JayShah’s Saturday Box Office Column – Dull Response To New Releases

New Releases

Fox, Aagey Se Right & Three

New releases continued to flood the market with none of them performing well upon release. Fox was the high profile casualty succumbing to lower collections then Aagey Se Right despite a bigger cast. Starring Sunny Deol and Arjun Rampal in a thriller, Fox made only 1.5-1.7Cr whereas the comedy Aagey Se Right produced by UTV Motion Pictures and starring Shreyas Talpade did slightly better collecting 2.4-2.5Cr. The other release, Three collected only 0.7-0.8Cr.

Past Releases

Daddy Cool

Sunil Shetty and Aftab Shivdasani starrer Daddy Cool fell by over 85% in its second week to record meager collections of 0.4-0.5Cr. The comedy is a flop with total collections of 3.6-3.9Cr.

Kaminey

Kaminey held steady again with a fall of around 50% for the second consecutive week. The Shahid Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra starrer has managed a steady run so far in addition to losing significant business in Mumbai and Pune due to swine flu outbreak. Playing catch up, Kaminey collected 2.4-2.5Cr in the fourth week to take total collections to around 41.7-43.4Cr – an above average performer.

Life Partner

Comedy multi-starrer Life Partner continues to do rock steady business into its fourth week. Falling by around 35% – the Govinda, Tusshar Kapoor and Fardeen Khan starrer collected 1.9-2.1Cr making its total collections around 20.2-22.2Cr. With such steady performance, Life Partner is an above average performer and looks like having an outside chance of making around 25Cr in total.

January 2009
Chandi Chowk to China : 24.5 – 26.2Cr (Disaster)
Raaz – The Mystery Continues : 22.5 – 23.8Cr (Below Average)
Slumdog Millionaire : 4.8 – 5.5Cr (Flop)
Luck By Chance : 16.3 – 17.9Cr (Flop)
Victory : 1.2 – 1.5Cr (Disaster)

February 2009
Dev D : 16.0 – 17.2Cr (Hit)
Billu : 22.7 – 24.1Cr (Flop)
Delhi 6 : 32.7 – 35.0Cr (Flop)
Kisse Pyaar Karoon : 0.4 – 0.5Cr (Flop)
Siddharth – The Prisoner : 0.1 – 0.2Cr (Flop)

March 2009
Dhoondte Reh Jaoge : 7.5 – 8.1Cr (Flop)
13B : 7.4 – 8.2Cr (Flop)
Gulaal : 3.5 – 4.1Cr (Flop)
Jai Veeru : 1.5 – 2.0Cr (Flop)
Little Zizou : 1.1 – 1.2Cr (Average)
Aloo Chat : 4.0 – 4.7Cr (Flop)
Aa Dekhen Zara : 3.9 – 4.3Cr (Flop)
Ek – The Power of One : 4.3 – 4.7Cr (Flop)

April 2009
8×10 Tasveer : 11.5 – 12.5Cr (Flop)

May 2009
99 : 11.9 – 12.5Cr (Above Average)
Detective Naani : 0.6 – 0.7Cr (Flop)

June 2009
Maruti Mera Dosst : 0.2 – 0.3Cr (Flop)
Team – The Force : 1.5 – 1.7Cr (Flop)
Kal Kissne Dekha : 5.6 – 6.0Cr (Disaster)
Paying Guests : 6.9 – 7.5Cr (Flop)
New York : 42.5 – 44.4Cr (Hit)

July 2009
Kambakkht Ishq : 43.8 – 45.9Cr (Below Average)
Short Kut : 7.0 – 7.6Cr (Flop)
Sankat City : 0.4 – 0.5Cr (Flop)
Jashnn : 1.8 – 2.0Cr (Flop)
Luck : 21.5 – 22.8Cr (Flop)
Love Aaj Kal : 63.6 – 66.0Cr (Hit)

August 2009
Agyaat : 5.1 – 5.4Cr (Flop)
Teree Sang : 1.7 – 1.9Cr (Flop)
Life Partner : 20.2 – 22.2Cr (Above Average)
Kaminey : 41.7 – 43.4Cr (Above Average)
Shadow : 0.4 – 0.5Cr (Flop)
Sikander : 0.4 – 0.5Cr (Flop)
Daddy Cool : 3.6 – 3.9Cr (Flop)
Kissan : 1.2 – 1.4Cr (Poor Opening)
Fox : 1.5 – 1.7Cr (Poor Opening)
Aagey Se Right : 2.4 – 2.5Cr (Poor Opening)
Three : 0.7 – 0.8Cr (Poor Opening)