This Friday's big release is going to be Sriram Raghavan's Saif-Kareena starrer, AGENT VINOD. With the music triumphantly playing it's 'pungi' all over and the film quite hyped, thanks to the super-slick and highly impressive promotion, AGENT VINOD is all set to embark on a good start, more so at the multiplexes.
It was the same KAHAANI again last Friday as all the releases of last week- ZINDAGI TERE NAAM, SAY YES TO LOVE, ANJUNAA BEACH and AKKAD BAKKKAD BAM BE BO- faced rejection from the first show itself and the reasons are obvious!
After a phenomenal pick up during the opening weekend, Sujoy Ghosh's Vidya Balan starrer, KAHAANI, saw a rock-steady run in the weekdays as it collected 5.25 crore from Bombay, 1.10 crores from Ahmedabad, 25 lakhs from Surat, 31.75 lakhs from Baroda, 15.60 lakhs from Rajkot, 1.30 crore from Pune, 13 lakhs from Nasik, 15.65 lakhs from Goa, 5.10 lakhs from Belgaum, 2.75 crore from Delhi city, 40 lakhs from Noida, 20 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 16.20 lakhs from Kanpur, 28.60 lakhs from Lucknow, 10 lakhs from Agra, 6.20 lakhs from Allahabad, 52.50 lakhs from Gurgaon, 7.35 lakhs from Faridabad, 1.65 lakhs from Kurukshetra, 3.50 lakhs from Panipat, 11.50 lakhs from Chandigarh, 4 lakhs from Jalandhar, 3 lakhs from Amritsar, 2.65 lakhs from Ludhiana, 2.25 lakhs from Bhatinda, 2.15 lakhs from Ambala, 2 crores from Calcutta, 1.50 lakhs from Darjeeling, 9 lakhs from Siliguri, 30 lakhs from Nagpur, 14.55 lakhs from Raipur, 30 lakhs from Indore, 4.55 lakhs from Gwalior (collections from 3 cinemas unreceived), 30 lakhs from Jaipur (collections from 2 cinemas unreceived), 2.55 lakhs from Ajmer, 2.50 lakhs from Bikaner, 5.25 lakhs from Kota, 4.65 lakhs from Udaipur, 51 lakhs from Hyderabad, 6 lakhs from Aurangabad (collections from 2 cinemas unreceived), 1.15 crore from Bangalore, 7.55 lakhs from Mangalore, 2.15 lakhs from Vijayawada, 6.35 lakhs from Visakhapatnam and 5.25 lakhs from Kochi. Netting a superb 23.50 crore (including paid previews) KAHAANI is a clean hit that is all said to end a few notches higher.
The film is also very impressive in the overseas (especially US) grossing ?157,200 in the UK and $616,500 from the US, till the second weekend (16-18 March).
Meanwhile Samir Karnik's CHAAR DIN KI CHANDNI could not quite achieve the success it deserved due to the KAHAANI onslaught as it collected 25 lakhs from Bombay (collections from 32 cinemas unreceived), 15 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 3.15 lakhs from Surat, 2.60 lakhs from Baroda, 4 lakhs from Rajkot, 3.20 lakhs from Pune, 2 lakhs from Nasik, 32 lakhs from Delhi city, 4.20 lakhs from Noida, 4.50 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 6 lakhs from Kanpur, 9 lakhs from Lucknow, 4 lakhs from Agra, 2.25 lakhs from Allahabad, 5.50 lakhs from Gurgaon, 1.20 lakhs from Faridabad, 1 lakh from Panipat, 3.70 lakhs from Chandigarh, 1.50 lakhs from Jalandhar, 2.70 lakhs from Amritsar, 1.55 lakhs from Ludhiana, 1.50 lakhs from Bhatinda, 5.30 lakhs from Calcutta, 1 lakh from Siliguri, 3.25 lakhs from Nagpur, 4.35 lakhs from Raipur, 5 lakhs from Indore, 1.50 lakhs from Gwalior (collections from 4 cinemas unreceived), 10.65 lakhs from Jaipur, 2 lakhs from Ajmer, 1.50 lakhs from Bikaner, 1.65 lakhs from Kota, 1.50 lakhs from Udaipur, 1.30 lakhs from Hyderabad, 1 lakh from Aurangabad (collections from 3 cinemas unreceived) and 3.60 lakhs from Bangalore.
