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Zoran009
PostPosted: Tue Jun 03, 2003 4:21 pm 
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Another release, another hit!

http://rediff.com/movies/2003/jun/03box.htm


It's turnaround time for Bollywood.
Ishq Vishk broke the long, dry spell at the box office. Then came Andaaz. Now, it's the turn of Ram Gopal Varma's star-studded Bhoot.

The scary supernatural thriller has opened fabulously and is expected to have a good run. On the other hand, the children's fantasy Jajantaram Mamantaram, which released the same day, failed to create any ripples.

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 the other films that week.






Bhoot

Cast: Ajay Devgan, Urmila Matondkar, Nana Patekar, Fardeen Khan, Rekha, Victor Banerjee
Director: Ram Gopal Varma
A well-directed, tight film. Urmila's superb performance.

A disappointing climax.

Number of weeks: New
BO Verdict: Above average
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Andaaz

Cast: Akshay Kumar, Priyanka Chopra, Lara Dutta
Director: Raj Kanwar
Good music. Exotic locales.

Poor story. Insipid performances.

Number of weeks: 1
BO Verdict: Hit
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Armaan

Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Anil Kapoor, Preity Zinta, Gracy Singh, Randhir Kapoor
Director: Honey Irani
Big B's outstanding performance.

The plot seems like a modern version of the Raaj Kumar-Meena Kumari-Nadira starrer, Dil Apna Aur Preet Parayi

Number of weeks: 2
BO Verdict: Flop
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Ishq Vishk

Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Shenaz Treasurywalla, Amrita Rao
Director: Ken Ghosh
Shahid makes an impressive debut.

Predictable story.

Number of weeks: 3
BO Verdict: Average
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Jajantaram Mamantaram

Cast: Jaaved Jaaferi, Gulshan Grover, Manav Kaul, Joy Fernandes
Director: Soumitra Ranade
Jaaved Jaaferi's funny antics. Interesting plot.

Shoddy special effects. Too many songs.

Number of weeks: New
BO Verdict: Flop
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Haasil

Cast: Jimmy Shergill, Hrishitaa Bhat, Irfan Khan, Ashutosh Rana, Tinnu Anand
Director: Tigmanshu Dhulia
Powerful script. Sincere performances.

Disappointing climax.

Number of weeks: 2
BO Verdict: Flop
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Pran Jaaye Par Shan Na Jaaye

Cast: Raveena Tandon, Namrata Shirodkar, Divya Dutta, Rinke Khanna, Shweta Menon, Aman Verma, Sushmita Sen, Mahesh Manjrekar, Vijay Raaz
Director: Sanjay Jha
Engaging first half.

Hackneyed treatment of the plot.

Number of weeks: 4
BO Verdict: Flop
The review









The Hero: Love Story Of A Spy

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: 7
BO Verdict: Flop
The review









Stumped

Cast: Raveena Tandon, Aly Khan
Director: Gaurab Pandey
Unusual story.

Mediocre acting, terrible soundtrack.

Number of weeks: 2
BO Verdict: Flop
The review









Kaise Kahoon Ke... Pyaar Hai

Cast: Amit Hingorani, Sharbani Mukherji, Sunny Deol
Director: Anil Kumaar Sharma
Sharbani's screen presence.

A plot full of bizarre twists.

Number of weeks: 3
BO Verdict: Average
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UNBELIEVABLE!!!!

If u remember, so far REDIFF is the one with CONSERVATIVE review!!

The scary supernatural thriller has opened fabulously and is expected to have a good run. On the other hand, the children's fantasy Jajantaram Mamantaram, which released the same day, failed to create any ripples.

Man!!! o Man!! During First week!!

Kaya Khayal Hai Rana Badshah???

(Allah is BADSHAH!!!) :nopity: :cool: :D



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BHOOT AT THE BOX OFFICE! The film opens well in India's box office!

Ram Gopal Verma latest movie Bhoot has received some rave reviews and opened to a good response at the Indian box office. The horror film has received plenty of acclaim from the media for Urmila Matondkar's impressive performance. The opening weekend saw very good collections in major cities such as Mumbai and Delhi. Whilst a drop was noticed in some cities after the weekend, other places have remained fairly steady. Considering the budget of the film, it looks set to become a moneymaker


radio sargam..

While komal declared it 2/10...TRADE PUNDIT suck!!
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arsh wrote:
Kaya Khayal Hai Rana ???

:nopity: :cool: :D

Glad to see movies doing well theatrically.

I'll try to catch BHOOT this weekend. Too bad, I can see it in analog sub-standard audio only.

Did you notice, ANDAAZ graduated to HIT in this report from AVERAGE in last week's report.

What do we need to do to get a DEI standard or better DVDs of these two films, even if they come in 6 months??

