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Tees Maar Khan has set the box office ablaze this morning with a mind boggling response. The film has taken an 100% opening at most multiplexes. The opening was expected but 100% certainty is when it actually happens. The early round up from major multiplexes is below. It is simply EARTH SHATTERING.
10.00 am Wave Raja Garden Delhi – 100%
Delite Delhi 100% for Friday (4 shows)
10.00 am G3S Rohini Delhi -100%
10.00 am Wave Noida – 100%
10.00 am 10.40 am Spice Noida – 100% (2 shows) (11.20am already 100%)
10.00 am Wave Lucknow – 100%
10.00am Wave Ludhiana – 100% (11.45 am 12.30pm already 100%) Likely HISTORY at the theatre as all 14 shows likely to go 100% on day one.
B.O. update: ‘Tees Maar Khan’ opens to phenomenal response
- By Taran Adarsh, December 24, 2010 – 14:50 IST
Tees Maar Khan Everyone knew TEES MAAR KHAN would open big and the film lived up to those expectations as it opened to a phenomenal response across the nation. The occupancy was 100% practically everywhere. What came as a surprise was that even the morning shows opened to packed houses. Especially in North India because winter has already set in and people were expecting a low turnout due to the cold wave. The film is expected to set new records at several stations on Day 1 due to the tremendous hype.
Tees Maar Khan started with bumper collections in the morning is continuing at the pace through the afternoon.
It is very possible that the first day could be historic and record breaking. The film is chasing the 14.45 crore nett day one record of Dabangg and everything depends on evening and night shows but the chances are there of surpassing Dabangg opening.
Delhi/UP, East Punjab, West Bengal, Bihar, CP Berar, CI and Rajasthan have seen the biggest Friday morning opening in the history of Indian cinema. Most of these circuits are where Akshay Kumar has a massive fan following.
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Mumbai and South are also huge but not as historic as the circuits above compared comparatively. But even in Mumbai a first day circuit record is not out of the question. In Mumbai the first day circuit record is still held by Three Idiots of 5.24 crore nett while Dabangg fell just short with 5.14 crore nett.
In Mumbai circuit Three Idiots had ticket prices hiked by a huge margin of 30-40% while Dabangg did not which kept it below Three Idiots. Tees Maar Khan has ticket prices raised by 10-15% and this could help Tees Maar Khan set a Mumbai record as well.
Taran and his bias box office reporting. These numbers for TMK in the UK and US (average of $900 per screen) are not impressive especially for the holiday season.
U.K., U.S. Update: ‘TMK’ maintains speed, ‘TKS’ slow
-By Taran Adarsh, December 24, 2010 – 20:28 IST
The Thursday numbers of the Christmas releases, TEES MAAR KHAN and TOONPUR KA SUPERRHERO, have come in. Despite bad weather, TEES MAAR KHAN seems to be galloping at a good speed, while TOONPUR KA SUPERRHERO continues to remain on the lower side in U.K., despite a strong word of mouth. In America too, TEES MAAR KHAN has started on an impressive note. Here are the numbers:-
U.K. BOXOFFICE
TEES MAAR KHAN
Tuesday previews – £ 14,416 [limited screens]
Wednesday – £ 57,207 on 52 screens
Thursday – £ 40,595 on 52 screens
TOONPUR KA SUPERRHERO
Wednesday – £ 1,165 on 17 screens
Thursday – £ 588 on 11 screens
U.S.A. BOXOFFICE
TEES MAAR KHAN
Wednesday – $ 90,000 + on 100 screens
‘BBB’ a yesraj crap facing No Problem still grossed over 17 cr. KHJJS a Baby B prestige movie done 6 cr lifetime. How tasteless is india’s masse’s test.
Four circuit numbers are in and its a small advantage to Dabangg at the moment as the film was stronger in single screen dominated circuits like CP Berar, CI and Rajasthan.
CP Berar
Tees Maar Khan – 75 lakhs
Dabangg -89 lakhs
CI
Tees Maar Khan – 50 lakhs
Dabangg -62 lakhs
Rajasthan
Tees Maar Khan – 75 lakhs
Dabangg -80 lakhs
Nizam/Andhra
Tees Maar Khan – 67 lakhs
Dabangg -55 lakhs
Dabangg has an advantage of 19 lakhs from the four circuits mentioned above. Tees Maar Khan is 7% lower.
‘”BBB’ a yesraj crap facing No Problem still grossed over 17 cr. KHJJS a Baby B prestige movie done 6 cr lifetime.”—dj–if these figures are true and im gowarieker/abhi,I will be mighty worried!
maybe u were bneing tongue in cheek with bbb—but dont think that bbb was bad
When Sheila Ki Jawani first hit the small screen, the junta went berserk. Suddenly, Sheila was being touted as the next Munni and Tees Maar Khan as the next Dabangg. But, while Dabangg (with Munni intact) got rave reviews from the critics, Tees Maar Khan has failed to impress the critics. In fact, one reviewer has gone ahead and said that the film is not even worth a free ticket.
Nikhat Kazmi, film crictic, who gave the film 2.5 stars, wrote, ” Sadly, Tees Maar Khan begins as a spoof and remains a spoof, till the very end. All the characters end up as mere caricatures and completely fail to build up an emotional quotient in the film.” She feels that even though the film has colour, humour and pace but nothing seems to fall in place in terms of plot and character connect.
Tees Maar KhanIf you think that was ripping the film apart, wait till you read this one. Renuka Rao, film critic, Daily News Analysis, has termed the film a catastrophe. “Tees Maar Khan is a classic example of a cluttered film in which a hodgepodge of characters incoherently jabbers ludicrous dialogues building up an odd plot that just refuses to make any sense at any point of time,” wrote Rao.
She did not even spare the superhit jodi of Katrina Kaif and Akshay Kumar. “The so-called superstar jodi of Hindi cinema – Kumar and Kaif – has hardly any moments together, and individually both deliver pathetic performances.”
Even Taran Adarsh, who is known to support mainstream Bollywood films, has not spared Farah Khan’s Tees Maar Khan. ” The film gets messy in the second half, especially since Farah and her team of writers attempt to pack just about everything in this hour. Also, a couple of scenes don’t register well. The sequence involving the ‘headless ghost’ appears futile. The heist is plain ordinary and doesn’t conjure up the magic on screen. The finale in the courtroom and the premiere of the film fall flat as well.”
All in all, Tees Maar Khan has not lived up to critics’ expectations and they have left no stones unturned to lash out at the two time hit director. Wonder if Sheila will manage to salvage the film at the box office.
“Yup, MKD would’ve smiled on watching this one. Go for Tees Maar Khan. Ignore all the negative comments you’ve been hearing about. It’s great unpretentious fun. ”
His standard has been always low as a reviewer…Those who hav aleady watched TMK will understand it…
after all that hoopla over great advance bookings and full house early morning shows, it ends up being the 3rd biggest.. WOM’s power is often underestimaed.. by that pace, we may be looking at another crash..
Tees Maar Khan grossed around 12.75 crore nett on day one. It is a huge first day but at its morning opening pace it was heading for a 14 crore nett total or even better and as the negative reports fed through it could not sustain at the same level. The weekend looks to be heading for 40 crore nett if it gets the normal holiday jump. The territorial breakdown is as follows.
don’t think MHN beat the record at the time (overall week 1 number).. could be wrong but I don’t remember this.. OSO itself beat D2 only by 2-3 crores or so which is nothing given that it released a year after D2 but it also released with Saawariya which also had a flying start. So OSO would have been bigger without the competition and much more safely ‘record-breaking’.
do you think you’re neutral on many of these question? SRK for example? I think one should be willing to display a certain impartiality (at least in factual matters) if one is going to hold this up as a standard for everything else.
-By Taran Adarsh, December 25, 2010 – 16:44 IST
TEES MAAR KHAN embarked on a fantabulous start in India, fetching approx. Rs. 13.5 cr nett on its opening day [Friday]. The circuit-wise breakup is as follows:-
The film will collapse. The commentary is soft here. Yes its a very good first day number but if the evening shows were not upto scratch as some of the commentators suggest, then this one will crack very soon.
Akshay has been very foolish sticking to these comedies way beyond their shelf life (the genre is still strong but it gets very repetitive with the same star doing multiple films every year). He still has an initial even if it’s getting damaged in his regular film. His big blunder continues to be not converting wholesale to masala, despite the examples he now has in front of him. He could be very consistent at it, he’s have a better future in it than Salman and he could incorporate all the comedy et al very easily. Somehow he stays away from it. Now rather late in the day he’s doing the Prabhudeva. He still has a chance which is that he should complete work on his present films and forget the comedies otherwise. Completely leave them behind barring something really big once in a while. This is his only chance. Otherwise on his current career path he’s had a number of high profile failures since SIK. Barring a Houseful or a somewhat stable yet anemic film with Priyan (forget the title) everything else has failed after the initial and in many cases the initial has itself been affected. Also even on his best day he’s never cleared 70 crores on his comedies. There really is nothing left in this genre for him. And again it his last chance at this point to completely move over to masala. Doubt he’ll do it though. This is his own psychological block.
Akshay Kumar is in real trouble here. He is in similar condition as Govinda in 90′s. I think he will not able to get rid of comedy films ever. The problem here is not the genre but script. If u will notice the public reaction video or ask any one who has seen TMK they will say “oh we laughed so much or we did not laugh enough”.
PPl go to Akki movies to laugh and laugh. Most of my friends nd colleagues want to go to movies now a days to just laugh. Movies now a days have become laughter therapy classes.
If Akki will select scripts intelligently having right dose of humor /comedy rather than signing blindly then I bet no one can stop him being no 1 at the box office. This genre is a rage for last 10 years and akki is the king of this genre.
I can also safely bet that Akki will not be able pull anything other than Comdey.
Unfortunately it doesn’t look like Akshay is going to change it up (at least majorly) anytime soon. According to this, he’s already looking to remake an in-production Priyan-Lal film:
First Day: Tees Maar Khan v Dabangg v Three Idiots
Saturday 25th December 2010 17.00 IST
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Dabangg is undisputed champion as far as the biggest first day goes while Tees Maar Khan and Three Idiots have similar first day numbers. The territorial breakdown for all three films is as follows. Circuit record holders are in bold.
Mumbai Circuit
Tees Maar Khan – 4.70 crore
Dabanng – 5.14 crore
Three Idiots -5.31 crore
Delhi/UP
Tees Maar Khan – 2.85 crore
Dabanng – 3.21 crore
Three Idiots – 2.36 crore
East Punjab
Tees Maar Khan – 1.20 crore
Dabanng – 1.39 crore
Three Idiots – 1.10 crore
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West Bengal
Tees Maar Khan – 53 lakhs
Dabanng – 62 lakhs
Three Idiots – 75 lakhs
Bihar
Tees Maar Khan – 26 lakhs
Dabanng – 32 lakhs
Three Idiots – 15 lakhs
Assam/Orissa
Tees Maar Khan – 18 lakhs
Dabanng – 18 lakhs
Three Idiots – 12 lakhs
CP Berar
Tees Maar Khan – 69 lakhs
Dabanng – 89 lakhs
Three Idiots – 55 lakhs
CI
Tees Maar Khan – 49 lakhs
Dabanng – 62 lakhs
Three Idiots – 47 lakhs
Rajasthan
Tees Maar Khan – 75 lakhs
Dabanng – 80 lakhs
Three Idiots – 68 lakhs
Nizam/Andhra
Tees Maar Khan – 68 lakhs
Dabanng – 55 lakhs
Three Idiots – 70 lakhs
Mysore
Tees Maar Khan – 58 lakhs
Dabanng – 50 lakhs
Three Idiots – 57 lakhs
Note – My Name Is Khan holds circuit record at 65 lakhs
Tees Maar Khan Takes Huge Opening Reports Negative
Saturday 25th December 2010 09.00 IST
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Tees Maar Khan took a huge bumper opening across the country but the reports are not good. The film is a sure shot hit on the strength of its opening but whether it becomes a blockbuster is in doubt as collections in the evening at places could not keep up with its bombastic start in the morning. Saturday is a holiday which could help but Sunday will tell where the film is going. Another plus is two weeks of no competition.
The other two releases of the week, Toonpur Ka Superrhero and Isi Life Mein had very dull collections and could not register at the box office due to the Tees Maar Khan wave.
Band Baaja Baaraat had a rock steady second week of around 7.50 crore nett. The two week total is around 15.75 crore nett. ABOVE AVERAGE
No Problem dropped in week two with around 7.25 crore nett business The two week total is around 28.25 crore nett. FLOP
actually RGV ki aag is not a bad film… its just that the audience knew well in advance this film wouldnt even match 1% of sholay…. and hence stayed away…. Don actually was quiet fortunate in that sense.
r u being sarcastic here? Check the imdb rating. Ppl have rated only after watching this. Some of my friends who r RGV fans warned me not to watch the movie after they were tortured. I have once tried to watch this one on tv but could not bear it after one or two scenes.
I was going to watch it but changed my mind.. I have a sense though that it is getting this badly ripped because once again it’s gone over to the spoof side. Not saying it’s a good film but the regular Akshay comedy often gets decent reviews. Indian audiences and critics just react badly to spoofs. Of course we have yet another director, Farah Khan, who too (in my theory) looks at the masala tradition with bemusement even as she otherwise claims to be a fan. Some of this was already on display in OSO and I made this point at the time but ultimately the Karz allowed the narrative to remain ‘serious’ in a structural sense. With TMK she seems to have gone the whole hog. Masala is that which has to be taken seriously. Unfortunately current ideologies prevent directors from ‘seeing’ this obvious truth.
Alex Adams and satyam – watch the film at your own risk. The film is so poor it gives BAD a new definition. I’m all for encouraging people to go watch a film and make up their own mind but with this film I’m warning as many as I can.
Farah and Akshay have cheated the audience. I watched the film on wed and tried to post the review but it just didn’t want to post lol
I know film makers and actors don’t force us to watch a film but I was outraged when I left the theatre. Many people attack other actors/stars but akki in this film took the biscuit. He can do sooo much better but persists with mediocre (in this case very bad film). Actors should have a respobsibility towards the audience and no 1 in tmk seems to care especially the director.
Another thing which I realised. Kat is the number 1 star (never no 1 actress) how on earth did she say yes to this role. It was a complete insult but tbh she never really does much so that arguememt of mine is pointless. She just utters few dialogues, has few scenes and were done.
Etc etc etc I’ve never had such a bad experience like tmk.
I too was skeptical after reading reviews but my friends managed to pull me. It was much better than oso. Spoof is far better we ever saw in bollywood films. Spoofing part is far better than oso but narration is nonexistent. Oso istelf had boring narration so better it didnt have.
My rating 3/5 though so of my friends found hohum and some liked even more than me.
it was utter crap. i thought MHN was barely watchable, OSO was horrible and now TMK is just pure crap. I laughed out loud maybe once throughout the movie. Everyone is just literally loud. Akshay and Akshaye both over acted and Katrina looked good but had no acting to do. Why in the hell did I watch this crap is beyond me!!!
The worse part is that Farah will think this is what the audience wants after seeing how the opening day has gone. I cannot see this movie going past 60crs tho…it will collapse after the first week…it has to for the sake of good cinema!!
Only srk fans are hating it. And u know for obvious reason. Masses are loving it hence huge bo nos. Same was the case for g3 it was ripped apart at every forum but masses liked it.
As for reviews it dont remember which last fim of akki got good ones.
Hows that possible but u may be right. Mnik got all 5/5 ster reviews. He is very popular among reviewers. Many r his fans like anupma chopra, raja sen and rajeev masand to name a few.
The intention is to make you laugh of course, which it manages at exactly 2-and-a-half places. Don’t ask which, because those moments don’t really stay with you.- DNA India It’s the kind of movie whose makers couldn’t care less if you hated the film, fell asleep during the film, left the film in twenty minutes, or collapsed from a stroke midway through the film. They only care about the fact that you paid your two hundred bucks and bought your ticket. To hell with you after that- Rajeev Masand for CNN-IBN E]ntertains in bits and pieces but the comical situations just arent enough to keep you n splits throughout. It also tends to get a bit boring. Also the major problem with in splits throughout. It also tends to get a bit boring. Also the major problem with Welcome is the writing, neither the story (which of course doesn’t exist) nor the situations connect. The chemistry between the lead pair (Akshay – Katrina) is completely lacking- Indicline
So, it looks like the critics really hated Tees Maar Khan, right? Well, yes but these are taken from the reviews of Housefull, Singh is Kinng, and Welcome respectively. Three box office hits and three films mostly trashed by the critics Here is something I think critics don’t understand: just because something aims to please a wide audience or bases a joke on a pratfall doesn’t make it inherently please a wide audience or bases a joke on a pratfall doesn’t make it inherently worthless. A single well-timed pratfall is worth more to me than an entire film pretentiously musing on the emptiness of the middle-class lifestyle. Physical comedy and farce aren’t inherently stupid and are not easy to do well Something we can accept when it’s tempered with age like Kishore Kumar in Half Ticket.
