| Film |
Cast |
Plusses |
Minusses |
Verdict |
My Name Is Khan |
Shah
Rukh Khan, Kajol, Jimmy Shergill, Sonya Jehan, Zarina Wahab, Arjun
Mathur, Parvin Dabas, Arif Zakaria, Sugandha Garg, Navneet Nishan,
Vinay Pathak, Tanay Chheda, Yuvaan Makaar |
An exceptional film in all respects |
A bit lengthy towards the second hour |
Picked
up rapidly over the weekend. Saturday was better than Friday, while
Sunday was better than Saturday. This, despite no release in
Maharashtra on Friday [except a few theatres in Mumbai] and a scattered
release on Saturday. The opening weekend closed at Rs. 33.20 cr. nett,
which was confirmed by Fox to this writer. The Friday figures were
approx. Rs. 8 cr., Saturday was Rs. 11.06 cr. and Sunday was a
record-breaking Rs. 14.14 cr. [official figures supplied by Fox].
Mumbai, Delhi-U.P., Punjab, Bengal and South have performed exceedingly
well, while C.P., C.I. and Rajashan aren't that strong |
Ishqiya |
Naseeruddin Shah, Arshad Warsi, Vidya Balan |
Well executed film in all respects, with competent performances and lilting music |
Climax is a letdown |
Profitable venture for its distributors. Reasonable success |
3 Idiots |
Aamir Khan, R. Madhavan, Sharman Joshi, Kareena Kapoor, Boman Irani, Omi |
An outstanding, incredible, superb film in all respects |
Difficult to find |
Super Blockbuster |
Veer |
Salman Khan, Zarine Khan, Mithun Chakraborty, Jackie Shroff, Sohail Khan, Puru Raaj Kumar, Aryan Vaid, Neena Gupta |
Salman Khan |
Poor script |
The
film has fared well in a few circuits only, due to its [first week]
business at single screens. However, Eros, the presenters of the film,
will incur losses. Flop |
Rann |
Amitabh
Bachchan, Riteish Deshmukh, Sudeep, Paresh Rawal, Rajat Kapoor, Mohnish
Bahl, Gul Panag, Neetu Chandra, Suchitra Krishnamoorthy, Simone Singh,
Rajpal Yadav |
RGV is in form |
Gets too real at times |
Flop |
(Ratings are based on the box office collections and the cost of the film) |
Karan Johar's highly anticipated new film My Name is Khan performed better than expected on Sunday, February 14, grossing $761,000 for a 4% increase over Saturday. The film was initially expected to drop by 7% to $682,000. The Sunday figure now ranks as the highest one-day gross ever for any Hindi-language film in North America. The Fox Searchlight release's revised opening weekend figure for February 12-14 now stands at $1,939,000 - still a new all-time record for a Hindi film beating the $1,764,131 of 2007's Om Shanti Om. Starring Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol, KHAN averaged a stellar $16,158 from 120 theaters across the United States and Canada over three days. Theaters across the country have reported sold out shows and have had to turn moviegoers away.
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