This Friday sees films belonging to three very different genre, trying their luck at the box-office; Sriram Raghvan’s crime suspense thriller, ANDHADHUN , SKF’s LOVEYATRI and supernatural horror film, LUPT. While front runner is likely to be the Ayushmann- Radhika starrer, Ayush-Warina’s LOVEYATRI can also make a mark in the Gujarat-Maharashtra belt, while the fate of LUPT will depend upon the content.
Last week witnessed the release of Yash Raj Films’ Varun-Anushka starrer SUI DHAGA- MADE IN INDIA and , Vishal Bhardwaj Picture Pvt. Ltd.’s PATAAKHA. As expected it was SUI DHAGA- MADE IN INDIA, which, after a decent start saw an escalation in collections, netting 55 crore till Tuesday, and given the very reasonable 30 crore budget (plus handsome non-theatrical recovery), the film is on way to a clean hit status. SUI DHAGA- MADE IN INDIA has also impressed in the overseas grossing $1.8m with £95,000 from UK and $585,000 from the US, during the opening weekend (28-30 September).
The other release of the same week as SUI DHAGA, Vishal Bhardwaj Picture Pvt. Ltd.’s PATAAKHA could put up a so-so performance netting 7 crore till Tuesday. One must add that both the films got advantage of the mid-week National Holiday.
Checking out Shree Narayan Singh’s Shahid-Shraddha starrer, BATTI GUL METER CHALU, the film failed to capitalise on a decent weekend (23.25 crore) and tottered during the weekdays collecting 4 crore from Bombay (collections from other cinemas unrecieved), 85 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 33.50 lakhs from Surat, 20.50 lakhs from Baroda, 10 lakhs from Rajkot, 1.25 crore from Pune, 13.75 lakhs from Nasik, 11.50 lakhs from Goa, 2.75 lakhs from Belgaum, 3 crore from Delhi city, 90 lakhs from Noida, 75 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 33.75 lakhs from Kanpur, 80.50 lakhs from Lucknow, 21.25 lakhs from Agra, 11.75 lakhs from Allahabad, 6.50 lakhs from Aligarh, 41.55 lakhs from Dehradun, 75 lakhs from Gurgaon, 31.50 lakhs from Faridabad, 2.25 lakhs from Kurukshetra, 4.50 lakhs from Panipat, 18.75 lakhs from Chandigarh, 6.50 lakhs from Jalandhar, 2.50 lakhs from Patiala, 4.50 lakhs from Amritsar, 9.50 lakhs from Ludhiana, 2.50 lakhs from Bhatinda, 1.70 lakhs from Ambala, 3.25 lakhs from Jammu, 90 lakhs from Calcutta, 7.50 lakhs from Siliguri, 13 lakhs from Patna, 4.75 lakhs from Dhanbad, 13.50 lakhs from Ranchi, 7 lakhs from Bhubaneshwar, 10 lakhs from Guwahati, 6.50 lakhs from Muzaffarpur, 20 lakhs from Nagpur, 23.75 lakhs from Raipur, 45 lakhs from Indore, 15 lakhs from Gwalior(collections from 3 cinemas unrecieved), 25 lakhs from Bhopal(collections from 5 cinemas unrecieved), 85 lakhs from Jaipur (collections from 2 cinemas unrecieved), 12.75 lakhs from Jodhpur, 7 lakhs from Ajmer, 3.25 lakhs from Bikaner, 13.50 lakhs from Kota, 12.50 lakhs from Udaipur, 55 lakhs from Hyderabad, 13.50 lakhs from Aurangabad, 1 crore from Bangalore, 5.75 lakhs from Mangalore, 4.55 lakhs from Mysore, 2.25 lakhs from Vijayawada, 5.25lakhs from Visakhapatnam , 4 lakhs from Madras and 1.50 lakhs from Kochi. Netting 32 crore during the opening week from India, BATTI GUL METER CHALU may just about break even, given that nearly 60 percent investment has already been recovered from non-theatrical rights.
The other major release, Nandita Das directed Nawazuddin starrer, MANTO, saw great critical acclaim but a very selective patronage netting just around 2.50 crore during the opening week.
