This Friday will see two very interesting fares, Raj Nidimoru and Krishna DK's zoom-com GO GOA GONE and Karan Johar's teen coming-of-age fare GIPPI.
It is but obvious that the front runner will be the Saif-Kunal starrer GO GOA GONE, thanks to a very popular soundtrack, the director duo's impressive track record, and some superb and rib-tickling promotion. But with Karan Johar at the helm of affairs even GIPPI will be no pushover.
Last week's two major releases were Sanjay Gupta's SHOOTOUT AT WADALA and Viacom 18's BOMBAY TALKIES. Expectedly, SHOOTOUT AT WADALA appealed to the masses and managed to score, especially at the single screens in Mumbai-Maharashtra, CP Berar and Hyderabad-Nizam. The multiplexes were not on the same level. The film did manage a healthy weekend netting 25-26 crore (to be validated). Given the high costs, the film will have sustain till the next week as well, to be a plus fare. The other release, BOMBAY TALKIES, with a rock bottom budget of 6 crores and despite a limited release netted 5 crores plus during the opening weekend. Being a film more for prestige and aimed at the International festival circuits, BOMBAY TALKIES is likely to be a critical and commercial success, after the overseas release.
SHOOTOUT AT WADALA has done decently in the overseas grossing? 85,000 from the UK and $208,000 from the US during the opening weekend (3-5 May).
After a great weekend, last week's T-Series and Vishesh Films' venture, AASHIQUI 2, continued its dream run even during the weekdays collecting 4.65 crore from Bombay, 1.35 crore from Ahmedabad, 30 lakhs from Baroda (collections from 4 cinemas unreceived), 35 lakhs from Rajkot, 85 lakhs from Pune, 22 lakhs from Nasik, 11 lakhs from Goa, 9.50 lakhs from Belgaum, 3.65 crore from Delhi city, 50 lakhs from Noida, 43.15 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 33.75 lakhs from Kanpur, 50.35 lakhs from Lucknow, 15.50 lakhs from Agra, 11.55 lakhs from Allahabad, 6.50 lakhs from Meerut, 4 lakhs from Dehradun, 2.50 lakhs from Mathura, 50 lakhs from Gurgaon, 12.75 lakhs from Faridabad, 5.50 lakhs from Kurukshetra, 6 lakhs from Panipat, 8 lakhs from Chandigarh, 10.75 lakhs from Jalandhar, 2.50 lakhs from Amritsar, 7.35 lakhs from Ludhiana, 2 lakhs from Bhatinda, 3.50 lakhs from Ambala, 1.10 crore from Calcutta, 2 lakhs from Darjeeling, 14.75 lakhs from Siliguri, 10.50 lakhs from Dhanbad, 4 lakhs from Ranchi, 13.55 lakhs from Bhubhaneshwar, 7.50 lakhs from Guwahati, 46 lakhs from Nagpur, 25 lakhs from Jabalpur, 27 lakhs from Raipur, 55 lakhs from Indore (collections from 3 cinemas unreceived), 14.50 lakhs from Gwalior (collections from 4 cinemas unreceived), 45 lakhs from Bhopal, 1 crore from Jaipur, 13 lakhs from Ajmer, 7 lakhs from Bikaner, 20.50 lakhs from Kota, 21.75 lakhs from Udaipur, 75 lakhs from Hyderabad, 20 lakhs from Aurangabad, 80 lakhs from Bangalore, 2.50 lakhs from Vijayawada, 4 lakhs from Visakhapatnam, 3.50 lakhs from Madras and 3.15 lakhs from Kochi. Netting 35 crores during the opening week AASHIQUI 2 is already a hit plus and is on way to being the first super hit of 2013!
Meanwhile Balaji Telefilms Ltd. and Vishal Bhardwaj Pictures Pvt. Ltd.'s Emraan Hashmi starrer, EK THI DAAYAN, crashed in the second week collecting 60 lakhs from Bombay, 10 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 3.50 lakhs from Baroda, 1 lakh from Rajkot, 15 lakhs from Pune, 2 lakhs from Nasik, 2 lakhs from Goa, 35 lakhs from Delhi city, 6 lakhs from Noida, 5 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 2.75 lakhs from Kanpur, 5.50 lakhs from Lucknow, 1.25 lakhs from Agra, 6.50 lakhs from Gurgaon, 1.15 lakhs from Faridabad, 20 lakhs from Calcutta, 1 lakh from Siliguri, 2 lakhs from Bhubhaneshwar, 1 lakh from Guwahati, 1.75 lakhs from Nagpur, 1.15 lakhs from Jabalpur, 2.50 lakhs from Raipur, 4.50 lakhs from Indore, 1 lakh from Gwalior, 4 lakhs from Bhopal, 16.50 lakhs from Jaipur, 1.15 lakhs from Kota, 1.50 lakhs from Udaipur, 10 lakhs from Hyderabad and 15 lakhs from Bangalore.
Adding another 4 crore EK THI DAAYAN has netted 29 crores in two weeks from India and will end up as average fare.
EK THI DAAYAN has disappointed in the overseas, grossing? 60,000 from the UK and $85,000 from the US.
Concluding with NAUTANKI SAALA, the film is ending its successful run as it collected 15 lakhs from Bombay, 1.50 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 2.50 lakhs from Pune, 6.50 lakhs from Delhi city, 1.75 lakhs from Noida, 1.15 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 1 lakh from Lucknow, 2.15 lakhs from Gurgaon, 1 lakh from Chandigarh, 1.50 lakhs from Calcutta, 1 lakh from Indore, 1 lakh from Bhopal and 5 lakhs from Bangalore. With another 1.50 crore, NAUTANKI SAALA has netted 23.50 crore in three weeks from India and is an above-average fare.
