Bollywood box-office report of the week
IMP News Wire, dated July 02, 2008

This Friday, both the awaited releases is targeting the same audience, LOVE STORY 2050 and JAANE TU... YA JAANE NA that feature newcomers, who come from well known Bollywood families!

Love story 2050 has created the hype due to following reasons
Its Producer-Director Harry Baweja’s son Harman’s debut which is having its share of publicity for various reasons like Harman’s resemblance with Hritik in looks, Harman’s talked about affair with priyanks in media, its special effects.

The movie is a good example to other professionals involved in promotion in telling how to promote a film having a newcomer.

The movie is being well promoted and generated a hype. How much it gives justice to its hype will be of deep interest amongst the industrywalas and junta in general.

JTNJN is also interesting for the following reasons
Aamir Khan’s home production
Aamir nephew Imran makes his debut in the film
Talented writer Abbas Tryewala turns director in this film.
Pitted against the high budget scifi romance ‘Love Story 2050’ were producer Harry Baweja’s son Harman is making his debut.
We are hoping both the film should fare well at the box-office and provide 2 new stars to the industry.
 
But it will be interesting to see which movie gets the maximum applause, the high budget scifi romance or the lower budget breezy, funny romantic entertainer.
 

THODA PYAAR THODA MAGIC
As per our analysis in the review of Yash Raj Films' Saif-Rani starrer THODA PYAAR THODA MAGIC, the opening in India has turned out to be another disappointment for the premier production house, but more than that for the director and first time producer Kunal Kohli.

The film had a below-the-mark (30-40 percent) start in Bombay and was by and large dull almost everywhere. The film did manage a decent weekend due to a multiplex pick up on Saturday and Sunday. A bigger setback came from the 'normally safe for YRF' Overseas market, more so as THODA PYAAR THODA MAGIC is a feel good movie, a genre normally patronized in UK and also US. The film grossed poor collections of $259,872 from UK and $181,610 from the US. The bright side of things is that Yash Raj Film Distributors are themselves releasing the 20 crore film worldwide, it can still sneak through, but for that THODA PYAAR THODA MAGIC will have to hold decently in the coming weeks.

The other two releases of the week, Fizz Entertainment's THODI LIFE THODA MAGIC and NFDC's VIA DARJEELING had poor to weak openings across India and with no improvement during the weekend, the outcome becomes obvious.

De TAALI
As per our predictions, E. Niwas's Aftab, Ritesh and Ayesha starrer, DE TAALI, Thanks to Ritesh Deshmukh and his Bombay circuit popularity, DE TAALI has netted 7.50 crores in its opening week.

The movie managed to collect 1.95 crores from Bombay, 41.20 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 1.12 lakhs from Himmatnagar, 1.20 lakhs from Patan, 5.30 lakhs from Rajkot, 2.05 lakhs from Jamnagar, 2.85 lakhs from Bhavnagar, 1.60 lakhs from Gandhidham, 9.50 lakhs from Pune, 1.55 lakhs from Solapur, 1.25 lakhs from Sangli, 5.20 lakhs from Nasik, 61 lakhs from Delhi, 11.55 lakhs from Noida, 7.65 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 5 lakhs from Kanpur, 9.20 lakhs from Lucknow, 2.60 lakhs from Agra, 1.50 lakhs from Meerut, 1.15 lakhs from Amritsar, 16.10 lakhs from Gurgaon, 7 lakhs from Faridabad, 1.65 lakhs from Panipat, 1 lakh from Jabalpur, 13 lakhs from Nagpur, 1.25 lakhs from Jabalpur, 7.30 lakhs from Indore, 9.35 lakhs from Jaipur, 1.55 lakhs from Bikaner, 18 (gross) from Hyderabad and 2.30 lakhs from Mangalore.

HAAL – E- DIL
Kumar Mangat's HAAL-E-DIL did not find many takers. Netting just about 50 lakhs from India, it is obvious that the Anil Devgan directed film turns out to be another disappointment, but definitely not for the debut making stars, especially Amita.

