba , 5.45 lakhs from Himmatnagar, 2.95 lakhs from Valsad, 25.15 lakhs from Rajkot, 7.40 lakhs from Jamnagar, 13.65 lakhs from Bhavnagar, 2.90 lakhs from Porbandar, 2.15 lakhs from Surendranagar, 1.90 lakhs from Junagarh, 1.25 lakhs from Morbi, 1.30 lakhs from Jetpur, 1.15 lakhs from Veraval, 4.15 lakhs from Gandhidham, 2.95 lakhs from Bhuj, 2.65 lakhs from Adipur, 5.40 lakhs from Solapur, 15.50 lakhs from Nasik, 3.70 crores from Delhi, 38.60 lakhs from Noida, 50 lakhs (approx.) from Ghaziabad, 14.30 lakhs from Kanpur , 44.40 lakhs from Lucknow, 9.70 lakhs from Agra, 20.50 lakhs from Meerut, 2.20 lakhs from Moradabad, 3.30 lakhs from Bareilly, 5.30 lakhs from Aligarh, 11.55 lakhs from Jalandhar, 26.70 lakhs from Ludhiana, 52.55 lakhs from Gurgaon, 6.70 lakhs from Faridabad, 7.15 lakhs from Amritsar, 20 lakhs from Chandigarh, 8 lakhs from Ambala city, 10.70 lakhs from Panipat, 6.60 lakhs from Hissar, 4.20 lakhs from Panchkula, 7.85 lakhs from Jammu, 3.20 lakhs from Guwahati, 1.15 crores from Calcutta, 32 lakhs from Nagpur, 4.60 lakhs from Amravati, 4 lakhs (approx.) from Akola, 4.25 lakhs from Raipur, 3.70 lakhs from Bhilai, 3.65 lakhs from Chandrapur, 1.50 lakhs from Sagar, 35.50 lakhs from Indore, 4 lakhs from Bhopal, 3 lakhs from Gwalior, 67 lakhs from Jaipur, 8 lakhs (gross) from Ajmer, 3.40 lakhs from Bikaner, 3.40 lakhs from Aurangabad, 5.50 lakhs from Vishakhapatnam, 4.50 lakhs from Vijaywada and 1.05 crores from Hyderabad. During its opening week, RACE netted a huge 35.60 crores from India and that is the second best opening week ever, after OM SHANTI OM's 40 crores. Given the fact that UTV have procured the global rights of RACE at a very heavy price, the film will have to sustain for a while before it can be declared a success. While on the Overseas, RACE crashes rather heavily in the second weekend. RACE has so far grossed $1,370,718 from UK and $1,184,265 from US.
Coming to Subhash Ghai's Anil Kapoor, Shefali Shah and Anurag Sinha starrer, BLACK & WHITE, the film collected 9 lakhs from Bombay, 1.10 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 7.10 lakhs from Delhi, close to a lakh from Gurgaon and 5.70 lakhs from Jaipur. Adding another 40 lakhs the film has so far netted about 5.90 crores in three weeks from India. The film can at best be classified as a below average fare. BLACK & WHITE has however been rejected in the UK, having grossed just around $100,000.
JODHAA AKBAR manages to hold on despite the RACE onslaught. It collected, 33 lakhs from Bombay, 13.20 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 3.30 lakhs from Rajkot, 1.25 lakhs from Jamnagar, 18 lakhs from Delhi, 3.40 lakhs from Noida, 2.85 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 5 lakhs from Lucknow, 1.05 lakhs from Agra, 2.80 lakhs from Gurgaon, 4.15 lakhs from Indore and 10.40 lakhs from Hyderabad. Adding another 2.25 crores, JODHAA AKBAR has so far netted an impressive 60.25 crores in six weeks from India. The Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan starrer can now be termed as a hit plus fare in India. JODHAA AKBAR is already a blockbuster in the Overseas, having grossed an excellent $2,003,157 from the UK and an extra ordinary $3,422,704 from the US.
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