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415 Cr all India nett post GST is in similar range to the 387 Cr Dangal in a pre GST scenario, this being a 500 Cr multi lingual production releasing in 7000 screens while Dangal was a 100 Cr production releasing in 4500 screens across all formats. Even post the China release (which BOI prefers to discount for vested interests as that makes Dangal India’s highest grosser worldwide ) I doubt 2.0 would cross the 900 Cr worldwide gross of Bajrangi or the 850 Cr+ gross of Secret Superstar. So much for being “India’s biggest movie extravaganza”, an over rated heap of crass masala junk with childish logic, an over the top (as always) superstaar and a Bollywood star desperate to get his first major huge grosser (at which he’s failed here too).
Bajrangi is 925 cr ww gross and SS 900 cr if you consider concurrent currency exchange rates during their respective theatrical run in phases.
But agree on what u said on 2.0. Its an under-performing disappointment – no escape from that. Producers are claiming 700 cr ww gross, boi may have 650, while some are reporting 600 cr only. Problem is that the upper end of this spectrum also does not do justice to such an investment.
If you cud have 5-6 threads on TOH india release (one on a daily basis), it will be an embarrassment to not maintain that record during its china release. The contributors of that mayhem are encouraged to keep thier records intact.
Tagline for this effort – ‘Garbage In, Garbage Out’.
Zero has been cleared by CBFC (Central Board Of Film Certification) with U/A certification (Unrestricted Public Exhibition-But With Parental Guidance) and running time of 164 minutes and 15 seconds i.e. 2 hours 44 minutes and 15 seconds. Also, the board provided some suggestions like the cuss words ‘haraami’, ‘haraamzade’, ‘peechwade’ and ‘bhen*****’, were asked to be muted and replaced.
One interesting thing to note is the replacement of Monkey’s name to Diya. If we note the timing, the Chimpanzee will exist in the second half of the film.
Talking about the duration of the movie, Zero is the longest one for director Aanand L. Rai. His Raanjhanaa (2 hours 11 minutes), Tanu Weds Manu (1 hour 59 minutes) and Tanu Weds Manu (2 hours 8 minutes) were way shorter when compared with Zero (2 hours 44 minutes 15 seconds).
Rai can bore in 2 hrs itself. Remember that abhay deol film? Even madhavan’s part dragged in TWM films, albeit him being a far better actor than what u hv in zero. Kangana managed to save those 2 films with her quirky characters. Here we have anushka’s terrible handicap and kat’s non-acting. Maybe the chimp will save the day, who knows?
R Madhavan and Abhay Deol will be seen adding to the remarkable performances of the film with interesting characters. However, details of the same are yet undisclosed. R Madhavan, who has earlier worked with Aanand L Rai for the successful franchise of Tanu Weds Manu, would be seen in a special appearance playing an important part of Aafia aka Anushka Sharma’s life. While not much has been revealed of Abhay Deol’s character, the actor will collaborate with the director again after Raanjhaana for a special role.
the makers added that they have made alterations to avoid hurting religious sentiments of the Sikh community. “Despite the fact that the film and its poster depicted only an ornamental dagger and not a ‘kirpan’, steps have been taken by the respondent to alter the relevant scenes. The portions in question have been altered through visual effects to depict an ornamental sword,” read a statement by Shah Rukh Khan’s Red Chillies Entertainment.
Wonder why we have a thread even before the film’s released. Not that this one’s a potential 500 Cr or even a 300 Cr grosser. If KGF (Hindi) gets a Bahubali 1 kind of word of mouth (80-100 Cr nett) and with Simmba releasing on 28th, Zero might have to rely on positive audience review to get to even 200 Cr.
It was in reply to the first comment u made after creating this thread. Was abt Aamir in china and Toh china release. Expletives are only reserved for great prk and his fanatics, so no issues on that.
KGF is said to be tracking 15 cr nett on day one in all 5 versions, based on advance booking. Half of it i guess will come from karnataka. Zero is said to be tracking 30 cr on day one.
Dont say such thinkgs … 30-35 cr is what is has to be, by hook or crook. Wait for red chillies to get into action. Btw, master z is tracking v poorly this weekend in china, superheroes are waiting to kick its ass as per pre-sales tracking.
What goes around comes back. I said that this is bound to happen after what prk trolls did during Toh. But if Zero is good indeed then it wont get affected. Otherwise … god bless!
Ain’t KJO and SRK considered to be close friends or its just media talks? Or KJO is taking revenge on SRK for him not doing his movies and ignoring him lol
Karan Johar is doing anything he can to make zero look bad, let me tell you Bollywood has become a dirty industry no true friendship, if zero is great it will be bad news for Karan
Check Some Of The Reviews Of Zero Posted By Industry People And Otherwise On Twitter:
IPL Chairman, Rajeev Shukla: Zero के हीरो@iamsrk आप कमाल हो what an amazing concept of the movie It will be super hit.
KRK: Reports are out. According to CBFC members #Zero is a terrific emotional film, and it’s going to be a sure shot blockbuster. Congrats to entire team in advance.
Umair Sandhu: #Zero is a sureshot super-hit film. It has entertainment for all sections of the audience and for all age groups. It also has tremendous repeat value. Ladies and youngsters, especially, will adore the film.
Mushtaq Shiekh: Good things come in small packages. @iamsrk continues the tradition of pushing boundaries with #Zero. He always had the guts to venture into the unknown and make it large. This @bauuasingh & @aanandlrai combo is dynamite. Sure shot entertainer in the offing.
Rahul verma
@RahulVerma4860
#Zero true blue blockbuster ! .@aanandlrai and Himanshu did true justice to their calibre and delivered their best film till date as a duo .Second half is better than even first half with right dose of emotions comprehended with lots of stunning connections to stories (1/2) .
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Censor board reports of #Zero are mind-blowing! CLASS desi entertainer with right mix of emotions. Second half is sure to surprise everyone! ALR has hit it out of the park. SRK, Anu & Kat – AWARDWORTHY! Best movie of SRK this decade! Sure to cross CE.
BLOCKBUSTER all the way!
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According to Internal reports, #Zero is Sure shot blockbuster movie of 2018 and one of the best movie of SRK’s career.
Congratulations to the entire team and producer in advance because this mivie gonna break many records!!
All the very best#4DaysToZero pic.twitter.com/u1j4crYESB
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ll these fake accounts will disappear overnight. Public overpowers these. Shakespeare and his sister will attack me now again as he believes in the power of fake twitter attacks and trolls.
Aquaman will lose some showtimes on this weekend. Some predictions say it may make only $15M or less on it's 3rd weekend. I think it can go higher, especially considering the qualities of local titles this week are not good enough.
The sheer rejection of Padman in China has surprised me because in india it was loved more comparatively. The ratings for Padman China remains very high which means the small number of viewers are liking it.
However it is not a movie that is easy to watch or take your family. There were no kids in the theatre where i watched and very few women. Few young college going girls were there.
Many in India, specially women avoided sitting in a theatre with men looking for entertainment in Padman.
A great cinema. Not even close to entertaining me the way Andhadhun did, but a movie which made me look at certain social things differently. These movies are rare.
Bollywood star Aamir Khan starts to promote his latest film on the Chinese mainland.
In a room with big windows through which you can get a spectacular view of the sea in Sanya, the city in South China’s Hainan province, Aamir Khan showed up, wearing a gentle smile.
A couple of hours later, the Bollywood star walked onto the stage at the closing ceremony of the first Hainan International Film Festival with Jackie Chan to announce the best feature winner.
It was Dying to Survive, an acclaimed social drama about the moral struggles of a medicine smuggler, which ultimately took home the festival’s top honor on Sunday night.
It is perhaps appropriate that Khan had the honor of presenting the award, given that some of his highest-grossing films in China－such as 3 Idiots, PK and Dangal－poke fun at social prejudices or reflect the struggles that people have to face in their daily lives.
But Khan says that tackling social issues is not his motivation or criteria for choosing movie roles.
“When I’m selecting film scripts, I’m not thinking of social issues. I’m not selecting a film based on a social issue, because I feel that my primary responsibility to (the) audience is to entertain them,” Khan tells China Daily at the festival.
“The audience buys the ticket and comes to the cinema, as they want to be entertained. If they want a lesson in sociology or psychology, then they’ll go to college,” he adds.
The 53-year-old star, with a film career spanning over three decades, hopes his latest film, titled Thugs of Hindostan, will entertain in spades.
Among India’s most expensive films produced, with an estimated budget of $47 million, Thugs is set to open across Chinese mainland theaters on Dec 28. Khan says the film does not have “a social message”. He plans to promote it in Chinese cities such as Guangzhou, Xi’an, Nanjing, Chengdu, Wuhan, Shanghai and Beijing.
Also starring Amitabh Bachchan, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Katrina Kaif and Lloyd Owen, the action-adventure film, adapted from an 1839 English novel, is about a band of thugs who aspire to free India from British rule.
Khan stars as Firangi Mallah, a con man recruited by the British forces to steal information from the thugs’ leader.
Khan describes his character, Firangi Mallah, as unpredictable, and with conscience, but no moral values.
“He can sell his mother for money. But I’ve found he’s really an interesting and entertaining character,” says Khan.
The star had discovered a resemblance between his new character and a household name in China’s martial arts world. Two months earlier during the Taihu World Cultural Forum in Beijing, Khan revealed one of his favorite Chinese characters is Wei Xiaobao, the fictional protagonist penned by late Hong Kong literature master, Louis Cha, in his classic novel, The Deer and The Cauldron.
When Khan was in Hong Kong around eight months ago, he met a local filmmaker who gave him a copy of the novel, which comes in three volumes.
Spanning the political conflicts during the reign of Emperor Kangxi in 17th-century China, the martial arts story follows Wei, a teenage hooligan born to a prostitute mother in a brothel to become the best friend of the emperor.
“The Chinese boy is 14 years old. He is sly, funny and a bit like my character (in Thugs of Hindostan),” Khan says during a brief interview.
The influential star also talks about the popular Indian TV show Truth Alone Prevails, which he has hosted since 2012. The program examines some controversial issues in Indian society, such as child abuse, child marriage and dowry.
“I believe that if somebody protests against me, it’s a good thing. I want to know why the people are not believing in me,” Khan says.
He says he feels lucky as many Indians like the show, but he adds “there are a few people who don’t want things to be changed because they benefit from things remaining the same way”.
Having visited China many times in recent years, Khan says he expects to cooperate with Chinese filmmakers, actors and actresses to shoot a Chinese story.
The star even reveals that－should such an opportunity arise－he will spend at least three months preparing, as he would want to memorize the Chinese lines.
With more and more Indian films coming to China－nine imported this year－Khan also says he has contacted China Film Administration, the country’s top regulator for the sector, to express his wish to have some Chinese films screened in India.
Kung fu giants, such as Jackie Chan and the late Bruce Lee, have been the best known Chinese film stars in India for a long time. Now, Khan wants Indians to know more about Chinese cinema.
‘Captain Marvel’ and ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Top IMDb’s List of Most Anticipated 2019 Movies
With the top three spots secured by Captain Marvel, Avengers: Endgame, and Dark Phoenix, the rest of the list is filled out largely with genre movies. Spots four through 10 are taken, in order, by Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, The Irishman, It: Chapter Two, Glass, Joker, Aladdin, and Hellboy. It’s worth noting that a handful of other films that fans have been looking forward to, such as Shazam!, Spider-Man: Far From Home, and even Men in Black 4 failed to make the top ten.
Multi-lingual KGF to hit over 2,000 screens across the country
For the first time, a Kannada film dubbed in four other languages is releasing in over 2,000 screens across the country this Friday. Touted as the ‘costliest film’ made in Kannada, KGF, starring Yash and directed by Prashanth Neel, has been dubbed in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Hindi.
Tamil star Vishal, Telugu producer Korrapatti Ranganatha Sai, noted distributor and producer in Bollywood Anil Tadani, Global United Media of Thiruvananthapuram are distributing the film in their respective languages. The audio rights were bought by Bengaluru-based Lahari Audio by paying a sum of ₹3.60 crore, which is said to be the highest for audio rights.
Vijay told The Hindu that while the Hindi version is being released in over 1,000 screens, over 400 screens will show the Kannada version.
@Bob – Nice twist man! Its just payback time to give it back to srk trolls for their deeds during ToH. You can look up those troll threads if u r short on memory (which i doubt).
Regarding Toh, we are interested to see what happens in china. Why so averse to its china release? When u are sure about it being the worst movie ever made, then it will surely collect a lot less than the indian masterpieces that released there after SS?
Here is something more to chew – negativity or positivity does not matter, what can happen will happen. How not focus on the product? From the trailers, posters and songs it looks bad. Why not talk more about that? Instead of giving pseudo-gyaan like fake babas?
Negativity won during Toh. Positivity won during initial stages of 2.0.
I am neutral about Zero. It will not affect me either way. 2.0 acted as a buffer for Zero.
I understood this pic as “Flogging a dead horse”. Flogging a dead horse (alternatively beating a dead horse, or beating a dead dog in some parts of the Anglophone world) is an idiom that means to continue a particular endeavour is a waste of time as the outcome is already decided.
Whoever put it meant to a particular post by Marcus where it looked like he is trying to defend the indefensible.
Are you serious? In this same thread you have lied twice where folks can easily go back and check. But if you are just trying to play a dirty game by blaming Master for no reason, no amount of explanation from other members will convince you. Other possibility is that you really don’t understand English idioms and posts by others.
Either ways, I don’t think I need to justify, folks who have even little brain can understand what I meant wrt the flogging dead horse image!
That was a distasteful gif and publishing it evokes distasteful feelings. Only big brains like Naveen can understand it!
The intention behind it also matters. Just do this for political leaders in India and you will be prosecuted.
