This week, which also marks the start of the fasting month of 'Ramzan', has an interesting clash that can be termed as the battle of class and horror! The films in question are Aamir Khan's PEEPLI [LIVE] and the Bobby Deol and Mughda Godse starrer HELP.
Given the superb promotion by Aamir Khan, the Anusha Rizvi directed PEEPLI [LIVE] is likely to sweep the stakes while HELP may appeal to its core horror audience. One must add here that neither of the two films are expected to start with a bang but it is the word of mouth that is likely to be the deciding factor in favour of PEEPLI [LIVE].
However, there is another film releasing alongside but that is from Hollywood, and it will be wrong if we ignore it, because it will turn out to be big challenger to both the Hindi releases.
Yes, we do mean THE EXPENDABLES that brings together some of the legend of action like Sylvester Stallone and Bruce Willis, amongst others. And that is what makes it a hot release as well.
Last Friday's Rajshree Ojha directed Abhay Deol and Sonam Kapoor starrer AISHA was hot amongst city based youngsters and expected to do well at up-market multiplexes. And that is exactly how it went. Once again the film showed a positive growth during the weekend with the best performance coming from Bombay and Delhi multiplexes.
While AISHA will not be a massive success it is likely to be a safe bet for its distributors, especially in the metro circuits. AISHA though has poor collections in the Overseas.
While the opening of Milan Luthria's ONCE UPON A TIME IN MUMBAAI was not exactly earth shattering, the film saw a good run during the first week. The film has done very well and has been appreciated collecting 7.10 crores from Bombay (collections from 2 cinemas unreceived), 1.50 crores from Ahmedabad (collections from 2 cinemas unreceived), 23 lakhs from Baroda(collections from 6 cinemas unreceived), 1.05 lakhs from Anand, 6.80 lakhs from Nadiad, 2.15 lakhs from Vapi, 4 lakhs from Valsad, 3.40 lakhs from Bardoli, 3 lakhs from Palanpur, 1.60 lakhs from Deesa, 2.50 lakhs from Patan, 39.20 lakhs from Rajkot, 8.20 lakhs from Jamnagar, 13.10 lakhs from Bhavnagar, 2 lakhs from Porbandar, 1.25 lakhs each from Botad, 1.65 lakhs each from Morbi and Surendranagar, 3.30 lakhs from Junagarh, 3.40 lakhs from Bhuj, 5.75 lakhs from Gandhidham, 1.65 lakhs from Adipur, 50 lakhs from Pune (collections from other cinemas unreceived), 6.75 lakhs from Solapur, 3.65 lakhs from Sangli, 20 lakhs from Nasik, 13.15 lakhs from Goa, 5.50 lakhs from Hubli, 8.70 lakhs from Belgaum, 2.25 lakhs each from Dharwad , Gadag and Bijapur, 3.85 crores from Delhi city, 51.30 lakhs from Noida, 29 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 25.55 lakhs from Kanpur, 50 lakhs from Lucknow, 13.60 lakhs from Agra, 6.05 lakhs from Allahabad, 8 lakhs from Meerut, 3 lakhs from Barielly, 6.65 lakhs from Gorakhpur, 2.25 lakhs from Mathura, 78.50 lakhs from Gurgaon, 23.50 lakhs from Faridabad, 5 lakhs from Kurukshetra, 2.50 lakhs from Panipat, 8 lakhs from Chandigarh, 3.75 lakhs from Zirakpur, 2.50 lakhs each from Ambala , Bhatinda and Pathankot, 5.30 lakhs from Amritsar, 1.10 crores from Calcutta (collections from other cinemas unreceived), 1.50 lakhs from Darjeeling, 6 lakhs from Siliguri, 3.50 lakhs from Guwahati, 1.75 lakhs from Dibrugarh, 50 lakhs from Nagpur, 13.10 lakhs from Jabalpur, 6.20 lakhs from Amravati, 4 lakhs from Akola, 2.15 lakhs from Dhule, 20.50 lakhs from Raipur, 4 lakhs each from Durg and Chandrapur, 1.50 lakhs from Chhindwara, 2.35 lakhs from Wardha, 2 lakhs from Khandwa, 51 lakhs from Indore, 2 lakhs from Sehore, 8 lakhs from Gwalior(collections from 3 cinemas unreceived), 21.15 lakhs from Bhopal, 1.75 lakhs each from Ujjain and Dewas, 43.25 lakhs from Jaipur (collections from 3 cinemas unreceived), 8.15 lakhs from Jodhpur, 3.65 lakhs from Bikaner, 15.10 lakhs from Kota, 1.50 lakhs from Sriganganagar, 1 lakh from Kishangarh, 1.05crores from Hyderabad, 2 lakhs from Warangal, 18 lakhs from Aurangabad, 2.35 lakhs from Nanded, 6.35 lakhs from Gulbarga, 70 lakhs from Bangalore, 9 lakhs from Mangalore, 2.60 lakhs from Davangere, 2.05 lakhs from Vijaywada, 4.75 lakhs from Vishakhapatnam, 4.15 lakhs from Madras and 2.65 lakhs from Kochi. In its opening week the Ajay-Emraan starrer ONCE UPON A TIME IN MUMBAAI has netted a good 34 crores from India and is likely to end up as a clean success and for that it has to show a stable run in the second week.
