The coming Friday will see the release of the Prateik-Amy starrer, EKK DEEWANA THA, the Dilip Shankar directed MARRIED TO AMERICA and the horror film with a strange title, ?. It is obvious that the front runner is going to be EKK DEEWAANA THA, though the film is not carrying the kind of buzz that it was expected to, despite big names like A.R. Rahman and Javed Akhtar being associated with it.
Moving on, the Valentine week release, Karan Johar's Kareena-Imran starrer, EK MAIN AUR EKK TU, was expected to embark on a good to decent start (especially at high end multiplexes), more so due to the rom-com genre, reasonably popular music and of course the week when the cupid strikes! Unfortunately, the start on Friday was quite dull, but as was expected, the film picked up noticeably on Saturday and also on Sunday, though a big jump was missing. All the same the opening weekend of around 20.50 crore is a good enough platform, and the film is likely to end with a 30 crore plus week, which will make the 37-38 crore (all inclusive cost) EMAET an earning proposition. EK MAIN AUR EKK TU has generated good shares in the overseas (especially US), grossing ?242,200 from UK and $637,100 from the US during the opening weekend (10-12 February).
Meanwhile the actual published numbers of One Up Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.'s GALI GALI CHOR HAI, came in somewhat lower than Saturday estimations as it collected 60 lakhs from Bombay, 20 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 3.25 lakhs from Surat, 5.30 lakhs from Baroda, 2.50 lakhs from Rajkot, 4 lakhs from Pune, 2.35 lakhs from Nasik, 1.50 lakhs from Goa, 30 lakhs from Delhi city, 5.75 lakhs from Noida, 4 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 3.40 lakhs from Kanpur, 5.50 lakhs from Lucknow, 2.50 lakhs from Agra, 1.25 lakhs from Allahabad, 6.50 lakhs from Gurgaon, 1.20 lakhs from Faridabad, 1 lakh from Panipat, 1.75 lakhs from Chandigarh, 1 lakh from Zirakpur, 1.15 lakh from Jalandhar, 5.20 lakhs from Calcutta, 1 lakh from Siliguri, 3.65 lakhs from Nagpur, 2.20 lakhs from Jabalpur, 1 lakh from Akola, 4 lakhs from Raipur, 8.50 lakhs from Indore (collections from 2 cinemas unreceived), 1 lakh from Gwalior (collections from 3 cinemas unreceived), 3.50 lakhs from Bhopal, 8.25 lakhs from Jaipur (collections from 2 cinemas unreceived), 1 .20 lakhs from Ajmer, 1.55 lakhs from Kota, 7.15 lakhs from Hyderabad, 1 lakh from Aurangabad and 5.15 lakhs from Bangalore. Netting just around 4.25 crores during the opening week, the Akshaye Khanna and Shriya Saran starrer, GALI GALI CHOR HAI, has failed at the ticket window.
Concluding with Karan Malhotra's AGNEEPATH, the film saw a big fall in the second week after a huge opening week. But that has been the case with most big first week grossers, barring a few examples. During the second week AGNEEPATH collected 4 crore from Bombay, 85.50 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 17.20 lakhs from Surat, 28 lakhs from Baroda (collections from 5 cinemas unreceived), 25 lakhs from Rajkot, 37.25 lakhs from Pune, 2 lakhs from Solapur, 17 lakhs from Nasik, 7 lakhs from Goa, 4.20 lakhs from Belgaum, 2.50 crore from Delhi city, 31.75 lakhs from Noida, 22.25 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 20 lakhs from Kanpur, 35 lakhs from Lucknow, 11.55 lakhs from Agra, 10 lakhs from Allahabad, 3.50 lakhs from Aligarh, 36.35 lakhs from Gurgaon, 6.30 lakhs from Faridabad, 3.60 lakhs from Kurukshetra, 4.70 lakhs from Panipat, 18 lakhs from Chandigarh, 4.20 lakhs from Zirakpur, 8.25 lakhs from Jalandhar, 6.40 lakhs from Amritsar, 5.50 lakhs from Ludhiana, 5 lakhs from Bhatinda, 3.15 lakhs from Ambala, 2.50 lakhs from Pathankot, 55 lakhs from Calcutta, 5.75 lakhs from Siliguri, 4 lakhs from Dhanbad, 3 lakhs from Guwahati, 30.80 lakhs from Nagpur, 13 lakhs from Jabalpur, 4 lakhs from Akola, 13.50 lakhs from Raipur, 28.65 lakhs from Indore (collections from 3 cinemas unreceived), 4.25 lakhs from Gwalior (collections from 4 cinemas unreceived), 25 lakhs from Bhopal, 60 lakhs from Jaipur (collections from 2 cinemas unreceived), 7.10 lakhs from Ajmer, 3.65 lakhs from Bikaner, 10.25 lakhs from Kota, 50 lakhs from Hyderabad, 12.25 lakhs from Aurangabad (collections from 2 cinemas unreceived), 60 lakhs from Bangalore, 6.25 lakhs from Mangalore, 1.55 lakhs from Vijayawada, 3.10 lakhs from Visakhapatnam, 5.20 lakhs from Madras and 3 lakhs from Kochi. Adding another 23 crore, AGNEEPATH has netted 113 crores in two weeks from India. With a cost of 72-75 crore (all inclusive), more than half of which has already been recovered from satellite and audio rights, the Hrithik-Priyanka starrer, AGNEEPATH, is all set to be a super hit. AGNEEPATH has also impressed in the overseas grossing ?685,000 from UK and $1,913,000 from the US till the third weekend (10-12 February).