There are so many misogynistic idioms too in various languages including in English. Can we use them saying that ‘I have not created that idiom or phrase?’
really..’flogging a dead horse’ is hurting sentiments now? Now we are really into the current situation in our country..whatever, wherever hurt sentiments!
btw about negativity in social media, didnt start with toh, i did point it out extensively during JHMS, though then aamir fans were enjoying it then.. so, what went around has come around already!
Good to see RG fans, this completes the zero thread! I am not a modi fan but one one can practically fix the congress mess in one term. Lets not fool ourselves that academic degrees is a requisite for political ambition in india. RG cant even deliver a scripted speech!
Marcus..Agree on that. Didn’t like anything about ZERO so far. Still I want 250cr+ for Zero. Just because I don’t want all Khan’s to fail in a single year. They are part of our teenage years. So many good memories. I do admit they all three went past thier sale by date. I too jumped on Ranveer singh. Still I don’t want Khan’s to fade suddenly.
None of them are going anywhere, whether Zero flops or becomes a Hit. They will be around playing leads for another 5 years. Rajni is doing it at close to 60.
Lets elaborate for chimp minds. All 3 khans (even akshay) have accumulated enough success, fan following and wealth over the years to keep producing their films now and successfully fund the PR machinery to keep themselves relevant. And its not about Ranveer or Ranbir catching up. Nor can Rao/Anshuman participate in big game hunting.
The threat lies in increasing market share of hollywood films. And the constant threat of increasing penetration from southern industries – Baahubali films, 2.0, Saaho, RRR, etc etc. Sooner or later they will compete with Khan grossers. BB2 (2017) and AIW (2018) are already showing the way, while Khans have slowed down considerably.
Only Khan film in 2019 is Bharat. Dont be surprised if its competing with Avengers Endgame, Lion King, Spiderman or Saaho for the highest grosser title. And all these may fare a lot better than Shamsheera or Gully Boy.
To be precise, its upto Zero to beat AIW’s 227 cr nett in India – by real collections not fraud PR figures thrown by Red Chillies.
KGF Chapter 1 has made people sit back and notice not just the film, but Kannada industry itself, says Yash
The cinematic mantra this month seems to be KGF. There were whispers about the grand sets, the budget and how rocking star Yash was overworking and putting his all into this project that is now one of the most talked about films — KGF Chapter 1. It is directed by Prashanth Neel and the best part is that KGF is not just creating waves in Karnataka, but across the country and also overseas. In a talk with MetroPlus, Yash confirms the film, which releases on December 21, will be screened in over 2,000 theatres on the national and international platform. The film will be simultaneously released in five languages. “We’ll be able to give you exact numbers on the eve of the release,” says the actor, who sits down with us after a tough press conference.. Questions were shot at him like sharp arrows from every corner of the room — some flattering and some accusing him of “ignoring” the Kannada media, but Yash patiently answered each one with a smile.
Watched 2.0 and came back with mixed feelings; joyful more of course. There was no Hindi version left here; only Tamil. One thing is for sure; Shankar aimed literally for the skies…I mean, birds here! The only hero in this film is his visual imagination put into action. This is one of the worst outings of Rajinikanth. Even that Hrinayakashipu-isque laugh of his that is a wolf-whistle SOS to his fans is a sore visually and aurally. It is truly an Akshay Kumar show all the way: He’s just not worried about his image and it shows. This is not great acting, but for sure this is a fine divorce from Akshay the actor, of course aided by prosthetics and visual effects. Shankar comes up with highly innovative ways to make a handsome man look ugly, and AK gleefully submits to the director.
Some of the visual effects are fantastic and heart-stopping; notably the stadium scenes and Akshay’s taking over of Vaseegaran’s body: Akshay’s transformation into a bird glued with mobiles and his walk along with the busy street at night with a robust back-ground score is terrific and got the most whistles — in a Tamil film where he beats up Rajinikanth, with Tamil audiences watching!!
Frankly, there’s nothing really here-in the stadium scenes, Shankar uses a couple of trade-mark scenes like cigarette flipping or the bullets’ swirling — that Rajinikanth adds, except of course, his mania in Tamil Nadu. In the first part, Shankar used Kanth’s iconic status to the hilt and so it was actually a joy even to non-fans to see the contrast between a timid inventor and a volatile robot that is cleverly depicted through the robotic frame-work invoking his fan-fare moments. Here, I seriously felt one could have used anybody else instead of Rajini and it would have made more sense and driven home the fact better that Shankar really wanted technology to do the talking.
Some lines are corny, and the less said about the wafer-thin plot, the better. However, it for sure is a great one-time watch in 3D on the big screen given the constraints — some of the aerial sweep-shots are really corny — and resources Shankar has worked with. I did not find much of a repeat value.
Shankar has a better imagination but a weaker story-teller; while Rajamouli is a better story-teller with a weaker imaginative mind visually. The contrast, couldn’t have been clearer as it is here.
Agree with ur review on all counts. Thanks for sharing. My thots were on similar lines too. Shankar’s imagination and Akshay’s performance takes the cake here.
I happened to watch 2.0 last night. Nothing much to say about the film. Its not bad nor good, plain average. and nothing much remains with you the next day. Its less masala than a regular Shankar film, at least till the point where an irritating 2.0 or 3.0 version of Chitti show up (and Rajni starts his usual antics that he is famous for). Rajni was fine in the first half though. However, Akshay Kumar has done well here (and he shows up in the second half to save it). I think that is the main reason why hindi dubbed version is doing relatively better at box office. Akshay deserves all the credit for that.
This film needed to be an outright Rajni vehicle from the get-go to make it really big in TN/Telegu/Kerala belt. And to make it work well in high-end plexes all over india (referring to 227 cr nett from Avengers a few months back), it needed to mute Rajni in the second half. So its neither here, nor there – dangling somewhere in the middle.
I think in hindi version it will do 170-175 cr nett and be a plus film in the end. [ I am hoping it does 200 cr in hindi and gets certified as a hit. If Devgn could get a 200 cr film with the last Golmaal, then Akshay surely deserves to get there with his effort here.] However, in south its downward trend is likely to continue.
As for being a visual spectacle, Shankar uses his imagination better than he did in Enthiran. But the vfx execution is not as great as his imagination (probably budget constraints). There is a cartoonish feeling to the vfx execution here that it somewhat dilates Shankar’s visual ambitions. Hollywood extravaganzas are all beyond such amateurish feel. One needs to check the visuals from the upcoming chinese sci-fi production – The Wandering Earth, whose trailer recently released. Even our neighbors have cracked the vfx code much better than us.
The best thing about the film is Akshay by a margin. He has a good role, and performs v well. But his ‘message’ gets belittled by 2.0 – quite literally. Dont know why Shankar decided to trivialize the issue with cell-phones by the end of it all. He seems completely confused about what he wants to say in the film. Again a middle ground.
I wont recommend it as a visual spectacle. But wont discourage anyone who wants to watch it either – just for Akshay. For his message here and of course the way he entertains. And no, I am not an Akshay fan.
I wud prefer this film over ‘Katappa Kyon Maara’ sequel anyday. But its not a patch on Baahubali The Beginning either. Yet, its an upgrade from Enthiran – and a lot better than bollywood’s krrish series or any such sci-fi attempts from north.
Good, decent, average, solid advance. No terms like gigantic, historic etc. Advance seems to have disappointed for sure. Don’t see doing it more than 20-22crrs on Friday.
SRK is biggest YouTube superstar! But based on these reports so far, his stardom at box office is on a rocky path that is only going one way. I still think 25Cr is happening but really this should be north of 30Cr. Yes no marketing blitz but even here SRK fans have been positive in main on trailer, songs and juxtaposed with YouTube, bla bla (fyi never give a crap for) this is pretty average so far! Let’s see, never say never! SRK might pull a rabbit out of the hat still!
The Salman SRK song is terrible, considering the promo since EID has practically created some kind of hype for that moment.
No preview shows…and release in UAE was pushed to Friday. Usuallly these are hints of a bad movie.
I skimmed through some advances and I think this will open in the Dangal/PK range (26 to 29) and if WOM is good can touch Sanju first day numbers (32).
Marcus 2.0 would have surely opened closer to 30 cr if they had solved their distribution issues and flooded 3D prints..that was a bad job at distribution…
Ya that’s okay..no issue with overhyping it but there cannot be any reason for moving the UAE release by 1 day..movie always release there on a Thursday..that doesnt sound too optimistic…in a sense they have kept the promotion low key..even if it opens between 25cr and 29 cr but is a good movie it wont have any issues in picking up….that’s a big if though
@Krish – Please commit to these verdict milestones. Please dont run-away like the other krish in the middle of making Manikarnika. Your biopic on srk can wait …
100 cr is surely the distribution cost and I had posted that 2 weeks back too..so 200 cr is recovery..anything above that is profit zone.. you are making me sound like some headmaster in classroom to commit to these numbers 🙂 but your numbers are right..addatoday has similar numbers for distribution too
No dude, our resident headMaster is busy taking his masterclass in censoring – replacing ‘Harami Behenchod Ki Haramzaade Peechwade’ with ‘Diya’ as per Prasoon Joshi’s strict directive!
I think if the movie gets to 225cr it will be called a hit by most..the verdicts after recovery are usually just ranges…..and when the amount being earned back is huge the hit verdict will be easier to get…so a 2.0 would have been called a hit even if it was just recovery because recovery itself was a massive 375 crs…
Usually trade looks at the money flowing…so a movie with distrubion cost of 10cr needs 25 cr for hit..20 cr for recovery…and 5 cr is the profit made which is actually 50.percent of distribution..but the same standard cannot be applied for larger budget movies. For ex 100 cr distribution cost will still be 200 cr recovery but even if it earns say 225 cr the person has earned 25cr which though is a lesser proportion of distribution cost visavis the smaller movie just making 225cr itself cannot happen if the movie is not liked..and he has also made more money here..that’s why if you see addatoday their hit is at 205cr for zero..but yes I think at 225cr it will be called a clean hit…
225 cr means that 25 cr nett over that recover target of 200 cr, which will yield a distributor share of 10-12 cr (depending on how long the film takes to get there, as distributor share reduces in plexes after week one). So 10 cr profit for distributors is justified in ur books for a Hit verdict when the distribution price is 100 cr???
10% ROI and you will give a ‘Hit’ verdict? i hope u r kidding urself.
I think what Krish is saying in layman’s terms it’s a profit model. If you make 10Cr on 10Cr cost or 100Cr cost it’s a hit. I don’t personally agree. I think somewhere in middle, decent profits and ROI.
The 100Cr cost film is like a bluechip stock and the 10Cr cost film is a penny stock. Either way profit is good. But one model is infinitely better. You’d rather make 10 10Cr cost films but you risk winning and losing, but risk is spread. Zero is boom or bust! This is why it’s critical and prestige for Zero to get to at least 180Cr-200Cr, it gives everyone associated whether paid or not to spin it positively. And of course the bigger carrot is beating Race 3 and TOH!
That’s how they do the calculations..even TOH needed only around 250 cr only for a hit verdict which was pretty close to recovery amount..expectation wise it would have been bad but that was enough for hit…..as you pay more and more for distribution cost the percentage required to get to hit will reduce..because that small.percent itself will be a big amount..
Yes Jay..basically what I am saying is that the percentage profit made on distribution cost will not be the same for all budget movies…it is easy to make a profit of 50 percent on distribution cost when budget is smaller rather than when the budget is bigger….bahubali 2 was an exception which gave 300 percent profit even though distribution cost itself were huge…
But this is pretty bad way to think about business in general. Big companies obviously can’t grow as fast as small companies. So you can’t expect similar ROI’s I agree. But for example if a small film makes 2Cr profit on 10Cr cost it should not be penalised either. That’s a decent return.
I am not expecting 100% returns or even 50% when i am saying a hit verdict is sacrilegious below 250 cr nett. @250, the distributor profits will be around 20-25 cr which is decent returns in the given scenario. Why set the bar so low Krish?
Even at 250Cr,TOH would be awful. Expectations need to be accounted for. Otherwise film business is just that, a business. It’s disconnected to reality and perceptions.
The world is such that EXPECTATIONS are critical. It cost Manchester United some £18mm to sack Mourinho yesterday but the ‘value’ of brand Manchester United increased by some £125mm according to experts. So sacking him increased value. I say it’s important to refund losing propositions if you’ve cheated or looted fans as It future proofs your brand. Critical for Zero to make 180Cr by hook or crook as it can paint it’s beautiful fake public picture!
I am no one to set any bar..a site like adda today is saying 205cr and I was explaining how they usually think….i was just saying that at 225cr pretty much everyone will call it a hit…i am absolutely fine to wait till 250 cr to call it a hit but whether it makes 225 or 250 the spin and feedback for movie will be positive…at the moment srk will be happy with any total above 200cr honestly considering how his movies have fared
Lets not get swayed by what some addatoday or kadels think. Lets apply our own discretion to come to conclusions. What do you say?
As Jay says, its better to buy smaller stocks where the returns can be much greater than investing huge amounts in reputed brands. For example, I am so fucking fed up and become impatient with my current role in leading a dev team for a branded MNC due to its lackadaisical dev efforts, that I am happy to take up an architect designation for a startup where the pay is even greater than what top brands are offering in the market (like amazon). But its not the money that excites me, its the scope to add some value, whatever that turns out to be. What i make of it, i will only to know once i start in new year.
Here is a good example of how ABO classifies a movie..if a movie makes 10.percent less than recovery they call it above average..from.recovery to some crores above it is a hit and so on and so fore..this is how they do for telugu movies…that’s why I said 2.0 was a hit just if it touched recovery…and AAA was not a very big movie but atleast there is consistency in what they do and they also release their classification before the movie releases… http://andhraboxoffice.com/info.aspx?id=4117&cid=8&fid=6005
You get what you are saying. The system is telling you breakeven is a hit or good enough! No one works just for break even. You don’t gamble to break even. That’s a lucky escape! In fact here 10% lower than recovery is ‘above’ average! LOL! This is nonsense even if transparent!