The film collected 11.15 lakhs from Bombay, 2.40 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 6.40 lakhs from Delhi, 2 lakhs from Lucknow and 1.30 lakhs from Nagpur.

As expected Pahlaj Nihalani's KHUSHBOO failed badly as the film featuring newcomers Rishi and Avantikka managed less than 20 lakhs in its first week. It is a trade disaster.

MERE BAAP PEHLE AAP
Shemaroo's Priyadarshan directed MERE BAAP PEHLE AAP fell heavily. But its average to below average fare in India.  

The second week collections of the Akshay-Genelia starrer added another 5.65 crores, MERE BAAP PEHLE AAP has netted 21.50 crores in two weeks from India. The film not only crosses the previous highest total for a Priyadarshan-Akshaye Khanna project (HUNGAMA) The film has well in the UK grossing $485,018.

The film collected 55 lakhs from Bombay, 35.20 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 1 lakh each from Patan and Palanpur, 1.80 lakhs from Himmatnagar, 3.60 lakhs from Rajkot, 2.10 lakhs from Jamnagar, 1.50 lakhs from Gandhidham, 3.70 lakhs from Pune, 1.75 lakhs from Solapur, 2.40 lakhs from Nasik, 60 lakhs (approx.) from Delhi city, 6.80 lakhs from Noida, 6.40 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 4.40 lakhs from Kanpur, 12.60 lakhs from Lucknow, 3.15 lakhs from Agra, 1.05 lakhs from Allahabad, 3.20 lakhs from Meerut, 1.25 lakhs from Bareilly, 2.70 lakhs from Aligarh, 11 lakhs from Gurgaon, 4.65 lakhs from Faridabad, 1 lakh from Panipat, 20.40 lakhs from Calcutta, 1.15 lakhs from Guwahati, 8 lakhs (approx.) from Nagpur, 1.65 lakhs from Amravati, 1.45 lakhs from Akola, 1.10 lakhs from Dhule, 1 lakh from Raipur, 1.20 lakhs from Durg, 1.10 lakhs from Wardha, 1.15 lakhs from Chandrapur, 5.70 lakhs from Indore, 18 lakhs from Jaipur, 1.20 lakhs from Bikaner, 11 lakhs (gross) from Hyderabad , 1.10 lakhs from Aurangabad and 1.45 lakhs from Mangalore.
 
SARKAR RAJ
With another big fall in its third week, the fate of SARKAR RAJ is now clear. both critically and commercially! The Amitabh, Abhishek and Aishwarya starrer is a loser at the box-office for most of its distributors, but an average in the Bombay circuit.

During the week, SARKAR RAJ saw a 60-65 percent fall as the film collected around 2.55 crores. It has so far netted 33.25 crores from India in three weeks.

During the week, SARKAR RAJ collected 47 lakhs from Bombay, 10.25 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 1.15 lakhs from Jamnagar, 3.10 lakhs from Pune, 1.10 lakhs from Nasik, 32.85 lakhs from Delhi, 5.15 lakhs from Noida, 2.50 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 1.15 lakhs from Kanpur, 6.25 lakhs from Lucknow, 1.30 lakhs from Agra, 7.65 lakhs from Gurgaon, 2 lakhs from Faridabad, 3.60 lakhs from Nagpur, 1 lakh from Amravati, 3.85 lakhs from Indore and 15.60 lakhs(gross) from Hyderabad.

The Ramgopal Varma directed film has not been appreciated in the Overseas. EROS International, who bought the Overseas rights from Balaji for 7-8 crores have not been able to recover their investment,
As far as the numbers go, SARKAR RAJ has grossed $719,707 from UK and $988,501 from the US.

AAMIR
UTV Spot Boy's Rajeev Khandelwal starrer continues with its winning run adding another 65 lakhs in its third week. The 2 crore film has so far netted around 2.70 crores from its theatrical run in India.