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Box Office Report for this Week - May. 09, 2008
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´Bhoothnath´ May Surprise ; New Releases Fail ; ´Tashan´ Decent In Pockets
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| Bhootnath |
Verdict: New |
| Weekly Earnings: - |
Total Earnings: - |
| Producer: Ravi Chopra |
Director: Vivek Sharma |
| Music: Vishal-Shekhar |
Lyrics: Javed Akhtar |
| Starring: Amitabh Bachchan, Juhi Chawla,Aman Siddiqui, with a special appearance by Shah Rukh Khan |
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The coming Friday will see two diverse releases in the form of Ravi Chopra`s Amitabh Bachchan, Juhi Chawla, Aman Siddiqui and Shah Rukh Khan (special appearance) starrer `Bhoothnath` and Mimoh Chakraborty`s debut vehicle `Jimmy`.
Out of the two it is obvious that `Bhoothnath` is the movie that will get a reasonable start, based on interesting promos featuring megastar Amitabh, Juhi, Aman and SRK, and excellent release timing.
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| Jimmy |
Verdict: New |
| Weekly Earnings: - |
Total Earnings: - |
| Producer: Nawman Malik, Salman Malik |
Director: Raj N Sippy |
| Music: Anand Raj Anand, Bappa Lahri, Vijay Verma |
Lyrics: Ranbir Pushp, Virag Mishra, Anand Raj Anand |
| Starring: Mimoh Chakraborty, Zulfi Syed, Aashish Vidyarthi, Ehsaan Khan, Rati Agnihotri, Vikas Kalantri, Rahul Dev, Shakti Kapoor, Nilofer, Gargi Patel, Pooja Singh, Vallabh Vyas |
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Disco Dancer Mithun Chakraborty`s son Mimoh makes his debut via `Jimmy`. Unfortunately, it is not the right project to launch Mimoh and he has to face the brunt of bad and shoddy 80`s and 90`s style promos and too many delays.
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| Anamika |
Verdict: Flop |
| Weekly Earnings: - |
Total Earnings: - |
| Producer: Bhanwar Lal Sharma |
Director: Anant Mahadevan |
| Music: Anu Malik |
Lyrics: Sameer |
| Starring: Dino Morea, Minissha Lamba, Koena Mitra, Aarti Chhabria, Achint Kaur, Prithvi Zutshi, Gulshan Grover |
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`Anamika` was off to a frighteningly poor to horrible opening day and fate is and was obvious!
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| Pranali |
Verdict: Disaster |
| Weekly Earnings: - |
Total Earnings: - |
| Producer: Nikhil Mathur/Harward Entertainment |
Director: Hirdesh Kamble |
| Music: Kailasa (Kailash Kher, Paresh Kamath, & Naresh Kamath) |
Lyrics: Anil Pandey |
| Starring: Nargis, Upyendra Limaye, Raman Trikha, Sudha Chandran, Vinay Apte, and Hemant Pandey |
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`Pranali-The Tradition` had a disastrous start. One does not have to be a Nostradamus to predict that all the three will fail at the box-office!
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| Mr.Black Mr.White |
Verdict: Awaited |
| Weekly Earnings: UK$29,852 |
Total Earnings: UK$29,852 |
| Producer: Bipin Shah |
Director: Deepak Shivdasani |
| Music: Tauseef Akhtar, Jatin-Lalit, Shamir Tandon |
Lyrics: Sameer |
| Starring: Sunil Shetty, Arshad Warsi, Sandhya Mridul, Upasna Singh, Vrajesh Hirjee,
Tania Zaetta, Sharat Saxena, Mahima Mehta
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The Sunil-Arshad starrer `Mr. White Mr. Black` had a dull to weak start, and things do not look rosy for it.
`Mr. White Mr. Black` is ordinary in the UK.
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| Tashan |
Verdict: Awaited |
| Weekly Earnings: India Rs. 18.50 crores ; UK$110,607 ; US$58,190 |
Total Earnings: India Rs. 18.50 crores ; UK$586,608 ; US$428,923 |
| Producer: Aditya Chopra |
Director: Vijay Krishna Acharya |
| Music: Vishal-Shekar |
Lyrics: Piyush Mishra, Anvita Dutt Guptan, Vishal Dhandlani, Kausar Munir |
| Starring: Akshay Kumar, Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Anil Kapoor
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| PB Rating: 5.0 out of 10 |
Public Rating (by 314 unique users): 3.45 |
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Yash Raj Films` Vijay Krishna Acharya directed multi-starrer, `Tashan`, featuring Anil Kapoor, Akshay Kumar, Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor, paid dearly for non-multiplex release in many parts of the country. In fact, Bombay and Calcutta were the regions that were hit the hardest as the collections dropped badly from mid-week. Surprisingly, `Tashan` faired quite decently in East Punjab, Delhi-U.P. and Hyderabad Nizam. Still, `Tashan` cannot even be called a safe film at this point.
The film has also been rejected in the Overseas, though it is somewhat better in the UK.
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| U, Me, Aur Hum |
Verdict: Below average to average |
| Weekly Earnings: India Rs. 3 crores ; UK$13,929 |
Total Earnings: India 22.25 crores ; UK$811,670 ; US $1,028,191 |
| Producer: Devgan Entertainment Software Ltd. (Ajay Devgan) |
Director: Ajay Devgan |
| Music: Vishal Bharadwaj |
Lyrics: Munna Dhiman |
| Starring: Ajay Devgan, Kajol, Divya Dutta, Isha Shervani, Sumeet Raghavan, and Karan Khanna |
| PB Rating: 6.0 out of 10 |
Public Rating (by 430 unique users): 7.86 |
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Ajay Devgan`s `U Me Aur Hum` is steady at places. The film gets the benefit of `Tashan` not releasing at the multiplexes, by way of good screens for an additional week.
The Ajay-Kajol starrer is already a good Overseas success.
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| Krazzy 4 |
Verdict: Semi hit ( almost) |
| Weekly Earnings: India Rs. 2 crores |
Total Earnings: India Rs. 22.50 crores ; UK $268,364 ; US $487,215 |
| Producer: Rakesh Roshan & Sunaina Roshan |
Director: Jaideep Sen |
| Music: Rajesh Roshan |
Lyrics: Javed Akhtar & Asif Ali Beg |
| Starring: Arshad Warsi, Irrfan Khan, Rajpal Yadav, Rajat Kapoor, Suresh Menon, Zakir Hussain, Dia Mirza, Juhi Chawla, and Ashwini Mushran |
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`Krazzy 4` too reaped the harvest of the `Tashan`-multiplex fallout and the collections look fairly steady. In the Overseas too `Krazzy 4` is a reasonable success, due to the low procurement prices.
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