It fosters bad behaviour and ultimately nothing progressive. Set high standards, not gold or BB2 each time. But fair standards.
The advance booking for Zero got some momentum this morning after an average response since it opened. The advance is well short of the likes of Thugs Of Hindostan and Tiger Zinda Hai but it is pretty much expected as those films were big action films and this is more of a love story.
The advance booking over the first few days were around the levels of Raees and Tubelight but since yesterday evening there is stronger momentum which has followed through today which means it should beat these films. Raees was an action film but as it had a regional feel the advance and even box office was always going to be restricted. It did have a clash but even with a solo release it could not have gone too far as business was going to be Mumbai / Gujarat mainly with Shahrukh Khan strongholds like West Bengal, TNK and Mysore helping a little.
Zero is a far superior product than Raees going by the trailer so if the advance was just at the level of Raees it would have been disappointing even though with Raees it would be said that it has more of the so called mass elements for an initial. But that is not how box office works and a universal looking film is more important which Zero potentially is.
The best advance for till date a Shahrukh Khan starrer (in terms of collections) till date is the Diwali release of 2014 Happy New Year and there is a chance that Zero should be able to beat that. Obviously the ticket sales will be less but the collections should be able to edge past Happy New Year if this momentum keeps pace.
The biggest advance for an outright Hindi film ever is Thugs of Hindostan released on Diwali this year and Zero has no chance of competing with that. It is also well short of films like Sanju and Race 3. Sanju the public just took a liking to the trailer and even the songs which was a first for Rajkumar Hirani film while Race 3 was a mass film with Salman Khan on Eid.
The advance will not be huge like a Shahrukh Khan starrer should get but its going to be a good number for the type of film it is which is not the huge bumper opener type but a film which builds momentum. The advance is building momentum slowly and more importantly the momentum should continue on Friday and through the weekend and there will be no looking back.
In terms of appeal surely zero will be superior to raees..raees did 22cr or something with a clash..this will be around 27 to 29 cr I think…and then depends on wom and how it sells in current counters
Well short of Race 3? Unless the reviews and wom is positive not sure how it is going to touch 25crrs forget 30crrs.
No reviews yet. If its good movie and confident about their movie then they should have released the reviews. Looks like another dud from SRK. When was the last time SRK gave good or truly satisfying movie to audience?
I can explain this..race 3 released on pre-eid and a large part of the advance was skewed towards the 2nd and 3rd day and not 1st day..so 1st day advance was lower and hence it opened in the 27 cr 28 cr range…so even if zero advance is lower than race 3 the first day advance can be higher…now I have not checked if that’s the case but I wont be surprised if that’s the case…again this is just advance figures which in the end is just 20 percent of the days collections..the wom and current sales decide the remaining 80 percent…best ever example is Golmaal 4 which opened to 32 cr with practically zero advance
This doesnt need to do much to match Race 3’s opening. Race 3 was tracking 25 cr throughout the day till evening shows (check the usual sites), then producer Sallu gave us 29 cr figure the next day. I am sure Red Chillies will easily overdo the misreporting, if not the collections.
Classic fan – YouTube hits are historic so my *star* is biggest. Biggest cost ever.
Days before release, set the lowest hurdle possible for success.
Respect to Naveen for always going high!
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Zero Advance Booking Update: How Things Are Changing For This Shah Rukh Khan Starrer!
But is it big enough for a movie having stars like SRK, Katrina Kaif and Anushka Sharma? Let’s analyze!
By Koimoi.com Team -December 20, 2018
Zero Advance Booking Update: It has started since a couple of days and there have been many developments from day 1. Many cities are just buzzing up and thanks to the Shah Rukh Khan factor; many regions are already filling fast. But is it big enough for a movie having stars like SRK, Katrina Kaif and Anushka Sharma? Let’s analyze!
Mumbai is sleeping! The advance booking has still not picked up here since yesterday. It has boiled down to the last day of the booking scenario and today should possibly give a clearer picture. It’s somewhere similar to 2.0 (a day before) and as that movie picked up on the last day, expecting the same for this one too.
Delhi:
Delhi is better than yesterday but still, it needs a lot to attain the expected day 1 from the film. Mass centres would come into play in Delhi and usually, it’s seen they rely mostly on spot bookings. The oranges (fast filling) have increased but not enough as expected.
Bengaluru:
Bengaluru is SOLID! Better than both Mumbai and Delhi. Despite Yash’s KGF, Zero has managed to rise and shine in this area. The advance booking here is a sight to see which also hypes up our hope for the other regions as well.
Pune is getting better & that’s good news for the film. It will eventually get better for sure but it’s decent till now. It’s low if we compare it with Race 3, Sanju and 2.0 but then all of those 3 had a much better pre-release hype than Zero. Still, if we see all the regions combined, Zero has a great chance to outshine Race 3 on the 1st day.
Hyderabad, Chennai & Kolkata:
All these are few of the regions which are doing amazing than the rest. Hyderabad, especially, is the best of all and could help in adding a huge chunk in day 1. Chennai & Kolkata are very good too, but still, many cinema halls are yet to open the booking.
Hyderabad, especially, is the best of all and could help in adding a huge chunk in day 1
LOL this is such a freaking joke. Hyderabad is always on the higher side for each film. It was high for Race 3, 2.0 and even smaller films.
Hyderabad is the only metro I see that has a very high occupancy rate for Hindi films, no matter who stars in them! Another BOI lie busted, thanks to twitter.
just comparing or actually start giving out totals based on your assumption? With indian BO, you will have like at max 40% data (probably more like 10%), rest is just assumption.
Comparing apples to apples. Based on the data that I have, which comprises all the metros and about 7-8 Tier 1 cities, I can give out a good estimate of what the total is.
The universal standard for everyone here is BOI. So I have chosen Race 3 numbers as the starting point. Everything and every film is compared to that.
If my totals are off compared to BOI then it can mean one of two things:
1) The first day total for Race 3 was wrong
OR
2) BOI is using different metrics for different films — nay, different stars.
70% of bollywood business was being tracked by comscore when Sanju released 6 months back. Not sure if Inox has come on baord too by now. Lets come out from living in dark ages. But oldies often cant accept change.
Sorry, I got confused about the source. But the point still remains — these guys have been in business for far too long to not make such a simple connection.
@Jay – One good thing that has come out of brexit is relaxation (proposed) of supposed ‘high-skill’ visas and 2 month extension for students to find work.
Brexit is not that bad. Bad is how politicians are fighting each other instead of just getting out of EU. That’s what the vote is, get us OUT.
It’s like divorce when the couple are fighting over who gets what but forget about their children.
Visas damn we’ll have to pay €6 to go abroad. LOL. Not a lot but generally I am warming to change. No change means UK has just spent billions to leave to stay LOL. Change is opportunity.
Zero Preview: Shah Rukh Khan Loves Anushka Sharma To The Moon And Back. Katrina Kaif Is The Twist
Zero will clash with the Hindi version of Kannada film KGF, starring Yash. Nevertheless, get ready for fireworks at the box office!
Is it okay to continue bashing a star, I know it will degrade the site value and so on but is it okay if all of us do it like marcus continuously does?
It’s very easy to get down to gutter level but should we and more importantly, are we all allowed to do it or is it okay only if you’re not bashing aamir?
It will get pretty interesting here next few days so just trying to understand where mods stand on this.
And as I always say, for reference go thru any threads to make a judgement. It’s pretty crystal clear.
It’s perfectly okay if mods wants someone like marcus here but come out and say it, that if marcus is rss/vhp, we are his bjp, silent supporter…
It’s okay to have debates, like satyam and i don’t agree on many things and we debate about it, this guy/girl marcus is down right nasty and here for nothing but bash srk (again, just for thru any thread).
I think Marcus is targetting Red Chillies for inflating the numbers. Just like Roshans have become notorious for inflating numbers. And also some sites are doing so for a long time.
The issue is about inflated numbers. But ultimately the star also becomes part of the debate.
The debate is also about how much a film needs to be a hit or superhit. Boi, Taran have given superhit tags to 2.0 which can be disputed and which was disputed.
While we agree that Toh was a monumental disaster. And even if it was a hit, these debates would have gone on.
Banks likely to be closed from December 21-26. Here is why
Bank Holidays in December 2018: Apart from December 24, banks will remain closed from December 21 to 26.
By Express Web Desk |New Delhi |
Updated: December 20, 2018 2:44:08 pm
Bank Holidays in December 2018: All banks will remain closed for five days this week.
Calls for a strike by bank employee unions, coupled with public holidays, are likely to cripple financial transactions across the country between December 21 to 26. Apart from December 24, banking services are likely to be affected on December 21 and 26 as the United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU) and All India Bank Officers Confederation (AIBOC) have threatened to go on strike to protest against the merger of three PSBs, respectively.
The banks will remain closed on December 22 and 23 on account of fourth Saturday and Sunday respectively and on December 25 in view of Christmas, a national holiday.
Citing the reasons behind the strike, AIBOC Assistant General Secretary Sajay Das said, “We called the strike on December 21 demanding full and unconditional mandate for the XIth bipartite wage revision talks based on a charter of demands submitted in May 2017. No headway has been made in the process so far even after 19 months since the discussion on wage revision began.”
Around 3.2 lakh officers are expected to participate in the strike.
End it, both of you.
Guys – Satyam set this blog up nearly a decade ago. In my memory he hasn’t been away sporadically like this ever since 05. I don’t know why but he is busy. Do some introspection and just stop spamming verbals. I will delete every silly comment I see and leave it to munna and or Satyam to decide whether the comments come back or not. I am not a moderator but I’m not sitting by and watching this when people I know who have busted their spare time for this blog are being treated like this.
Aankh Maare is perhaps genuinely popular at this stage. If this is indeed true, then Simmba may get 20+ cr opening on 28th, not far behind Zero’s opening by actual collections (ignoring pr numbers). Shetty has his own market.
Can’t disagree with you on Shetty. Never liked his films at all.
But will say this — the Aankh Maare remake is better than the original. It’s not really surprising because the original wasn’t exactly a classic to begin with. Neither was the original shot in an imaginative fashion.
Just an FYI: Aankh Maare is a dance number and many places play such songs in a loop. The numbers will be eventually crazy. You just cannot compare that to regular songs like Mere Naam Tu or Tere Bin from Simmba itself.
Imagine Swag se swagat craze? Its trending over 667 million now. Even Befikre songs were craze – Nashe se chad gayi is almost 500 million! All such dance numbers will always be huge and it needs to be compared to Apples to apples. Nashe se chad gayi did over 250 million before release I think.
These are pretty irrelevant overall. If views can be manipulated they don’t mean much. All these things; views, IMDB ratings etc should be looked at together to get an overall impression. The reality is any production house looking at YouTube views should change profession and count sheep, go to sleep.
IMDB ratings – such a farce. My father won’t know IMDB, his rating is excluded. It’s a passionate lover of films vote and filtered by ones who can first access internet, then know how to use it, then care enough to log on etc. It’s age demographic ruins it. Nonsense stuff.
Of course, and you will also have to prioritize depending on the context within ur domain. As you said, one cant give equal value to ratings of Bachchan’s older films in imdb as one can for Aamir films due to the demographic that frequents a platform like imdb. Even for Aamir his nineties stuff may be under-represented there.
Appropriate data engineering is a lucrative business because of this chaos only.
Everyone should enjoy holidays with family and friends. Films come and films go. Arguments are like waves. They never end. Just make one’s point with one or two comments and end it and move on.
Certain things are not in our hands. But arguments are in our hands.
It is one thing to write essays/comments on box-office or films. Another thing to comment only so as to pick up fights. As I was telling Bob earlier today, say something on Zero as a film or comment about the teasers, posters or songs instead of giving gyaan on trivial stuff like positivity or negativity.
There is a release problem for KGF in Karnataka…High court has held up its release not in entirety but in some way , i haven’t read whats the issue…
Zero also is having an issue in Central India and Bihar and exhibitors have no clue which movie they are going to show tomorrow morning. Anil Thadani is flexing his muscle and showing SRK who is the king in distribution
Warner Bros. and DC Films’ Aquaman has been making waves at the box office for the last two weeks prior to it finally opening in the U.S., having crossed the $300 million mark already. The film is expected to ride that wave to box office success once again with a forecast of around $82 – 85 million in its first three days before Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. The film is expected to perform quite well thanks to mostly positive reviews from critics.
As for Paramount Pictures’ Transformers spinoff Bumblebee, that film is expected to debut with around $22 million in its first three days. Heavy competition from Aquaman, Mary Poppins Returns and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse may play a factor in its overall totals this weekend, but the film has received great word of mouth from critics and is the Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, so it is expected to have massive legs in the weeks to come.
Padman ended week one in china with 8m. Wud be interesting to see how much it can add from here considering both Spider-Verse and Aquaman are projected to have big weekends.
A funny thing happened on NG. A night before I posted a fake review of Rab Ne Bana De Jodi, with a fake link from Bollywoodhungama, pretended review was written by Taran Adarsh. Next morning the blog owner got a call from the site and said the review is fake, take it down.
So Taran became Toron. And my review imitating TA was famous!
This is how SRK fans work.
Oh my god negative fake reviews from India critic Rajeev Masand.
I must counter this with North Korea PM.
Cos that will seem more “real’.
interestingly, aamir will still rule Xmas period – this time in China!
I bet, it will post huge nos. in first 3 days…..no doubt about it considering his popularity.
Interesting read. While the biggies in India, a land of over 1.3 billion hardly generate 30-40 million theatrical footfalls, the biggest Hollywood grossers sell over 50 million tickets regularly in the domestic market despite being 1/3rd the population.