This is from manish post. And this is what i am saying critics dont know what masses like.
Welcome and sik are most watched films in last three years but they were hated by critics.
Sunday 26th December 2010 14.00 IST
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Tees Maar Khan managed to show a jump in its business on Saturday but it was very small. Normally on a holiday it would have been expected to go up around 15% but here it was less than 5%. The collection on Saturday was an approx 13.50 crore nett. The two day total is 26.50 crore nett approx.
Major circuits like Mumbai, Delhi/UP, East Punjab and West Bengal showed small jumps while single screens circuits like CP Berar, CI and Rajasthan showed small falls.
Sunday is likely to see a fall as is normally the case after a big holiday and it remains to be seen how big the fall is. The weekend business is now looking to be in the 36-38 crore nett region depending on what happens on Sunday.
So from 40 crore the estimates are already falling. This one will wind up at 65-70 crore. Akshay deserves it – his choices are consistently terrible and his persistance in this genre is baffling as the scripts of his films!
i watched TMK in the morning show today and I think it i being unfairly judged by many critics. Its certainly not as clever and smart as OSO but good fun nevertheless. The best part of it is that its unpretentious, and has some genuinely funny moments.. Its majorly a film of spoofs but I didnt really mind all that, coz it was all shown in such an entertaining manner. and everyone involved with the film seemed to be having a ball. It shows!
The screenplay does drag a bit towards the end but its not such a major flaw after all.
acting wise, Akshay is in good form but its Akshaye Khanna who deserves most of the praise.. He has a good comic timing ..
saw the film TMK… then saw OSO on DVD. The similarty is both have better first half…. Farah falters in second half. Still OSO is way better than TMK….. But to be fair to TMK, it isnt a bad film either.
Critics I guess were expecting something on the lines of OSO. Some of the jokes were cheap… but still enjoyable.
I don’t know if Rangan’s review has been put up before but here it is-The following two paras are real gems-
1.When a regular-sized movie dies on us, we shrug our shoulders and walk into the sunlight. But when something that cost the GDP of small nation is so lazily written and so atrociously performed, there is a sense of outrage
2.Every film she makes, she throws herself a celebration. With her dizzying array of intimate insider-contacts, she has to barely pick up the phone and stars descend on her sets in twinkling droves. Perhaps she’s the real Tees Maar Khan, the conwoman who’s just made off with a couple of precious hours of our lives – and after making us pay for this privilege.
just saw tees maar khan—usually try to catch big budget hyped films…
unfortunately im still a bit stunned.
yes —”stunned” is the right word
i mean, farah is not exactly cutting edge and i laughed at much of OSO
–CONTD—
TMK is a different category.
I felt so out-of-sync with the proceedings.
cmon, what allcan u get away with in the name of a spoof..
Cannot believe farah has made this?
even OSO and MHN was well packaged crap but this is in a different league.
The only saving grace was the music/ songs and the background music.
Song picturisations were good.
casting was good—katrina got the most appropriat role of her lifetime.
Akshaye khanna tried his best to ouperform his role…
The film was intolerable–to be short and precise.
usually , i am a firm believer that tastes are subjective and what may be one mans comedy maybe anther persons crap and so-on…
but incase of movieS like TMK—I will stick my neck out and announce that those liking/ enjoying this sort of a movie do have gutter bad tastge (with all due respects)
well, at least Farah Khan isn’t pretentious.. and her movies dont take themselves seriously. Thats a quality you hardly find in any of the contempoary filmmakers.
TMK isnt a bad film. Though I wont really blame people who’ve disliked it immensely.
OSO is wheras on a different level altogether. That was a film I disliked after watching it first time – but it has just got better with ever subsequent visit. Its either guilty pleasure or a masala classic!
she should stick to choreography. directing a movie is clearly not her forte. she’s had 3 tries at it and all 3 have stunk.
her husband on the other hand is very talented as a director. Jaan-e-mann was a solid debut by him and a love story done in a different style. too bad his script was horrific in TMK. i wonder what his next film directing is…is it with SRK called Joker??
Caught this in Kolkata south city on sat night. Spoofs are hilarious but strictly one time watch.
Not for masses with constant references to Boyle, shyamalan, etc. Wonder if masses will catch any of that spoofing.
Farah has taken big digs at srk and others at aamir, manoj b n k, Danny d, etc.
No wonder all bwood is upset at her.
Just saw TMK, have to say not as good as MHN, I would even put OSO a bit ahead of it, but overall itnee buree bhee nahee hai.
problem is 1.there is no emotional track in the movie 2. all the songs are very bad and 3. -The 15 minute plot of bina face wala ghost needs to be deleted asasp.
Checked TMK out over the weekend…nothing exceptional, I probably enjoyed it less than OSO but definitely more than MHN (which I hate with a vengence). I got a feeling that the filmmaker was trying to bit too clever…One thing is for sure SRK fans are going to detest it because of the SRK spoof
Saw this over the weekend… didn’t mind it actually. I’ve seen films that are unbearable to sit through… not this one though. But yes, the whole film does seem to exist purely as one relentless jibe at SRK! And in that, Akshaye Khanna is the best thing in this movie. Just for his performance this is worth a ticket. And for one, Katrina has been cast perfectly as a dumb actress who can only spout anglicized Hindi lines and whose idea of an important scene is putting on more make-up! I don’t know if she’s in on the joke though
kat was the best thing in the movie and that should tell you something about this movie. akshaye went over board multiple times as per the script demanded but damn too much yelling.
Thank god Abzee, you too have liked it, I was wondering if some thing is wrong with me for not minding TMK that much.
The Plusses-
1.Akhshahy Khanna
2.Good One liners ( although “Tawayaf” was always bleeped where I saw it)
3. Sheela kee Jawanee
4. Sudheer pandey
The Minusses
1. Too Loud
2. No – emotional MHN type of song or even like SRK coming to see his Maaa in next janam in OSO type scene.
3.Music
4.Nautankee feeling
5. second half way too long
Suggestions-
1.Akhshay Kumar’s side kicks should have better actors- like Rajpal Yadav, “Jusrt Chill” guy of ATB .
2.Akhshay Kumar should have gone to fight the Ghost on his own will rather than being hit by a tree and running back.
3.Better Climax
4. he should have been shown to have at least some traits of intelligent thief kind of like Hritik in D-2 rather than a cartoon.
5.
hehe.. U are good friend of Joy’s brother. Joy is a very good friend and we are batchmates from Law College.
Though in different city we are in contact.
1. i had seen ur face on fb profile.
2. i had seen Q bhai fb profile and his mumbai pics.
3. he had this common friend with you who looked like Joy i guess.. or my instincts.. when i clicked on his profile i found.. he had many common friend with me.. most law college ones.
4. so him being christian.. and his common friends only had one christian friend on FB.
it was JOY i called and asked him does abhisekh bandedkar means anything to you.
he said he was freaked out
i said dont .. i know him ..hes a great writer and his review of matrix is one of the best piece of work on that movie.. and a arsenal fan (joy is liverpool fan )
this was few weeks back. and i had told him then to surprise u by asking hows u abzee.. thats the message from rooney!
but he forgot to do so on christmas when he ment you.. typical joy but i had called him to wish him and his family on the occasion.
so he told he forgot to wish you.. when he met you at wedding.
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so watson elementary with deductions and logic.. i hoped that u were the one and world is indeed small.
ps- i hope u dont mind the extensive reasoning.. but it happened in that order..
As a movie it is not bad at all. G3 and its ilk are far worse. Personally I enjoyed it more than Dabangg! It has a cohesive storyline. It is just that dialogues are too loud for normal taste. The good thing about the movie is that it is a spoof from start to end unlike Farah’s earlier attempts. I had terrible time seating at start but once I got used to level it was fun. They could have reduced the number of times they repeated TMK and izzat dialogue which become jarring.
But I can see why some people are hating it and coming at half time. If the dialogues were darker and subtle then no one would have undertsood it.
“Not for masses with constant references to Boyle, shyamalan, etc. Wonder if masses will catch any of that spoofing.
Farah has taken big digs at srk and others at aamir, manoj b n k, Danny d, etc.”
this SRK spoofing was one of the v few things i enjoyed other than the songs…
but the rest was just intolerable crap
Rooney (posting coz u asked me to). Guyz I watched it on wed and posted it on another site. These are my thoughts on the film
When the film was announced many were surprised. This surprise was for many reasons as we’ve all discussed before. The closer the film came to its release the hotter it became. Sheila Ki Jawani was the stamp of hotness on TMK and it surely is the highest point of the film (as will be discussed later).
The film starts with TMK mother watching a programme of criminals/thieves. Her husband warns her that she shouldn’t watch such programmes as it will have a negative effect on the unborn child. Long behold we see the baby in the womb of its mother learning the art of crime (an innovative and funny scene).
Anyway the film’s plot seems very appetising on paper but in simple terms is very poorly executed. TMK (Akki) along with his 3 accomplices wants to rob 10,000 kg of treasures and antiques. Some twists take place and TMK finds himself directing a film with the hero Atish Kapoor (Akshaye Khanna) and his gf heroine (Anya). He has to keep the whole cast and crew occupied for 1 whole week when the train will pass and he will attempt to rob the treasure. Also, throughout the film he has two inspectors on his case who always seem to catch him but TMK manages to escape. Will they be lucky this time?
As mentioned before the film does have a story to tell but the main problem is that is very badly told. The trailer of TMK in actual fact has all the meaty dialogues and all the best scenes. The film is patchy in most places except a few scenes (all involving akki which mange to evoke some laughs). Another major problem (for me anyway) is the lack of excitement or nervousness throughout the film. I wasn’t expecting the greatest suspense but a little bit of excitement would have been nice considering they were going to rob a moving train with very expensive treasures/antiques. We’ve all seen the trailers, promos, read and listened to the interviews etc and we were promised that this would be the greatest con heist, the biggest robbery blah blah and blah. Trust me guyz when you watch it you’ll feel completely cheated (well I did anyway). Furthermore, TMK is supposed to be the one that can open every lock every thala but except one scene (at the start) we never see this from him. In addition, the director Farah/Shrish throw in this attempt of an emotional scene involving the headless ghost and the missing children of the village- shockingly bad.
Before I move onto performances I want to just add that I can’t believe that this has come from Farah. Putting aside SRK her earlier two films were actually quite decent and after watching TMK they were masterpieces. The audience was 70% full and as soon as the film started many more came rushing in and the hall must have been atleast 90% full. Considering the amount of people watching the film the atmosphere was very dull and quite a numb experience. Hardly any1 was laughing except the Allah ki Kasam scene (we all knew it was coming due to trailer). And before I forget Sheila Ki Jawani received a few whistles in its first few seconds. On a personal experience I kept saying to my friend that yaar surely it has to get better. Sadly, it didn’t.
PERFORMANCES
Akki (TMK) – Looked very dashing and was dressed very well. Some scenes (Allah ki kasam), ringing Salman before Wallah re Wallah and the scene before Sheila song are especially noteworthy. However, nothing new in his performance and I would honestly say that it’s a mix of his performance in HF, KM and DDD.
Kat (Anya) – Looked sexy and beautiful at the same time (as always). In this film I felt she danced like never before. Sheila track really is the highlight of this film and she also performs very well in Bade Dilwala track. However, her screen time is hardly noteworthy if added up when on screen. She comes and goes every now and then and hardly says anything except, ‘you dirty dog’ and ‘aur make up lagao’.
Akshaye Khanna (Atish Kapoor) – why o why o why did this talented actor agree to this role. I found it disrespectful the role he was given and he’s so right in his interviews when he himself said that the director wanted him to over act. He takes hamming to a completely new level. This role could have been done by anyone and I feel Akshaye should have stayed well away.
The 3 sidekicks did what they had to and I’ll let you all decide whether they become annoying or not. TMK mother is quite funny and her scenes with Akki are well enacted (shame they were few and far between). Arya Babbar does well in his role as the police officer in the film. The cameos of other stars namely Salman, Anil and Chunky Pandey leave very little effect on the film as a whole. Disappointing.
They say the bigger you are the harder you fall. This film like everyone is saying will take a massive start but I feel will drop and it will drop heavily. There is nothing new in the film. The songs (title track isn’t even shown except the start of it) are bad excluding Sheila. The chemistry is quite stale and you can’t really have much chemistry if the heroine is hardly there and the hero spends most of his time with his 3 accomplices. Last thing I would like to add is that having that tawaif ka dialogue or saying the khans of all khans- tees mar khan etc is fine but having it repeated many times throughout the film becomes very annoying after a bit. It made it seem like the director was clueless in what they were doing as the film was progressing.
i could not get myslf to write even a mini review of TMK, but i did—my views r sim,ilir to naveeds review of TMK.
Basically u feel cheated. maybe farah could not multi task very well wiht her triplets and directing a big film. Cant believe she can make such a film (bad even by her standards!)
feel sorry for akshay–whenever he gets the real big makers, they have an off-day with akki–
chandni chowk,
action replay,
TMK
hey thnks naveed bro.. its just that as u had come here regularly i requested u to do so.. as most ppl.. here like a healthy discussion on reviews.. and views of movies that we watch
and i would look forward to more of ur reviews
and thankfully we saved our bucks on this one hehe
Rooney – no worries again I would like to thank u for what u did on ng
Yeah am enjoying reading comments of members here. Learning a great detail. I’ll try my best with reviews. Gonna catch YPD on 13th will surely let every1 know how the film is
Recorded impressive numbers in its opening weekend. But the cracks started appearing faster than expected. The business fell on Saturday [noon shows] and then on Sunday [noon and evening shows]. The breakup:- Fri: 13 cr, Sat: 13.25 cr and Sun: 12 cr. Total: Rs. 38.25 cr nett. It’s the third biggest opening of all times [DABANGG 48.5 cr, 3 IDIOTS/3 days 40 cr, TMK 38.25 cr, GOLMAAL-3 35 cr and RAAJNEETI 33 cr]. Ideally, the opening weekend of TEES MAAR KHAN should’ve been approx. Rs. 45 cr + nett, which means the film has fallen short of expectations. The latest development is, Monday morning and noon shows have witnessed a fall in business. At places, the fall was quite substantial
Tees Maar Khan grosssed a huge 38 crore nett weekend as per early estimates. The weekend is huge and on par with Three Idiots and only lower than Dabangg but the expectations were such from the film that a bigger weekend was expected.
The approx daily breakdowns were 13 crore nett on Friday, 13.25 crore nett on Saturday and 11.75 crore nett on Sunday.
The major disappointment was that the film did not get that holiday jump on Saturday but on the other hand the Sunday drop was not as big as it could have been considering the negative reports.
The week should finish at 55-56 crore nett if the weekdays go as per normal industry standards of adding around 45% of your weekend business on weekdays. There is a lot of negativity around the film in the trade and media but the expected huge crash did not come on Sunday and it may also be a normal Monday rather than a crash.
Don’t know what they’re talking about. Sun is usually very strong relative to Sat. Sun is often the strongest day of the weekend. the Sun numbers here indicate a crash. It might still last for a few more days but I think this one’s gone.
What Put Tees Maar Khan In Trouble?
7 hours ago by Komal Nahta
“I’ve never seen as much negativity towards a film in the trade as towards my Tees Maar Khan,” rued Farah Khan on the day of its release.“Why are they doing this to me?”, she lamented. She had a point. Smses, condemning the Rs. 60 crore film, were doing the rounds in trade circles since Thursday. Social networking websites were also full of messages posted about how the film stood no chance at the box-office. Whether the messages originated in the trade or in the public is not known. One is speculating that the public may have started the hate-campaign against the film because although the public in India had not seen the film before Friday, it had opened abroad on Wednesday itself. And since negative comments multiply faster, more and more people got into the game of taking potshots at the film by forwarding the negative messages and adding their two bits to them.
Farah Khan, Akshay Kumar Tees Maar Khan Movie Poster
While ‘Tees Maar Khan‘ is not the first film to have been disliked by the trade and the public, the negative comments one got to hear about it before and on the day of release were unprecedented. Compared to the adverse reports, the first day’s nett collections of around Rs. 12.50 crore were remarkable.
Why was the trade so pessimistic about the eagerly awaited film? Agreed, the trade people may not have found Farah’s film to their liking but this wasn’t the first time the trade had given a film the thumbs down. What, probably, went against the film, more than the trade reports, was the vulnerable position in which its hero, Akshay Kumar, and its director, Farah Khan, were on the eve of release. Akshay, as everybody knows, has had a bad phase which was underlined by the bombing of his last release, Action Replayy.Farah Khan was perceived to be in a shaky position because Shah Rukh Khan, the hero of her first two films, was not a part of this film. With two important people associated with the film being so vulnerable, it must have given the trade a great feeling to pull their spirits down by bad-mouthing the film. With the trade loving to belittle people in shaky or sticky situations – and Akshay Kumar and Farah Khan together must have appeared like prey waiting to be devoured.
lol…sometimes i feel these media guys are more creative ppl than the script writers of the industry and all the born/natural actors have joined politics. Otherwise ours would have been a far superior movie industry than Hollywood.
