The coming Friday will witness the release of Akshay Kumar’s GABBAR IS BACK. Given the decent hype and getting popular soundtrack, the film is expected to embark on a good start at the ticket window, in India as well as some overseas circuits.
The prominent releases of last week- JAI HO! DEMOCRACY featuring prestigious names such as Annu Kapoor, Om Puri, Satish Kaushik, Adil Hussain and Seema Biswas and Shyam Motion Pictures’ ISHQ KE PARINDEY failed to appeal to the audience. In fact it was the Hollywood venture AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON which dominated the proceedings netting a big 35 crore (for all versions), during the opening weekend, second only to FAST & FURIOUS 7, which had garnered 50 crore plus.
Moving on, MR X, the Bhatts’ venture starring Emraan Hashmi, could not achieve anything significant collecting 1.75 crore from Bombay (collections from other cinemas unreceived), 50.55 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 17.50 lakhs from Surat, 10.50 lakhs from Baroda (collections from 6 cinemas unreceived), 12.75 lakhs from Rajkot, 25 lakhs from Pune, 7.65 lakhs from Nasik, 8 lakhs from Goa, 2.75 lakhs from Belgaum, 1.55 crore from Delhi city, 20 lakhs from Noida, 28.75 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 20 lakhs from Kanpur, 33.50 lakhs from Lucknow, 3.15 lakhs from Agra, 5.50 lakhs from Allahabad, 4.50 lakhs from Aligarh, 5.15 lakhs from Dehradun, 20 lakhs from Gurgaon, 8.75 lakhs from Faridabad, 4.50 lakhs from Panipat, 12.15 lakhs from Chandigarh, 9.25 lakhs from Jalandhar, 8 lakhs from Amritsar, 8 lakhs from Ludhiana, 4.15 lakhs from Bhatinda, 2 lakhs from Ambala, 2 lakhs from Jammu, 45 lakhs from Calcutta, 1 lakh from Darjeeling, 5 lakhs from Siliguri, 3 lakhs from Patna, 4.50 lakhs from Dhanbad, 1.75 lakhs from Ranchi, 5 lakhs from Bhubaneshwar, 1.75 lakhs from Guwahati, 20 lakhs from Nagpur, 10.55 lakhs from Jabalpur, 15 lakhs from Raipur, 25 lakhs from Indore, 5 lakhs from Gwalior (collections from 6 cinemas unreceived), 10 lakhs from Bhopal (collections from 6 cinemas unreceived), 40 lakhs from Jaipur (collections from 6 cinemas unreceived), 2 lakhs from Jodhpur (collections from 4 cinemas unreceived), 5 lakhs from Ajmer, 1.50 lakhs from Bikaner, 5.55 lakhs from Udaipur, 70 lakhs from Hyderabad, 8.50 lakhs from Aurangabad, 30 lakhs from Bangalore, 4 lakhs from Mangalore, 1.75 lakhs from Mysore, 1.75 lakhs from Vijayawada, 3.15 lakhs from Visakhapatnam, 5.65 lakhs from Madras and 1.75 lakhs from Kochi. Netting 19.50 crore during the opening week, MR. X has failed at the box-office.
Meanwhile MARGARITA WITH A STRAW did well but only at a few premium multiplexes as it collected 85 lakhs from Bombay (collections from other cinemas unreceived), 10 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 2.50 lakhs from Surat, 5 lakhs from Baroda, 15 lakhs from Pune, 3 lakhs from Goa, 65 lakhs from Delhi city, 10 lakhs from Noida, 2 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 20 lakhs from Gurgaon, 1.50 lakhs from Faridabad, 5 lakhs from Chandigarh, 2 lakhs from Ludhiana, 25 lakhs from Calcutta, 1.75 lakhs from Bhubaneshwar, 1 lakh from Guwahati, 2.50 lakhs from Nagpur, 1.75 lakhs from Raipur, 3.25 lakhs from Indore, 2.50 lakhs from Bhopal (collections from 6 cinemas unreceived), 5 lakhs from Jaipur, 1 lakh from Udaipur, 10 lakhs from Hyderabad, 25 lakhs from Bangalore, 1.25 lakhs from Mangalore, 1 lakh from Visakhapatnam, 1.25 lakhs from Madras and 1 lakh from Kochi. Netting 3.50 crore during the opening week, MARGARITA WITH A STRAW, may scrape through to safety, if it manages a decent second week.
The last release of the same week, NANAK SHAH FAKIR, has failed at the box-office with negligible collections.
Concluding with Sunny Leone’s EK PAHELI LEELA, the film crashed in the second week adding just about 3 crore, thus netting 25 crore in two weeks from India. Having said that, EK PAHELI LEELA, is a profitable venture for the makers, given the reasonable investment (17.50 crore).