Sholay sold 50 million tickets more than four decades ago! That too when the population was less than half of what it is now.
The problem lies in the current pricing. A huge section of the audience is simply priced out of the market.
But there is another issue — films are no longer universally loved. In a masala universe, there’s something for everyone, and hence the possibility of attracting a diverse demographic. Since this genre is no longer popular (chiefly because there are no directors who are able to pull it off organically), we are left with good trending genre films. And they seem to have a ceiling on the number of people flocking to watch ’em.
Both are v relevant factors. Indian diaspora is perhaps more diverse in nature too, so we end up hating one genre and loving another. Maybe states and china markets are more balanced in that aspect.
I can’t seem to find the link right now but recall Ravish Kumar recounting that dubbed South Indian masala films are more popular in Bihar than anything else.
Stars like Allu Arjun, Nagarjuna etc are more popular in the heartland compared to Aamir, SRK or Salman.
People, in effect, settle for second-grade masala cinema at the cost of multiplex hits.
It’s not very surprising. We have different tastes in different parts of the country. And our multiplex hits are barely covering the different strata or our society. Pretty much in line with the different societal concerns in the metros vis-a-vis the small cities.
In the metros, traffic and air pollution is a major concern. In small cities and villages, adequate rainfall is perhaps the biggest reason for people to worry.
Hindi film makers seem to have forgotten the art of making universally appealing entertainers which can cater to an audience as diverse as the one’s in B/C centers to the urban multiplexes. Its a formula that SS Rajamouli got perfect in the 2 BB blockbusters. Even the biggest Hindi hits like Dangal and Bajrangi are not exactly universal mass entertainers in the Sholay or Bahubali domain. The Allu Arjun/nagarjuna being more popular than Aamir and Salman in the Hindi heartland is an exaggeration though. TV viewership is not a yardstick to measure mass popularity. Dubbed telugu films make inroads in Bihar and UP alone because that brand of cinema is missing in Bollywood nowadays. If an Aamir or Salman get a truly universal blockbuster franchise like Bahubali, the collections in the Hindi market would go over the roof for sure. Perhaps even higher than BB2 in a franchise scenario.
So…Advance for Zero is just OK. Expected. Neutral viewers are indffrent to SRK film since long. Best case scenario for Zero if it touches 30 cr. If film is good then no problem with 30 cr opening because it can compansate later with christmas holiday and in general new year holiday mood.
#Zero handsomely overtakes Thugs of Hindostan in being the biggest let down of 2018. There is not a chance one can empathize with this colossal drag.
One star! https://t.co/MvfadqfJvZ
#Zero handsomely overtakes Thugs of Hindostan in being the biggest let down of 2018. There is not a chance one can empathize with this colossal drag. One star! pic.twitter.com/MvfadqfJvZ
Problem is the anti mob and SRK fans have created a spiders web of truth and fiction. What’s genuine? I’d think our Kadels and Jaiswals plus koimoi reviewer who is from a Facebook blog will at least not be way off the mark.
I don’t know this person but he put out his tweet before the show ended. I don’t know if he was invited to the special show. I don’t think anyone will be tweeting from the special show.
Show has ended now. Will put just 1 tweet to indicate the same.
It takes a lot of heart and vision to make a film like #Zero Credit goes to @aanandlrai for attempting to narrate something different. @iamsrk puts every bit of his heart and soul into @bauuasingh making him his own.
#KartrinaKaif is edgy sassy and a total seductress. Her approach to showcasing heartbreak in #zero is something we have never seen her do. She breaks the stereotype and is a definite highlight in the film.
I think Zero is falling prey to the poor 2nd half trope that all SRK films of recent times have been affected by. At least thats the impression I’m getting on twitter. Needless to say, Aamir/Salma fanboys are literally peeing their pants at any hint of negativity, quite entertaining!
The first half of the film is fun, entertaining, fairly well-written and on occasion also relatable.
However, in the second half of the film, he tries to tackle the fantastical and everything goes to s**t!
This review is how I felt about TOH. First half could be classed as promising but 2nd half ruined experience.
But on the whole it seems like reviews aren’t as embarrassing as TOH. So it’s got a chance, the worry is Simbaa if these initial views hurt WOM, then it will be very tough. The initial doesn’t seem huge, TOH had that at least.
Looks like another semi hit for SRK. 2nd half slow and fails. That seems to be the reason as the critics who were overjoyed by first half didn’t came back to give full review soon.
At minimum, this doesn’t look like it’ll be crappy like Race3 or TOH.
“wonder why nobody tells the director about second half flaws before the final edit”
Agree 100%, have an outsider watch the film to get their take on it. Heck, have even KRK watch it and get his inputs. Guy is a jerk an really nobody but he does seem to what movie will work and what won’t.
Those were certified crapfests. But here SRK needs something. Salman and Aamir flopping rarely happens. Zero with what you’ve said had decent to good trailers plus music is a winner. Reviews are better but that is offset by weaker initial (probably) and a worse position, throw in Simbaa and the cocktail of a potential loser is possible. It always was but I thought Rai’s confidence would work here. He seemed bullish, but I’m not writing it off on 3-4 reviews. Not a promising start IMO.
I expected at least what Rai has dished out to date. Nothing spectacular but something that doesn’t fall apart. Like Chennai Express at least. I’m fed up of big films failing via one half being good and second bad. This is basic stuff. I can say the same of PK but at least the narrative and style is in sync. It’s not like Hirani goes drunk.
If PK had a poor second half, it would not have trended like it did. And since poor is a subjective argument, let’s just say that for the paying public, PK did NOT have a poor second half.
I don’t want to open up on PK here. I’m simply saying a film like that I prefer both halves to practically any big film since barring Dangal or Bajrangi Bhaijaan. But it having a weaker second half IMO doesn’t hurt it as it’s first half is so good.
Football wise, if Spain knock in 4-0 at half-time and second half they lose 1-0, 4-1 against Brazil say is very good. But if Spain knock in 2-0 in first half and only 1-0 in second half against San Marino it’s disappointing as everyone scores 6’s and 7’s against San Marino!
I love football but it’s bizarre when a team plays well for 45mins and then capitulates for no regular reason just 15mins later. These directors should be seasoned enough to start, middle and finish a story is all I am saying.
I hated TOH for this. And Rai from his TWM and TWMR didn’t do this there.
The issue arises when it comes to evaluate one’s own movie than ‘others’ as it’s very difficult to be objective while judging your own work. If KRK were such a great ‘judge’, shouldn’t he be making movies than ‘tearing them apart’ based on his whims and fancies??
Krk is an idiot. I can’t recall the last film he liked. He trashes so many films, opposite of Taran.
But I agree with vijjie and Z, basic feedback should be a norm. These directors are a bit too precious IMO. Getting feedback is only good IMO. Listening, changing a bit is good.
This is where I love the Joshi/Hirani way of working. It’s trusted collaboration, I’m sure it’s conflicting at times but overall it seems to work.
How do we know that they don’t show it to the people who matter to them?? As film-making is such a subjective thing where it’s very hard to create a piece of art which is universally entertaining but meaningful as well as most of the times it’s either the former or the latter but seldom an amalgamation of both!!
I agree that in it’s purest sense it’s art. But with the sums of money involved vetting it, refining it to a wider audience is some logical thing to do IMO. Otherwise make the film you want with no outside interference without baggage and cost hanging over your head.
It’s worrying that the small to medium films have worked but when a director gets a big budget, big star everything goes to pot! I’d expect progression not regression!
It’s worrying that the small to medium films have worked but when a director gets a big budget, big star everything goes to pot! I’d expect progression not regression!
When a big star enters a project, unfortunately the first casualty is the script. An organic script that suits a distinctive milieu is altered to give the star his due importance. Signature moments of the star are forcefully thrust in, the vision gets distorted to appease the star’s fan-base etc. A lot of compromises are made to make the star fit in rather than the other way round.
If Anand L Rai has never made a film that lasted more than 2 hours, then why exactly is Zero clocking 2:45?
True I get it. But is this not a directors ultimate medium? Do Bollywood have strong headed directors who work on convinction rather than stardom? When a star reaches a certain status does it create such a massive problem? I’m truly baffled by how many big films fail.
The only guys who seem to be able to handle this are Hirani and Bhansali.
I’m going to stew on this comment more and think of a response. Right now I speak more like a business man than an artist. But with great power comes great responsibility as Spiderman was told!
sure, many wud have watched it..or they didnt want to tell the director to cut a few scenes here and there..or the director himself didnt want to delete any. maybe he is in love with his every frame..
just that it feels so easy it wud have been to fix, when everybody goes on a chorus, how the second half cud hav been crisper! such a shame!
khair, as naseerudheen shah today said, ‘the genie is out of the bag’. so letsee what happens tomorrow. Maybe more flaws will come out!
At this point of time SRK needed universally acclaimed movie both from critics and audience (specially from audience). These mixed reviews won’t help. Tomorrow could be further harsh reviews when big critics review it. Rona dhona and emotional drama in 2nd half is trademark SRK drag. I think after this Ranbir and Ranveer have moved ahead of SRK overall and stand next to Aamir and Salman. Even Akki may be now ahead of SRK
He needed it. But this is 3 hours. Let’s see some more reviews or feedback from here. It still sounds more stable than TOH. But that might not mean anything at box office.
But a mixed WoM film rules out a > (8 x opening day) final figure.
There is a holiday on the 25th but by that time the WoM would be fully out.
For WoM, the best trackers are the numbers from Bangalore and Pune. If it’s bad, these cities tend to drop very quickly. If these cities don’t drop, then the film can be stable or even see an upswing.
This is precisely what happened with 2.0 recently. And even after a positive WoM, 2.0 is ending its run at 9x its opening day number.
Scathing, worrying. Hollywood big films tend not to be so bad, wtf do Bollywood do with films like D3, TOH etc. I’ll spare Zero till we get more reviews but I think these guys are like stupid with lots of money or what!
D3 is still the biggest grosser in UK, Jay!! D3 is not comparable to TOH in any which way as the former was not only an all time grosser at the time of its release but was liked by a fair bit of paying audience as it couldn’t have made 275 if it were so bad.
We are not talking about our personal choices but movies acceptance at the mass level as I found Talaash to be better than 3 Idiots, but the paying public didn’t think so!!
This is a box office answer. D3 is a bigger brand, glitzy, glamourous etc relative to a Talaash that is genre handicapped, dark and mysterious. It’s like saying why does a Badhaai Ho make more than Andhadhun.
This is not apples to apples. Talaash is just as accepted as D3. The scales, productions and expectations are different. No one would compare how a Titanic does with a Departed.
Talaash for it’s genre did good business. D3 too. But the latter if little better could do even better. A Talaash kind of film has a ceiling to some extent.
We are going in circles as D3 did achieve what was expected from it as nobody expected it to be a classic as Dhoom universe is more about style than class which it delivered. It didn’t flounder on the entertainment quotient as was expected from it. I quoted Talaash just to put an analogy to your reply.
My only response to D3 is a non box office one. As villain, cop films go it could have been way better. Any number of reviews would say the same.
And my box office answer is simple. It could have been a 300Cr film just like D2 could have been a 100Cr film.
I get the mass belts on the main must have got their monies worth otherwise the film would have trended badly. But basically even if you look at numbers of D3 it’s historic upto 10 days. It’s what I call a 2-3 week film. TZH for whatever reason (haven’t seen it) was stable for much longer.
Else I concede whatever point you are making as it’s bedtime for me.
D3 did what was expected but I say it could have done more. Even I prefer Dhoom and D2. That’s the gap basically. The gap is VKA!
Anyway from tomorrow I’m interested in Kadel only. Hopefully Saket’s numbers and RCE, BOI etc will help me figure out the genuinety of Mr Kadel. Guys a jerk IMO. I’m gunning for you! Watch out!
Just 8-9 shows has been allotted to #KGF (Hindi) at multiplexes in Kolkata , same is the scenario at most of the cities barring Ahemdabad . Social media buzz & Ground level scenario is clearly visible.
Reviews look poor, I think Rajeev and Anupama will give this a 3/5, with their last line being “an extra star for SRK” which just means that the film is very average. Opening day seems to be <30, WOM will kick in on Wednesday, and it should have 20+ days on Saturday, Sunday, and Tuesday. Lifetime <150, flop.
Watching this tomorrow, but these initial reviews are making me go into the theater like I did TOH and JHMS. Hopefully its more like TOH bc that didn't make me yell at the screen unlike JHMS.
SRK will never get a big grosser ever if this fails damn how times have changed I know srk was down for few years but cracks can be seen in Salman to a lesser extent Aamir, looks like Ranveer, Ranbir will take over
I can already see the Space movie failing – unknown director with SRK, its like Raees all over again!
I heard rumors he might team up with Sriram Raghavan. That’s a good start I think. Start with a solid 100 crore grosser and woo the Multiplex audience again. Unless Raghavan also messes up and puts a SRK romantic track into a serial killer movie…
#Zero is not just a film, it’s an experience! A tale of @BauuaSingh’s journey, Aafia’s brilliance & Babita’s inner turmoil. Each character is flawed in their own way, and they discover themselves as the beautiful story unfolds. @aanandlrai creates pure magic on screen ✨
Zero movie review: Shah Rukh Khan, Katrina’s impressive performances lift Aanand L Rai’s film from average to ambitious
Charm and Shah Rukh Khan go hand in hand. Even the staunchest of his critics cannot deny he has a unique way of making people smile. In Zero, you will find it hard to stop smiling at SRK’s Bauua Singh. This is partly due to his effortless performance, and partly due to Hemanshu Sharma’s witty screenplay.
The story starts in Meerut, Bauua’s home town. Where he lacks in physical form, Bauua makes up for with affability and ambition. He’s the city’s sweetheart, but has a huge crush on Bollywood actress Babita Kumari (Katrina). He meets Aafia Bhinder (Anushka Sharma) — a differently abled scientist — through a matrimonial portal and slowly, they fall in love. Anushka gives an impassioned performance as Aafia, and kudos to her for picking offbeat roles time and again.
