This Friday's prominent release is going to be Balaji Motion Pictures and Pritish Nandy Communications' Vidya-Farhan starrer, SHAADI KE SIDE/EFFECTS. Given the success of the prequel (PYAAR KE SIDE/EFFECTS) and the hype associated with the film due to superb promotion and good music, SHAADI KE SIDE/EFFECTS is expected to embark on a good to decent start, more so in the mid and big cities.
After a slowish first day (4crore), Imtiaz Ali's Randeep-Alia starrer, HIGHWAY, picked up well during the opening weekdays netting 14-15 crore. The film is doing decently during the weekdays, but has to do more than that to be termed a successful film. HIGHWAY has done well (mainly in the US) in the overseas grossing ?108,000 from UK and $327,000 from the US during the opening weekend (21-23 February).
None of the remaining releases of the week, DARR @ THE MALL, KARAR THE DEAL and DEE SATURDAY NIGHT could achieve anything significant. Just for records only DARR @ THE MALL netted around 3 crore during the opening weekend.
After a great weekend, Yash Raj Films' Ali Abbas Zafar directed Priyanka, Irrfan, Ranveer and Arjun starrer, GUNDAY, held reasonably well during the weekdays. During the first week GUNDAY collected 7.50 crore from Bombay, 2.15 crore from Ahmedabad, 55 lakhs from Surat, 45 lakhs from Baroda (collections from 7 cinemas unreceived), 35 lakhs from Rajkot, 1.75 crore from Pune, 30 lakhs from Nasik, 7.25 lakhs from Goa, 6.50 lakhs from Belgaum, 5.50 crore from Delhi city, 75 lakhs from Noida, 62 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 45 lakhs from Kanpur, 80.25 lakhs from Lucknow, 6.50 lakhs from Agra, 14.25 lakhs from Allahabad, 7.50 lakhs from Aligarh, 91 lakhs from Gurgaon, 17.50 lakhs from Faridabad, 8 lakhs from Kurukshetra, 10 lakhs from Panipat, 45 lakhs from Chandigarh, 27.25 lakhs from Jalandhar, 12.50 lakhs from Amritsar, 22.35 lakhs from Ludhiana, 9 lakhs from Bhatinda, 7 lakhs from Jammu, 1.25 crore from Calcutta, 2.25 lakhs from Darjeeling, 17 lakhs from Siliguri, 8 lakhs from Patna, 8.50 lakhs from Dhanbad, 5.65 lakhs from Ranchi, 15 lakhs from Bhubhaneshwar, 5.15 lakhs from Guwahati, 70 lakhs from Nagpur, 31 lakhs from Jabalpur, 40 lakhs from Raipur, 70 lakhs from Indore (collections from 5 cinemas unreceived), 10.25 lakhs from Gwalior (collections from 5 cinemas unreceived), 40 lakhs from Bhopal (collections from 5 cinemas unreceived), 1.55 crore from Jaipur (collections from 7 cinemas unreceived), 20.35 lakhs from Ajmer, 8 lakhs from Bikaner, 30.50 lakhs from Kota, 28.25 lakhs from Udaipur, 1.65 crore from Hyderabad, 23 lakhs from Aurangabad (collections from 2 cinemas unreceived), 75 lakhs from Bangalore, 7.25 lakhs from Mangalore, 6 lakhs from Vijayawada, 7.50 lakhs from Visakhapatnam, 8 lakhs from Madras, 2 lakhs from Coimbatore and 5 lakhs from Kochi. Netting 62 crore during the opening week, GUNDAY is a semi-hit given that the makers are also the worldwide distributors, and they have already recovered more than 60 percent of their investment through the non-theatrical rights. GUNDAY has also done quite well in the overseas grossing ?380,000 from UK and $844,000 from the US till the second weekend (21-23 February).
Concluding with Dharma and Phantom Productions' Sidharth, Adah and Parineeti starrer, HASEE TOH PHASEE, the film crashed in the second week collecting 1.15 crore from Bombay, 20 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 5.75 lakhs from Surat, 5.50 lakhs from Baroda (collections from 3 cinemas unreceived), 2 lakhs from Rajkot, 35 from Pune, 3 lakhs from Nasik, 2.50 lakhs from Goa, 1 lakh from Belgaum, 90 lakhs from Delhi city, 15 lakhs from Noida, 7 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 2.50 lakhs from Kanpur, 6.25 lakhs from Lucknow, 1 lakh from Allahabad, 20 lakhs from Gurgaon, 1.50 lakhs from Faridabad, 6.50 lakhs from Chandigarh, 2.75 lakhs from Jalandhar, 3.50 lakhs from Amritsar, 2.55 lakhs from Ludhiana, 1 lakh from Bhatinda, 1 lakh from Jammu, 20 lakhs from Calcutta, 1.25 lakhs from Siliguri, 1 lakh from Ranchi, 2.50 lakhs from Bhubhaneshwar, 6.50 lakhs from Nagpur, 11.15 lakhs from Jabalpur, 3.65 lakhs from Raipur, 8.50 lakhs from Indore, 1.50 lakhs from Gwalior, 5 lakhs from Bhopal, 15 lakhs from Jaipur, 1.50 lakhs from Ajmer, 1.50 lakhs from Kota, 2.15 lakhs from Udaipur, 30 lakhs from Hyderabad, 62 lakhs from Bangalore, 1.25 lakhs from Mangalore and 1.55 lakhs from Visakhapatnam. Adding another 7 crore HASEE TO PHASEE has netted 34 crore in two weeks from India and is an above average fare. The film has done well in the overseas (more so in US) grossing ?150,000 from UK and $635,000 from the US till the third weekend (21-23 February).
