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dograk
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"The Bollywood spy thriller The Hero opened in 21 theaters and grossed an estimated $142,000 for a solid $6,762 average. Released by Video Sound, the Hindi-language action-adventure film stars Sunny Deol and former Miss World Priyanka Chopra."

solid my foot. a movie of its size needed a good million area opening for it to do recover anything. on the other hand tho, its kind of obvious that it wouldn't have opened well in NA, so....

bleh. :) another flop....
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dograk
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...Anil Sharma's The Hero for no better reason than its exorbitant budget which necessitated a prompt on-schedule release.

Going by the lukewarm reception accorded to Sharma's Rs 550-million spy thriller it seems the industry is in for excruciating times ahead.

Two days after its release the trade is already talking of heavy losses.

Says Bihar exhibitor Roshan Singh, "Distributors all over the country have paid huge money to acquire The Hero. Seeing the audiences' reaction it would be a miracle if the film breaks even."


http://www.indiavarta.com/Startre....4011703

--losing in india as well...
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Zoran009
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ACTIONs/SUNNY are not HIP in NA!!somehow, GADAR did better in UK than USA!!
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rana
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Don't underestimate The Hero.

Collections in India:

95% collections.
Collections Better than Devdas.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_ ... 110003.htm

Rana



Edited By rana on 1050421730
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Zoran009
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http://www.planetbollywood.com/BoxOffic ... 104524.php


The Hero Opening
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The Hero

The 55 cr product opened to a great response all over India, specially in Delhi-UP and Mumbai city and suburbs. The collection in the hindi heartland, touched 100% for the Ist Day in UP and 95 % in Delhi. This is specially heartening for the lead star Sunny Deol as he has been given Delhi-UP territory as his renumeration.


In parts of South specially Bangalore, where the movie opened at 11 centres, the response has been ordinary but this is only a small segment of the southern territory.


What is most surprising is that the movie has not been accepted that well in Punjab. Perhaps the computer/techno savvy Sunny has not been liked compared to the more earthy Tara Singh of Gadar.


Verdict -The movie has been sold for a hefty price of around 3.25 cr/territory and is being distributed by the producers themselves in Mumbai Territory. Inpite of having the best initial of 2003, we will have to wait for the final verdict. The movie will fare best in Delhi-UP and Mumbai city and suburbs. The weekend collection which was expected to be 5 cr finally settled at around 4.5-4.6 cr.


Ek Aur Ek Gyarah

Ek Aur Ek Gyarah was boosted by the VAT strike in the first week, but failed to capitalise on the satisfactory Ist week. Except for Mumbai, the collections dropped alarmingly in the IInd week.


Ist two weeks gross in India 7.21 cr


IInd week collection percentages
Mumbai-62%
Delhi- 43%
Kolkata-25%
Jaipur- 20%

Verdict -The 13 cr movie (inclusive of print and publicity) may just about scrape through with minimal losses for Mr. Ghai once the sattelite and VCD rights are accounted for.


Yeh Dil

Verdict - The movie is a total loss in the first week itself with no hopes of any improvement in the IInd week, which is bad news for Tusshar.


Ist week collection percentage
Mumbai-40%
Delhi--24%
Kolkata-22%


***Looks REALISTIC FIGURES to me!!


http://rediff.com/movies/2003/apr/15box.htm

Sunny's machismo not good enough for BO
Anil Sharma's Rs 550 million film The Hero: Love Story Of A Spy, starring Sunny Deol, Preity Zinta and Priyanka Chopra, failed to lift the Hindi film industry out of the doldrums, though it did well in Mumbai.
Jose Punnoose's 3-D film Chota Jadugar, with Suraj Balajee, who was seen in Shah Rukh Khan's Asoka, managed to lure children into cinema halls in Mumbai with attractions like free candyfloss and tattoos. Yet, the film fared badly.

Note: Films are ranked on the basis of their performance at the box office every week. Though a film may be declared a flop, it may have performed better than other films that week.






The Hero

Cast: Sunny Deol, Preity Zinta, Priyanka Chopra
Director: Anil Sharma
Great performances from Sunny Deol and Preity Zinta

Weak plot, post-interval

Number of weeks: New
BO Verdict: Flop
The review









Chota Jadugar

Cast: S P Balasubramaniam, Suraj Balajee
Director: Jone Punnoose
Very good 3D effects

Weak story

Number of weeks: New
BO Verdict: Flop
The review









Yeh Dil

Cast: Tusshar Kapoor, Anita
Director: Tejaa
Anita's girl-next-door charm

Contrived plot

Number of weeks: 1
BO Verdict: Flop
The review









Ek Aur Ek Gyarah

Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Govinda, Amrita Arora, Nandini Singh
Director: David Dhawan
A few funny moments

Repetitive comedy, poor music

Number of weeks: 2
BO Verdict: Flop
The review









Chura Liyaa Hai Tumne

Cast: Zayed Khan, Esha Deol
Director: Sangeeth Sivan
Good action sequences

Boring story

Number of weeks: 3
BO Verdict: Flop
The review









Om

Cast: Attin Bhalla, Sandhali Sinha
Director: Ashok Honda
Good action sequences

Poor story, bad performances

Number of weeks: 3
BO Verdict: Flop
The review
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[What is most surprising is that the movie has not been accepted that well in Punjab. Perhaps the computer/techno savvy Sunny has not been liked compared to the more earthy Tara Singh of Gadar]

INDOLINK, point!! :baaa:
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rana
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arsh wrote:




The Hero

The collection in the hindi heartland, touched 100% for the Ist Day in UP and 95 % in Delhi. This is specially heartening for the lead star Sunny Deol as he has been given Delhi-UP territory as his renumeration.