Zero is an extremely self-aware film (to the point of being hilarious), at least in the first half, which goes by swimmingly with jokes and heart-warming moments. Bauua’s ambition, though, takes him from Meerut to Mumbai, from Aafia to Babita Kumari. In Mumbai, he is introduced to the world of glitz, glamour and heartbreak. The references in this section of Zero are smart and engaging. Credit for this goes to Katrina’s whole-hearted performance as an emotionally unstable but ballsy actress. She’s sassy, seductive and gives no f*cks, and yet is vulnerable. It’s refreshing to see Katrina play a character that isn’t an NRI or some other excuse to explain her choppy Hindi. But she rises above her stereotype. Katrina pulls off complex scenes with ease and almost makes you forget you’re watching someone who has been criticised for her acting skills through her career. This is a side to Katrina that I love. More of this, please.
Bauua’s ambitious journey eventually takes him from a small town to the stars. Literally. And in more ways than one. But what goes up always comes down. And despite its inherently pleasing quality, spot on performances (special shout out to Tigmanshu Dhulia and Zeeshan Aayub), cameos by several celebrities and chucklesome one-liners, Zero falls prey to the second-half curse.
The less I say about the second half, the better, for no words can express the surreal feeling I felt while I watched it. The plot takes many cinematic leaps and liberties, and at some point you are bound to lose track. It’s also a very long film, that tests your loyalty to its protagonist.
While the VFX in Zero is not seamless, the effort is visible and one must laud Aanand L Rai, Red Chillies and the man himself, Shah Rukh Khan, for executing an ambitious project like Zero. You may or may not like the film, but you will most certainly fall in love with Bauua Singh.
This is a first impression review of Zero. Our critic Anna MM Vetticad’s movie review will be published soon. Stay tuned. Meanwhile, watch the trailer here:
Many are assuming a slow paced second half is bad.
In a romantic movie, second half is slow means family is going to love it. To watch a fast paced second half, go for a porn movie or an action flick.
Not really. SRK films tend to go melodramatic in second half, not slowdown. KJo syndrome, IMO. Something has to happen like some greek tragedy. Either he’s dying, someone else is, someone is finding him, he’s finding someone, brothers lost, sisters lost, mum finds him, dad loves him again or he’s trying to fool his future in laws into getting his girl. Whatever it is it embodies the SRK goodboy act whereas the neutral just wants him to clock his girlfriend off the top of the building or just be some kick ass bad guy from 93, or do something like Swades, strip him bear of every mannerisms possible and see where it goes.
Instead every director wants to reboot DDLJ in some sick and twisted way.
I think JHMS and Dilwale’s poor BO and response shows that even fans aren’t interested in seeing the same old 1998 SRK! If he and other directors can’t figure that out, then no one can help them.The only time it has worked is with Chennai Express.
Naseeruddin Shah says he fears for his children in India of today
Naseeruddin Shah said he fears his children because they will not have an answer if a mob surrounds them asks them are whether they are Hindu or Muslim
Actor Naseeruddin Shah says that he is worried for children in today’s India. He’s worried because he imagines a situation where his children may be surrounded by an angry mob and asked: “Are you Hindu or Muslim?”
“My children will have no answer,” Naseeruddin Shah says, “Because we chose not to give a religious education to our children.”
Naseeruddin Shah also says that there is a “poison” that has spread in the Indian society. “It will be very difficult to capture this djinn [genie] back into the bottle.”
“There is complete impunity for those who take the law into their own hands,” Naseeruddin says. “We have already witnessed that the death of a cow has more significance [in today’s India] than that of a police officer.”
Naseeruddin was referring to the recent Bulandshahr violence in which a police officer was killed by a mob. The violence was sparked by the discovery of cow carcasses.
The Uttar Pradesh Police has arrested three people in connection with the alleged cow slaughter. The policeman’s killers remain free.
Naseeruddin Shah’s comments were put online by Karwan-e-Mohabbat India (Caravan of Love) a travelling activist collective that is focussed on highlight and combating instances of hate crimes and lynching.
In a short YouTube video put up by Karwan-e-Mohabbat India, Naseeruddin Shah says that he worries for his children.
“I was given a religious education…But Ratna [Pathak Shah, Naseeruddin’s wife] did not get any religious education…[And] we chose not to give a religious education to our children,” Naseeruddin says.
Naseeruddin adds that he believes “good and evil have nothing to do with religion” and so his children were not brought up in a religious environment.
“So I fear for my children…Because if a mob gathers around them and asks them are you a Hindu or Muslim, they will not have any answer…Because they have no religion,” Naseeruddin says, before signing off with: “I am angry and I believe every right thinking man must be angry and must not fear.”
Twitter is a VILE HORRIBLE PLACE FOR LOW LIFES. Who in the hell creates a handle for Yash Chopra to give a crap review for Zero. Absolutely disgusting stuff.
I think Bollywood is a disaster in terms of superstars and big budgets. Only SLB can pull off big budgets. Aamir can pull of being a superstar, and Salman can with the right director. But no one can combine the two!
SLB can succeed with a Ranveer Singh because he isn’t a superstar, and no one expects a Ranveer Singh movie to be any particular way. Put SRK in there and you get…Devdas.
In terms of big budget movies, honestly just looking forward to South Indian movies like Saaho, Dhruva, the Chiranjeevi one, Rajamouli’s next
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As per the early critic reviews and public feedback pouring in, it seems that unfortunately, #Zero has turned out to be a weak film… ( see next tweet)
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I would like to apologize to everyone for my incorrect box office prediction this time. As things stand now, the film may finish with lifetime collections of 150 crore nett, possibly even lower.
Wow that bad…Twitter response is mixed too..let’s wait for audiences..alr movies are usually dominated by families if they dont take to it then its curtains..
So … trailer was crap with no hint of any story and hamming all around, songs were ok-ish and posters were damn ridiculous. Yet we expected a good film and also srk’s highest grosser. The bubble was waiting to burst and expose all the trolls here and jay’s pals in twitter.
200 cr for recovery before release. After preview show itself the debate has shifted to whether it can match ToH’s 150 cr.
Big day has come first shows are about to start let’s see what this day will bring in 5 hours we will know the audience word of mouth this is make or break for srk hope it works for him, it’s sad seeing the actor you grew up watching go downhill
End of 2.0’s run. Lets look at the fraud producer totals (Please note that all india business has conveniently beaten Baahubali Beginning’s total!) … These morons need to learn how to manipulate without looking so silly!
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On the next day i.e. 4th Thursday (as 2.0 was released on Thursday), S.Shankar’s directorial managed to collect 0.65 crore and raised its 3 weeks total collection to 187.35 crores. Including all the versions- Hindi, Tamil & Telugu, the film has raked total 421.50 crores nett (585 crores gross) at the domestic box office within 22 days.
From the international market as well, Lyca Productions’ presentation has shown very good performance so far and has done the business of 142 crores gross. With this, the total worldwide gross collection of 2.0 has become 727 crores, which is incredible.
Don’t know how far Zero Goes as far as BO in concerned but my problems with Zero right from the trailer til now is, As Shubhra Gupta written on her Indian Express Review
1- That vertically challenged bit should have been the differentiator. But it’s nothing but window dressing, a hook on which hangs nothing.
2- But all too soon, the film abandons its minimal air of rootedness, and flees towards preposterousness.
I mean don’t go sympethetic on vertically challenged bit but still show him real. Here Bauva singh is doing everything what SRK does in his most of the films.
The last bit in the trailer abt rocket was a hint enuf. But the chimp poster took it to a ridiculous level. This will not end well for anyone involved. Most expensive film for its star, director, production house and vfx team. Will take time for everyone to recover.
The film’s first half is spent on setting up this unconventional romance. While the ideas are unique and appreciable, the narrative doesn’t connect all the proverbial dots in the arc of the story. The plot of Zero, neither engages you, nor does it offend you.
In second half, It’s here that the graph of the movie and the characters just does not add up. The writing by Himanshu Sharma, has its moments, but it does not translate into the larger-than-life love story that it aspires to be. It swiftly goes hurtling out of orbit and at 2 hours and 25 minutes, the film definitely feels too long drawn.
The good part is that director Aanand L Rai’s characters never let their a physical challenges overpower their spirit and resilience. There’s no rocket science to the fact that Shah Rukh pulls off romantic moments and he does that here with charm and intensity. He is excellent as the short but charismatic Bauua in a story that relies highly on special effects. Katrina Kaif appears in a smaller part, but she totally impresses in the performance of a conflicted Bollywood star, who is also heartbroken. Sadly, while Anushka Sharma’s character had wonderful potential, the mannerisms employed by the actress to portray the handicap, don’t always look consistent or convincing.
The same inconsistency plagues the movie, too. At one point, Zero dazzles with moments of colour and vibrancy, but then it also follows up with dull scenes that fail to launch the drama in the zone that it’s supposed to be in. Some of the comedy moments between SRK and Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub stand out, so does the song Mere Naam Tu with SRK dancing in a storm of colours. While the film has a wealth of references to Bollywood and its stars, these details don’t compensate for a story that starts with a beautiful plot, but takes off on a bizarre ride. At first go, the film makes you light and easy, which is good, but the problem is that it doesn’t really take you on that flight of entertainment, which you set out for.
As far as the story was set in the ground, it was an enjoyable ride but it becomes a snooze-fest after Bauua decides to go on space exploration. We love Aanand L Rai’s world and would have warmly accepted more of his imperfect and endearing small-town characters. But this one was not expected from the master of storyteller.
Looks like when the canvas was to become bigger in second half, Anand Rai couldn’t cope with it. His skills are in telling stories about people with complex personalities. No wonder first half is good.
This is increasingly giving me the RNBDJ vibes…you had the simpleton there you have a dwarf here..the leap of faith there was the dance program and here it is some space thingy..that movie was loved by families we need to see this one..the only positive till now is the reviews are not downright terrible and much better than last movies ark movies…no idea of wom as first show is just started..
5 of these featured in my list of 2019, maybe i am chinese.
Most anticipated foreign films of 2019 according to Chinese Douban film site:
Avengers: Endgame Captain Marvel Dark Phoenix Alita: Battle Angel Detective Pikachu A Rainy Day in New York Spider-Man: Far From Home The Lion King Once Upon a Time In Hollywood The Irishman pic.twitter.com/qFky0kgVt3
I dont understand why SRK doesn’t come with a simple story with medium budget. Raees in a way fitted this bill but there also 2nd half went heywire. SRK should work a film like Jolly LLB 2.
Don 2, Raees and Dear Zindagi were decent attempts from him in the last 10 years. But none of these worked that well for him @BO. When a star is facing a downturn, then even decent to average films tend to under-perform and one needs a real good film to recover in all aspects, be it critically or box office wise. Sadly Zero never looked like that film, despite fan rants.
How to define simple as dear Zindagi was low budget and fell into simple category by Shahrukh’s standards, but despite Alia’s presence with Shahrukh, it couldn’t make the desired impact at the box-office. The biggest issue Shahrukh has been facing that neither his strength genre is working for him nor the experimental stuff. His over dependence on his lover boy image is now harming him as he is well past that phase and also the generation which loved him in those roles is replaced by a new generation which has moved on to Ranbir, Ranveer, Tiger, Ayushmann, Rajkumar. With Swades and CDI, he tried but half-heartedly, had he persevered with those kind of roles & films, probably he would have been in a better position than where he is right now fighting for his relevance.
Agreed. Never understood why he chose NOT to follow-up the leads he got with Swades, CDI. Swades was a bo flop and that may have deterred him. But he himself to chose to follow Oso/Rnbdj route instead of recognizing the gold in CDI. Chasing mindless BO money eventually leads to ur downfall.
Moral of the story – Never boast abt ur paycheck. Some one else is always earning more. Just focus on ur work and get the job done.
Lootera…My most fav film of last ten years. Look at the review. Raja sen gave 5 star. Still a BO flop. You can’t judge indian audience even in multiplex era. I listen its song atleast once in a week and revist the film whenever get chance.
Critic Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama gave the film 4 on a scale of 5 and wrote.
Raja Sen of Rediff rated 5/5 stars and noted.
Meena Iyer of The Times of India assigned the film 4 out of 5 and noted.
Deccan Herald gave four stars and stated.
Manohar Basu of Koimoi gave it 4/5 stars.
Saibal Chatterjee of NDTV gave it 4/5 and wrote.
Zero Movie Review: A Surreally Bad Shah Rukh Khan Starrer, But A Worse Aanand L. Rai Film
The Bermuda Triangle is the only triangle that comes to mind with actors Shah Rukh Khan, Katrina Kaif and Anushka Sharma, mostly because the audiences that dare to enter their story never find themselves again
Early on in Zero, we see Bauua Singh, a 38-year-old Meerut resident with an offensive sense of humour, leap onto the seat of a crusty movie theater and dance with gay abandon. He enjoys an item song. A half-naked Katrina Kaif writhes to music on screen. I think: How quaint, a metaphor detailing Shah Rukh Khan’s fierce post-2010 desire to win over single-screen audiences. An analogy for his accessibility, perhaps. Further proof arrives in the form of a dance-off with Salman Khan, the ultimate single-screen messiah, at a venue that looks like a renovated MMA dungeon. The subtext is undeniable. Even Kaif is playing herself; she obsesses about an ex named Mr. Kapoor.