Netting just around 4.50 crore during the opening week CHAAR DIN KI CHANDNI has failed commercially.
Checking out Ali Zafar's LONDON PARIS NEW YORK, the film crashed in the second week collecting 10 lakhs from Bombay (collections from 5 cinemas unreceived), 1.75 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 1.10 lakhs from Pune, 12 lakhs from Delhi city, 1.65 lakhs from Noida, 1.55 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 1.50 lakhs from Lucknow, 1.25 lakhs from Gurgaon, 1 lakhs from Chandigarh, 1 lakh from Calcutta, 2 lakhs from Hyderabad and 2.65 lakhs from Bangalore.
Adding another 65 lakhs, LONDON PARIS NEW YORK has netted 6.65 crores in two weeks from India, and will have to rely on non-theatrical rights for recovery. The film has also disappointed in the overseas grossing ?58,500 in the UK and $52,602 from the US.
Moving on, Tigmanshu Dhulia's PAAN SINGH TOMAR continues its great run collecting 65 lakhs from Bombay (collections from 8 cinemas unreceived), 9.60 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 2.10 lakhs from Surat, 3.75 lakhs from Baroda, 8 lakhs from Pune, 1.35 lakhs from Nasik, 1.20 lakhs from Goa, 54.60 lakhs from Delhi city, 11.70 lakhs from Noida, 5.75 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 3.75 lakhs from Kanpur, 9 lakhs from Lucknow, 1 lakh from Agra, 2 lakhs from Allahabad, 14.50 lakhs from Gurgaon, 2.55 lakhs from Faridabad, 4.10 lakhs from Chandigarh, 7.60 lakhs from Calcutta, 3.25 lakhs from Nagpur, 5.50 lakhs from Raipur, 11.35 lakhs from Indore (collections from 2 cinemas unreceived), 10 lakhs from Jaipur, 1.10 lakhs from Ajmer, 5.85 lakhs from Hyderabad, 2.30 lakhs from Aurangabad (collections from 2 cinemas unreceived) and 14.75 lakhs from Bangalore.
Adding another 4.25 crore, PAAN SINGH TOMAR has netted 12 crores in two weeks from India and is an above average. However, the film has not impressed in the overseas grossing ?16,000 in the UK and $40,000 from the US, till the third weekend (16-18 March).
Concluding with TERE NAAL LOVE HO GAYA, the film continues it's successful run and collected 10 lakhs from Bombay (collections from 7 cinemas unreceived), 7.25 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 2.65 lakhs from Surat, 2.50 lakhs from Baroda, 1.35 lakhs from Pune, 1.50 lakhs from Nasik, 12.75 lakhs from Delhi city, 2 lakhs from Noida, 1.20 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 2 lakhs from Lucknow, 2 lakhs from Gurgaon, 1.65 lakhs from Chandigarh, 1.15 lakhs from Calcutta, 2.50 lakhs from Nagpur, 2 lakhs from Raipur, 2.10 lakhs from Indore, 12.65 lakhs from Jaipur , 1 lakh from Ajmer, 1.50 lakhs from Hyderabad and 5 lakhs from Bangalore. With another 2 crores TERE NAAL LOVE HO GAYA has netted a creditable 20 crores in three weeks from India.
The Ritesh-Genelia starrer is an above average fare. The film has done very well in the overseas (given the cost and cast) grossing ?184,500 in the UK and $ 177,500 from the US, till the fourth weekend (16-18 March).
