This Friday will witness another interesting clash, this time between the Aditya Roy Kapoor and Disha Patani starrer MALANG and Vinod Chopra’s film on the plight of the Kashmiri Pandit’s, SHIKARA. The front runner will be MALANG, based on a good promotion as well as getting popular music.
Checking out last Friday’s clash between JAWAANI JAANEMAN and Himesh Reshammiya’s HAPPY HARDY AND HEER, it was the Saif Ali Khan starrer that led from the first (3.25 crore) with increasing collections, ending the opening weekend netting 13 crore. HAPPY HARDY & HEER did win praises for Himesh’s acting but managed below a crore during the first weekend. As things stand, 13 crore is not a big weekend number but can bring some relief in Saif’s career with a stable weekdays run and a decent second week. JAWAANI JAANEMAN is so-so in the overseas grossing $650,000.
Meanwhile, Remo Fernandez directed STREET DANCER 3D could not quite build on a 40 crore weekend, during the weekdays collecting 7 crore from Bombay, 1.25 crore from Ahmedabad, 76 lakhs from Surat, 45.75 lakhs from Baroda, 18 lakhs from Rajkot, 1.75 crore from Pune, 21.75 lakhs from Nasik, 40 lakhs from Goa, 6.50 lakhs from Belgaum, 3.25 crore from Delhi city, 80 lakhs from Noida, 60.50 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 40 lakhs from Kanpur, 80 lakhs from Lucknow, 33.75 lakhs from Agra, 13.75 lakhs from Allahabad, 7 lakhs from Aligarh, 16.25 lakhs from Dehradun, 62.25 lakhs from Gurgaon, 23.75 lakhs from Faridabad, 2.50 lakhs from Kurukshetra, 7.55 lakhs from Panipat, 23 lakhs from Chandigarh, 10 lakhs from Jalandhar, 3.25 lakhs from Patiala, 8.25 lakhs from Amritsar, 14.75 lakhs from Ludhiana, 3.50 lakhs from Bhatinda, 3 lakhs from Ambala, 9.75 lakhs from Jammu, 1.50 crore from Calcutta, 16.25 lakhs from Siliguri, 16.25 lakhs from Patna, 6.75 lakhs from Dhanbad, 20 lakhs from Ranchi, 25 lakhs from Bhubaneshwar, 19.50 lakhs from Guwahati, 7.50 lakhs from Muzaffarpur, 38.50 lakhs from Nagpur, 32.50 lakhs from Raipur, 50 lakhs from Indore, 9.25 lakhs from Gwalior, 31 lakhs from Bhopal, 1 crore from Jaipur, 17 lakhs from Jodhpur, 10.25 lakhs from Ajmer, 5.75 lakhs from Bikaner, 17.50 lakhs from Kota, 13.75 lakhs from Udaipur, 1 crore from Hyderabad, 21 lakhs from Aurangabad, 1.75 crore from Bangalore, 8 lakhs from Mangalore, 10 lakhs from Mysore, 5.25 lakhs from Vijayawada, 8 lakhs from Visakhapatnam, 31.50 lakhs from Madras, 5.50 lakhs from Coimbatore and 5 lakhs from Kochi. Netting 54 crore during the opening week, STREET DANCER 3 D needs to show strong legs during the second week to be labelled a good success. STREET DANCER 3D is fair in the overseas grossing $1.50m with £150,000 from UK and $615,000 from the US, during the opening weekend (31 Jan-02 Feb).