I find some more subtext: Bauua is a huge Bollywood fan, which is why he behaves uncannily like Shah Rukh Khan, spreads his arms, sings romantic songs, flashes his dimples and references them extensively, woos a girl in the corniest ways possible, sees stars in a polluted night sky, and then flakes on the girl because cinema has given the small-town man an unrealistic perception of love and physicality. “But you drink alcohol; girls like you are not supposed to get serious about guys like me,” he explains. And he chases the glamorous, arrogant larger-than-life superstar instead. I think: How clever, a nod to Gaurav, his starry-eyed counterpart from Fan. Further proof arrives in how he sees everyone from Alia Bhatt to Kajol to Rani Mukerji to Deepika Padukone and the late Sridevi at a randomly placed promotional event.
Once the 580-minute-long second half begins, however, I realize that maybe – just maybe – the writer didn’t quite intend for subtext, or even text at times, as much as I set about looking for some. I saw what I wanted to see, like the cerebral version of that shallow chap from a crass Hollywood comedy who sees people’s inner beauty reflected in their frumpy outward appearance. At one point, a couple argues while floating emotionally in a zero gravity chamber. Zero Gravity. No. No more. That’s when the rose-tinted glasses come off, and it hits me: Is Bauua…a dwarf? Does Afia have…cerebral palsy? Is Katrina playing an alcoholic superstar named…Babita Kumari? Are Alia, Katrina and Deepika really in…one frame? Is this film not called…Hero?
I never thought I’d say this, but here goes: Katrina Kaif is the best thing about Zero. If not for her love affair with Jesus Christ, she might have been the best thing about the god-awful Jab Tak Hai Jaan, too – the last movie starring this doomed trio. The Bermuda Triangle is the only triangle that comes to mind with these three, mostly because the audiences that dare to enter their story never find themselves again. She drinks herself silly, almost as if she can foretell the fate of the film. Almost as if she can see a scene ahead that involves an angry monkey, human baby, gun, wheelchair and R. Madhavan’s haircut on the same stage. A dramatic scene, no less. Followed by a mugging at Times Square and a free-for-all “competition” to qualify as the first human to reach Mars. Maybe she could almost hear Alfonso Cuaron (Gravity), Ridley Scott (The Martian), Ashutosh Gowarikar (Swades) and Damien Chazelle (First Man) collectively gasp at the prospect of realizing that “Liftoff” in their shuttle-launch countdowns is Zero for the country that invented zero.
I never thought I’d say this, but here goes: Katrina Kaif is the best thing about Zero. If not for her love affair with Jesus Christ, she might have been the best thing about the god-awful Jab Tak Hai Jaan, too – the last movie starring this doomed trio.
Kaif has the most able part in a film that thinks disability is merely an accessory designed to enable an actor’s stature. This isn’t all that surprising in an industry where ambition is measured by the pectoral scale of six-pack abs and protein shakes. Bauua Singh is a gimmick, as is (a horribly performed) Afia. Khan tries, but he has clocked way too many years as a witty conversationalist and dream interviewee to reconnect with the craft that put him in those seats. The more I see him struggling to undo his self-reverence within movies, the more I feel like going back in time and appreciating Fan for its aspirations. It might, after all, be the last Hindi film to feature Shah Rukh Khan as we’d want to remember him: audacious, edgy, talented. As for Anushka, she always swings hard, but it’s only opposite Khan that she spectacularly misses. Afia is a half-Afghani scientist for NASA – which is enough of a “condition” in contemporary cinema. She didn’t need more of our sympathy.
I’ve always maintained that writer Himanshu Sharma is better at colouring a scene – with banter, energy, personality – than connecting them. He is terrible at forming a coherent screenplay out of them; this was especially evident in the Tanu Weds Manu series. Here, this flaw is amplified tenfold, much like how most storytellers’ flaws these days seem to amplify tenfold when Shah Rukh Khan is occupied in their vision. In fact, even the texture of his scenes might have been handicapped if not for the characters’ disabilities. Bauua and Afia are shown to partake in the kind of chemistry where they openly mock each other’s deficiencies – a ‘romantic’ trait that makes us thankful for Barfi being deaf and mute around an autistic Jhilmil.
Some of the film’s best lines, again, belong to Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub, who plays the little man’s best friend. But he, too, is half-blind. You get the gist. On another day, I’d have looked at his partial blindness as a metaphor for Bauua’s half-ticket stature or Aanand L. Rai’s half-witted film. Or maybe because he can sense two imperfect halves yearning to form a perfect full. But as they say: subtext lies in the eyes of the beholder. Today, his blindness exists only so that a glass eye makes him the comic in the group of pariahs. Maybe, though, there is more to Bauua’s cosmic gesture of love: he can conjure up shooting stars by simply tracing his finger across the sky. In other words: A star, falling, once the count reaches zero. And crashing down to earth.
1 star
Rahul Desai
A film critic (formerly of Mumbai Mirror, Catch News) and columnist (The Hindu), Rahul Desai writes about everything cinematic under Mumbai’s hot sun, including short films, web shows and desi B-movies. When he isn’t writing, you can find him in obscure countries nostalgically identifying locations of the films he writes about.
KGF MOVIE REVIEW
TIMES OF INDIA
Sunayana Suresh, Dec 21, 2018, 08.22 AM IST
Critic’s Rating:
3.5/5
Rocky is an ambitious boy, who wants to die as the richest and most powerful man. From the streets of Bombay to the fields of KGF, he embarks on the mission. And his tale is being retold by a journalist who chronicled his life in the 1980s.
Prashanth Neel’s KGF, which stars Yash in the lead, has become arguably the most spoken about Kannada film nationally. The expectations have been enormous. Does the team deliver? Yes, they do. The film has a fast-paced first half, which does seem a little long, but the second half and the climax sets up the right premise for the second part of the film.
The screenplay is the most interesting part of the film. The non-linear pattern keeps the viewers engaged, with the growth of Rocky being shown in a steady fashion. While there are a fair share of scenes and dialogues that bring out the hoots and cheers from the masses, the makers have still maintained a clever story telling pattern that assures one to also keep pace with the narrative. The film traverses from 1951 to 2018, while maintaining a sense of curiosity as each character is unveiled.
Adding the extra edge to the film are the cinematography, art direction and the locales. Everything looks top notch and one is often left spellbound at the scenes. Be it the dark dreary world in KGF to the more glitzy nightlife scenes in Bangalore, all of them are shown beautifully. Yash, as Rocky, lives his character to the fullest and his screen presence definitely has the viewers cheering alongside him. The ensemble cast play their respective parts, with each of them playing minor building blocks in setting up Rocky’s character.
The narrative in the first part builds the character of Rocky as the maverick mastermind who will not stop for anything until he reaches his mission. While there is a sense of temporary closure in the first chapter of the film, one also leaves the hall yearning for more. KGF surely seems to have delivered what it set to achieve.
All eyes on Isha Ambani’s new 50,000 sq ft multi-million dollar mansion
After the wedding, Isha Ambani, 27 and Anand Piramal, 33, are into Gulita, a 50,000 square foot mansion that the groom’s parents gave them as a wedding present.
Gulita, a bungalow which according to local media will be the marital home of Isha Ambani, daughter of the Chairman of Reliance Industries Mukesh Ambani, is seen in Mumbai, December 7, 2018. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas/File Photo(Reuters Photo)
As the celebrations from what many in India are calling the wedding of the year wind down, all eyes are now turning to the multi-million dollar mansion that Isha Ambani, the daughter of India’s richest man will move into with husband, Anand Piramal.
The 50,000 square-foot mansion, which stands in the swanky locality of Worli in South Mumbai and has sweeping views of the Arabian Sea and the Sea-Link bridge is still a step down for the bride, given her father’s home is more than eight times that size.
Isha’s father is Mukesh Ambani, a telecom and petroleum magnate whose net worth is pegged at $43 billion, and whose 27-floor, 400,000 square foot Tetris-tower-like residence is a prominent structure on the Mumbai skyline.
It was in that house that Isha got married to Anand Piramal on Wednesday, the culmination of week-long celebrations that included a private concert by US singer Beyonce.
The wedding was described by some as a mini-Davos summit, as it was attended by two former U.S. secretaries of state, Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, along with Saudi Oil Minister Khalid Al-Falih, private equity doyens Stephen Schwarzman and Henry Kravis, CPPIB CEO Mark Machin, and WPP Founder Martin Sorrell, along with dozens of Bollywood celebrities.
The Piramals, who have interests in real estate and pharma, bought the property, previously owned by Hindustan Unilver, at a reported price of $62 million in 2012.
Marked by a stunning glass facade and three glazed steel structures, Gulita has seen hectic remodelling work in the months leading up to the wedding.
The largest of the steel structures is 11 metres tall and it was constructed using 3D modelling tools, according to Eckersley OCallaghan, a London-based engineering firm which was involved in the project.
The Mumbai Mirror newspaper reported that the house has three basements, multiple dining rooms and an outdoor pool.
Many in India, where tens of millions live in dire poverty, have followed the wedding, for its dazzling display of wealth and influence.
Isha’s twin brother, Akash, is set to marry fiancee Shloka Mehta early next year.
The reviews are overall very poor. Except couple of 3 stars. Looks like another disaster. SRK cannot give a good movie. Even with the likes of ALR. I think even Hirani might sink if he attempts to save SRK lol
Ok guys not sure what to make of it but its interval time and the feedback seems very positive. not mildly positive but very positive. The second half has to be seriously pathetic for it to get 1star rating from here on..
The real public reviews will be out by 1130
From the reviews looks like a disaster of a movie disappointed big time, where the heck did the 90s SRK go, going to have a bad Friday now, I’m watching the movie on Saturday with my whole family members but the mood has changed I’m disappointed
I think you are bang on with the RNbDJ comparison. Except its 2018 and not 2008 and the audience is supposedly “Smarter”. So the absurd leap of faith that bollywood movies used to take will not work anymore. I’m guessing that’s what happens in the second half of Zero. Are you watching it right now?
So Scroll ‘nail’s it! Hope the chimp has enuf of ‘thick’-skin to bear it with jesus like grace … JHMS seems like vitage classic now.
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‘Zero’ film review: Null all the way into the void
Shah Rukh Khan shrinks to conquer in Aanand L Rai’s Zero, a movie that probably sounded interesting at the concept stage but ends up being irretrievably outlandish in its execution.
The romantic comedy about a vertically challenged man’s attempt to balance his love for a cerebral palsy-affected scientist with his adoration of a movie star ends up as an unintended circus act. It involves A-list actors, respectable performers cast as extras, a swooning Ajay-Atul score and cameos by Bollywood royalty. The presence of a chimpanzee completes the feeling of the film being a freak show whose main attraction is a severely diminished version of one of Hindi cinema’s most outsized idols.
Rai’s grand folly of a movie, based on a story and screenplay by Himanshu Sharma, is about Bauua Singh (Khan), a Meerut resident who measures less than five feet. Always the shortest man in the room and a frequent target of ridicule, especially by his father Ashok (Tigmanshu Dhulia), Bauua has adopted a John Wayne strut and a devil-may-care attitude. Bauua is 38 years old and unmarried, and when he sees a photo of Aafia (Anushka Sharma) at a matchmaking agency, he decides that she will do.
Aafia’s photograph offers an incomplete picture of her. One side of her body twitches uncontrollably, she speaks with difficulty and uses a wheelchair. If Bauua overcompensates for his lack of height with brashness and derring-do, Aafia has braininess to offer: she is a mathematics genius and an acclaimed scientist who is steering a mission to send humans to Mars.
Bauua is undeterred by Aafia’s condition. Reasoning that two outliers can unite against a cruel world, Bauua woos Aafia in a manner reminiscent of a certain movie star, the one who flings out his arms to express his love and makes women offers they can never refuse. Lost in the sweet music of wedding bells is an alarm bell that goes by the name of Babita Kumari (Katrina Kaif). Babita is a troubled movie star, struggling to recover from a broken heart. A chance encounter between Babita and Bauua sets him on a journey that winds through Mumbai’s film industry and ends up in a rocket that blasts off to Mars.
Mars is where the future of humankind lies, Aafia declares, and Zero takes her advice very seriously, blasting off unto the unknown without a care for the consequences. Written without any irony and turgid for the most part, Zero comes through in only a handful of scenes. Better than the cringe-worthy moments between Bauua and Aafia are the scenes involving him and Babita. Katrina Kaif is spot-on as Babita, a cynical and shambolic celebrity who adopts Bauua as her mascot and forges a relationship of empathy and mutual understanding with her knee-high friend. Kaif has rarely been this good, and she emerges as Zero’s surprise element.
Shah Rukh Khan’s earnest performance is always undercut by the visual effects that render him as a pint-sized version of himself. Bauua is meant to be a doughty fighter whose dreams cannot be contained by the borders of Earth. But the visuals of a shrunken Khan are never anything but a distraction, and undermine Khan’s effort to convey Bauua’s romantic troubles. Like a meme or a gif inserted into a serious study, Bauua never quite blends into the backdrop, and feels less a real person than a product of slick machine-aided trickery.
Among the bits that belong on Mars rather than in this movie’s universe are the songs in which Bauua prances with children and dances for the benefit of Salman Khan, and Bauua’s attempt to impress a bevy of Bollywood beauties, all of whom have appeared with Shah Rukh Khan in his films.
Bauua might have been more credible if he had been played by an actor with less wattage than Khan. Like Khan’s 2016 movie Fan, Zero provides a side commentary on Khan’s recently troubled career graph. In Fan, Khan played a movie star modelled on himself and a deranged admirer who looked just like him – an idea that probably sounded fascinating on paper but confused audiences who didn’t quite get the meta-analysis joke.
Khan’s fanbase will possibly be even more perplexed with Zero. By trying to play the man next door rather than a larger-than-life personality, Khan has all too literally let himself be cut to size. The romantic declarations are less effective, the conviction with which Khan has carried off more modest romances is missing, and the package is smaller than before. As the space rocket blasts off towards Mars, the superstar is transformed into a supernova, and it’s null all the way into the void.
