Bollywood box-office report of the week
IMP News Wire, dated May 15, 2008

BHOOTHNATH
The film opened to a mixed response both from the paying public as well as the critics.

The Ravi Chopra produced & Vivek Sharma directed BHOOTHNATH got a reasonable start, based on interesting promos and excellent release timing for the target audience, the kids. What is important to note here is that despite the fact that the first day had a so-so start in Bombay and a dull one at many other places, the film picked up as the weekend progressed. However, the Amitabh, Juhi, Aman and SRK (special appearance) starrer has failed to impress in the Overseas with an ordinary gross of $330,246 from the US and a poor $127,693 from UK.

 

JIMMY
Did not surprised anyone, the movie is in dire states at the box –office. Mimoh needs another chance to prove his talent.

 

 

 

 

 

MR. WHITE MR. BLACK
Even the presence of Arshad Warsi and Suneil Shetty was hardly a consolation factor. MR. WHITE MR. BLACK has predictably failed to make an impact. The film managed poor collections in its first week, netting a poor 2.75 crores in its opening week from India. with 48 lakhs from Bombay, 17.15 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 1.35 lakhs from Patan, 1.05 lakhs from Palanpur, 2.50 lakhs from Rajkot, 1.75 lakhs from Jamnagar, 2.65 lakhs from Bhavnagar, 1.05 lakhs from Gandhidham, 2.35 lakhs from Pune, 17.30 lakhs from Delhi, 3.30 lakhs from Noida, 2.25 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 1.20 lakhs from Kanpur, 4.25 lakhs from Lucknow, 1.65 lakhs from Agra, 3.05 lakhs from Gurgaon, 1.15 lakhs from Faridabad, 1.05 lakhs from Guwahati, 4 lakhs (approx) from Nagpur, 2.40 lakhs from Indore, 3.70 lakhs from Jaipur, 9.70 lakhs from Hyderabad and I lakh from Mangalore . The Arshad Warsi , Suneil Shetty and Sandhya Mridul starrer Needless to add that the much delayed film is a failure, both in India and Overseas. The Deepak Shivdasani directed MR. WHITE MR. BLACK has been outrightly rejected in the UK with a poor gross of just $51,321.

ANAMIKA
The movie has failed miserably. Its best collections of around 1.70 lakhs each come from Bombay and Delhi city and the rest of India shows numbers that are way less than even a lakh! The film's extremely poor collections confirm its disaster status.

 

 

 

 

PRANALI – THE TRADITION
The movie is also a huge debacle, though it has fared somewhat better than ANAMIKA in Bombay, collecting 4.40 lakhs but is a washout at the other centers.

 

 

 

 

 

BOTH THE FILMS WE BELIEVE COULD NOT EVEN RECOVER THER PRINT AND PUBLICITY COST. 

TASHAN
In the week gone by, trade gave TASHAN another chance to show its pull at the box office. Even though the film's collections were poor in the first week (18.5 crores), especially while keeping into consideration that the film had seen a huge release (750+ cinemas), the final verdict was kept on hold since the multiplex issue was seeing a resolution in the second week.

With releases like ANAMIKA, MR. WHITE MR. BLACK and PRANALI hardly expected to be any competition whatsoever, it had to be seen if TASHAN managed to hold on to decent collections in the second week and come up with a face saving total.

However, this wasn't the case to be as the woes of TASHAN continued in the same mode as the week gone by and the film hardly seemed to be on the road to recovery.