The weekend collection which was expected to be 5 cr finally settled at around 4.5-4.6 cr.

And they call this a flop.

Was it supposed to collect more than 100% via black marketers??

Long gone are days for over 80% opening and over 60% in the second week. They must adjust costs as per new realities.

May be they need Khawaish (releasing in May) type film.

Rana
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dograk
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rana, the dif is that HERO is a 55CR movie! not a simple 10-15CR movie...

for it to recover ANY amount WHATSOEVER, it needed to do well overseas - but there is no way it could, and that's been shown! so, it needed to do well in EVERY territory of india - which it hasn't...

the indolink numbers are only for the first day and that too in the hindu heartland - they're to be expected . what's not to be expected, and causes alarm, is that Punjab collections have been bad@! also they're only percentages - %ges don't matter much - what matters is the collections. if you look at devdas' first week %ge it was only 92% - however, most importantly, it had the highest actual collections ever, over 11CR....HERO needs to do those kind of numbers (and exceed them) for it to recover them....

btw Rediff calls HERO a FLOP --> http://www.rediff.com/movies/2003/apr/15box.htm
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rana
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1) Was it 1st wk or 1st weekend, "Over 11 Cr for Devdas".

2) The Hero Collections are more than Devdas as reported.

If 100% collection is a flop then of course the movie is a flop by design.

Rana
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The Hero will just be an above average flick with good collections in the North," says trade analyst Komal Nahta.

<which it hasn't achieved)...
--- from HT...
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I hope this film flops big time..
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Aryan
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A movie as bad as this can only do well in India if anywhere at all. :p
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If 100% collection is a flop then of course the movie is a flop by design.

LOL!
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USBO ignores Sunny's heroics

Arthur J Pais | April 15, 2003 10:58 IST


The Hero: Love Story Of A Spy shows no promise of being a hit abroad.

Sunny Deol, who has never been a big draw overseas, except for the odd Ghayal, saw his much-hyped movie open to unspectacular numbers in North America. (The box-office figures from the United Kingdom were unavailable till Wednesday.)

Playing in 21 theatres in North America, director Anil Sharma's The Hero grossed $130,000 in three days. If it follows the usual 45-50 per cent attrition for Hindi movies in North America, it might end with a $350,000 gross.

Films like Pukar and Sarfarosh, with themes of patriotism and espionage, have grossed more than $600,000 in North America. They each opened in more than 40 theatres.

Deol and Sharma were also unlucky with Gadar -- Ek Prem Katha. A huge hit in India, the movie barely grossed $200,000 in North America.

Pakistanis and Bangladeshis, who constitute a substantial part of the audience for desi movies abroad, generally stay away from films that they perceive to be anti-Pakistan. It is only when Indians see them in overwhelming numbers that films like Vidhu Vinod Chopra's Mission Kashmir ($1 million) or John Mathew Mathan's Sarfarosh ($800,000) score high at the box office.

With The Hero not seeing much success, North America still awaits its first solid desi hit this year. The recent release Ek Aur Ek Gyarah also had a disappointing run, with about $150,000 grossed in two weeks.

Director Gurinder Chadha, who was to make London for Sunny Deol (later directed by Deol as Dillagi) many years ago but quit following differences with him over the script, is having the last laugh, now that Bend It Like Beckham is a hit in North America.

The $5 million movie, which has grossed about $50 million outside America, has made about $4 million in its initial American run.

Over the weekend, the movie rose from number 16 to number 14 on the box-office chart.

The feel-good comedy, distributed by Fox Searchlight, added about 100 theatres over the weekend, taking its total to 216. Its $1.37 million weekend gross was 20 per cent more than its previous week's collection.

The film received good reviews in Cincinnati, Kansas City, Memphis and Halifax. 'Bend It Like Beckham is a many-flavoured movie, like the Indian cuisine that its spunky heroine is required to learn,' wrote Margaret A McGurk in The Cincinnati Enquirer. 'Director Gurinder Chadha neatly blends sports, coming-of-age and culture-clash genres in the story of Jasminder Bhamra (Parminder K Nagra), the daughter of Sikh immigrants living comfortably in the English suburbs.'

With another expansion planned for Friday, Bend it Like Beckham is working hard to reach the top 10 list.

http://rediff.com/movies/2003/apr/15usbo1.htm

****GADAR did better on DVD than USBO!
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dograk
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rana wrote:
1) Was it 1st wk or 1st weekend, "Over 11 Cr for Devdas".

2) The Hero Collections are more than Devdas as reported.

If 100% collection is a flop then of course the movie is a flop by design.

Rana

1) Devdas made approx 11.5 CR in its first week.
2) Hero's collections are LESS than Devdas - however, in UP, the percentages are higher. - again, like i said, the %ges don't matter, the money does!
3) Where is it 100% yaar....

the movie was gonna do bad - evident from before its opening - considering how huge it is, it had ZERO hype..

HERO = ZERO :D
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The movie is the epitome of bad filmmaking on a big budget. Devdas looks like a classic masterpiece next to it. I hope the producers go bankrupt with the film and wake up their ideas. Leave filmmaking to professional filmmakers, not businessmen!
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