So it’s come true wahi I am saying from day one and I will stick to it even if zero does 300 cr. The dwarf part is gimmick. Haven’t seen any dwarf who acts like baba singh. Infact haven’t seen a small town guy who acts like a monkey. I belongs to a small town of uttrakhand. I have some relatives in western UP(Meerut and adjoining area). Who acts like a fool (Baba) in this day and as. But here I will put 70% blame on Director and script writer. 30% on SRK b/C even after acting over 25 years he doesn’t get basics right. SRK and Amitabh both are pathetic in thier script sense. Even Salman has better sense then them. Look at even John abraham and his choice of films.
Srk script sense is garbage, you would think after 4 underperformers I did like raees srk would hire someone to help him find a good script wtf is he thinking, I’m beyond pissed
I’m totally with you, this nonsense Red Chilies VFX will be the end of him. There’s no reason to have VFX in everything! And I can’t judge his script sense because to have that you would at least need to read the script! It sounds like he still does movies based off 2 line summaries and with people he feels comfortable/gels with.
But he’s also delusional- I thought JHMS was rock bottom and he would change, but looks like we have not gotten there yet. He is on track to have a 300 crore movie (in terms of losses).
I’m imagining the climax of Zero and the space scenes like the climax of RA. 1 lol
knowing i made this film and i would not say it for anyone else but @ItsVineetSingh for me is the performance of 2018,writing the script, becoming a boxer, writing two songs that have topped two different lists of best song of the year. This is what i say is, giving it your all. https://t.co/nb67gUBVgW
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Twitter Filled With Pics, Videos Of Strange Light Seen Over California
The bright light was seen over California skies.
Photos and videos of a mysterious light that appeared over Sacramento and the Bay Area in California filled social media on Wednesday – throwing up more questions than answers. The lasso-shaped illumination led to many conspiracy theories, according to CBS News.
“It was far too big to be a firework,” said Gus Graves of San Francisco. “I’m thinking it’s some sort of high-tech rocket that they’re working on, possibly? Or aliens. One of the two.”
The Sacramento Bee reports that a Delta IV Heavy rocket, carrying satellites, was supposed to launch from in Santa Barbara County on Wednesday evening. The launch was cancelled at about the same time the light appeared and has been rescheduled for Thursday evening.
Photos and videos of a mysterious light that appeared over Sacramento and the Bay Area in California filled social media on Wednesday – throwing up more questions than answers. The lasso-shaped illumination led to many conspiracy theories, according to CBS News.
“It was far too big to be a firework,” said Gus Graves of San Francisco. “I’m thinking it’s some sort of high-tech rocket that they’re working on, possibly? Or aliens. One of the two.”
The Sacramento Bee reports that a Delta IV Heavy rocket, carrying satellites, was supposed to launch from in Santa Barbara County on Wednesday evening. The launch was cancelled at about the same time the light appeared and has been rescheduled for Thursday evening.
3 Khans giving flops in same year never happened before. Its giving the year where newer geneation officially takes over. Still Aamir & Salman will give hits here and there but the prime show will be run by the newer generation.
I might watch ZERO tomorrow and if I do, hopefully can pen my views. I am also interested in KGF though: Unfortunately, it isn’t playing near me.
I am still confident of ZERO. This has got to be the lowest of the lows; people using names of dead people and the ones alive to spread lies. These are cowards of the highest degree: They should be given arms and made to sit vigil at the border; shoot with the rifle; not your key-board – then as Tapsee says in MANMARZIYAAN: Zimmedariyan ke naam pe hag deta hain tu…
No not that..I might be wrong here then..I am specifically pointing out to people impersonating real people’s names and posting negative things..I don’t remember that happening with TOH..I understand selective posting and gloating..I did point that out..like the Suchitra Krishnamoorthy — whose only public-claim to life till date has been being the divorced wife of Shekhar Kapur [ forget KHKN; it was the 2 Shahs all the way – Rukh and Kundan] tweet where she was ‘afraid’ of watching a film alone!!!!
U think Aamir fans in twitter wud take all that shit lying down? I expected worse … and it may get there as the zero disaster result gets sealed with BO figures. Lets see.
There is no ‘lowest of low’ in this game. U probably havent seen the worst yet. PRK trolls triggered this, now its just the beginning.
You are fortunate. I am not a fan of Twitter to the degree I have to think and judge the comment before I post it. And that process becomes longer nowadays.
#Zero is a MAMMOTH LET DOWN. Ist half is decent with good doze of emotions & laughter but second half is miserable, extremely bad writing & screenplay with absolutely no logic, soul & emotional connect. AlR worst film till date. You can watch it for SRK Anushka Kat act Rating- ⭐️
In this internet age, it won’t survive. Any movie below mark will be killed and buried without any second thoughts. Nothing can stop it from crashing. Simmba coming next week will restrict it from touching even 100 crores or max 130 as I said earlier.
Shah Rukh Khan's Bauaa Singh is immensely likable, entertaining and is full of surprises. He's so funny at times that you'd burst out laughing. He ensures that you don't pity him even once. He celebrates life n u'd celebrate him with all his flaws n cuteness. #Zero
Faridoon has 4 tweets on zero – 3 about the actors and 1 about the VFX. That’s his way of saying the film is bad lol he’s a SRK fan boy, he can’t say it directly
Blame the director instead of the stars. Stars maybe clueless sometimes. Director needs to be.
One Sanju will not make Ranbir the biggest star.
Simmba will tell us what Ranveer’s actual star power is.
Simmba will do 2.0 hindi range (170-175 cr) if it turns out to be a okay-ish remake in Shetty style. After all the hullabaloo, Zero will probably struggle to get to 150 cr. May end up in Raees range (120-125 cr) if his fans like it to some extent.
This MAY give room for KGF to do some decent business with its hindi version and Aquaman shud now be able to get to 50 cr mark.
So much unpredictability for all the films.
Problem with KGF is its hero for the north Indians.
Simmba may take advantage of New Year just like Zero.
And our Firangi in China.
Kadel and Jaiswal who are SRK fans giving such kind of reviews says it all. It’s JHMS again.
SRK needs to take few years of break and get his script sense straight.
Aamir is not going anywhere and Salman too will hang for few years. But it’s been a decade since SRK gave any good movie. This may crash and fold under 100crrs.
Salman may be laughing as his laughable Race3 will be highest grosser among three khans.
Spider-Verse has a great 9.3/10 audience score from Maoyan. Venom did 9.4/10 & Aquaman was 9.5/10. Also 9.0/10 on Douban site. Still has a big chance to make $30M on 3-day debut. #SpiderVerse
Zero had an average advance as it picked up around 13 crore nett before release. This is the second best total ever for a Shahrukh Khan starrer after Happy New Year but the ticket count is far lower than that film and also lower than Raees.
The advance is less than 50% of Thugs Of Hindostan and 30-35% lower than Race 3 but these films had more going from them in terms of initial due to the action factor and as they had holidays over the first three days. On On one hand the advance should have been better considering its a Shahrukh Khan starrer but on the other hand it looked like it would not even get to this level on Monday and may just hit double digits.
A 17-18 crore nett figure would have been a good result for this film but this film was never going to be about the initial but more about the public reports wnd where it lands up on Sunday and that is still the case. the to advances of all time in terms of collections pre release are as follows.
Kedarnath did well in its second week as it picked up 18.75 crore nett apprx. This takes the total business of the film to 61 crore nett. The drop in the second week is 55% which is very good trending though it will be stopped in its tracks by the release of Zero.
The second week is better than films like Veere Di Wedding, Dhadak, Parmanu – The Story Of Pokhran and Pad Man. The film is at around 17.50 crore nett in Mumbai circuit and at around 14 crore nett in Delhi / UP. Generally all circuits have done decent be it Mumbai or Assam. It remains to be seen where the film goes as the screenings have dropped to 1 or 2 shows at the big multiplexes..
SATYAMSHOT 
December 19, 2018 at 3:46 AM
https://boxofficeindia.com/report-details.php?articleid=4533
2.0 crosses 400 cr net..ending less than 700 cr gross as per BOI in this phase
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December 19, 2018 at 4:06 AM
415 Cr all India nett post GST is in similar range to the 387 Cr Dangal in a pre GST scenario, this being a 500 Cr multi lingual production releasing in 7000 screens while Dangal was a 100 Cr production releasing in 4500 screens across all formats. Even post the China release (which BOI prefers to discount for vested interests as that makes Dangal India’s highest grosser worldwide ) I doubt 2.0 would cross the 900 Cr worldwide gross of Bajrangi or the 850 Cr+ gross of Secret Superstar. So much for being “India’s biggest movie extravaganza”, an over rated heap of crass masala junk with childish logic, an over the top (as always) superstaar and a Bollywood star desperate to get his first major huge grosser (at which he’s failed here too).
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December 19, 2018 at 4:11 AM
Bajrangi is 925 cr ww gross and SS 900 cr if you consider concurrent currency exchange rates during their respective theatrical run in phases.
But agree on what u said on 2.0. Its an under-performing disappointment – no escape from that. Producers are claiming 700 cr ww gross, boi may have 650, while some are reporting 600 cr only. Problem is that the upper end of this spectrum also does not do justice to such an investment.
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December 19, 2018 at 3:52 AM
And more arse-burn!
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December 19, 2018 at 4:07 AM
If you cud have 5-6 threads on TOH india release (one on a daily basis), it will be an embarrassment to not maintain that record during its china release. The contributors of that mayhem are encouraged to keep thier records intact.
Tagline for this effort – ‘Garbage In, Garbage Out’.
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December 19, 2018 at 5:06 AM
Reducing runtime of TOH to 121 minutes from 164 minutes in China is really smart move. This should help more towards its bo prospects there.
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December 19, 2018 at 7:30 AM
Zero advance booking started on Monday and the response was not up to the mark on its first day
https://www.koimoi.com/bollywood-news/zero-advance-booking-update-30-crores-on-day-1-will-remain-a-dream/
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December 19, 2018 at 7:33 AM
Dilip Kumar – Saira Banu Land Mafia Controversy: All You Need To Know About It!
https://www.koimoi.com/bollywood-news/dilip-kumar-saira-banu-land-mafia-controversy-all-you-need-to-know-about-it/
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December 19, 2018 at 9:24 AM
Zero has been cleared by CBFC (Central Board Of Film Certification) with U/A certification (Unrestricted Public Exhibition-But With Parental Guidance) and running time of 164 minutes and 15 seconds i.e. 2 hours 44 minutes and 15 seconds. Also, the board provided some suggestions like the cuss words ‘haraami’, ‘haraamzade’, ‘peechwade’ and ‘bhen*****’, were asked to be muted and replaced.
One interesting thing to note is the replacement of Monkey’s name to Diya. If we note the timing, the Chimpanzee will exist in the second half of the film.
Talking about the duration of the movie, Zero is the longest one for director Aanand L. Rai. His Raanjhanaa (2 hours 11 minutes), Tanu Weds Manu (1 hour 59 minutes) and Tanu Weds Manu (2 hours 8 minutes) were way shorter when compared with Zero (2 hours 44 minutes 15 seconds).
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December 19, 2018 at 9:34 AM
What was the name of the monkey before that it has to be replaced by name Diya?
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December 19, 2018 at 9:51 AM
why is a monkey even there in the movie in the first place?
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December 19, 2018 at 9:58 AM
It will go in that space shuttle along with srk.
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December 19, 2018 at 10:22 AM
Chimp to teach the dwarf rocket science about how to fly to the moon …
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December 19, 2018 at 10:30 AM
From this article it seems the monkey’s previous name was ‘harami behenchod ki haramzaade peechwase’; but Censor board changed it to ‘Diya Re’!
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December 19, 2018 at 2:07 PM
Too long. All previous Rai movies had been shorter and entertaining for most parts. This may drag and bore.
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December 19, 2018 at 2:21 PM
Rai can bore in 2 hrs itself. Remember that abhay deol film? Even madhavan’s part dragged in TWM films, albeit him being a far better actor than what u hv in zero. Kangana managed to save those 2 films with her quirky characters. Here we have anushka’s terrible handicap and kat’s non-acting. Maybe the chimp will save the day, who knows?
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December 19, 2018 at 9:26 AM
R Madhavan and Abhay Deol will be seen adding to the remarkable performances of the film with interesting characters. However, details of the same are yet undisclosed. R Madhavan, who has earlier worked with Aanand L Rai for the successful franchise of Tanu Weds Manu, would be seen in a special appearance playing an important part of Aafia aka Anushka Sharma’s life. While not much has been revealed of Abhay Deol’s character, the actor will collaborate with the director again after Raanjhaana for a special role.
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December 19, 2018 at 9:31 AM
the makers added that they have made alterations to avoid hurting religious sentiments of the Sikh community. “Despite the fact that the film and its poster depicted only an ornamental dagger and not a ‘kirpan’, steps have been taken by the respondent to alter the relevant scenes. The portions in question have been altered through visual effects to depict an ornamental sword,” read a statement by Shah Rukh Khan’s Red Chillies Entertainment.
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December 19, 2018 at 9:48 AM
Wonder why we have a thread even before the film’s released. Not that this one’s a potential 500 Cr or even a 300 Cr grosser. If KGF (Hindi) gets a Bahubali 1 kind of word of mouth (80-100 Cr nett) and with Simmba releasing on 28th, Zero might have to rely on positive audience review to get to even 200 Cr.
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December 19, 2018 at 9:54 AM
Guilty as charged. I created it in absence of admin so shoot me.
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December 19, 2018 at 10:26 AM
Some deleted my starting joke in this thread. Was it u jay?
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December 19, 2018 at 10:58 AM
Not me but you sure you posted it here? I posted the first comment here.
None of your comments today are in trash or spam.
