This Friday, sorry Wednesday will witness the grand opening of the Salman-Kareena starrer, BODYGUARD. And if it happens to be Eid as well, most first day records are bound to be shattered! The film is expected to open at 2,250 screens in India and 475 screens in the Overseas and may well see a 55-60 crore opening during the extended 5-day weekend. The other Wednesday release, Shoaib Mansoor's superbly crafted hard-hitting Pakistani film, BOL, will be no match for BODYGUARD, but will find patronage in some pockets. Two days later (2nd September) Anurag Kashyap's THAT GIRL IN YELLOW BOOTS will also release, but like most Kashyap ventures this one too will only have to be satisfied with critical acclaim.
All the releases of last Friday, namely SHABRI, CHITKABREY – SHADES OF GREY, YEH DOORIYAN, RIVAAZ and STAND BY, have managed poor collections. And despite some of them being well made pay the price of releasing very close to a huge festival release, obviously BODYGUARD!
Checking out Sanjay Dutt's CHATUR SINGH TWO STAR, the film fared miserably in the first week as it collected 40 lakhs from Bombay, 13 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 2.75 lakhs from Surat, 1.50 lakhs from Baroda, 8 lakhs from Rajkot, 1 lakh from Pune, 20 lakhs from Delhi city, 4.35 lakhs from Noida, 3.60 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 3.50 lakhs from Kanpur, 5.50 lakhs from Lucknow , 1.65 lakhs from Allahabad, 1.35 lakhs from Jalandhar, 3.55 lakhs from Calcutta (collections from other cinemas unrceived), 2.20 lakhs from Nagpur, 1.50 lakhs from Raipur, 2.35 lakhs from Indore (collections from 2 cinemas unreceived), 5.75 lakhs from Jaipur (collections from 2 cinemas unreceived ), 1 lakh from Kota, 5.60 lakhs from Hyderabad and 2.65 lakhs from Bangalore. Netting just around 2.75 crores from India, CHATUR SINGH TWO STAR has failed.
Despite all the buzz and hype in the media NOT A LOVE STORY could not turn out to be a success story as it collected just 55 lakhs from Bombay (collections from 34 cinemas unreceived), 16 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 2.65 lakhs from Surat, 2.60 lakhs from Baroda, 2 lakhs from Rajkot, 6 lakhs from Pune, 2 lakhs from Nasik, 43 lakhs from Delhi city, 7.55 lakhs from Noida, 5.50 lakhs from Ghaziabad , 3.75 lakhs from Kanpur, 5.60 lakhs from Lucknow, 2 lakhs from Agra, 1.50 lakhs from Allahabad, 9 lakhs from Gurgaon, 1.65 lakhs from Faridabad, 5.40 lakhs from Chandigarh, 1.50 lakhs from Jalandhar, 1.50 lakhs from Ludhiana, 1.10 lakhs from Bhatinda, 9 lakhs from Calcutta (collections from other cinemas unrceived), 3.55 lakhs from Nagpur, 3 lakhs from Raipur, 5 lakhs from Indore, 1 lakh from Gwalior (collections from 2 cinemas unreceived), 2.50 lakhs from Bhopal, 3.60 lakhs from Bhopal, 3.60 lakhs from Jaipur, 1.20 lakhs from Kota, 6.20 lakhs from Hyderabad (collections from other cinemas unreceived), 1.50 lakhs from Aurangabad, 8 lakhs from Bangalore, 1.20 lakhs from Visakhapatnam and 1 .25 lakhs from Madras (collections from other cinemas unreceived). Netting around 3.60 crores during the opening week NOT A LOVE STORY has failed. Thankfully the budget being quite small, the losses will be minimal.