Rana



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Zoran009
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I did see that rana!!

ANDAAZ...was kinda predictable for INDIAN AUDIENCE, if they can make a hit out of CRAP like MKKH, then, What da heck!

But film, of GENRE like BHOOT, with no Songs, no glamour(except URMILA looking CHIC!)

I was not OPTIMISTIC, that Indian audience will embrace this kinda film, JUST ON QUALITY MERITS only!!

BHOOT is a must watch, with GOOD SOUND!

DVDS>>>>ab Kiya boloun..it will be S* from spark and Tips..

BTW!! ROAD was a BAD TRANSFER, but VERY GOOD sound on DVD, IMHO
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Just as I was losing hope on the Indian audience after Andaaz... :)
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Just watched andaaz yesterday.. it was an OK film... certainly not worthy of the Hit status it has been given..... it was way too predictable....music was good but not exceptional.. priyanka chopra was good.. akshay looked uneasy.. climax was surely good..but hey our audiences can be way too unpredictable at times..
seeing bhoot this weekend so cannot compare yet!
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BHOOT FAILS IN THE UK CHARTS!
The film doesn't find big enough audience!

Despite the hype surrounding Bhoot in the UK, the film didn't manage to find a large audience in the country and failed to enter the national box office charts. Although director Ram Gopal Verma's movies are normally acclaimed, they don't always find huge amounts of interest outside of India. Bhoot was unfortunately not an exception to the rule despite the fact it stars the likes of Urmila Matondkar, Ajay Devgan, Rekha and Fardeen Khan. Infact the film wasn't able to compete with order releases such as Andaaz, which made more money in its second weekend than Bhoot did in its first weekend.
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UK!! viewers, Patronizing GOOD film..what a JOKE!!

They r worth YAADEIN/YRHPK/YHJ/HMBPK/ANDAAZ etc etc!! :nopity: :stupid:
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as a general trend horror movies do not find acceptance with the NRI audience.... so thats not surprising....
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My apologies..UK audience seems to be MINDLESS audience!!

I was not EXPECTING BHOOT, esp, being songless, glamourless to MAKE in INDIA either!

If it WONT be HIT/AVERAGE still, I'll PROMOTE it as GOOD FILM..BUGET 5 CROROE only..LOOKS, SURE HIT!
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arsh wrote:
My apologies..UK audience seems to be MINDLESS audience!!

I was not EXPECTING BHOOT, esp, being songless, glamourless to MAKE in INDIA either!

If it WONT be HIT/AVERAGE still, I'll PROMOTE it as GOOD FILM..BUGET 5 CROROE only..LOOKS, SURE HIT!

Arre Arsh bhai.....I'm not mindless! I saw the film in the cinema!!

Maybe the UK audience were too scared to watch the movie.....
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Bhaii miyan, I was not including you, miyan!! i knew you have seen that, and besides there will be MORE DARE DEVILS..but I was refering to MAJORITY of UK viewers!!

I dont think, they dont watch, as it is HORROR or SCARRY!!?
But it is not MINDLESS/STUPID, meethi goli like YHJ/Yaadein/YRHPK etc!!

What do u think?

I am amazed of INDIAN AUDIENCE! :baaa:
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BOX OFFICE


BHOOT

Amod Mehra

What a relief it has been to the film industry that the audience are making a beeline back to the theatres. Ek Aur Ek Gyarah, Ishq Vishk and Andaaz all took good openings but Bhoot has surpassed all these and taken a bumper opening - that too being a songless, short two hour film. As the film is made in a modest budget, the entire cost of the film is likely to be recovered in the first week itself! Bravo!



JAJANTARAM MAMANTARAM

This Indian inspired version of Gulliver’s Travels opened to decent houses. Maybe the opening could have been better but the pirated VCDs were out three days before the release of the film, which is too shocking for words!



ANDAAZ

The gentry may not have liked the film but the masses seem to have somewhat accepted the film at least initially, as they came in large numbers to see Andaaz. For the first four days, the going was good but fifth day onwards the drop in collections were steep. Seems the audience could not accept Akshay Kumar as a college student!



ARMAAN

The second week’s collections too were much below the mark. The only silver lining is that in Mumbai in certain good theatres some gentry audience have liked the film. But this section was too small a number to actually make much difference to the fate of the film.

COMING UP

NAYEE PADOSAN

For the second consecutive week a film produced by Nitin Manmohan is being released. Choreographer BH Tharun Kumar makes his debut as a director with this new starcast comedy film.



KHWAHISH

A bold film with pre-marital sex as its base. The film is directed by Govind Menon and stars Himanshu Malik opposite debutante Mallika Sherawat.