Saw a few good flicks this Boxing Day – Tourist and Narnia. Was expecting Tourist to be a lot more action packed a la Salt but barring the slow pace the movie was pretty good. Jolie was good as usual, but johnny depp was a biot of a letdown in my books. Found Narnia to be far more sleek and pacy this time around.
On TMK, I have burnt my fingers on Akshay’s films in the past so there is no way I would venture out and buy the tickets unless the film carried very good reports along with WOM. His terrible choice of films has made me immensely weary of going all out for a viewing. I did catch a glimpse of it for 10 minutes while in between two films. All I can say is that Akshay’s films in the last 2-3 years now have set benchmark of all sorts on which one is more hideous than the other. I am glad that I did not sink my money on this flick. In the 10 mins of viewing one could get a sense of the entire film. It looked downright forgetable and the dialogues were cheap. The ensemble cast’s apperance seemed mostly out of Manmohan Desai’s AAA and Coolie. Even if this film grosses 70 crores plus in India, this is a huge letdown by Farah Khan on whose shoulders this film was riding. On Akshay – one cannot expect anything better from him but Farah can be credited with a lot more intelligence (having seen her interviews and her last two outings as a director). The critical and audience panning will definitely have an impact on her next film and as for Akshay – well he is just too thick skinned for any constructive criticism now.
thanks for your views on these films Julie. I skipped TMK after I realized this looked to be very poor. The same for Tourist which got very poor reviews. Wasn’t interested in Narnia.
— well, I would like to comment on tt she could have done after the super success of her former films woul be to go for a silly comedy like a G3 or ousefull or any of the Anees Bazee-ish films and make quick easy money through a crowd pleasing plot of mistaken identities.
What we see instead is her love for spoofs and watch her actors having a ball throughout the runtime. Te script wa of couse a little weak here compared to OSO but her screenplays do provide for some genuine laughs.. I loved the portions where she targets makers who win awards by displaying India’s poverty.
Im not saying that Farah has come up with great cinema and has achieved whatever she might be looking for.. It has a fair share of flaws but at this point she badly needs to be defended.
For one, she is wrongly perceived as a director invariably aiming for the masses coz many of her famous scenes be it OSO or TMK are anything but massy stuff. Take the Quick Gun Murugan or the Mohabbat Man or the Filmfare Show scenes in OSO – all of them were hilarious spoofs but I dont think a good part of the population or the so called ‘targe audience’ might have got the humour in them. Many viewers in North India dont even know Rajnikanth for that matter or bother about Filmfare awards..
Talking about TMK, I do think Farah needs to be defended coz for one her humour in this film is far smarter and clever than anything Rohit Shetty or Anees Bazmee or her loudmouth brother Sajid Khan have come up with. Not only that, she does deserve credit for coming up with innovative stuff such as the opening credit scene, the Master India portion, or the climax where the movie portraying ‘India ki gareebi’ is premiered.
All this backlash and negative press for TMK happens when G3 does 100 crores and doesnt attract even half of all the negative press working day n night at TMK..
“Every time a film gets bad talk people bring Aag out of its grave for comparisons. When Mani Ratnam’s Raavan released, they said it is Mani ki Aag. For Kites, they said it’s Hrithik Ki Aag now they say its Farah Ki Aag.
So Aag became a measuring tape for a bad film. I really think Aag will be remembered more than Sholay.”
“Even though I failed in creating entertainment in Aag at least it created more entertainment than even the original Sholay in giving so much pleasure to all concerned in bitching about it. All those people should thank me for that,” quips RGV.
Earlier, when We Are Family had released Ramu had tweeted “The good thing about official remakes is that we can officially prove to the world how bad as makers we are.”
Tees Maar Khan fell heavily on Monday as it grossed around 4.50 crore nett which is around 65% lower than its Friday business. All circuits fell across the board with Mumbai being worst at around 70% fall while East Punjab and CI recording smallest falls at around 60%.
The film is now looking at a 51-52 crore nett first week which would be the sixth biggest ever but a huge disappointment considering the weekend business.
It has no competition next week so it will keep most of its screen space as exhibitors have no alternative but the problem is if the weekdays keep on dropping heavily then collections will be at low levels by then. A holiday on Saturday could give it small respite from dropping collections.
There is something the audience sees that critics and netizens dont! On the internet, G3, No problem and TMK are similar films. But the audience does have a knack of distinguishing between the crap and the entertainment.
Don’t think they are similar at all.. From all accounts TMK is a spoof and the audience always reacts badly to these.. I’ve not yet seen a spoof of any kind do well in India whether it’s JBJ or Tashan or whatever.
I think OSO was also a spoof…. and I know it did very well in India as well as overseas. actually JBJ, Tashan failed because they were bad films… not because they were spoofs.
OSO wasn’t a spoof at all.. it certainly had such moments in the film but it was ‘framed’ by the Karz plot which was of course very serious! There is a difference between films that have such elements and that are structurally such. Also the good/bad distinction is not very useful when G3 makes a 100 crores and Guzaarish does nothing!
may be we are referring two different films. OSO was a well made spoof for me.
“I’ve not yet seen a spoof of any kind do well in India” … possibly because the films you think were spoofs were badly done. TMK failed not because it is a spoof, but because it is a bad film. period!
“Also the good/bad distinction is not very useful when G3 makes a 100 crores and Guzaarish does nothing!”… G3 and Guzaarish are in different category. I was talking about G3, No problem and TMK… all considered to be “mindless comedies”
I don’t think we can decide on individual definitions of ‘spoof’. A film which is a spoof throughout cannot have a punar janam story combined with a vendetta that was certainly meant to be taken very seriously! It incorporated spoof elements in both halves of the film but the the ‘enframing’ structure was serious. On the other hand with JBJ or Tashan it was a bit of a spoof throughout. of course (and this gets to my critique of OSO) that part of the take this film had on the 70s involved presenting its own spoof as simply a light-hearted gloss on that earlier period. In fact it is not even clear to me whether everything in these sections was a ‘spoof’ even to Farah Khan. Because it is true for her and certainly true for parts of her audience that someone like Manmohan Desai (using his name metonymically for a certain masala strain of the 70s) is taken to be a director of ‘spoofs’ as opposed to using spoof elements within larger narratives. Audiences today find AAA very funny, not least when the film intends to be dramatic! This is a failing in the audience and this sort of ‘masala-reception’. In any case and returning to the earlier point it seems to me that the borderline between comedy and ‘spoof’ has often been hazy in a number of these films and this because there is often a confusion in the minds of those directors.
On your second paragraph I think there are mindless action films, mindless romances, mindless family films, mindless comedies and so on. However that adjective is attached only to comedies these days which I cannot go along with even though I have not taste for these comedies by and large. But the other issue I have with this good/bad opposition is that it’s tautological. So a film is ‘good’ if it works at the box office and ‘bad’ if it doesn’t! Again we continue to be addicted to the tastes of the audience. Yes the box office is essential. No one’s denying this. It is a business after all. But a film that fails could be more worthwhile than many that succeed. In fact the history of cinema in any country reveals rather easily that the films that fail are historically at least as important if not more than the ones that succeed. I’m not arguing TMK is a fine film, I haven’t seen it so far. But it could be a brilliant satire and it would still fail. And I re-introduce an old point here. Because many of these spoofs really take multiplex audiences and their ideological assumptions as their target they fail because this mindset reacts rather badly when satirized or for that matter ‘questioned’ in any way!
On a related note the SRK/Akshay distinction should also be understood in light of the above. With SRK the multiplex audience knows he’s ultimately ‘one of them’. No such certainty if any with Akshay Kumar!
the pity is that it will still earn 60-70 cr in the worst case – which shdn’t happen – it shd. tank big time right from the word go so that in future – we won’t have more crpas like this…
Weekend Report: ‘Fockers’ Fester, ‘Grit’ Has Gumption
by Brandon Gray
December 27, 2010
Box office spirits weren’t lifted over Christmas weekend, which marked the seventh down weekend in a row compared to last year. Relatively few joined the Focker family reunion, yet the box office was so tepid that it still drew enough to lead. One bright spot was True Grit (2010), but it’s unreasonable to expect a Western to save the collective bacon.
Due to an unappealing slate of movies and, in part, Christmas Eve landing on Friday, overall business was down 48 percent from Christmas weekend last year, which featured a parade of big hits (Avatar, Sherlock Holmes, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel). The last time Christmas Eve fell on a Friday was in 2004, when Meet the Fockers was on top, and attendance was down considerably from then.
Little Fockers bagged $30.8 million on approximately 5,000 screens at 3,536 locations, bringing it five-day opening to $45.1 million. By comparison, Meet the Fockers made $46.1 million on the same weekend in 2004 for a five-day start of $70.5 million, and it had double the attendance. Little Fockers’ also had lower five-day attendance than Meet the Parents (which had no holiday boost). However, it’s important to note the difficulty in maintaining momentum for a comedy franchise (third movies usually make less than second ones), especially after a six-year wait. Distributor Universal Pictures’ research showed that 57 percent of the audience was female and 53 percent was under 30 years old.
Unfortunately, Little Fockers’s marketing showed little reason for people to care after six years. The first Meet the Parents was both big commercially and well-liked. Meet the Fockers capitalized on the first movie’s good will and was an organic follow-up: we met the bride’s parents in the first, now we meet the groom’s in the second. Meet the Fockers, though, wasn’t as fondly looked upon by audiences as the first movie. With Little Fockers, the advertising failed to provide a reason for the third movie’s existence, and it mucked up the premise: the title suggested the movie’s about the children, some ads went on about Robert DeNiro designating Ben Stiller as the new patriarch, there were out-of-the-blue appearances in the cast rundown, etc. Tellingly, many ads started with extended scenes from the first two movies. These ads only served to remind people about how much better Meet the Parents was than Meet the Fockers, which didn’t bode well for the third movie by the law of diminishing returns.
Despite the muting effect of Christmas Eve, True Grit posted the top-grossing opening weekend ever for a straight-shooting Western, capturing an estimated $24.9 million on around 3,900 screens at 3,047 locations. It was also the biggest launch of the Coen brothers’ careers, passing Burn After Reading. With a $36.1 million tally in five days, it’s already the highest-grossing Western since 3:10 to Yuma (2007), which started much lower and earned $53.6 million in total, and its five-day attendance was in line with Unforgiven’s. According to distributor Paramount Pictures, 65 percent of True Grit’s audience was male and 70 percent was aged 25 years and older.
Unlike Little Fockers, True Grit’s marketing campaign clearly presented the movie’s Western thriller premise. The trailer even spelled out the movie’s entire storyline (aside from the resolution), proving once again that clarity is essential to a commercially successful campaign. Add in the striking imagery, action and appropriate cast (Jeff Bridges, etc.) set to Johnny Cash’s rendition of “God’s Gonna Cut You Down,” top it off with the brand recognition from the famous and well-liked 1969 version of True Grit as well as the Coen bros. (Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?, No Country for Old Men), and one has a hit.
Gulliver’s Travels was the other new nationwide release for Christmas, and it opened on Saturday, ranking eighth with $6.3 million in two days at 2,546 locations. While it is uncommon for movies to open on Saturday, there are comps from Christmas 2004 and 1999: Fat Albert grabbed $10 million (or close to $13 million adjusted for ticket price inflation) in its two-day launch in 2004, while Galaxy Quest blasted off with $7 million (or the equivalent of $11 million adjusted) in 1999. Gulliver’s Travels was also a far cry from past Christmas comedies Night at the Museum and Bedtime Stories, despite trying to be like them by casting a comedic actor (Jack Black) in a fantastical family comedy. This time, the movie’s rote origin rang through in its lackadaisical marketing (for example, the tagline was “Black Is the New Big”) that banked on the 3D illusion as a crutch. Gulliver distributor 20th Century Fox’s Saturday exit polling indicated that 55 percent of the audience was parents and their children, 53 percent was female and 53 percent under 25 years old. Gulliver’s release included 958 locations presenting it in the 3D, and they accounted for 50 percent of the gross.
In third place, Tron Legacy slipped 56 percent to $19.2 million, raising its score to $87.4 million in ten days and surpassing the final sum of The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008). Given the misfortune of the first Tron and the movie’s niche appeal, Legacy has fared relatively well: to expect blockbuster numbers from this property would be absurd.
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader held well enough in its third weekend to pull ahead of Yogi Bear’s second weekend. Down 23 percent, Voyage enjoyed the smallest decline among nationwide releases, grossing $9.5 million for a $62.6 million tally in 17 days. Yogi Bear, on the other hand, collapsed by 52 percent, picking up an estimated $7.8 million for a $35.8 million sum in ten days.
Retreating 37 percent, The Fighter collected an estimated $7.6 million for a $26.7 million haul in 17 days. Tangled ranked seventh with $6.4 million for a $143.7 million total in 33 days. Black Swan jumped to 1,466 locations (from 959 last weekend) and dipped 25 percent, making $6.25 million for a $28.7 million sum in 24 days.
The King’s Speech marched into nationwide release on Saturday (700 locations) and landed in 11th place with $4.5 million for an $8.3 million tally in 31 days. Playing at three and a half times the theaters of The King’s Speech, How Do You Know’s woes continued, taking a steeper hit than Spanglish in 2004 with even lower grosses. How Do You Know packed an estimated $3.55 million for a $15 million sum in ten days.
“I guess it reinforces Satyam’s point that Indian audiences can’t understand spoofs.”
I think u hve not seen TMK yet… I have seen the movie and believe me if OSO is not exactly a spoof and then this is not one either…If OSO had whole reincarnation angle then this one had After the Fox story…
I have seen both JBJ and TMK and both are simply bad movies (spoof or no spoof..although i liked both the movies partly)…if u hav any doubt about Indian audience..then just check user reviews in various sites…and don’t think they are ignorant about Spoofs…
25% drop in CI means overall the drop might be 40% or more…Don’t think it will cross 50 crore in 1st week and life time will be around 75 crore max…Definitely it’s the biggest con ever…
He came, he saw and he conquered. Not quite, say trade experts, adding that after a great start, Farah Khan’s Tees Maar Khan witnessed a gradual dropping in collections at the box-office. The trade rule is that Sunday seeing a better collections than Saturday, which fares better than Friday. But we’re told the Akshay Kumar-Katrina Kaif comic heist registered at least Rs 1 crore less on Sunday as compared to about Rs 13 crore on opening day.
“Monday registered a third of opening day collections and Tuesday saw them fall further. It looks to be a losing proposition,” observes Amod Mehra, a veteran trade analyst, adding “The film still needs to earn at least Rs 40 crore worldwide to break even. But when 99 per cent of the audience rejects a movie, its chances of becoming a hit is less.”
TMKOn condition of anonymity, a single screen theatre owner in Mumbai attributed the film’s failure to lack of soul. He says, “At the onset, the film’s makers should have avoided comparing their Sheila ki jawani with Munni badnaam hui from Dabangg. Although Sheila and the Christmas weekend did help in drawing an initial, they couldn’t sustain it due to lack of substantial content. Although Akshay Kumar and Farah Khan made their money by selling it to UTV, Tees Maar Khan’s disappointing box-office performance will affect Akshay because his last couple of films haven’t done well commercially.”
Apart from the content, the pricing also worked against Tees Maar Khan, asserts Sanjay Mehta, a Delhi-based distributor. “The remuneration of the actors and directors affected the pricing. Besides, they are also producing it. Fixing a price and not being able to recover it, results in a hoarding-like situation. Eventually that went against the good start the film took at the box-office,” he explains.
Another reason Tees Maar Khan failed is the delayed advance booking. A CEO of a national multiplex chain revealed that the film’s makers didn’t allow bookings to open in single screens on Monday. He says, “In many theatres bookings started only on the morning of release because the filmmakers were asking for huge advances. No wonder first shows in single screen theatres in places like Rajkot, Uttar Pradesh were cancelled.”
On the hike in ticket prices helping the film collect a fabulous initial, Mehra commented that the fall was equally bad too. “It won’t be a disaster like Kites, Raavan or Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey, but the exact figures can be gauged only after the second weekend,” he said. However, our multiplex CEO is sure the makers won’t recover the high cost. “TMK will register a loss of at least Rs 5 crore. And that’s why Farah needs to be cautious about her next movie and Akshay worried about his next, Patiala House.”
Sure, TMK is a losing proposition. What I’d like to ask these geniuses (Amod Mehra and their ilk) is how MNIK is NOT a loss making film, when both films will make the same amount of money in theatrical revenues?
The collections of Tees Maar Khan are declining very fast as Tuesday showed a big drop from Monday.
The film collected around 3.25 crore nett on Tuesday which takes its five day business to around 45.50 crore nett. The two days left of the week may bring in another 5 crore nett.