Moving on, the collections of AARAKSHAN crashed in the second week and so the film may not be able to tide over. During the second week (1st week in U.P.) AARAKSHAN collected 1 crore from Bombay (collections from 16 cinemas unreceived), 40 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 6.25 lakhs from Surat, 12 lakhs from Baroda, 17.25 lakhs from Rajkot, 3.50 lakhs from Jamnagar, 3 lakhs from Bhavnagar, 13 lakhs from Pune, 4 lakhs from Nasik, 1.35 crore from Delhi city, 18 lakhs from Noida, 11 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 11 lakhs from Kanpur, 26.30 lakhs from Lucknow, 6.50 lakhs from Agra, 6.25 lakhs from Allahabad, 22 lakhs from Gurgaon, 4 lakhs from Faridabad, 6.50 lakhs from Chandigarh, 2.50 lakhs from Jalandhar, 2.45 lakhs from Amritsar, 2.50 lakhs from Ludhiana, 2.50 lakhs from Bhatinda, 30 lakhs from Calcutta (collections from other cinemas unrceived), 3 lakhs from Darjeeling, 1.65 lakhs from Guwahati, 8.75 lakhs from Nagpur, 4 lakhs from Jabalpur, 8.50 lakhs from Raipur, 14.25 lakhs from Indore, 3.70 lakhs from Gwalior (collections from 2 cinemas unreceived), 15 lakhs from Bhopal, 25.40 lakhs from Jaipur (collections from 2 cinemas unreceived), 2 lakhs from Jodhpur (collections from 2 cinemas unreceived), 2.10 lakhs from Ajmer, 4.55 lakhs from Kota, 15 lakhs from Hyderabad (collections from other cinemas unreceived), 2 lakhs from Aurangabad (collections from 2 cinemas unreceived), 18.20 lakhs from Bangalore, 1 .60 lakhs from Mangalore, 1.55 lakhs from Vijaywada, 2 lakhs from Visakhapatnam and 2.10 lakhs from Madras. With around 8.50 crores, AARAKSHAN has netted 40.50 crores in two weeks from India and is a commercial failure. The Amitabh, Manoj, Saif and Deepika starrer has also failed in the overseas grossing ?170,000 from UK and $440,800 from US.
Meanwhile Rohit Shetty's Ajay Devgn starrer SINGHAM had another productive week (pre-dominantly from Mumbai circuit) as it collected 50 lakhs from Bombay, 46 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 12 lakhs from Surat, 15.75 lakhs from Baroda, 20.15 lakhs from Rajkot , 20 lakhs from Pune, 4.35 lakhs from Nasik, 8.50 lakhs from Delhi city, 2.25 lakhs from Noida, 1.20 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 1.20 lakhs from Kanpur, 2 lakhs from Lucknow , 2 lakhs from Gurgaon, 1.75 lakhs from Calcutta, 6.20 lakhs from Nagpur, 1.10 lakhs from Jabalpur, 2.70 lakhs from Raipur , 5 lakhs from Indore, 6 lakhs from Jaipur, 1.30 lakhs from Hyderabad, 3.60 lakhs from Aurangabad (collections from 2 cinemas unreceived). Adding another 3.75 crore, SINGHAM has netted a huge 96.25 crores in five weeks from India and is a super duper hit. SINGHAM though has been rejected in the Overseas.
Concluding once again with Zoya Akhtar's Hrithik-Katrina kaif starrer, ZINDAGI NA MILEGI DOBARA, the film had its last substantial week collecting 30 lakhs from Bombay (collections from 7 cinemas unreceived), 9 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 2.15 lakhs from Baroda, 1.20 lakhs from Rajkot, 3 lakhs from Pune, 1 lakh from Nasik, 27 lakhs from Delhi city, 3.55 lakhs from Noida, 1.20 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 2 lakhs from Lucknow, 6.20 lakhs from Gurgaon, 1.50 lakhs from Chandigarh, 8.35 lakhs from Calcutta, 1.35 lakhs from Nagpur , 2 lakhs from Indore, 3 lakhs from Jaipur, 9 lakhs from Hyderabad and 16.35 lakhs from Bangalore. With an additional 2 crores, ZINDAGI NA MILEGI DOBARA has netted a big 90 crores in six weeks from India and is a super duper hit. The film is an overseas blockbuster grossing ?890,800 from UK and an astonishing $3,076,226 from the US till the seventh weekend (26-28 August).