Checking out Anurag Kashyap’s Abhishek, Vicky and Taapsee starrer MANMARZIYAAN, the film fell heavily during the second week as it collected 1 crore from Bombay (collections from other cinemas unrecieved), 10 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 3.25 lakhs from Surat, 3.50 lakhs from Baroda, 30 lakhs from Pune, 1.50 lakhs from Nasik, 2.25 lakhs from Goa, 65 lakhs from Delhi city, 20 lakhs from Noida, 10 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 3.75 lakhs from Kanpur, 8.50 lakhs from Lucknow, 1 lakh from Agra, 1.50 lakhs from Allahabad, 3.25 lakhs from Dehradun, 21.75 lakhs from Gurgaon, 4 lakhs from Faridabad, 3.75 lakhs from Chandigarh, 1.50 lakhs from Jalandhar, 1.25 lakhs from Amritsar, 1.50 lakhs from Ludhiana, 25 lakhs from Calcutta, 1.25 lakhs from Siliguri, 2 lakhs from Patna, 1.50 lakhs from Ranchi, 1.75 lakhs from Bhubaneshwar, 3.25 lakhs from Nagpur, 3 lakhs from Raipur, 5.50 lakhs from Indore, 5.75 lakhs from Gwalior, 15 lakhs from Bhopal (collections from 2 cinemas unrecieved), 10 lakhs from Jaipur , 1.50 lakhs from Jodhpur, 1 lakh from Kota, 1.50 lakhs from Udaipur, 5 lakhs from Hyderabad, 1.25 lakhs from Aurangabad, 20 lakhs from Bangalore and 1.50 lakhs from Kochi. With another 6 crore, MANMARZIYAAN has netted 28 crore in two weeks from Indi and will struggle for recovery. The film has done reasonably in the overseas grossing £100,000 from UK and $560,000 from the US, till the second weekend (28-30 September).
Concluding with Maddock Films and D2R Film Pvt Ltd’s Rajkummar Rao and Shraddha Kapoor starrer STREE, the film saw another rocking week collecting 1.75 crore from Bombay (collections from other cinemas unrecieved), 25 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 8.50 lakhs from Surat, 6.75 lakhs from Baroda, 2.50 lakhs from Rajkot, 65 lakhs from Pune, 5.25 lakhs from Nasik, 3.50 lakhs from Goa, 1.75 lakhs from Belgaum, 1.25 crore from Delhi city, 35 lakhs from Noida, 22 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 10.50 lakhs from Kanpur, 27 lakhs from Lucknow, 5 lakhs from Agra, 5.25 lakhs from Allahabad, 1.25 lakhs from Aligarh, 7 lakhs from Dehradun, 27.50 lakhs from Gurgaon, 8 lakhs from Faridabad, 1 lakh from Panipat, 5 lakhs from Chandigarh, 1.50 lakhs from Jalandhar, 1 lakh from Patiala, 1.50 lakhs from Amritsar, 2.75 lakhs from Ludhiana, 1.50 lakhs from Jammu, 35 lakhs from Calcutta, 2.25 lakhs from Siliguri, 5.50 lakhs from Patna, 2.50 lakhs from Dhanbad, 4.75 lakhs from Ranchi, 2 lakhs from Bhubaneshwar, 3.55 lakhs from Guwahati, 1.55 lakhs from Muzaffarpur, 10.55 lakhs from Nagpur, 10 lakhs from Raipur, 15 lakhs from Indore, 4 lakhs from Gwalior, 2.50 lakhs from Bhopal, 25 lakhs from Jaipur , 4.25 lakhs from Jodhpur, 2 lakhs from Ajmer, 3.50 lakhs from Kota, 4.75 lakhs from Udaipur, 15 lakhs from Hyderabad, 2.50 lakhs from Aurangabad, 55 lakhs from Bangalore, 2.25 lakhs from Mangalore, 1.50 lakhs from Madras and 1.75 lakhs from Kochi. Adding another 10 crore, the blockbuster STREE has netted 122 crore in three weeks from India and will again feature next week, in this column! STREE is on an inspired run in the overseas, in particular US, grossing nearly $825,000.