The numbers are still very big for five days but problem is they are falling even faster then they started. Looking at the trending the film is looking to finish its lifetime business at around the 65 crore nett mark.
Akshay has just destroyed himself. His track record since SIK is easily the worst one around relative to scale and hype of the projects. His next Patiala House being a more ‘serious’ film might not even get an initial. His comedies have essentially stopped working. A pity really because his initial seems to be intact to a great degree. He really needed to make the switch to masala a long time back. It could still work if he did so now but unfortunately he has still some comedies he’s committed to. One has to be skeptical about his action film with Gowariker which then leaves the Prabhudeva film. Assuming Bhansali takes a totally hands off approach here Akshay should have a winner but it might be too little too late in the absence of a larger strategy. He should completely stop all the comedies at this point. The genre is still strong but clearly Akshay cannot get it done here anymore. I’ve said this before but with the right masala switch Akshay would have profited more from this genre than Salman.
Akshay lost the plot as far back as Singh Is Kinng. That’s when I seriously felt his judgement in the comedy genre was poor. That was the first really poor commercial choice he made in his strong run starting with Phir Hera Pheri. And the film was his first “big” opener putting him in the big league but the jokes, script and execution were lame and since then he really has not had a truly out and out successful film like say Welcome which came before Singh Is Kinng. Housefull is the closest one gets but his disappointments like CCTC, Tasveer, KI, Blue, DDD, Khatta Meetha, Action Replayy and now Tees Maar Khan are stacking up and sticking out showing the guy tends to work in just poor commercial films. I’m sure of his future projects he’ll get a hit here or there, but a disappointment is more likely based on his recent resume.
In a strange way Akshay’s career has now come to resemble Jeetendra’s from the 80s. The latter had an expensive flop of a home production in Deedar-e-Yaar and turned South with a vengeance. For a while everything worked but then the gig got stale and the flops started increasing. Eventually it was over, he could still get a hit here and there but that was about it. His peak period at the time lasted a couple of years or so. But Jeetendra was in the age of Bachchan and even otherwise had no symbolic currency. Akshay however after his fantastic run was being called the top star and so forth. He could have taken it to a different level by reinventing himself when he was doing the best and this of course ties in with your point on his judgment. But this also gets back to an older discussion here. All stars have their blind spots. With Akshay it’s been masala. Perhaps it reminds him too much of his B,C grade days but it is definitely psychologically interesting that he’s made no great effort to turn to masala even after there seemed to be evidence of a resurgence in this genre. Even at this very moment he probably has two or three comedies for one Prabhudeva or Gowariker. Similarly he’s been willing to go offbeat (by his standards) for Tasveer or perhaps Patiala House. The obvious low hanging fruit of masala though is still something he’s very wary of. getting back to SIK ironically this was his anointment film.
I am surprised he has not manufactured a return to action with the Khiladi films. This was a success for him in the 90′s and he can still pull off such roles today. The technology and presentation would be better today aswell. To me that would be a no brainer.
Let’s be honest here -If Akhshay has llost the plot then so has Abhishekh.
Akhshay did try different movies like – Tashan for JBJ, Tasveer for D-6 and Action Replay for KhJJS ( plase no essays comapring these with each other ) I just put them to make a point.
In between he also tried the masala route ( which Satyam keeps recommending to Abhishek)
My point is that he learnt from his mistakes and tried to produce the movies himself by not charging his fees. Ab farah kahn jaisee director itnee badeee Aag bana dey aur Rathnam jaisa director aag ka baap bana dey then it is neither akhshay’s nor Abhishek,s fault.
what masala films has Akshay done though? After becoming big in comedies? I’m not blaming him for doing Farah Khan’s film but once he saw Ghajini become so become and then Wanted become successful why didn’t he take the initiative himself and look at Southern remakes and so on? On the rest I myself made the point yesterday that given his own genre strengths he did try out films that were different for him. But the problem is that he kept clinging to comedies even when it was rather clear that these had stopped working. It’s not about Farah Khan, everything since SIK has more or less not worked barring Houseful. Similarly with Abhishek it’s not about Rathnam or Mehra but what one does the rest of the time to balance these risks. Akshay’s ‘different’ has an ‘indifferent’ quality to it! Why Tasveer all of a sudden?! You should either do ‘different’ for prestige or else if you want to diversify there should be some ‘sense’ to it given your brand. Akshay seems to have no such strategy. But again this wouldn’t be a problem if other things fell in place. What Akshay is doing with Parabhudeva now he should have done earlier in the sense that he should have initiated projects. The distributors would have been more than happy to see him in masala. If anything this genre could incorporate all of his trademark comedy plus item numbers plus action, etc etc. It’s really a no brainer.
Incidentally I don’t find your comparison odd at all.
“why didn’t he take the initiative himself and look at Southern remakes and so on?”
Akshay has already done a lot of southern remakes..Most/All of Priyan’s films are remakes….BTW seems like most of the stars depend upon south remakes for BO success…New trend in BW..
Although the numbers may seem impressive, they are not. In view of the fact that the Christmas vacations are still on, besides the fact that the film has had an extensive release [2100 screens in India] and ticket rates have also been hiked at most places, the 6-day total should’ve touched approx. Rs. 57 cr nett.
this has been a year of good opening numbers falloed by a huge crash.. I dont think the products have been so bad.. so the only thinkthat has led to such downfall is FACEBOOK and TWITTER. They should be banned
actually the srk spoofs and the manoj-day-shyamalan type spooofs were good by bollywood standards.
And akshaye khanna should be given due credit to garner some conviction and try huis best for the idiotic role–aybe he thought this will atleast give him a hit
unfortunately most people associated with this will get “hit”.
if vishal shekhar actually did all songs, they have done a much better job.
Im in a minority (maybe the only one)—but i liked sukhvindars bade dilwala the most.
even tmk, shelia and wallah were all good.
alas, this was the ONLY good thing!
Munni is on Jhalak these days and speaking of which Rani was on this week and it was quite a treat to see her with Madhuri. Rani has been my favorite actress in the post-Madhuri generation though I am saddened to see her these days. She wasted her career in colossal fashion after 2004-05.
Prashanth NR
Express News Service
First Published : 29 Dec 2010
Tollywood may now be fighting with itself, but everyone in the film industry agrees on one fact — 2010 has been one of the worst years ever for this largest movie making industry in the country. Prashanth NR rewinds and brings you the list of the top five grosser.
The first one to be added to this roster of top five movies of 2010 would definitely be the baap of all movies — ‘Robot’. With people flocking to theatres at Rajni speed, ‘Robot’ harvested Rs 60 crore. Other Telugu films got washed away in Rajni tide, making this movie the highest grosser in Tollywood this year. Next in line would be SS Rajamouli directed ‘Maryadaramanna’ that raked in Rs 40 crore at the box office despite no big hero in it. Comedian-turned-hero Sunil played the lead in a character with no fights and sleazy romance. Made with less than Rs 20 crore, the film was the second highest grosser at the box office…
December 24, 2010 at 1:24 AM
http://boxofficeindia.com/boxnewsdetail.php?page=shownews&articleid=2363&nCat=box_office_news
Tees Maar Khan has set the box office ablaze this morning with a mind boggling response. The film has taken an 100% opening at most multiplexes. The opening was expected but 100% certainty is when it actually happens. The early round up from major multiplexes is below. It is simply EARTH SHATTERING.
10.00 am Wave Raja Garden Delhi – 100%
Delite Delhi 100% for Friday (4 shows)
10.00 am G3S Rohini Delhi -100%
10.00 am Wave Noida – 100%
10.00 am 10.40 am Spice Noida – 100% (2 shows) (11.20am already 100%)
10.00 am Wave Lucknow – 100%
10.00am Wave Ludhiana – 100% (11.45 am 12.30pm already 100%) Likely HISTORY at the theatre as all 14 shows likely to go 100% on day one.
December 24, 2010 at 6:22 PM
wow!
December 24, 2010 at 4:59 AM
“Himmatwala”!
December 24, 2010 at 5:54 AM
Toonpur ka superhero is really good movie done by ajay devgn and i like this movie so much
December 24, 2010 at 7:05 AM
NYTimes
http://movies.nytimes.com/2010/12/24/movies/24tees.html
http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2010/12/24/review-round-up-critics-not-conned-by-tees-maar-khan/
http://www.hindustantimes.com/TMK-fails-to-impress-critics/Article1-642276.aspx
December 24, 2010 at 8:41 AM
B.O. update: ‘Tees Maar Khan’ opens to phenomenal response
- By Taran Adarsh, December 24, 2010 – 14:50 IST
Tees Maar Khan Everyone knew TEES MAAR KHAN would open big and the film lived up to those expectations as it opened to a phenomenal response across the nation. The occupancy was 100% practically everywhere. What came as a surprise was that even the morning shows opened to packed houses. Especially in North India because winter has already set in and people were expecting a low turnout due to the cold wave. The film is expected to set new records at several stations on Day 1 due to the tremendous hype.
December 24, 2010 at 8:41 AM
Top 5: ‘BBB’ total so far Rs. 17.08 cr, excellent
December 24, 2010 at 8:50 AM
Tees Maar Khan May Make First Day HISTORY
Friday 24th December 2010 18.00 IST
Boxofficeindia.Com Trade Network
Tees Maar Khan started with bumper collections in the morning is continuing at the pace through the afternoon.
It is very possible that the first day could be historic and record breaking. The film is chasing the 14.45 crore nett day one record of Dabangg and everything depends on evening and night shows but the chances are there of surpassing Dabangg opening.
Delhi/UP, East Punjab, West Bengal, Bihar, CP Berar, CI and Rajasthan have seen the biggest Friday morning opening in the history of Indian cinema. Most of these circuits are where Akshay Kumar has a massive fan following.
Click here to find out more!
Mumbai and South are also huge but not as historic as the circuits above compared comparatively. But even in Mumbai a first day circuit record is not out of the question. In Mumbai the first day circuit record is still held by Three Idiots of 5.24 crore nett while Dabangg fell just short with 5.14 crore nett.
In Mumbai circuit Three Idiots had ticket prices hiked by a huge margin of 30-40% while Dabangg did not which kept it below Three Idiots. Tees Maar Khan has ticket prices raised by 10-15% and this could help Tees Maar Khan set a Mumbai record as well.
December 24, 2010 at 10:16 AM
Taran and his bias box office reporting. These numbers for TMK in the UK and US (average of $900 per screen) are not impressive especially for the holiday season.
U.K., U.S. Update: ‘TMK’ maintains speed, ‘TKS’ slow
-By Taran Adarsh, December 24, 2010 – 20:28 IST
The Thursday numbers of the Christmas releases, TEES MAAR KHAN and TOONPUR KA SUPERRHERO, have come in. Despite bad weather, TEES MAAR KHAN seems to be galloping at a good speed, while TOONPUR KA SUPERRHERO continues to remain on the lower side in U.K., despite a strong word of mouth. In America too, TEES MAAR KHAN has started on an impressive note. Here are the numbers:-
U.K. BOXOFFICE
TEES MAAR KHAN
Tuesday previews – £ 14,416 [limited screens]
Wednesday – £ 57,207 on 52 screens
Thursday – £ 40,595 on 52 screens
TOONPUR KA SUPERRHERO
Wednesday – £ 1,165 on 17 screens
Thursday – £ 588 on 11 screens
U.S.A. BOXOFFICE
TEES MAAR KHAN
Wednesday – $ 90,000 + on 100 screens
http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/trade/special_features/index.html
December 24, 2010 at 11:39 AM
If this sustains through the weekend, its a guaranteed success..
Dont know how the overall reports would be. I have read only negative reviews and on of my acquaintances called it utter trash
December 24, 2010 at 12:44 PM
This film is pure crap. Believe me when I say that it makes Farah’s other 2 films look like masterpieces
December 24, 2010 at 3:40 PM
‘BBB’ a yesraj crap facing No Problem still grossed over 17 cr. KHJJS a Baby B prestige movie done 6 cr lifetime. How tasteless is india’s masse’s test.
December 24, 2010 at 3:48 PM
some very negative crowd reactions:
http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/broadband/video/First-Day-First-Show/9vvnAq58/3/First-Day-First-Show-Of-Tees-Maar-Khan.html
December 24, 2010 at 3:51 PM
Tees Maar Khan v Dabangg: Early Circuit Numbers
Saturday 25th December 2010 01.30 IST
Boxofficeindia.Com Trade Network
Four circuit numbers are in and its a small advantage to Dabangg at the moment as the film was stronger in single screen dominated circuits like CP Berar, CI and Rajasthan.
CP Berar
Tees Maar Khan – 75 lakhs
Dabangg -89 lakhs
CI
Tees Maar Khan – 50 lakhs
Dabangg -62 lakhs
Rajasthan
Tees Maar Khan – 75 lakhs
Dabangg -80 lakhs
Nizam/Andhra
Tees Maar Khan – 67 lakhs
Dabangg -55 lakhs
Dabangg has an advantage of 19 lakhs from the four circuits mentioned above. Tees Maar Khan is 7% lower.
December 24, 2010 at 4:36 PM
taran_adarsh Early estimates: ‘Tees Maar Khan’ should be 13 cr. on Friday. Will post actuals tomorrow. ‘Dabangg’ Friday was 14.5 cr
http://twitter.com/taran_adarsh
I think very bad word of mouth may impact the rest of the weekend. Friday had the advantage of advanced bookings.
December 24, 2010 at 3:59 PM
‘”BBB’ a yesraj crap facing No Problem still grossed over 17 cr. KHJJS a Baby B prestige movie done 6 cr lifetime.”—dj–if these figures are true and im gowarieker/abhi,I will be mighty worried!
maybe u were bneing tongue in cheek with bbb—but dont think that bbb was bad
December 25, 2010 at 1:24 AM
the masses have their own ways of declaring what is crap and what is good.
December 24, 2010 at 4:15 PM
whats this—
http://in.movies.yahoo.com/specials/Asin-Salman-Marriage-Buzzes-South/Bollywood/slideshow-1226.html
December 24, 2010 at 4:33 PM
alex adams – lol its a scene from the film. They get married in the film and asin’s parents are unaware of the marriage.
It’s just the media behaving a bit silly.
December 24, 2010 at 6:57 PM
TMK fails to impress critics
When Sheila Ki Jawani first hit the small screen, the junta went berserk. Suddenly, Sheila was being touted as the next Munni and Tees Maar Khan as the next Dabangg. But, while Dabangg (with Munni intact) got rave reviews from the critics, Tees Maar Khan has failed to impress the critics. In fact, one reviewer has gone ahead and said that the film is not even worth a free ticket.
Nikhat Kazmi, film crictic, who gave the film 2.5 stars, wrote, ” Sadly, Tees Maar Khan begins as a spoof and remains a spoof, till the very end. All the characters end up as mere caricatures and completely fail to build up an emotional quotient in the film.” She feels that even though the film has colour, humour and pace but nothing seems to fall in place in terms of plot and character connect.
Tees Maar KhanIf you think that was ripping the film apart, wait till you read this one. Renuka Rao, film critic, Daily News Analysis, has termed the film a catastrophe. “Tees Maar Khan is a classic example of a cluttered film in which a hodgepodge of characters incoherently jabbers ludicrous dialogues building up an odd plot that just refuses to make any sense at any point of time,” wrote Rao.
She did not even spare the superhit jodi of Katrina Kaif and Akshay Kumar. “The so-called superstar jodi of Hindi cinema – Kumar and Kaif – has hardly any moments together, and individually both deliver pathetic performances.”
Even Taran Adarsh, who is known to support mainstream Bollywood films, has not spared Farah Khan’s Tees Maar Khan. ” The film gets messy in the second half, especially since Farah and her team of writers attempt to pack just about everything in this hour. Also, a couple of scenes don’t register well. The sequence involving the ‘headless ghost’ appears futile. The heist is plain ordinary and doesn’t conjure up the magic on screen. The finale in the courtroom and the premiere of the film fall flat as well.”
All in all, Tees Maar Khan has not lived up to critics’ expectations and they have left no stones unturned to lash out at the two time hit director. Wonder if Sheila will manage to salvage the film at the box office.
December 25, 2010 at 3:10 AM
SRK On Tees Maar Khan
December 25, 2010 at 3:47 AM
Subhas K Jha on TMK…
“http://entertainment.oneindia.in/bollywood/features/2010/tees-maar-khan-subhash-critical-evaluation-251210.html”
“Yup, MKD would’ve smiled on watching this one. Go for Tees Maar Khan. Ignore all the negative comments you’ve been hearing about. It’s great unpretentious fun. ”
His standard has been always low as a reviewer…Those who hav aleady watched TMK will understand it…
December 25, 2010 at 3:50 AM
“Thank you, Sheila?”
http://www.hindustantimes.com/Thank-you-Sheila/Article1-642597.aspx
December 25, 2010 at 3:51 AM
“Box Office: Tees Maar Khan takes 3rd biggest opening day collections”
http://www.businessofcinema.com/news.php?newsid=17502
December 25, 2010 at 4:25 AM
after all that hoopla over great advance bookings and full house early morning shows, it ends up being the 3rd biggest.. WOM’s power is often underestimaed.. by that pace, we may be looking at another crash..