The film though has been totally rejected in the Overseas grossing a paltry ?107,988 from UK till the second weekend (6-8 August).
The collections of Priyadarshan's KHATTA MEETHA crashed during the second week. The film collected 1 crore from Bombay, 23.20 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 2.50 lakhs from Baroda (collections from 4 cinemas unreceived), 1 lakh each from Nadiad and Patan, 1.30 lakhs each from Bharuch and Palanpur, 2.30 lakhs from Jamnagar, 1.50 lakhs each from Bhavnagar and Gandhidham, 4 lakhs from Pune (collections from other cinemas unreceived), 2.50 lakhs from Solapur, 3.50 lakhs each from Goa and Nasik, 2.40 lakhs from Hubli, 3.10 lakhs from Belgaum, 55 lakhs from Delhi city, 8 lakhs from Noida, 5.30 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 7.65 lakhs from Kanpur, 14 lakhs from Lucknow, 4 lakhs from Agra, 3.15 lakhs from Allahabad, 2 lakhs from Meerut, 2.15 lakhs each from Aligarh and Gorakhpur, 1.15 lakhs from Muzzafarnagar, 9 lakhs from Gurgaon, 4.50 lakhs from Faridabad , 1.10 lakhs from Kurukshetra, 2.65 lakhs from Chandigarh, 1.50 lakhs from Zirakpur, 1.15 lakhs from Bhatinda, 2 lakhs from Amritsar, 1.65 lakhs from Ambala, 1lakh each from Siliguri and Guwahati, 10.65 lakhs from Nagpur, 4 lakhs from Jabalpur, 2.50 lakhs from Amravati, 2 lakhs from Akola, 4 lakhs from Raipur, 1 lakhs each from Khandwa and Bhandara, 4.65 lakhs from Indore (collections from 3 cinemas unreceived), 1.50 lakhs from Sehore, 2 lakhs from Gwalior, 2.60 lakhs from Bhopal, 18.10 lakhs from Jaipur(collections from 3 cinemas unreceived), 1.50 lakhs from Bikaner, 3.05 lakhs from Kota, 11.70 lakhs from Hyderabad, 4 lakhs from Aurangabad, 1.65 lakhs each from Nanded and Gulbarga, 9.15 lakhs from Bangalore and 21.0 lakhs from Mangalore. Adding a further 6 crores, the Akshay-Trisha starrer KHATTA MEETHA has netted a below par 38 crores in two weeks from India.
Some distributors are likely to lose a part of their investment.
KHATTA MEETHA has also under-performed in the overseas circuit grossing just ?292,618 from UK and $542,000 from US till the third weekend (6-8 August).
Moving on, surprising as it may sound but Ali Zafar's TERE BIN LADEN has shown perhaps the steadiest run of the year 2010! During the week TERE BIN LADEN collected 35 lakhs from Bombay, 1 lakh from Ahmedabad, 16.05 lakhs from Delhi city, 2.65 lakhs from Noida, 5 lakhs from Gurgaon, 1.25 lakhs from Hyderabad and 2.50 lakhs from Bangalore.
Adding a further 95 lakhs, TERE BIN LADEN has netted a significant 8.70 crores in three weeks from India. The film is now an above average fare.
