After a relatively less crowded week, the coming Friday will once again be jam-packed with as many as five new films listed for release. Yes, it is going to be BHEJA FRY 2, ALWAYS KABHI KABHI, BIN BULAYE BARAATI, BHINDI BAAZAAR INC.. and CYCLEKICK. One feels that only the first three films will be able to make some impact and in the order that we have listed, though the bunched releases will cut in to each other, and it won't be a surprise if READY is once again the first choice, like the last two weekends!
All the releases of last Friday – Anurag Kashyap's SHAITAN, Mukta Arts' LOVE EXPRESS and also the Hollywood venture X MEN: FIRST CLASS along with WEST IS WEST, failed to impress, and even a week old READY was too hot for the new releases to handle.
For the records, it was a close battle between X MEN and SHAITAN for the second and third position with WEST IS WEST and LOVE EXPRESS lagging by a huge margin.
The month of June started with a bang as Anees Bazmee's READY saw a very steady weekday run after a huge weekend. Even the second weekend is expected to be quite bountiful. The film collected 8.60 crores from Bombay (collections from 33 cinemas unreceived), 3.50 crores from Ahmedabad (collections from one cinema unreceived), 53 lakhs from Baroda (collections from 6 cinemas unreceived), 15.35 lakhs from Surat (collections from other cinemas unreceived), 11.50 lakhs from Bharuch (collections from other cinemas unreceived), 73.50 lakhs from Rajkot, 16.65 lakhs from Jamnagar, 24 lakhs from Bhavnagar, 4.15 lakhs from Porbandar, 11 lakhs from Junagarh, 13 lakhs from Gandhidham, 25 lakhs from Pune (collections from other cinemas unreceived), 33 lakhs from Nasik, 21.55 lakhs from Goa, 6.50 lakhs from Belgaum, 7 crores from Delhi city, 67.20 lakhs from Noida, 76 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 62 lakhs from Kanpur, 1 crore from Lucknow, 25 lakhs from Agra, 24 lakhs from Allahabad (collections from 2 cinemas unreceived), 10.25 lakhs from Meerut, 1.10 crores from Gurgaon, 60.20 lakhs from Faridabad, 36.65 lakhs from Chandigarh, 18 lakhs from Ludhiana, 9.50 lakhs from Amritsar, 2 crores from Calcutta (collections from other cinemas unreceived), 9.65 lakhs from Guwahati, 86 lakhs from Nagpur, 12.10 lakhs from Akola, 52.50 lakhs from Raipur, 1.15 crores from Indore (collections from 2 cinemas unreceived), 20 lakhs from Gwalior (collections from 4 cinemas unreceived), 26.35 lakhs from Bhopal (collections from 2 cinemas unreceived), 4.20 lakhs from Ujjain, 5.25 lakhs from Sehore, 2 crores from Jaipur, 55 lakhs from Jodhpur, 21.50 lakhs from Ajmer, 15 lakhs from Bikaner, 23.50 lakhs from Kota, 1.55 crores from Hyderabad, 23 lakhs from Aurangabad (collections from 4 cinemas unreceived), 10 lakhs from Latur, 12 lakhs from Gulbarga, 81 lakhs from Bangalore, 4 lakhs from Vijaywada, 7.35 lakhs from Vishakhapatnam, 9 lakhs from Madras (collections from 10 cinemas unreceived) and 5 lakhs from Kochi.
Netting a huge 69.50 crores during the first week, the Salman-Asin starrer is on way to be a blockbuster hit.
In the Overseas, READY is not on the same level as India but has managed a very steady performance grossing ?493,000 from UK and $781,855 from the US till the second weekend (10-12 June).
The other release of the same week, A STRANGE LOVE STORY, has negligible collections to show and is a washout.
Meanwhile PYAAR KA PUNCHNAMA has managed a praiseworthy performance in the wake of the READY tornado as it collected 25 lakhs from Bombay (collections from 26 cinemas unreceived), 4.50 lakhs from Ahmedabad (collections from 2 cinemas unreceived), 1 lakh from Baroda, 35 lakhs from Delhi city, 3.50 lakhs from Noida, 5 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 1 lakh from Kanpur, 11 lakhs from Gurgaon, 1.50 lakhs from Faridabad, 2.55 lakhs from Chandigarh, 1.25 lakhs from Ludhiana, 3 lakhs from Calcutta (collections from other cinemas unreceived), 1 lakh from Nagpur, 1.35 lakhs from Raipur, 3.35 lakhs from Indore, 3 lakhs from Jaipur and 2.50 lakhs from Bangalore.
Adding another 1.50 crores, PYAAR KA PUNCHNAMA has netted a creditable 10.50 crores in three weeks from India and is now an above average fare.
Concluding once again with Vikram Bhatt's HAUNTED, the film manages to add another 30 lakhs and has netted an impressive 26.80 crores in five weeks from India, HAUNTED is a clean hit for Mahakshay, and the biggest Bollywood horror grosser!