December 25, 2010 at 4:37 AM
BOI says it’s 12.73 crore
http://www.boxofficeindia.com/boxnewsdetail.php?page=shownews&articleid=2370&nCat=box_office_news
Tees Maar Khan grossed around 12.75 crore nett on day one. It is a huge first day but at its morning opening pace it was heading for a 14 crore nett total or even better and as the negative reports fed through it could not sustain at the same level. The weekend looks to be heading for 40 crore nett if it gets the normal holiday jump. The territorial breakdown is as follows.
Mumbai – 4.30 crore
Delhi/UP – 2.85 crore
East Punjab – 1.20 crore
West Bengal – 55 lakhs
Bihar – 25 lakhs
Assam/Orrssa – 18 lakhs
CP Berar – 75 lakhs
CI – 50 lakhs
Rajasthan – 75 lakhs
Nizam – 67 lakhs
Mysore – 58 lakhs
Tamil Nadu/Kerala – 15 lakhs
ALL INDIA – 12.73 crore
December 25, 2010 at 8:41 AM
Both MHN and OSO broke the existing week 1 records– TMK sets the record of being first Farah Khan film that couldnt break the opening record.
December 25, 2010 at 8:59 AM
don’t think MHN beat the record at the time (overall week 1 number).. could be wrong but I don’t remember this.. OSO itself beat D2 only by 2-3 crores or so which is nothing given that it released a year after D2 but it also released with Saawariya which also had a flying start. So OSO would have been bigger without the competition and much more safely ‘record-breaking’.
December 25, 2010 at 9:38 AM
MHN did break the K3G’s week 1 records… and then Veer Zara broke MHN records same year.
December 25, 2010 at 9:56 AM
not according to this list:
http://ibosnetwork.com/asp/topopenings.asp?y=0
December 25, 2010 at 10:04 AM
certainly not acc to ibos…. and you know the reason why.
ibos is the biggest losers I have ever seen. does anybody even refer to ibos for bo?
December 25, 2010 at 10:16 AM
do you think you’re neutral on many of these question? SRK for example? I think one should be willing to display a certain impartiality (at least in factual matters) if one is going to hold this up as a standard for everything else.
December 25, 2010 at 9:10 AM
‘Tees Maar Khan’ Day 1 – India: Rs. 13.5 cr nett
-By Taran Adarsh, December 25, 2010 – 16:44 IST
TEES MAAR KHAN embarked on a fantabulous start in India, fetching approx. Rs. 13.5 cr nett on its opening day [Friday]. The circuit-wise breakup is as follows:-
Mumbai – 4.8 cr
Delhi-U.P. – 2.85 cr
Punjab – 1.23 cr
Eastern Cicruit – 1.15 cr
C.P. – 75 lacs
C.I. – 52 lacs
Rajasthan – 75 lacs
Nizam & Andhra – 68 lacs
Mysore – 59 lacs
Tamil Nadu & Kerala – 18 lacs
The Saturday numbers are expected to be bigger than Friday. The opening weekend is expected to cross Rs. 40 cr nett.
December 25, 2010 at 9:20 AM
The film will collapse. The commentary is soft here. Yes its a very good first day number but if the evening shows were not upto scratch as some of the commentators suggest, then this one will crack very soon.
December 25, 2010 at 9:18 AM
Akshay has been very foolish sticking to these comedies way beyond their shelf life (the genre is still strong but it gets very repetitive with the same star doing multiple films every year). He still has an initial even if it’s getting damaged in his regular film. His big blunder continues to be not converting wholesale to masala, despite the examples he now has in front of him. He could be very consistent at it, he’s have a better future in it than Salman and he could incorporate all the comedy et al very easily. Somehow he stays away from it. Now rather late in the day he’s doing the Prabhudeva. He still has a chance which is that he should complete work on his present films and forget the comedies otherwise. Completely leave them behind barring something really big once in a while. This is his only chance. Otherwise on his current career path he’s had a number of high profile failures since SIK. Barring a Houseful or a somewhat stable yet anemic film with Priyan (forget the title) everything else has failed after the initial and in many cases the initial has itself been affected. Also even on his best day he’s never cleared 70 crores on his comedies. There really is nothing left in this genre for him. And again it his last chance at this point to completely move over to masala. Doubt he’ll do it though. This is his own psychological block.
December 25, 2010 at 9:37 AM
Akshay Kumar is in real trouble here. He is in similar condition as Govinda in 90′s. I think he will not able to get rid of comedy films ever. The problem here is not the genre but script. If u will notice the public reaction video or ask any one who has seen TMK they will say “oh we laughed so much or we did not laugh enough”.
PPl go to Akki movies to laugh and laugh. Most of my friends nd colleagues want to go to movies now a days to just laugh. Movies now a days have become laughter therapy classes.
If Akki will select scripts intelligently having right dose of humor /comedy rather than signing blindly then I bet no one can stop him being no 1 at the box office. This genre is a rage for last 10 years and akki is the king of this genre.
I can also safely bet that Akki will not be able pull anything other than Comdey.
December 25, 2010 at 3:10 PM
Unfortunately it doesn’t look like Akshay is going to change it up (at least majorly) anytime soon. According to this, he’s already looking to remake an in-production Priyan-Lal film:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/regional/news-interviews/Mohanlal-Priyan-team-up/articleshow/7162496.cms
December 25, 2010 at 3:16 PM
“Says Priyan, “I have done nearly 40 films with Mohanlal in Malayalam.”
This should be a world record. Can’t think of a partnership (director/actor) to beat this one.
December 25, 2010 at 9:24 AM
First Day: Tees Maar Khan v Dabangg v Three Idiots
Saturday 25th December 2010 17.00 IST
Boxofficeindia.Com Trade Network
Dabangg is undisputed champion as far as the biggest first day goes while Tees Maar Khan and Three Idiots have similar first day numbers. The territorial breakdown for all three films is as follows. Circuit record holders are in bold.
Mumbai Circuit
Tees Maar Khan – 4.70 crore
Dabanng – 5.14 crore
Three Idiots -5.31 crore
Delhi/UP
Tees Maar Khan – 2.85 crore
Dabanng – 3.21 crore
Three Idiots – 2.36 crore
East Punjab
Tees Maar Khan – 1.20 crore
Dabanng – 1.39 crore
Three Idiots – 1.10 crore
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West Bengal
Tees Maar Khan – 53 lakhs
Dabanng – 62 lakhs
Three Idiots – 75 lakhs
Bihar
Tees Maar Khan – 26 lakhs
Dabanng – 32 lakhs
Three Idiots – 15 lakhs
Assam/Orissa
Tees Maar Khan – 18 lakhs
Dabanng – 18 lakhs
Three Idiots – 12 lakhs
CP Berar
Tees Maar Khan – 69 lakhs
Dabanng – 89 lakhs
Three Idiots – 55 lakhs
CI
Tees Maar Khan – 49 lakhs
Dabanng – 62 lakhs
Three Idiots – 47 lakhs
Rajasthan
Tees Maar Khan – 75 lakhs
Dabanng – 80 lakhs
Three Idiots – 68 lakhs
Nizam/Andhra
Tees Maar Khan – 68 lakhs
Dabanng – 55 lakhs
Three Idiots – 70 lakhs
Mysore
Tees Maar Khan – 58 lakhs
Dabanng – 50 lakhs
Three Idiots – 57 lakhs
Note – My Name Is Khan holds circuit record at 65 lakhs
Tamil Nadu/Kerala
Tees Maar Khan – 15 lakhs
Dabanng – 22 lakhs
Three Idiots – 20 lakhs
Note – Ghajini holds circuit record at 25 lakhs
All India
Tees Maar Khan – 13.06 crore
Dabanng – 14.45 crore
Three Idiots – 12.96 crore
December 25, 2010 at 9:25 AM
Tees Maar Khan Takes Huge Opening Reports Negative
Saturday 25th December 2010 09.00 IST
Boxofficeindia.Com Trade Network
Tees Maar Khan took a huge bumper opening across the country but the reports are not good. The film is a sure shot hit on the strength of its opening but whether it becomes a blockbuster is in doubt as collections in the evening at places could not keep up with its bombastic start in the morning. Saturday is a holiday which could help but Sunday will tell where the film is going. Another plus is two weeks of no competition.
The other two releases of the week, Toonpur Ka Superrhero and Isi Life Mein had very dull collections and could not register at the box office due to the Tees Maar Khan wave.
Band Baaja Baaraat had a rock steady second week of around 7.50 crore nett. The two week total is around 15.75 crore nett. ABOVE AVERAGE
No Problem dropped in week two with around 7.25 crore nett business The two week total is around 28.25 crore nett. FLOP
December 25, 2010 at 9:45 AM
my prediction:
friday 13cr
saturday 14cr
sunday 15cr
monday 6cr
tuesday 5cr
wednesday 5 cr
thursday 4cr
week 1 62cr
total 100cr
December 25, 2010 at 9:46 AM
RGV seems very relieved
Aag ke peeche TMK
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Move over rgv ki aag TMK is here
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In front of Tees maar khan Rgv ki aag is sholay
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Its amazing tht evrytime a film gets bad talk they dig up rgv ki aag again
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December 25, 2010 at 9:56 AM
“RGV seems very relieved”
Don’t think so..although with every movie RGV tries very hard but still RGV ki aag remains the bench mark and will remain for ever
check this out..IMDB’s bottom 100
http://www.imdb.com/chart/bottom
RGV ki Aag at 13 and the only indian film in this prestigious list.
December 25, 2010 at 10:13 AM
actually RGV ki aag is not a bad film… its just that the audience knew well in advance this film wouldnt even match 1% of sholay…. and hence stayed away…. Don actually was quiet fortunate in that sense.
December 25, 2010 at 10:21 AM
“actually RGV ki aag is not a bad film…”
r u being sarcastic here? Check the imdb rating. Ppl have rated only after watching this. Some of my friends who r RGV fans warned me not to watch the movie after they were tortured. I have once tried to watch this one on tv but could not bear it after one or two scenes.
December 25, 2010 at 1:50 PM
Rangan’s TMK review. I don’t think any of the major critics gave this one a thumbs up
http://baradwajrangan.wordpress.com/2010/12/25/klsdfhjfjsh/
December 25, 2010 at 2:21 PM
TMK seems to be getting ripped apart by all reviewers.
I was planning to check it out bus am now havin second thoughts.
anyone here seen TMK?
December 25, 2010 at 3:15 PM
I was going to watch it but changed my mind.. I have a sense though that it is getting this badly ripped because once again it’s gone over to the spoof side. Not saying it’s a good film but the regular Akshay comedy often gets decent reviews. Indian audiences and critics just react badly to spoofs. Of course we have yet another director, Farah Khan, who too (in my theory) looks at the masala tradition with bemusement even as she otherwise claims to be a fan. Some of this was already on display in OSO and I made this point at the time but ultimately the Karz allowed the narrative to remain ‘serious’ in a structural sense. With TMK she seems to have gone the whole hog. Masala is that which has to be taken seriously. Unfortunately current ideologies prevent directors from ‘seeing’ this obvious truth.
December 25, 2010 at 3:45 PM
Alex Adams and satyam – watch the film at your own risk. The film is so poor it gives BAD a new definition. I’m all for encouraging people to go watch a film and make up their own mind but with this film I’m warning as many as I can.
Farah and Akshay have cheated the audience. I watched the film on wed and tried to post the review but it just didn’t want to post lol
(I’m using iPhone so that maybe a reason)
December 25, 2010 at 3:47 PM
thanks for the warning! I am definitely not watching this!
December 25, 2010 at 4:17 PM
I know film makers and actors don’t force us to watch a film but I was outraged when I left the theatre. Many people attack other actors/stars but akki in this film took the biscuit. He can do sooo much better but persists with mediocre (in this case very bad film). Actors should have a respobsibility towards the audience and no 1 in tmk seems to care especially the director.
Another thing which I realised. Kat is the number 1 star (never no 1 actress) how on earth did she say yes to this role. It was a complete insult but tbh she never really does much so that arguememt of mine is pointless. She just utters few dialogues, has few scenes and were done.
Etc etc etc I’ve never had such a bad experience like tmk.
December 25, 2010 at 11:09 PM
I too was skeptical after reading reviews but my friends managed to pull me. It was much better than oso. Spoof is far better we ever saw in bollywood films. Spoofing part is far better than oso but narration is nonexistent. Oso istelf had boring narration so better it didnt have.
My rating 3/5 though so of my friends found hohum and some liked even more than me.
December 26, 2010 at 3:34 AM
it was utter crap. i thought MHN was barely watchable, OSO was horrible and now TMK is just pure crap. I laughed out loud maybe once throughout the movie. Everyone is just literally loud. Akshay and Akshaye both over acted and Katrina looked good but had no acting to do. Why in the hell did I watch this crap is beyond me!!!
The worse part is that Farah will think this is what the audience wants after seeing how the opening day has gone. I cannot see this movie going past 60crs tho…it will collapse after the first week…it has to for the sake of good cinema!!
December 26, 2010 at 3:48 AM
“The worse part is that Farah will think this is what the audience wants after seeing how the opening day has gone.”
and the worst part is Shirish will think he is a very very good script writer
December 25, 2010 at 6:06 PM
Anne Thompson, a film journalist with IndieWire and formerly with The Hollywood Report
akstanwyck: Tees mar khan, was terrible, we walked out at intermission.
http://twitter.com/akstanwyck
December 26, 2010 at 12:26 AM
naveed post ur review here – also
December 25, 2010 at 8:49 PM
My wife kids watched TMK yetserday, My 11 year old loved it, my wife liked the first half but simply could not stand the second half.
December 25, 2010 at 11:24 PM
Only srk fans are hating it. And u know for obvious reason. Masses are loving it hence huge bo nos. Same was the case for g3 it was ripped apart at every forum but masses liked it.
As for reviews it dont remember which last fim of akki got good ones.
December 25, 2010 at 11:31 PM
Akshaye khanna plays spoof on srk throughout the film. Obviously they are bound to hate it
December 25, 2010 at 11:14 PM
Yes younger guys are liking it. If u are in mood for fun.Ull also end up liking.
December 25, 2010 at 11:39 PM
SRK has bought all the reviews.
December 25, 2010 at 11:47 PM
Hows that possible but u may be right. Mnik got all 5/5 ster reviews. He is very popular among reviewers. Many r his fans like anupma chopra, raja sen and rajeev masand to name a few.
December 26, 2010 at 6:52 AM
exactly.. thats why raja sen gave poor ratings to KANK, RNBDJ and Don.
Rajeev masand gave 1 star too Don and poor rating to RNBDJ.. right?
December 26, 2010 at 2:21 AM
The intention is to make you laugh of course, which it manages at exactly 2-and-a-half places. Don’t ask which, because those moments don’t really stay with you.- DNA India It’s the kind of movie whose makers couldn’t care less if you hated the film, fell asleep during the film, left the film in twenty minutes, or collapsed from a stroke midway through the film. They only care about the fact that you paid your two hundred bucks and bought your ticket. To hell with you after that- Rajeev Masand for CNN-IBN E]ntertains in bits and pieces but the comical situations just arent enough to keep you n splits throughout. It also tends to get a bit boring. Also the major problem with in splits throughout. It also tends to get a bit boring. Also the major problem with Welcome is the writing, neither the story (which of course doesn’t exist) nor the situations connect. The chemistry between the lead pair (Akshay – Katrina) is completely lacking- Indicline
So, it looks like the critics really hated Tees Maar Khan, right? Well, yes but these are taken from the reviews of Housefull, Singh is Kinng, and Welcome respectively. Three box office hits and three films mostly trashed by the critics Here is something I think critics don’t understand: just because something aims to please a wide audience or bases a joke on a pratfall doesn’t make it inherently please a wide audience or bases a joke on a pratfall doesn’t make it inherently worthless. A single well-timed pratfall is worth more to me than an entire film pretentiously musing on the emptiness of the middle-class lifestyle. Physical comedy and farce aren’t inherently stupid and are not easy to do well Something we can accept when it’s tempered with age like Kishore Kumar in Half Ticket.
December 26, 2010 at 2:26 AM
This is from manish post. And this is what i am saying critics dont know what masses like.
Welcome and sik are most watched films in last three years but they were hated by critics.
December 26, 2010 at 2:51 AM
‘Tees Maar Khan’ Overseas: Australia Thu + Fri Aus $ 45,707 on 18 screens, UK Sat £ 43,303, Pakistan US $ 58,000 opening.