The other release of the same week as STREET DANCER, Ashwini Ayer Tiwari’s Kangana Ranaut starrer PANGA, the film failed to enthuse the audience, despite positive reviews as it collected 2.50 crore from Bombay, 23.75 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 13.25 lakhs from Surat, 10.75 lakhs from Baroda, 3 lakhs from Rajkot, 60 lakhs from Pune, 5.25 lakhs from Nasik, 6.75 lakhs from Goa, 4.25 lakhs from Belgaum, 2 crore from Delhi city, 52 lakhs from Noida, 34.50 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 10.25 lakhs from Kanpur, 31 lakhs from Lucknow, 3.25 lakhs from Agra, 4.50 lakhs from Allahabad, 2 lakhs from Aligarh, 9.50 lakhs from Dehradun, 60 lakhs from Gurgaon, 13.75 lakhs from Faridabad, 1.25 lakhs from Kurukshetra, 3.50 lakhs from Panipat, 14.25 lakhs from Chandigarh, 6 lakhs from Jalandhar, 3.25 lakhs from Patiala, 4.50 lakhs from Amritsar, 12.50 lakhs from Ludhiana, 1.55 lakhs from Bhatinda, 1.50 lakhs from Ambala, 2.75 lakhs from Jammu, 55.25 lakhs from Calcutta, 4.75 lakhs from Siliguri, 6.75 lakhs from Patna, 2.50 lakhs from Dhanbad, 5 lakhs from Ranchi, 8.75 lakhs from Bhubaneshwar, 7.50 lakhs from Guwahati, 8.50 lakhs from Nagpur, 14 lakhs from Raipur, 20 lakhs from Indore, 4.50 lakhs from Gwalior , 15.25 lakhs from Bhopal, 35 lakhs from Jaipur , 5.25 lakhs from Jodhpur, 2.50 lakhs from Ajmer, 4.25 lakhs from Kota, 4.50 lakhs from Udaipur, 35 lakhs from Hyderabad, 3.75 lakhs from Aurangabad, 60 lakhs from Bangalore, 3 lakhs from Mangalore, 1.75 lakhs from Mysore, 1.50 lakhs from Vijayawada, 3.25 lakhs from Visakhapatnam, 14 lakhs from Madras and 2.50 lakhs from Kochi. Netting 16 crore during the opening week, PANGA faces tough days ahead even to break even.
Concluding with Ajay-Saif’s historical TANHAJI – THE UNSUNG HERO, the film saw another rocking week collecting 8 crore from Bombay, 58.25 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 40 lakhs from Surat, 26.25 lakhs from Baroda, 10.75 lakhs from Rajkot, 4.75 crore from Pune, 91.25 lakhs from Nasik, 27 lakhs from Goa, 16 lakhs from Belgaum, 1.55 crore from Delhi city, 52.50 lakhs from Noida, 38.50 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 17.75 lakhs from Kanpur, 42.25 lakhs from Lucknow, 8 lakhs from Agra, 9.75 lakhs from Allahabad, 2.50 lakhs from Aligarh, 11.50 lakhs from Dehradun, 46.75 from Gurgaon, 17.75 lakhs from Faridabad, 1.75 lakhs from Kurukshetra, 2.50 lakhs from Panipat, 14 lakhs from Chandigarh,12.50 lakhs from Jalandhar, 2.50 lakhs from Patiala, 4.25 lakhs from Amritsar, 8 lakhs from Ludhiana, 1.75 lakhs from Bhatinda, 1 lakh from Ambala, 2.50 lakhs from Jammu, 61.50 lakhs from Calcutta, 11.75 lakhs from Siliguri, 8.25 lakhs from Patna, 4.75 lakhs from Dhanbad, 19.50 lakhs from Ranchi, 12 lakhs from Bhubaneshwar, 13.50 lakhs from Guwahati, 6.50 lakhs from Muzaffarpur, 65 lakhs from Nagpur, 18.75 lakhs from Raipur, 42 lakhs from Indore, 8.25 lakhs from Gwalior, 16.50 lakhs from Bhopal, 50 lakhs from Jaipur, 13.25 lakhs from Jodhpur, 5 lakhs from Ajmer, 6.50 lakhs from Bikaner, 9.50 lakhs from Kota, 13.50 lakhs from Udaipur, 41.75 lakhs from Hyderabad, 61 lakhs from Aurangabad,92.75 lakhs from Bangalore, 2.75 lakhs from Mangalore, 6.25 lakhs from Mysore, 1.50 lakhs from Vijayawada, 2.50 lakhs from Visakhapatnam, 12.75 lakhs from Madras, 2 lakhs from Coimbatore and 4 lakhs from Kochi. Adding another 38 crore during its third week TANHAJI has netted 230 crore in three weeks from India and is a blockbuster. TANHAJI has done well in the overseas (good in US) grossing £160,000 from UK and $2,070,000 from the US, till the third weekend (31 Jan-02 Feb).