Thus all hopes of Yash Raj Films' Vijay Krishna Acharya directed multi-starrer, TASHAN, getting the benefit of a multiplex release (though a week late) came crashing down. The film netted a poor (in the context of the lavishly mounted project) 25.50 crores in two weeks from India.. The film collected 65 lakhs from Bombay, 32 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 1.65 lakhs from Himmatnagar, 6.70 lakhs from Rajkot, 1.15 lakhs (gross) from Bhavnagar, 2.20 lakhs from Jamnagar, 1.20 lakhs from Gandhidham, 3.20 lakhs from Pune, 1.50 lakhs from Solapur, 3.70 lakhs from Nasik, 67 lakhs from Delhi city, 10.40 lakhs from Noida, 7.20 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 3 lakhs from Kanpur, 13 lakhs from Lucknow, 3.10 lakhs from Agra, 1.70 lakhs from Bareilly, 2.75 lakhs from Aligarh, 1.30 lakhs from Muzaffarnagar, 13.35 lakhs from Gurgaon, 1.65 lakhs from Faridabad, 1 lakh from Panipat, 3.60 lakhs from Nagpur, 1.30 lakhs from Jabalpur, 1.40 lakhs from Amravati, 1.10 lakhs from Akola, 1.35 lakhs from Raipur, 5.75 lakhs from Indore, 1.25 lakhs from Sehore, 15.20 lakhs from Jaipur, 1 lakh each from Bikaner and Chandrapur, 1.45 lakhs from Mangalore, 2.60 lakhs from Aurangabad and 14.20 lakhs from Hyderabad. Adding another 7 crores, The film is a failure for YRF, their second big project of recent times after JHOOM BARABAR JHOOM. TASHAN has also been rejected in the Overseas with poor grosses of $457,380 from the US and $658,584 from UK.

U ME AUR HUM
U ME AUR HUM lived for yet another week and earned a crore more after a 65% fall. At 23 crores, it has been a decent directorial debut for Ajay Devgan who has managed to save its face to some extent.
The Ajay Devgan's directorial debut, U ME AUR HUM, could not capitalize on the lack of opposition and fell heavily in its fourth week. Checking out the numbers, U ME AUR HUM has netted nearly 23 crores in four weeks from India. The Ajay-Kajol starrer though, remains in the average to below average category. U ME AUR HUM is already a good success in the Overseas.
The movie collected 16.70 lakhs from Bombay, 6.10 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 8.40 lakhs from Delhi city, 1 lakh from Noida, 1.40 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 1.30 lakhs from Lucknow, 2.60 lakhs from Gurgaon, 2 lakhs from Nagpur and 1.15 lakhs from Indore. Adding another  70- 75 lakhs to its kitty.

KRAZZY 4
KRAZZY 4 saw a heavy fall with collections dipping down by more than 75%. 50 lakhs more coming in means that KRAZZY 4 has now crossed the 24 crores mark. Now is just the right time for the film's DVDs to hit the stands.

 

 

 

 

RACE
Meanwhile VCDs of RACE have arrived though DVDs are still a little distance away. In the week which led to a 50 day celebration, RACE earned another 40 lakhs, hence crossing the 63 crores mark. Abbas-Mustan's RACE, which is now doing the last few laps! The movie collected 2.50 lakhs from Bombay, 4.35 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 3.30 lakhs from Delhi and 1.30 lakhs from Lucknow. Running at not so many screens, RACE manages another 30 lakhs for a total of around 62.70 crores (net) in seven weeks from India. The Anil Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan, Akshaye Khanna, Bipasha Basu, Katrina Kaif and Sameera Reddy starrer RACE is a hit from India. RACE is also a good hit in the Overseas circuit.

 

KHUDA KAY LIYE
Coming to KHUDA KAY LIYE, the remarkable film continues to find patronage amongst elite audience. Adding another 25 lakhs KHUDA KAY LIYE has netted an impressive 2.50-2.55 crores in five weeks from India. The film continued its rock steady run with a limited number of prints. The film collected 9 lakhs from Bombay, 1.35 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 3.10 lakhs from Delhi and 1.15 lakhs from Noida. The Shoaib Mansoor directed film now moves towards the above average status from India.

THIS FRIDAY
Jannat is a solo release this Friday coming from the Bhatt camp and is expected to take a decent opening thanks to its music (quite often in the case of the serial kisser – Emran Hashmi).

The Kunal Deshmukh directed Emraan Hashmi and Sonal Chauhan starrer has been timely promoted (as the entire nation is in the IPL frenzy!) with some brilliant publicity, super music and the craze of the nation, cricket as its theme.