December 26, 2010 at 4:46 AM
Saturday Update: Tees Maar Khan
Sunday 26th December 2010 14.00 IST
Boxofficeindia.Com Trade Network
Tees Maar Khan managed to show a jump in its business on Saturday but it was very small. Normally on a holiday it would have been expected to go up around 15% but here it was less than 5%. The collection on Saturday was an approx 13.50 crore nett. The two day total is 26.50 crore nett approx.
Major circuits like Mumbai, Delhi/UP, East Punjab and West Bengal showed small jumps while single screens circuits like CP Berar, CI and Rajasthan showed small falls.
Sunday is likely to see a fall as is normally the case after a big holiday and it remains to be seen how big the fall is. The weekend business is now looking to be in the 36-38 crore nett region depending on what happens on Sunday.
December 26, 2010 at 8:45 AM
So from 40 crore the estimates are already falling. This one will wind up at 65-70 crore. Akshay deserves it – his choices are consistently terrible and his persistance in this genre is baffling as the scripts of his films!
December 26, 2010 at 10:03 AM
yeah it seems to be dropping like a brick..
December 26, 2010 at 6:47 AM
i watched TMK in the morning show today and I think it i being unfairly judged by many critics. Its certainly not as clever and smart as OSO but good fun nevertheless. The best part of it is that its unpretentious, and has some genuinely funny moments.. Its majorly a film of spoofs but I didnt really mind all that, coz it was all shown in such an entertaining manner. and everyone involved with the film seemed to be having a ball. It shows!
The screenplay does drag a bit towards the end but its not such a major flaw after all.
acting wise, Akshay is in good form but its Akshaye Khanna who deserves most of the praise.. He has a good comic timing ..
December 26, 2010 at 7:35 AM
saw the film TMK… then saw OSO on DVD. The similarty is both have better first half…. Farah falters in second half. Still OSO is way better than TMK….. But to be fair to TMK, it isnt a bad film either.
Critics I guess were expecting something on the lines of OSO. Some of the jokes were cheap… but still enjoyable.
December 26, 2010 at 8:39 AM
May I know where your feet are?
December 26, 2010 at 11:24 AM
I don’t know if Rangan’s review has been put up before but here it is-The following two paras are real gems-
1.When a regular-sized movie dies on us, we shrug our shoulders and walk into the sunlight. But when something that cost the GDP of small nation is so lazily written and so atrociously performed, there is a sense of outrage
2.Every film she makes, she throws herself a celebration. With her dizzying array of intimate insider-contacts, she has to barely pick up the phone and stars descend on her sets in twinkling droves. Perhaps she’s the real Tees Maar Khan, the conwoman who’s just made off with a couple of precious hours of our lives – and after making us pay for this privilege.
http://baradwajrangan.wordpress.com/2010/12/25/klsdfhjfjsh/
December 26, 2010 at 11:28 AM
LOL, Rangan is fantastic as usual!
December 26, 2010 at 3:19 PM
just saw tees maar khan—usually try to catch big budget hyped films…
unfortunately im still a bit stunned.
yes —”stunned” is the right word
i mean, farah is not exactly cutting edge and i laughed at much of OSO
December 26, 2010 at 3:24 PM
–CONTD—
TMK is a different category.
I felt so out-of-sync with the proceedings.
cmon, what allcan u get away with in the name of a spoof..
Cannot believe farah has made this?
even OSO and MHN was well packaged crap but this is in a different league.
The only saving grace was the music/ songs and the background music.
Song picturisations were good.
casting was good—katrina got the most appropriat role of her lifetime.
Akshaye khanna tried his best to ouperform his role…
The film was intolerable–to be short and precise.
December 26, 2010 at 3:31 PM
usually , i am a firm believer that tastes are subjective and what may be one mans comedy maybe anther persons crap and so-on…
but incase of movieS like TMK—I will stick my neck out and announce that those liking/ enjoying this sort of a movie do have gutter bad tastge (with all due respects)
December 26, 2010 at 4:35 PM
Agree 100%
I can’t believe there are people out there who have liked this film.
In 3 words BAD VERY BAD
December 26, 2010 at 7:05 PM
well, at least Farah Khan isn’t pretentious.. and her movies dont take themselves seriously. Thats a quality you hardly find in any of the contempoary filmmakers.
TMK isnt a bad film. Though I wont really blame people who’ve disliked it immensely.
OSO is wheras on a different level altogether. That was a film I disliked after watching it first time – but it has just got better with ever subsequent visit. Its either guilty pleasure or a masala classic!
December 26, 2010 at 7:08 PM
“at least Farah Khan isn’t pretentious”
she has nothing to be pretentious about!
December 26, 2010 at 9:24 PM
she should stick to choreography. directing a movie is clearly not her forte. she’s had 3 tries at it and all 3 have stunk.
her husband on the other hand is very talented as a director. Jaan-e-mann was a solid debut by him and a love story done in a different style. too bad his script was horrific in TMK. i wonder what his next film directing is…is it with SRK called Joker??
December 26, 2010 at 11:09 PM
I’m mentally still recovering from tmk so don’t wish to comment on farah
This script for tmk was her husbands. Lol
However, I also liked JANEMAAN and he has talent there. His next film is JOKER starring akki. Thank god tmk 2 won’t happen
December 26, 2010 at 8:43 PM
Caught this in Kolkata south city on sat night. Spoofs are hilarious but strictly one time watch.
Not for masses with constant references to Boyle, shyamalan, etc. Wonder if masses will catch any of that spoofing.
Farah has taken big digs at srk and others at aamir, manoj b n k, Danny d, etc.
No wonder all bwood is upset at her.
December 26, 2010 at 11:06 PM
No it’s not that she’s taking the piss out of certain stars etc it’s the film it’s beyond poor.
I knew it would crash big time when I caught it on wed and that is exactly what is going to happen today
December 27, 2010 at 12:07 AM
Just saw TMK, have to say not as good as MHN, I would even put OSO a bit ahead of it, but overall itnee buree bhee nahee hai.
problem is 1.there is no emotional track in the movie 2. all the songs are very bad and 3. -The 15 minute plot of bina face wala ghost needs to be deleted asasp.
bakee sab theek thaak hai……………….
December 27, 2010 at 12:07 AM
Checked TMK out over the weekend…nothing exceptional, I probably enjoyed it less than OSO but definitely more than MHN (which I hate with a vengence). I got a feeling that the filmmaker was trying to bit too clever…One thing is for sure SRK fans are going to detest it because of the SRK spoof
December 27, 2010 at 12:10 AM
may be that is why I liked it- a lot of jokes were at SRK’s expense…
December 27, 2010 at 1:57 AM
to me the OSCAR OSCAR bit…was a jibe at Aamir, always wanting that infamous Oscar and the only award that matters to him.
December 27, 2010 at 12:34 AM
Saw this over the weekend… didn’t mind it actually. I’ve seen films that are unbearable to sit through… not this one though. But yes, the whole film does seem to exist purely as one relentless jibe at SRK! And in that, Akshaye Khanna is the best thing in this movie. Just for his performance this is worth a ticket. And for one, Katrina has been cast perfectly as a dumb actress who can only spout anglicized Hindi lines and whose idea of an important scene is putting on more make-up! I don’t know if she’s in on the joke though
December 27, 2010 at 2:00 AM
kat was the best thing in the movie and that should tell you something about this movie. akshaye went over board multiple times as per the script demanded but damn too much yelling.
December 27, 2010 at 11:12 AM
Thank god Abzee, you too have liked it, I was wondering if some thing is wrong with me for not minding TMK that much.
The Plusses-
1.Akhshahy Khanna
2.Good One liners ( although “Tawayaf” was always bleeped where I saw it)
3. Sheela kee Jawanee
4. Sudheer pandey
The Minusses
1. Too Loud
2. No – emotional MHN type of song or even like SRK coming to see his Maaa in next janam in OSO type scene.
3.Music
4.Nautankee feeling
5. second half way too long
Suggestions-
1.Akhshay Kumar’s side kicks should have better actors- like Rajpal Yadav, “Jusrt Chill” guy of ATB .
2.Akhshay Kumar should have gone to fight the Ghost on his own will rather than being hit by a tree and running back.
3.Better Climax
4. he should have been shown to have at least some traits of intelligent thief kind of like Hritik in D-2 rather than a cartoon.
5.
December 27, 2010 at 1:00 PM
how was the wedding u attended on christmas dude
ps- watching gunners v chelsea tonight ?
December 29, 2010 at 12:08 AM
How did you know I attended a wedding on Christmas? I’m freaked out now!!!
December 29, 2010 at 3:40 AM
hehe.. U are good friend of Joy’s brother. Joy is a very good friend and we are batchmates from Law College.
Though in different city we are in contact.
1. i had seen ur face on fb profile.
2. i had seen Q bhai fb profile and his mumbai pics.
3. he had this common friend with you who looked like Joy i guess.. or my instincts.. when i clicked on his profile i found.. he had many common friend with me.. most law college ones.
4. so him being christian.. and his common friends only had one christian friend on FB.
it was JOY i called and asked him does abhisekh bandedkar means anything to you.
he said he was freaked out
i said dont .. i know him ..hes a great writer and his review of matrix is one of the best piece of work on that movie.. and a arsenal fan
(joy is liverpool fan )
this was few weeks back. and i had told him then to surprise u by asking hows u abzee.. thats the message from rooney!
but he forgot to do so on christmas when he ment you.. typical joy
but i had called him to wish him and his family on the occasion.
so he told he forgot to wish you.. when he met you at wedding.
_________________________________________
so watson elementary
with deductions and logic.. i hoped that u were the one 
and world is indeed small.
ps- i hope u dont mind the extensive reasoning.. but it happened in that order..
December 28, 2010 at 2:50 AM
As a movie it is not bad at all. G3 and its ilk are far worse. Personally I enjoyed it more than Dabangg! It has a cohesive storyline. It is just that dialogues are too loud for normal taste. The good thing about the movie is that it is a spoof from start to end unlike Farah’s earlier attempts. I had terrible time seating at start but once I got used to level it was fun. They could have reduced the number of times they repeated TMK and izzat dialogue which become jarring.
But I can see why some people are hating it and coming at half time. If the dialogues were darker and subtle then no one would have undertsood it.
December 27, 2010 at 12:54 AM
“Not for masses with constant references to Boyle, shyamalan, etc. Wonder if masses will catch any of that spoofing.
Farah has taken big digs at srk and others at aamir, manoj b n k, Danny d, etc.”
this SRK spoofing was one of the v few things i enjoyed other than the songs…
but the rest was just intolerable crap
December 27, 2010 at 1:01 AM
I’m no SRK fan but I just found everything bad in this film except SKJ and Wallah song.
Each to their own. What baffles me is some people giving it 5/5 lol
December 27, 2010 at 1:07 AM
Rooney (posting coz u asked me to). Guyz I watched it on wed and posted it on another site. These are my thoughts on the film
When the film was announced many were surprised. This surprise was for many reasons as we’ve all discussed before. The closer the film came to its release the hotter it became. Sheila Ki Jawani was the stamp of hotness on TMK and it surely is the highest point of the film (as will be discussed later).
The film starts with TMK mother watching a programme of criminals/thieves. Her husband warns her that she shouldn’t watch such programmes as it will have a negative effect on the unborn child. Long behold we see the baby in the womb of its mother learning the art of crime (an innovative and funny scene).
Anyway the film’s plot seems very appetising on paper but in simple terms is very poorly executed. TMK (Akki) along with his 3 accomplices wants to rob 10,000 kg of treasures and antiques. Some twists take place and TMK finds himself directing a film with the hero Atish Kapoor (Akshaye Khanna) and his gf heroine (Anya). He has to keep the whole cast and crew occupied for 1 whole week when the train will pass and he will attempt to rob the treasure. Also, throughout the film he has two inspectors on his case who always seem to catch him but TMK manages to escape. Will they be lucky this time?
As mentioned before the film does have a story to tell but the main problem is that is very badly told. The trailer of TMK in actual fact has all the meaty dialogues and all the best scenes. The film is patchy in most places except a few scenes (all involving akki which mange to evoke some laughs). Another major problem (for me anyway) is the lack of excitement or nervousness throughout the film. I wasn’t expecting the greatest suspense but a little bit of excitement would have been nice considering they were going to rob a moving train with very expensive treasures/antiques. We’ve all seen the trailers, promos, read and listened to the interviews etc and we were promised that this would be the greatest con heist, the biggest robbery blah blah and blah. Trust me guyz when you watch it you’ll feel completely cheated (well I did anyway). Furthermore, TMK is supposed to be the one that can open every lock every thala but except one scene (at the start) we never see this from him. In addition, the director Farah/Shrish throw in this attempt of an emotional scene involving the headless ghost and the missing children of the village- shockingly bad.
Before I move onto performances I want to just add that I can’t believe that this has come from Farah. Putting aside SRK her earlier two films were actually quite decent and after watching TMK they were masterpieces. The audience was 70% full and as soon as the film started many more came rushing in and the hall must have been atleast 90% full. Considering the amount of people watching the film the atmosphere was very dull and quite a numb experience. Hardly any1 was laughing except the Allah ki Kasam scene (we all knew it was coming due to trailer). And before I forget Sheila Ki Jawani received a few whistles in its first few seconds. On a personal experience I kept saying to my friend that yaar surely it has to get better. Sadly, it didn’t.
PERFORMANCES
Akki (TMK) – Looked very dashing and was dressed very well. Some scenes (Allah ki kasam), ringing Salman before Wallah re Wallah and the scene before Sheila song are especially noteworthy. However, nothing new in his performance and I would honestly say that it’s a mix of his performance in HF, KM and DDD.
Kat (Anya) – Looked sexy and beautiful at the same time (as always). In this film I felt she danced like never before. Sheila track really is the highlight of this film and she also performs very well in Bade Dilwala track. However, her screen time is hardly noteworthy if added up when on screen. She comes and goes every now and then and hardly says anything except, ‘you dirty dog’ and ‘aur make up lagao’.
Akshaye Khanna (Atish Kapoor) – why o why o why did this talented actor agree to this role. I found it disrespectful the role he was given and he’s so right in his interviews when he himself said that the director wanted him to over act. He takes hamming to a completely new level. This role could have been done by anyone and I feel Akshaye should have stayed well away.
The 3 sidekicks did what they had to and I’ll let you all decide whether they become annoying or not. TMK mother is quite funny and her scenes with Akki are well enacted (shame they were few and far between). Arya Babbar does well in his role as the police officer in the film. The cameos of other stars namely Salman, Anil and Chunky Pandey leave very little effect on the film as a whole. Disappointing.
They say the bigger you are the harder you fall. This film like everyone is saying will take a massive start but I feel will drop and it will drop heavily. There is nothing new in the film. The songs (title track isn’t even shown except the start of it) are bad excluding Sheila. The chemistry is quite stale and you can’t really have much chemistry if the heroine is hardly there and the hero spends most of his time with his 3 accomplices. Last thing I would like to add is that having that tawaif ka dialogue or saying the khans of all khans- tees mar khan etc is fine but having it repeated many times throughout the film becomes very annoying after a bit. It made it seem like the director was clueless in what they were doing as the film was progressing.
Rating 2/5
December 27, 2010 at 5:38 AM
i could not get myslf to write even a mini review of TMK, but i did—my views r sim,ilir to naveeds review of TMK.
Basically u feel cheated. maybe farah could not multi task very well wiht her triplets and directing a big film. Cant believe she can make such a film (bad even by her standards!)
feel sorry for akshay–whenever he gets the real big makers, they have an off-day with akki–
chandni chowk,
action replay,
TMK
December 27, 2010 at 11:17 AM
Naveed overall your review pretty much sums up the movie very accurately.
I still want to like it though becoz of Akhshay Kumar.
December 27, 2010 at 12:54 PM
hey thnks naveed bro.. its just that as u had come here regularly i requested u to do so.. as most ppl.. here like a healthy discussion on reviews.. and views of movies that we watch
and i would look forward to more of ur reviews
and thankfully we saved our bucks on this one
hehe
December 27, 2010 at 2:45 PM
Rooney – no worries again I would like to thank u for what u did on ng
Yeah am enjoying reading comments of members here. Learning a great detail. I’ll try my best with reviews. Gonna catch YPD on 13th will surely let every1 know how the film is
It will defo be better than tmk lol
December 27, 2010 at 1:18 AM
Srk probably rejected a diff script. Maybe it was better than this. This was a big spitefest from Farah.
December 27, 2010 at 5:39 AM
I commen farah for having the guts to spoof (spank) srk like this. full points to her for that!
