This Friday will witness three varied genre releases, Robbie Grewal’s R.A.W, Omung Kumar’s PM NARENDRA MODI and Oscar nominated Ashwin Kumar’s NO FATHERS IN KASHMIR. The front runner is obviously going to be John Abraham’s taut spy thriller R.A.W, followed by Vivek Oberoi starrer PM NARENDRA MODI while NO FATHERS IN KASHMIR will find select patronage at city multiplexes.
Coming to the clash between last week’s releases, Chuck Russel’s JUNGLEE and Salman Khan’s home production (Salma Khan produced) NOTEBOOK and Eros International’s GONE KESH went the expected and predicted way. After a dull start, Vidyut Jammwal’s JUNGLEE picked up some momentum netting around 14 during the opening weekend while NOTEBOOK (2.75 crore) and GONE KESH lagged far behind.
Checking out, the premier Holi release, Akshay Kumar and Parineeti Chopra starrer, KESARI, after a little hic up on the second day, the film upped the ante and embarked on a very stable run collecting 7.75 crore from Bombay (collections from other cinemas unrecieved), 2 crore from Ahmedabad, 83.50 lakhs from Surat, 47.25 lakhs from Baroda, 23 lakhs from Rajkot, 2.50 crore from Pune, 31.25 lakhs from Nasik, 23.25 lakhs from Goa, 6.50 lakhs from Belgaum, 8.25 crore from Delhi city, 1.75 crore from Noida, 1.75 crore from Ghaziabad, 87 lakhs from Kanpur, 1.75 crore from Lucknow, 75.25 lakhs from Agra, 31.50 lakhs from Allahabad, 16.75 lakhs from Aligarh, 46.75 lakhs from Dehradun, 2 crore from Gurgaon, 80 lakhs from Faridabad, 10.75 lakhs from Kurukshetra, 20 lakhs from Panipat, 60 lakhs from Chandigarh, 40 lakhs from Jalandhar, 18.50 lakhs from Patiala, 51.75 lakhs from Amritsar, 63.50 lakhs from Ludhiana, 16 lakhs from Bhatinda, 11.25 lakhs from Ambala, 3.50 lakhs from Shimla, 24.75 lakhs from Jammu, 1.85 crore from Calcutta, 19.50 lakhs from Siliguri, 23.25 lakhs from Patna, 14.50 lakhs from Dhanbad, 25.75 lakhs from Ranchi, 27.50 lakhs from Bhubaneshwar, 25.25 lakhs from Guwahati, 8.50 lakhs from Muzaffarpur, 51.50 lakhs from Nagpur, 61.50 lakhs from Raipur, 1 crore from Indore, 35 lakhs from Gwalior (collections from 4 cinemas unrecieved ), 65 lakhs from Bhopal (collections from 4 cinemas unrecieved), 2.25 crore from Jaipur, 45 lakhs from Jodhpur, 22.55 lakhs from Ajmer, 12 lakhs from Bikaner, 33.75 lakhs from Kota, 40 lakhs from Udaipur, 1 crore from Hyderabad, 26 lakhs from Aurangabad, 2 .25 crore from Bangalore, 7.75 lakhs from Mangalore, 10 lakhs from Mysore, 6.75 lakhs from Vijayawada, 10.75 lakhs from Visakhapatnam, 20 lakhs from Madras, 3 lakhs from Coimbatore and 5 lakhs from Kochi. Netting 106 crore during the extended opening week (8-days) from India, KESARI is on way to a hit status, given the quite stable second weekend. KESARI is decent in the overseas (good in US) grossing $3.25m with £285,000 from UK and $1,600,000 from the US till the second weekend (29-31 March).
While on Red Chillies and Azure Entertainment’s Amitabh-Taapsee starrer, BADLA, after a rock steady second week, the film followed it up with another good one as it collected 2 crore from Bombay (collections from other cinemas unrecieved), 35 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 11.75 lakhs from Surat, 10.75 lakhs from Baroda, 3.75 lakhs from Rajkot, 75 lakhs from Pune, 5.75 lakhs from Nasik, 4.25 lakhs from Goa, 1 crore from Delhi city, 30.25 lakhs from Noida, 15 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 9.75 lakhs from Kanpur, 22.50 lakhs from Lucknow, 4 lakhs from Agra, 4.50 lakhs from Allahabad, 4.25 lakhs from Dehradun, 35 lakhs from Gurgaon, 6.25 lakhs from Faridabad, 9 lakhs from Chandigarh, 2 lakhs from Jalandhar, 1.75 lakhs from Patiala, 2.50 lakhs from Amritsar, 4.50 lakhs from Ludhiana, 1 lakh from Bhatinda, 1.50 lakhs from Jammu, 56.50 lakhs from Calcutta, 4 lakhs from Siliguri, 5 lakhs from Patna, 2.50 lakhs from Dhanbad, 3.75 lakhs from Ranchi, 8 lakhs from Bhubaneshwar, 5 lakhs from Guwahati, 1.50 lakhs from Muzaffarpur, 15 lakhs from Nagpur, 10.25 lakhs from Raipur, 25 lakhs from Indore, 3.50 lakhs from Gwalior, 8.75 lakhs from Bhopal, 15 lakhs from Jaipur, 4 lakhs from Jodhpur, 1.50 lakhs from Ajmer, 2.75 lakhs from Kota, 4.50 lakhs from Udaipur, 30 lakhs from Hyderabad, 4.50 lakhs from Aurangabad, 90 lakhs from Bangalore, 2.85 lakhs from Mangalore, 2.25 lakhs from Mysore, 1.25 lakhs from Vijayawada, 2.50 lakhs from Visakhapatnam, 5 lakhs from Madras and 3.50 lakhs from Kochi. Adding 11 crore , BADLA has netted 79 crore in three weeks from India and is a clean hit ! BADLA is also on a good overseas run (great in US) grossing over $4m with £225,000 from UK and $1,865,000 from the US, till the fourth weekend (29-31 March).
Moving on, Maddock Films’ Kriti Sanon and Katrik Aryan starrer LUKA CHUPPI, added another 3 crore, thus netting 85 crore in four weeks from India and is a hit. LUKA CHUPPI has also performed very well in the overseas (especially US) grossing £140,000 from UK and $975,000 from the US.
Concluding with Fox Star Studios and Maruti International’s TOTAL DHAMAAL, the Indra Kumar directed Anil, Madhuri, Ajay, Arshad, Ritesh and Javed starrer, the film added another 2 crore and has netted 152 crore in five weeks from India and is a hit plus. TOTAL DHAMAAL is a good overseas hit grossing $6m plus with £515,000 from UK and $2,150,000 from the US.