Screenindia's BO report.
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Bhoot And New Releases Hold Promise
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A week after its release, Ram Gopal Varma´s Bhoot is being celebrated as another success for the industry after a number of previous ones, more specifically, the real hit of the year, Suneel Darshan´s Andaaz. Trade analysts are confirming and assuring that the film is not a universal success, but is doing very well in a majority of the territories deeming it an above average film. Though, like no different, many analysts are on opposite ends regarding the film, all do admit that collections fluctuated but remained steady in many areas. Ram Gopal Varma has once again another non-flop under his belt, and this the industry is very happy for. The film that clashed with Bhoot, a youth oriented cartoon-styled drama J2M2 failed to create notable collections for itself as a film. At 10 crore, this is one of the most expensive children´s movie that has been produced in India and had to open well to prove successful at the box office. Unfortunately that did not happen. The opening was ordinary. As for a verdict, the makers of J2M2 have already got a sizeable portion of their investment from overseas, however in India it has to toil really hard so that the distributors recover their investment.

This week two no name films with no name stars compete at the box office. Both films (Nayee Padason and Khwahish) were touted as having good music and surprise attraction values. From reviews and box office premiers, it seems neither will work out.


Film
Bhoot
Starring
Urmila Matondkar, Ajay Devgan, Seema Biswas, Nana Patekar, Rekha, Fardeen Khan, Victor Bannerjee
Released
May 30th, 2003
Summary
Bhoot the 15 crore movie from Ram Gopal Varma, took a very good start but faltered from the 2nd day onward, only to pick up on Sunday once again. From Monday onwards the collections in UP, Bihar, West Bengal, East Punjab and Central India continued to vary.

However, in Mumbai City the movie has had a good weekend and also in Bangalore (south) where Bhoot released at ten theatres (including two theatres for morning show only) last Friday. The weekend collections were very good. Of the 102 shows screened during the weekend more than 80 were house full.


Final Verdict
Although it is early days, Ram Gopal Varma may be able to recover his investments but the distributors of Bhoot are set to lose in UP (Delhi-UP territory), East Punjab, Eastern Territory and parts of Central India. The collections in Mumbai City, South and Hyderabad, Nizam will be good, while in Delhi City it maybe reasonably good.



Film
Andaaz
Starring
Akshay Kumar, Lara Dutta, Priyanka Chopra, Aman Verma
Released
May 23rd, 2003
Summary
As we had predicted last week the movie has got good collections from all over India. The estimated all India gross from all cinemas 8.75 crores. First week collections (gross) range from:

Mumbai - 92,88,990(from 18 prints)

Hyderabad (gross) 32,92,449 from 10 cinemas

Ahmedabad 33,50,694 from 10 cinemas

Calcutta 28,57,500 from 17 cinemas

Bangalore 21 lacs from 9 cinemas

Siliguri 1,40,242(Assam)

Jamnagar 3,11,819,

Rajkot 5,76,202 from 2 cinemas

Pune 21,27,604 from 6 cinemas

Delhi 70,76,713 from 12 cinemas

Aligarh 3,58,436

Ghaziabad 2,83,738

Lucknow 10,21,084 from 2 cinemas,

Agra 6,05,000

Varanasi 3,70,702

Allahabad 3,46,422

Meerut 4,00,331

Dehradun 2,60,741

Bareilly 2,74,824

Gorakhpur 4,01,979

Moradabad 2,74,086

Muzaffarnagar 2,00,000

Nagpur 5,96,473 from 4 cinemas

Jabalpur 2,57,066

Amravati 2,35,763

Akola 1,49,144

Raipur 2,00,014

Bhilai 1,40,969

Jalgaon 2,04,580

Yavatmal 65,000

Indore 2,46,000 (2 on F.H.)

Ujjain 1,24,800

Jaipur 18,14,690 from 8 cinemas

Jodhpur 9,01,509

Ajmer 5,72,835

Bikaner 3,72,303

Udaipur 1,92,965 from 2 cinemas

Kota 2,26,333

Alwar 1,03,049

Kishangarh 92,809

Bhilwara 98,500

Total 4 crores from 125 cinemas.



Final Verdict
Andaaz, as predicted last week, has done well in spite of mixed reports (amongst public) and bad reports (in the trade). It is best in Bombay, Delhi-U.P., Bihar and Rajasthan. It is very strong in ‘B’ class centers and at a reasonable production cost of 10 crore, the movie becomes the first universal hit of 2003.





Film
Armaan
Starring
Amitabh Bachchan, Anil Kapoor, Preity Zinta, Gracy Singh, Randhir Kapoor, Introducing Aamir Bashir
Released
May 16th, 2003
Final Verdict
The movie fails in India except Mumbai City but has done well in overseas territory namely USA and UK.
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