December 27, 2010 at 8:34 AM
Taran:
Recorded impressive numbers in its opening weekend. But the cracks started appearing faster than expected. The business fell on Saturday [noon shows] and then on Sunday [noon and evening shows]. The breakup:- Fri: 13 cr, Sat: 13.25 cr and Sun: 12 cr. Total: Rs. 38.25 cr nett. It’s the third biggest opening of all times [DABANGG 48.5 cr, 3 IDIOTS/3 days 40 cr, TMK 38.25 cr, GOLMAAL-3 35 cr and RAAJNEETI 33 cr]. Ideally, the opening weekend of TEES MAAR KHAN should’ve been approx. Rs. 45 cr + nett, which means the film has fallen short of expectations. The latest development is, Monday morning and noon shows have witnessed a fall in business. At places, the fall was quite substantial
http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/trade/top5/index.html
December 27, 2010 at 8:47 AM
Tees Maar Khan Has 38 Crore Nett Weekend
Monday 27 December 2010 13.30 IST
Boxofficeindia.Com Trade Network
Tees Maar Khan grosssed a huge 38 crore nett weekend as per early estimates. The weekend is huge and on par with Three Idiots and only lower than Dabangg but the expectations were such from the film that a bigger weekend was expected.
The approx daily breakdowns were 13 crore nett on Friday, 13.25 crore nett on Saturday and 11.75 crore nett on Sunday.
The major disappointment was that the film did not get that holiday jump on Saturday but on the other hand the Sunday drop was not as big as it could have been considering the negative reports.
The week should finish at 55-56 crore nett if the weekdays go as per normal industry standards of adding around 45% of your weekend business on weekdays. There is a lot of negativity around the film in the trade and media but the expected huge crash did not come on Sunday and it may also be a normal Monday rather than a crash.
December 27, 2010 at 8:49 AM
Don’t know what they’re talking about. Sun is usually very strong relative to Sat. Sun is often the strongest day of the weekend. the Sun numbers here indicate a crash. It might still last for a few more days but I think this one’s gone.
December 27, 2010 at 9:09 AM
This might be a KANK/MNIK kind of ht as someone rightly pointed out.Strangely, Farah seems like an under dog and I find myself rooting for the film!
December 27, 2010 at 8:52 AM
Bollywood’s biggest hits of 2010:
http://www.rediff.com/movies/slide-show/slide-show-1-biggest-hits-of-2010/20101227.htm
December 27, 2010 at 8:54 AM
What Put Tees Maar Khan In Trouble?
7 hours ago by Komal Nahta
“I’ve never seen as much negativity towards a film in the trade as towards my Tees Maar Khan,” rued Farah Khan on the day of its release.“Why are they doing this to me?”, she lamented. She had a point. Smses, condemning the Rs. 60 crore film, were doing the rounds in trade circles since Thursday. Social networking websites were also full of messages posted about how the film stood no chance at the box-office. Whether the messages originated in the trade or in the public is not known. One is speculating that the public may have started the hate-campaign against the film because although the public in India had not seen the film before Friday, it had opened abroad on Wednesday itself. And since negative comments multiply faster, more and more people got into the game of taking potshots at the film by forwarding the negative messages and adding their two bits to them.
Farah Khan, Akshay Kumar Tees Maar Khan Movie Poster
While ‘Tees Maar Khan‘ is not the first film to have been disliked by the trade and the public, the negative comments one got to hear about it before and on the day of release were unprecedented. Compared to the adverse reports, the first day’s nett collections of around Rs. 12.50 crore were remarkable.
Why was the trade so pessimistic about the eagerly awaited film? Agreed, the trade people may not have found Farah’s film to their liking but this wasn’t the first time the trade had given a film the thumbs down. What, probably, went against the film, more than the trade reports, was the vulnerable position in which its hero, Akshay Kumar, and its director, Farah Khan, were on the eve of release. Akshay, as everybody knows, has had a bad phase which was underlined by the bombing of his last release, Action Replayy.Farah Khan was perceived to be in a shaky position because Shah Rukh Khan, the hero of her first two films, was not a part of this film. With two important people associated with the film being so vulnerable, it must have given the trade a great feeling to pull their spirits down by bad-mouthing the film. With the trade loving to belittle people in shaky or sticky situations – and Akshay Kumar and Farah Khan together must have appeared like prey waiting to be devoured.
December 27, 2010 at 8:55 AM
Tees Maar Khan’s Single-Screen Woes
http://www.koimoi.com/box-office/tees-maar-khans-single-screen-woes/
December 27, 2010 at 10:11 AM
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/news-interviews/Why-this-party-SRK/articleshow/7166948.cms
December 27, 2010 at 1:34 PM
lol…sometimes i feel these media guys are more creative ppl than the script writers of the industry and all the born/natural actors have joined politics. Otherwise ours would have been a far superior movie industry than Hollywood.
December 27, 2010 at 11:49 AM
Saw a few good flicks this Boxing Day – Tourist and Narnia. Was expecting Tourist to be a lot more action packed a la Salt but barring the slow pace the movie was pretty good. Jolie was good as usual, but johnny depp was a biot of a letdown in my books. Found Narnia to be far more sleek and pacy this time around.
On TMK, I have burnt my fingers on Akshay’s films in the past so there is no way I would venture out and buy the tickets unless the film carried very good reports along with WOM. His terrible choice of films has made me immensely weary of going all out for a viewing. I did catch a glimpse of it for 10 minutes while in between two films. All I can say is that Akshay’s films in the last 2-3 years now have set benchmark of all sorts on which one is more hideous than the other. I am glad that I did not sink my money on this flick. In the 10 mins of viewing one could get a sense of the entire film. It looked downright forgetable and the dialogues were cheap. The ensemble cast’s apperance seemed mostly out of Manmohan Desai’s AAA and Coolie. Even if this film grosses 70 crores plus in India, this is a huge letdown by Farah Khan on whose shoulders this film was riding. On Akshay – one cannot expect anything better from him but Farah can be credited with a lot more intelligence (having seen her interviews and her last two outings as a director). The critical and audience panning will definitely have an impact on her next film and as for Akshay – well he is just too thick skinned for any constructive criticism now.
December 27, 2010 at 12:40 PM
thanks for your views on these films Julie. I skipped TMK after I realized this looked to be very poor. The same for Tourist which got very poor reviews. Wasn’t interested in Narnia.
December 28, 2010 at 11:36 AM
I think it is worth checking. It is loud but it never wavers from what it started to do.
December 27, 2010 at 12:05 PM
saw tron-3D few days ago. Few sequence were v brilliantly shot —thats about it
December 27, 2010 at 3:30 PM
‘she has nothing to be pretentious about!’
— well, I would like to comment on tt she could have done after the super success of her former films woul be to go for a silly comedy like a G3 or ousefull or any of the Anees Bazee-ish films and make quick easy money through a crowd pleasing plot of mistaken identities.
What we see instead is her love for spoofs and watch her actors having a ball throughout the runtime. Te script wa of couse a little weak here compared to OSO but her screenplays do provide for some genuine laughs.. I loved the portions where she targets makers who win awards by displaying India’s poverty.
December 28, 2010 at 12:33 AM
Im not saying that Farah has come up with great cinema and has achieved whatever she might be looking for.. It has a fair share of flaws but at this point she badly needs to be defended.
For one, she is wrongly perceived as a director invariably aiming for the masses coz many of her famous scenes be it OSO or TMK are anything but massy stuff. Take the Quick Gun Murugan or the Mohabbat Man or the Filmfare Show scenes in OSO – all of them were hilarious spoofs but I dont think a good part of the population or the so called ‘targe audience’ might have got the humour in them. Many viewers in North India dont even know Rajnikanth for that matter or bother about Filmfare awards..
Talking about TMK, I do think Farah needs to be defended coz for one her humour in this film is far smarter and clever than anything Rohit Shetty or Anees Bazmee or her loudmouth brother Sajid Khan have come up with. Not only that, she does deserve credit for coming up with innovative stuff such as the opening credit scene, the Master India portion, or the climax where the movie portraying ‘India ki gareebi’ is premiered.
All this backlash and negative press for TMK happens when G3 does 100 crores and doesnt attract even half of all the negative press working day n night at TMK..
December 27, 2010 at 7:23 PM
TMK US – $741,162 till date
http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=daily&id=teesmaarkhan.htm
December 28, 2010 at 3:58 AM
Move over RGV Ki Aag, TMK is here
http://movies.ndtv.com/movie_story.aspx?section=Movies&Id=ENTEN20100164650&keyword=bollywood&subcatg=MOVIESINDIA&nid=75352
some classic quotes by Ramu..
“Every time a film gets bad talk people bring Aag out of its grave for comparisons. When Mani Ratnam’s Raavan released, they said it is Mani ki Aag. For Kites, they said it’s Hrithik Ki Aag now they say its Farah Ki Aag.
So Aag became a measuring tape for a bad film. I really think Aag will be remembered more than Sholay.”
“Even though I failed in creating entertainment in Aag at least it created more entertainment than even the original Sholay in giving so much pleasure to all concerned in bitching about it. All those people should thank me for that,” quips RGV.
Earlier, when We Are Family had released Ramu had tweeted “The good thing about official remakes is that we can officially prove to the world how bad as makers we are.”
December 28, 2010 at 5:48 AM
Tees Maar Khan Falls Heavily On Monday
Tuesday 28th December 2010 15.00 IST
Boxofficeindia.Com Trade Network
Tees Maar Khan fell heavily on Monday as it grossed around 4.50 crore nett which is around 65% lower than its Friday business. All circuits fell across the board with Mumbai being worst at around 70% fall while East Punjab and CI recording smallest falls at around 60%.
The film is now looking at a 51-52 crore nett first week which would be the sixth biggest ever but a huge disappointment considering the weekend business.
It has no competition next week so it will keep most of its screen space as exhibitors have no alternative but the problem is if the weekdays keep on dropping heavily then collections will be at low levels by then. A holiday on Saturday could give it small respite from dropping collections.
December 28, 2010 at 5:54 AM
This will wind up below the 75Cr mark.
There is something the audience sees that critics and netizens dont! On the internet, G3, No problem and TMK are similar films. But the audience does have a knack of distinguishing between the crap and the entertainment.
December 28, 2010 at 8:55 AM
Don’t think they are similar at all.. From all accounts TMK is a spoof and the audience always reacts badly to these.. I’ve not yet seen a spoof of any kind do well in India whether it’s JBJ or Tashan or whatever.
December 28, 2010 at 9:16 AM
I think OSO was also a spoof…. and I know it did very well in India as well as overseas. actually JBJ, Tashan failed because they were bad films… not because they were spoofs.
December 28, 2010 at 9:50 AM
@dishant- but OSO was a spoof.. but not entirely!
it had a story structure of madhumati, inserted inside it was spoof.
while all other flicks never had a story (cant say on tmk havent seen it)
December 28, 2010 at 11:06 AM
OSO wasn’t a spoof at all.. it certainly had such moments in the film but it was ‘framed’ by the Karz plot which was of course very serious! There is a difference between films that have such elements and that are structurally such. Also the good/bad distinction is not very useful when G3 makes a 100 crores and Guzaarish does nothing!
December 28, 2010 at 11:34 AM
may be we are referring two different films. OSO was a well made spoof for me.
“I’ve not yet seen a spoof of any kind do well in India” … possibly because the films you think were spoofs were badly done. TMK failed not because it is a spoof, but because it is a bad film. period!
“Also the good/bad distinction is not very useful when G3 makes a 100 crores and Guzaarish does nothing!”… G3 and Guzaarish are in different category. I was talking about G3, No problem and TMK… all considered to be “mindless comedies”
December 28, 2010 at 12:11 PM
I don’t think we can decide on individual definitions of ‘spoof’. A film which is a spoof throughout cannot have a punar janam story combined with a vendetta that was certainly meant to be taken very seriously! It incorporated spoof elements in both halves of the film but the the ‘enframing’ structure was serious. On the other hand with JBJ or Tashan it was a bit of a spoof throughout. of course (and this gets to my critique of OSO) that part of the take this film had on the 70s involved presenting its own spoof as simply a light-hearted gloss on that earlier period. In fact it is not even clear to me whether everything in these sections was a ‘spoof’ even to Farah Khan. Because it is true for her and certainly true for parts of her audience that someone like Manmohan Desai (using his name metonymically for a certain masala strain of the 70s) is taken to be a director of ‘spoofs’ as opposed to using spoof elements within larger narratives. Audiences today find AAA very funny, not least when the film intends to be dramatic! This is a failing in the audience and this sort of ‘masala-reception’. In any case and returning to the earlier point it seems to me that the borderline between comedy and ‘spoof’ has often been hazy in a number of these films and this because there is often a confusion in the minds of those directors.
On your second paragraph I think there are mindless action films, mindless romances, mindless family films, mindless comedies and so on. However that adjective is attached only to comedies these days which I cannot go along with even though I have not taste for these comedies by and large. But the other issue I have with this good/bad opposition is that it’s tautological. So a film is ‘good’ if it works at the box office and ‘bad’ if it doesn’t! Again we continue to be addicted to the tastes of the audience. Yes the box office is essential. No one’s denying this. It is a business after all. But a film that fails could be more worthwhile than many that succeed. In fact the history of cinema in any country reveals rather easily that the films that fail are historically at least as important if not more than the ones that succeed. I’m not arguing TMK is a fine film, I haven’t seen it so far. But it could be a brilliant satire and it would still fail. And I re-introduce an old point here. Because many of these spoofs really take multiplex audiences and their ideological assumptions as their target they fail because this mindset reacts rather badly when satirized or for that matter ‘questioned’ in any way!
On a related note the SRK/Akshay distinction should also be understood in light of the above. With SRK the multiplex audience knows he’s ultimately ‘one of them’. No such certainty if any with Akshay Kumar!
December 28, 2010 at 12:28 PM
Tashan is a hit if released in multiplexes.
December 28, 2010 at 1:37 PM
Sadly that’s not true at all and it would be sadder to believe this.
December 28, 2010 at 3:24 PM
the pity is that it will still earn 60-70 cr in the worst case – which shdn’t happen – it shd. tank big time right from the word go so that in future – we won’t have more crpas like this…
December 28, 2010 at 8:53 AM
Weekend Report: ‘Fockers’ Fester, ‘Grit’ Has Gumption
by Brandon Gray
December 27, 2010
Box office spirits weren’t lifted over Christmas weekend, which marked the seventh down weekend in a row compared to last year. Relatively few joined the Focker family reunion, yet the box office was so tepid that it still drew enough to lead. One bright spot was True Grit (2010), but it’s unreasonable to expect a Western to save the collective bacon.
Due to an unappealing slate of movies and, in part, Christmas Eve landing on Friday, overall business was down 48 percent from Christmas weekend last year, which featured a parade of big hits (Avatar, Sherlock Holmes, Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel). The last time Christmas Eve fell on a Friday was in 2004, when Meet the Fockers was on top, and attendance was down considerably from then.
Little Fockers bagged $30.8 million on approximately 5,000 screens at 3,536 locations, bringing it five-day opening to $45.1 million. By comparison, Meet the Fockers made $46.1 million on the same weekend in 2004 for a five-day start of $70.5 million, and it had double the attendance. Little Fockers’ also had lower five-day attendance than Meet the Parents (which had no holiday boost). However, it’s important to note the difficulty in maintaining momentum for a comedy franchise (third movies usually make less than second ones), especially after a six-year wait. Distributor Universal Pictures’ research showed that 57 percent of the audience was female and 53 percent was under 30 years old.
Unfortunately, Little Fockers’s marketing showed little reason for people to care after six years. The first Meet the Parents was both big commercially and well-liked. Meet the Fockers capitalized on the first movie’s good will and was an organic follow-up: we met the bride’s parents in the first, now we meet the groom’s in the second. Meet the Fockers, though, wasn’t as fondly looked upon by audiences as the first movie. With Little Fockers, the advertising failed to provide a reason for the third movie’s existence, and it mucked up the premise: the title suggested the movie’s about the children, some ads went on about Robert DeNiro designating Ben Stiller as the new patriarch, there were out-of-the-blue appearances in the cast rundown, etc. Tellingly, many ads started with extended scenes from the first two movies. These ads only served to remind people about how much better Meet the Parents was than Meet the Fockers, which didn’t bode well for the third movie by the law of diminishing returns.
Despite the muting effect of Christmas Eve, True Grit posted the top-grossing opening weekend ever for a straight-shooting Western, capturing an estimated $24.9 million on around 3,900 screens at 3,047 locations. It was also the biggest launch of the Coen brothers’ careers, passing Burn After Reading. With a $36.1 million tally in five days, it’s already the highest-grossing Western since 3:10 to Yuma (2007), which started much lower and earned $53.6 million in total, and its five-day attendance was in line with Unforgiven’s. According to distributor Paramount Pictures, 65 percent of True Grit’s audience was male and 70 percent was aged 25 years and older.
Unlike Little Fockers, True Grit’s marketing campaign clearly presented the movie’s Western thriller premise. The trailer even spelled out the movie’s entire storyline (aside from the resolution), proving once again that clarity is essential to a commercially successful campaign. Add in the striking imagery, action and appropriate cast (Jeff Bridges, etc.) set to Johnny Cash’s rendition of “God’s Gonna Cut You Down,” top it off with the brand recognition from the famous and well-liked 1969 version of True Grit as well as the Coen bros. (Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?, No Country for Old Men), and one has a hit.
Gulliver’s Travels was the other new nationwide release for Christmas, and it opened on Saturday, ranking eighth with $6.3 million in two days at 2,546 locations. While it is uncommon for movies to open on Saturday, there are comps from Christmas 2004 and 1999: Fat Albert grabbed $10 million (or close to $13 million adjusted for ticket price inflation) in its two-day launch in 2004, while Galaxy Quest blasted off with $7 million (or the equivalent of $11 million adjusted) in 1999. Gulliver’s Travels was also a far cry from past Christmas comedies Night at the Museum and Bedtime Stories, despite trying to be like them by casting a comedic actor (Jack Black) in a fantastical family comedy. This time, the movie’s rote origin rang through in its lackadaisical marketing (for example, the tagline was “Black Is the New Big”) that banked on the 3D illusion as a crutch. Gulliver distributor 20th Century Fox’s Saturday exit polling indicated that 55 percent of the audience was parents and their children, 53 percent was female and 53 percent under 25 years old. Gulliver’s release included 958 locations presenting it in the 3D, and they accounted for 50 percent of the gross.
In third place, Tron Legacy slipped 56 percent to $19.2 million, raising its score to $87.4 million in ten days and surpassing the final sum of The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008). Given the misfortune of the first Tron and the movie’s niche appeal, Legacy has fared relatively well: to expect blockbuster numbers from this property would be absurd.
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader held well enough in its third weekend to pull ahead of Yogi Bear’s second weekend. Down 23 percent, Voyage enjoyed the smallest decline among nationwide releases, grossing $9.5 million for a $62.6 million tally in 17 days. Yogi Bear, on the other hand, collapsed by 52 percent, picking up an estimated $7.8 million for a $35.8 million sum in ten days.
Retreating 37 percent, The Fighter collected an estimated $7.6 million for a $26.7 million haul in 17 days. Tangled ranked seventh with $6.4 million for a $143.7 million total in 33 days. Black Swan jumped to 1,466 locations (from 959 last weekend) and dipped 25 percent, making $6.25 million for a $28.7 million sum in 24 days.
The King’s Speech marched into nationwide release on Saturday (700 locations) and landed in 11th place with $4.5 million for an $8.3 million tally in 31 days. Playing at three and a half times the theaters of The King’s Speech, How Do You Know’s woes continued, taking a steeper hit than Spanglish in 2004 with even lower grosses. How Do You Know packed an estimated $3.55 million for a $15 million sum in ten days.
December 29, 2010 at 12:53 AM
Quite a positive review from Variety: http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117944222/
I guess it reinforces Satyam’s point that Indian audiences can’t understand spoofs.
December 29, 2010 at 12:54 AM
Sorry, forgot to say it was a review of TMK.
December 29, 2010 at 3:18 AM
mm – Im not indian and spoof or no spoof tmk was BAD in every way.
December 29, 2010 at 2:03 AM
“I guess it reinforces Satyam’s point that Indian audiences can’t understand spoofs.”
I think u hve not seen TMK yet… I have seen the movie and believe me if OSO is not exactly a spoof and then this is not one either…If OSO had whole reincarnation angle then this one had After the Fox story…
I have seen both JBJ and TMK and both are simply bad movies (spoof or no spoof..although i liked both the movies partly)…if u hav any doubt about Indian audience..then just check user reviews in various sites…and don’t think they are ignorant about Spoofs…
December 29, 2010 at 1:10 AM
Tees Maar Khan CI Tuesday Update Another Fall
Wednesday 29th December 2010 09.30 IST
Boxofficeindia.Com Trade Network
Tees Maar Khan had another fall in CI on Tuesday. The film fell nearly 25%. The Tees Maar Khan daily totals in CI are below.
Friday – 49,00,000
Saturday – 45,50,000
Sunday – 44,89,000
Monday – 18,90,000
Tuesday – 14,46,000
Total – 1,73,75,000
December 29, 2010 at 2:23 AM
25% drop in CI means overall the drop might be 40% or more…Don’t think it will cross 50 crore in 1st week and life time will be around 75 crore max…Definitely it’s the biggest con ever…
December 29, 2010 at 3:17 AM
Offtopic, today is Rajesh Khanna’a B’day………….
http://www.itimes.com/public/groups/Superstar-Rajesh-Khanna/album/Superstar-Rajesh-Khanna_24399
December 29, 2010 at 3:18 AM
http://ibnlive.in.com/photogallery/3005.html
December 29, 2010 at 8:40 AM
‘TMK looks to be a losing proposition’
He came, he saw and he conquered. Not quite, say trade experts, adding that after a great start, Farah Khan’s Tees Maar Khan witnessed a gradual dropping in collections at the box-office. The trade rule is that Sunday seeing a better collections than Saturday, which fares better than Friday. But we’re told the Akshay Kumar-Katrina Kaif comic heist registered at least Rs 1 crore less on Sunday as compared to about Rs 13 crore on opening day.
“Monday registered a third of opening day collections and Tuesday saw them fall further. It looks to be a losing proposition,” observes Amod Mehra, a veteran trade analyst, adding “The film still needs to earn at least Rs 40 crore worldwide to break even. But when 99 per cent of the audience rejects a movie, its chances of becoming a hit is less.”
TMKOn condition of anonymity, a single screen theatre owner in Mumbai attributed the film’s failure to lack of soul. He says, “At the onset, the film’s makers should have avoided comparing their Sheila ki jawani with Munni badnaam hui from Dabangg. Although Sheila and the Christmas weekend did help in drawing an initial, they couldn’t sustain it due to lack of substantial content. Although Akshay Kumar and Farah Khan made their money by selling it to UTV, Tees Maar Khan’s disappointing box-office performance will affect Akshay because his last couple of films haven’t done well commercially.”
Apart from the content, the pricing also worked against Tees Maar Khan, asserts Sanjay Mehta, a Delhi-based distributor. “The remuneration of the actors and directors affected the pricing. Besides, they are also producing it. Fixing a price and not being able to recover it, results in a hoarding-like situation. Eventually that went against the good start the film took at the box-office,” he explains.
Another reason Tees Maar Khan failed is the delayed advance booking. A CEO of a national multiplex chain revealed that the film’s makers didn’t allow bookings to open in single screens on Monday. He says, “In many theatres bookings started only on the morning of release because the filmmakers were asking for huge advances. No wonder first shows in single screen theatres in places like Rajkot, Uttar Pradesh were cancelled.”
On the hike in ticket prices helping the film collect a fabulous initial, Mehra commented that the fall was equally bad too. “It won’t be a disaster like Kites, Raavan or Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey, but the exact figures can be gauged only after the second weekend,” he said. However, our multiplex CEO is sure the makers won’t recover the high cost. “TMK will register a loss of at least Rs 5 crore. And that’s why Farah needs to be cautious about her next movie and Akshay worried about his next, Patiala House.”
December 29, 2010 at 5:39 PM
Sure, TMK is a losing proposition. What I’d like to ask these geniuses (Amod Mehra and their ilk) is how MNIK is NOT a loss making film, when both films will make the same amount of money in theatrical revenues?
December 29, 2010 at 6:16 PM
Good question.. I think we know the answer!
December 29, 2010 at 7:51 PM
According to Amod Mehra MNIK made 15 cr losses.
December 30, 2010 at 4:59 AM
that’s good to know!
December 30, 2010 at 1:46 AM
Pataila House has zero chance at the BO. The first promo is out and it is not what his fans want to see at all. Akshay is not going anywhere though.
December 29, 2010 at 8:58 AM
Tees Maar Khan Has Heavy Fall On Tuesday
Wednesday 29th December 2010 15.00 IST
Boxofficeindia.Com Trade Network
The collections of Tees Maar Khan are declining very fast as Tuesday showed a big drop from Monday.
The film collected around 3.25 crore nett on Tuesday which takes its five day business to around 45.50 crore nett. The two days left of the week may bring in another 5 crore nett.
The numbers are still very big for five days but problem is they are falling even faster then they started. Looking at the trending the film is looking to finish its lifetime business at around the 65 crore nett mark.
December 29, 2010 at 9:05 AM
Akshay has just destroyed himself. His track record since SIK is easily the worst one around relative to scale and hype of the projects. His next Patiala House being a more ‘serious’ film might not even get an initial. His comedies have essentially stopped working. A pity really because his initial seems to be intact to a great degree. He really needed to make the switch to masala a long time back. It could still work if he did so now but unfortunately he has still some comedies he’s committed to. One has to be skeptical about his action film with Gowariker which then leaves the Prabhudeva film. Assuming Bhansali takes a totally hands off approach here Akshay should have a winner but it might be too little too late in the absence of a larger strategy. He should completely stop all the comedies at this point. The genre is still strong but clearly Akshay cannot get it done here anymore. I’ve said this before but with the right masala switch Akshay would have profited more from this genre than Salman.
December 29, 2010 at 9:10 AM
spot on! analysis! and it would remain a regret imo
December 29, 2010 at 3:07 PM
Akshay lost the plot as far back as Singh Is Kinng. That’s when I seriously felt his judgement in the comedy genre was poor. That was the first really poor commercial choice he made in his strong run starting with Phir Hera Pheri. And the film was his first “big” opener putting him in the big league but the jokes, script and execution were lame and since then he really has not had a truly out and out successful film like say Welcome which came before Singh Is Kinng. Housefull is the closest one gets but his disappointments like CCTC, Tasveer, KI, Blue, DDD, Khatta Meetha, Action Replayy and now Tees Maar Khan are stacking up and sticking out showing the guy tends to work in just poor commercial films. I’m sure of his future projects he’ll get a hit here or there, but a disappointment is more likely based on his recent resume.
December 29, 2010 at 4:36 PM
In a strange way Akshay’s career has now come to resemble Jeetendra’s from the 80s. The latter had an expensive flop of a home production in Deedar-e-Yaar and turned South with a vengeance. For a while everything worked but then the gig got stale and the flops started increasing. Eventually it was over, he could still get a hit here and there but that was about it. His peak period at the time lasted a couple of years or so. But Jeetendra was in the age of Bachchan and even otherwise had no symbolic currency. Akshay however after his fantastic run was being called the top star and so forth. He could have taken it to a different level by reinventing himself when he was doing the best and this of course ties in with your point on his judgment. But this also gets back to an older discussion here. All stars have their blind spots. With Akshay it’s been masala. Perhaps it reminds him too much of his B,C grade days but it is definitely psychologically interesting that he’s made no great effort to turn to masala even after there seemed to be evidence of a resurgence in this genre. Even at this very moment he probably has two or three comedies for one Prabhudeva or Gowariker. Similarly he’s been willing to go offbeat (by his standards) for Tasveer or perhaps Patiala House. The obvious low hanging fruit of masala though is still something he’s very wary of. getting back to SIK ironically this was his anointment film.
December 29, 2010 at 4:42 PM
I am surprised he has not manufactured a return to action with the Khiladi films. This was a success for him in the 90′s and he can still pull off such roles today. The technology and presentation would be better today aswell. To me that would be a no brainer.
December 29, 2010 at 4:45 PM
agreed completely.. he has his own personal franchise here and he refuses to profit from it.
December 29, 2010 at 11:21 PM
yup khiladi was the best.. and i still watch them!!! my fav being Khiladiyo ka khiladi.
intnl khiladi comes second. and rest i like them all.
ps- jay title is possible.. i guess spurs are on fire
gareth bale has to be player of the year from jan 1 to dec 31 in EPL
December 30, 2010 at 7:42 AM
Let’s be honest here -If Akhshay has llost the plot then so has Abhishekh.
Akhshay did try different movies like – Tashan for JBJ, Tasveer for D-6 and Action Replay for KhJJS ( plase no essays comapring these with each other ) I just put them to make a point.
In between he also tried the masala route ( which Satyam keeps recommending to Abhishek)
My point is that he learnt from his mistakes and tried to produce the movies himself by not charging his fees. Ab farah kahn jaisee director itnee badeee Aag bana dey aur Rathnam jaisa director aag ka baap bana dey then it is neither akhshay’s nor Abhishek,s fault.
December 30, 2010 at 9:05 AM
what masala films has Akshay done though? After becoming big in comedies? I’m not blaming him for doing Farah Khan’s film but once he saw Ghajini become so become and then Wanted become successful why didn’t he take the initiative himself and look at Southern remakes and so on? On the rest I myself made the point yesterday that given his own genre strengths he did try out films that were different for him. But the problem is that he kept clinging to comedies even when it was rather clear that these had stopped working. It’s not about Farah Khan, everything since SIK has more or less not worked barring Houseful. Similarly with Abhishek it’s not about Rathnam or Mehra but what one does the rest of the time to balance these risks. Akshay’s ‘different’ has an ‘indifferent’ quality to it! Why Tasveer all of a sudden?! You should either do ‘different’ for prestige or else if you want to diversify there should be some ‘sense’ to it given your brand. Akshay seems to have no such strategy. But again this wouldn’t be a problem if other things fell in place. What Akshay is doing with Parabhudeva now he should have done earlier in the sense that he should have initiated projects. The distributors would have been more than happy to see him in masala. If anything this genre could incorporate all of his trademark comedy plus item numbers plus action, etc etc. It’s really a no brainer.
Incidentally I don’t find your comparison odd at all.
December 30, 2010 at 10:48 AM
“why didn’t he take the initiative himself and look at Southern remakes and so on?”
Akshay has already done a lot of southern remakes..Most/All of Priyan’s films are remakes….BTW seems like most of the stars depend upon south remakes for BO success…New trend in BW..
December 30, 2010 at 11:11 AM
Yes but he’s done comedy remakes, not masala ones.
December 30, 2010 at 11:22 AM
“Yes but he’s done comedy remakes, not masala ones.”
Agreed…I like south masala movies…but my prob is if every big star will start doing south remakes then it will become a trend…and i fear these trends…
December 30, 2010 at 12:41 PM
I’d prefer those trends to the ones I’ve seen for 20 years!
December 30, 2010 at 6:40 AM
B.O. update: ‘Tees Maar Khan’ continues to slide downwards
- By Taran Adarsh, December 30, 2010 – 13:39 IST
TEES MAAR KHAN continues to slide downwards on weekdays in India. Here are the day-wise figures:-
Friday – 12.75 cr
Saturday – 12.75 cr
Sunday – 12 cr
Monday – 4.5 cr
Tuesday – 3.25 cr
Wednesday – 2.5 cr
Total so far: Rs. 47.75 cr nett
Although the numbers may seem impressive, they are not. In view of the fact that the Christmas vacations are still on, besides the fact that the film has had an extensive release [2100 screens in India] and ticket rates have also been hiked at most places, the 6-day total should’ve touched approx. Rs. 57 cr nett.
December 30, 2010 at 11:33 AM
this has been a year of good opening numbers falloed by a huge crash.. I dont think the products have been so bad.. so the only thinkthat has led to such downfall is FACEBOOK and TWITTER. They should be banned
December 30, 2010 at 1:07 PM
actually the srk spoofs and the manoj-day-shyamalan type spooofs were good by bollywood standards.
And akshaye khanna should be given due credit to garner some conviction and try huis best for the idiotic role–aybe he thought this will atleast give him a hit
unfortunately most people associated with this will get “hit”.
if vishal shekhar actually did all songs, they have done a much better job.
Im in a minority (maybe the only one)—but i liked sukhvindars bade dilwala the most.
even tmk, shelia and wallah were all good.
alas, this was the ONLY good thing!
December 30, 2010 at 7:18 PM
Sheela is pleasing to the eyes and Munni is pleasing to the ears ! LOL!!!
December 30, 2010 at 10:14 PM
Munni is on Jhalak these days and speaking of which Rani was on this week and it was quite a treat to see her with Madhuri. Rani has been my favorite actress in the post-Madhuri generation though I am saddened to see her these days. She wasted her career in colossal fashion after 2004-05.
December 30, 2010 at 4:50 PM
Tollywood: The big hits of 2010
Prashanth NR
Express News Service
First Published : 29 Dec 2010
Tollywood may now be fighting with itself, but everyone in the film industry agrees on one fact — 2010 has been one of the worst years ever for this largest movie making industry in the country. Prashanth NR rewinds and brings you the list of the top five grosser.
The first one to be added to this roster of top five movies of 2010 would definitely be the baap of all movies — ‘Robot’. With people flocking to theatres at Rajni speed, ‘Robot’ harvested Rs 60 crore. Other Telugu films got washed away in Rajni tide, making this movie the highest grosser in Tollywood this year. Next in line would be SS Rajamouli directed ‘Maryadaramanna’ that raked in Rs 40 crore at the box office despite no big hero in it. Comedian-turned-hero Sunil played the lead in a character with no fights and sleazy romance. Made with less than Rs 20 crore, the film was the second highest grosser at the box office…
http://expressbuzz.com/entertainment/news/tollywood-the-big-hits-of-2010/235159.html