What was the comment about? I’ll try and find it…
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December 19, 2018 at 11:43 AM
it must have been deleted as there was an expletive in it …
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December 19, 2018 at 11:47 AM
Ok maybe. Wasn’t me though, I’ve been in meetings through afternoon. Plus I haven’t seen the comment either.
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December 19, 2018 at 2:03 PM
It was in reply to the first comment u made after creating this thread. Was abt Aamir in china and Toh china release. Expletives are only reserved for great prk and his fanatics, so no issues on that.
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December 19, 2018 at 2:13 PM
Maybe check the previous box office thread as I have no idea.
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December 19, 2018 at 2:17 PM
No issues Jay.
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December 19, 2018 at 10:25 AM
KGF is said to be tracking 15 cr nett on day one in all 5 versions, based on advance booking. Half of it i guess will come from karnataka. Zero is said to be tracking 30 cr on day one.
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December 19, 2018 at 2:12 PM
Looking after the advance Zero will be lucky to hit 25crrs. It may struggle for 20-21crrs unless the advance picks up strongly tomorrow which I doubt.
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December 19, 2018 at 2:16 PM
Dont say such thinkgs … 30-35 cr is what is has to be, by hook or crook. Wait for red chillies to get into action. Btw, master z is tracking v poorly this weekend in china, superheroes are waiting to kick its ass as per pre-sales tracking.
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December 19, 2018 at 11:37 AM
https://twitter.com/sandhumarry/status/1075330471364415488
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December 19, 2018 at 11:41 AM
aamirsaurabh be careful. There are lots of fake reviews already from ‘fake’ famous critics. Don’t fall for it.
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December 19, 2018 at 11:45 AM
yes this is also a fake…As of now the only people who has seen the movie is censor board…
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December 19, 2018 at 12:45 PM
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December 19, 2018 at 12:46 PM
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December 19, 2018 at 2:01 PM
What goes around comes back. I said that this is bound to happen after what prk trolls did during Toh. But if Zero is good indeed then it wont get affected. Otherwise … god bless!
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December 19, 2018 at 3:02 PM
haha..some ppl declaring their intentions!!
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December 19, 2018 at 8:44 PM
Dont bother abt me, just keep an eye on social media. Simple.
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December 19, 2018 at 2:06 PM
KJo?
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December 19, 2018 at 2:10 PM
Ain’t KJO and SRK considered to be close friends or its just media talks? Or KJO is taking revenge on SRK for him not doing his movies and ignoring him lol
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December 19, 2018 at 6:49 PM
Karan Johar is doing anything he can to make zero look bad, let me tell you Bollywood has become a dirty industry no true friendship, if zero is great it will be bad news for Karan
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December 19, 2018 at 6:50 PM
Content is king if a it’s a good film it will sail pass 200 crores one more day left
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December 19, 2018 at 8:08 PM
Check Some Of The Reviews Of Zero Posted By Industry People And Otherwise On Twitter:
IPL Chairman, Rajeev Shukla: Zero के हीरो@iamsrk आप कमाल हो what an amazing concept of the movie It will be super hit.
KRK: Reports are out. According to CBFC members #Zero is a terrific emotional film, and it’s going to be a sure shot blockbuster. Congrats to entire team in advance.
Umair Sandhu: #Zero is a sureshot super-hit film. It has entertainment for all sections of the audience and for all age groups. It also has tremendous repeat value. Ladies and youngsters, especially, will adore the film.
Mushtaq Shiekh: Good things come in small packages. @iamsrk continues the tradition of pushing boundaries with #Zero. He always had the guts to venture into the unknown and make it large. This @bauuasingh & @aanandlrai combo is dynamite. Sure shot entertainer in the offing.
Rahul verma
@RahulVerma4860
#Zero true blue blockbuster ! .@aanandlrai and Himanshu did true justice to their calibre and delivered their best film till date as a duo .Second half is better than even first half with right dose of emotions comprehended with lots of stunning connections to stories (1/2) .
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Censor board reports of #Zero are mind-blowing! CLASS desi entertainer with right mix of emotions. Second half is sure to surprise everyone! ALR has hit it out of the park. SRK, Anu & Kat – AWARDWORTHY! Best movie of SRK this decade! Sure to cross CE.
BLOCKBUSTER all the way!
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According to Internal reports, #Zero is Sure shot blockbuster movie of 2018 and one of the best movie of SRK’s career.
Congratulations to the entire team and producer in advance because this mivie gonna break many records!!
All the very best#4DaysToZero pic.twitter.com/u1j4crYESB
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https://www.ibtimes.co.in/zero-movie-review-inside-reports-censor-board-declare-shah-rukh-khan-starrer-blockbuster-788257
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December 19, 2018 at 8:16 PM
Hope it’s all true but I got to wait by Friday 1pm for word of mouth
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December 19, 2018 at 8:53 PM
Great interview by SRK.
https://www.ndtv.com/video/entertainment/the-ndtv-dialogues/shah-rukh-khan-on-the-one-role-he-has-never-played-501858?pfrom=home-videos
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December 19, 2018 at 8:55 PM
ll these fake accounts will disappear overnight. Public overpowers these. Shakespeare and his sister will attack me now again as he believes in the power of fake twitter attacks and trolls.
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December 19, 2018 at 9:00 PM
You keep sucking up to mediocrity. No need to bother abt anything else.
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December 19, 2018 at 9:03 PM
My mediocrity may be your hidden desire.
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December 19, 2018 at 9:07 PM
Its at ample display all the time with ur comments and choice of films and stars.
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December 19, 2018 at 9:37 PM
What wrong is liking Dangal?
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December 19, 2018 at 10:43 PM
Dangal is more of a guilty pleasure for you, given all the other stuff u constantly support.
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December 20, 2018 at 12:02 AM
All these are fake too..only censor seen till now
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December 19, 2018 at 8:45 PM
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December 19, 2018 at 8:45 PM
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December 19, 2018 at 9:00 PM
The sheer rejection of Padman in China has surprised me because in india it was loved more comparatively. The ratings for Padman China remains very high which means the small number of viewers are liking it.
However it is not a movie that is easy to watch or take your family. There were no kids in the theatre where i watched and very few women. Few young college going girls were there.
Many in India, specially women avoided sitting in a theatre with men looking for entertainment in Padman.
A great cinema. Not even close to entertaining me the way Andhadhun did, but a movie which made me look at certain social things differently. These movies are rare.
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December 19, 2018 at 9:06 PM
New adventure
Bollywood star Aamir Khan starts to promote his latest film on the Chinese mainland.
In a room with big windows through which you can get a spectacular view of the sea in Sanya, the city in South China’s Hainan province, Aamir Khan showed up, wearing a gentle smile.
A couple of hours later, the Bollywood star walked onto the stage at the closing ceremony of the first Hainan International Film Festival with Jackie Chan to announce the best feature winner.
It was Dying to Survive, an acclaimed social drama about the moral struggles of a medicine smuggler, which ultimately took home the festival’s top honor on Sunday night.
It is perhaps appropriate that Khan had the honor of presenting the award, given that some of his highest-grossing films in China－such as 3 Idiots, PK and Dangal－poke fun at social prejudices or reflect the struggles that people have to face in their daily lives.
But Khan says that tackling social issues is not his motivation or criteria for choosing movie roles.
“When I’m selecting film scripts, I’m not thinking of social issues. I’m not selecting a film based on a social issue, because I feel that my primary responsibility to (the) audience is to entertain them,” Khan tells China Daily at the festival.
“The audience buys the ticket and comes to the cinema, as they want to be entertained. If they want a lesson in sociology or psychology, then they’ll go to college,” he adds.
The 53-year-old star, with a film career spanning over three decades, hopes his latest film, titled Thugs of Hindostan, will entertain in spades.
Among India’s most expensive films produced, with an estimated budget of $47 million, Thugs is set to open across Chinese mainland theaters on Dec 28. Khan says the film does not have “a social message”. He plans to promote it in Chinese cities such as Guangzhou, Xi’an, Nanjing, Chengdu, Wuhan, Shanghai and Beijing.
Also starring Amitabh Bachchan, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Katrina Kaif and Lloyd Owen, the action-adventure film, adapted from an 1839 English novel, is about a band of thugs who aspire to free India from British rule.
Khan stars as Firangi Mallah, a con man recruited by the British forces to steal information from the thugs’ leader.
Khan describes his character, Firangi Mallah, as unpredictable, and with conscience, but no moral values.
“He can sell his mother for money. But I’ve found he’s really an interesting and entertaining character,” says Khan.
The star had discovered a resemblance between his new character and a household name in China’s martial arts world. Two months earlier during the Taihu World Cultural Forum in Beijing, Khan revealed one of his favorite Chinese characters is Wei Xiaobao, the fictional protagonist penned by late Hong Kong literature master, Louis Cha, in his classic novel, The Deer and The Cauldron.
When Khan was in Hong Kong around eight months ago, he met a local filmmaker who gave him a copy of the novel, which comes in three volumes.
Spanning the political conflicts during the reign of Emperor Kangxi in 17th-century China, the martial arts story follows Wei, a teenage hooligan born to a prostitute mother in a brothel to become the best friend of the emperor.
“The Chinese boy is 14 years old. He is sly, funny and a bit like my character (in Thugs of Hindostan),” Khan says during a brief interview.
The influential star also talks about the popular Indian TV show Truth Alone Prevails, which he has hosted since 2012. The program examines some controversial issues in Indian society, such as child abuse, child marriage and dowry.
“I believe that if somebody protests against me, it’s a good thing. I want to know why the people are not believing in me,” Khan says.
He says he feels lucky as many Indians like the show, but he adds “there are a few people who don’t want things to be changed because they benefit from things remaining the same way”.
Having visited China many times in recent years, Khan says he expects to cooperate with Chinese filmmakers, actors and actresses to shoot a Chinese story.
The star even reveals that－should such an opportunity arise－he will spend at least three months preparing, as he would want to memorize the Chinese lines.
With more and more Indian films coming to China－nine imported this year－Khan also says he has contacted China Film Administration, the country’s top regulator for the sector, to express his wish to have some Chinese films screened in India.
Kung fu giants, such as Jackie Chan and the late Bruce Lee, have been the best known Chinese film stars in India for a long time. Now, Khan wants Indians to know more about Chinese cinema.
http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201812/20/WS5c1ae0b2a3107d4c3a001c11_3.html
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December 19, 2018 at 9:11 PM
‘Captain Marvel’ and ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Top IMDb’s List of Most Anticipated 2019 Movies
With the top three spots secured by Captain Marvel, Avengers: Endgame, and Dark Phoenix, the rest of the list is filled out largely with genre movies. Spots four through 10 are taken, in order, by Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, The Irishman, It: Chapter Two, Glass, Joker, Aladdin, and Hellboy. It’s worth noting that a handful of other films that fans have been looking forward to, such as Shazam!, Spider-Man: Far From Home, and even Men in Black 4 failed to make the top ten.
https://comicbook.com/2018/12/19/captain-marvel-avengers-endgame-imdb-2019-most-anticipated-movie/
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December 19, 2018 at 9:14 PM
Surprised that Dark Phoenix is at #3 spot. There has been a lot of negativity throughout the production stage regarding this one.
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December 19, 2018 at 9:26 PM
Multi-lingual KGF to hit over 2,000 screens across the country
For the first time, a Kannada film dubbed in four other languages is releasing in over 2,000 screens across the country this Friday. Touted as the ‘costliest film’ made in Kannada, KGF, starring Yash and directed by Prashanth Neel, has been dubbed in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Hindi.
Tamil star Vishal, Telugu producer Korrapatti Ranganatha Sai, noted distributor and producer in Bollywood Anil Tadani, Global United Media of Thiruvananthapuram are distributing the film in their respective languages. The audio rights were bought by Bengaluru-based Lahari Audio by paying a sum of ₹3.60 crore, which is said to be the highest for audio rights.
Vijay told The Hindu that while the Hindi version is being released in over 1,000 screens, over 400 screens will show the Kannada version.
https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/multi-lingual-kgf-to-hit-over-2000-screens-across-the-country/article25783744.ece
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December 19, 2018 at 9:31 PM
The Tweets of Rajiv Shukla’s and CBPC means nothing. Wait till Friday 1 to 2 PM for Peoples reaction.
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December 19, 2018 at 9:36 PM
3 Idiots had a great dialog which will resonate now in SS, largely mobbed by overenthusiastic and sentimental fans of Aamir Khan-
“Fail hone se dard nahin hota hai. Jab dost pass kar jaaye and main fail, dard phir zehar ho jaata hai. Mann karta hai saale ko goli maar doon”
2point0
Zero
😀
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December 19, 2018 at 9:40 PM
https://www.ndtv.com/video/entertainment/the-ndtv-dialogues/shah-rukh-khan-on-the-one-role-he-has-never-played-501858?pfrom=home-videos
If Zero is a movie that SRK describes in the first 3 minutes of this interview then i am going to love it.
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December 19, 2018 at 10:08 PM
So 2.0 wont cross 190 cr nett in hindi even by taran’s producer figures while padman wont cross 10m in china.
Both were perhaps lifetime opportunities for Akshay – to finally get a high grosser and to crack china market. Both chances are wasted.
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December 19, 2018 at 10:36 PM
Full pic.
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December 19, 2018 at 10:41 PM
The point is that everyone is happy with 2.0 … ‘haters’ are enjoying the under-performance, and fans for not getting it!
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December 19, 2018 at 10:11 PM
https://www.koimoi.com/bollywood-news/decoding-zero-climax-chimpanzee-in-space-katrina-kaif-is-an-alien-many-more-crazy-theories/
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December 19, 2018 at 10:15 PM
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December 19, 2018 at 10:26 PM
PRKians at work …
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December 19, 2018 at 10:29 PM
KRK
@kamaalrkhan
Terrific advance booking all over India for #Zero! Now It’s confirm that the film will get historic opening and day1 will be 35-40Cr!
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December 19, 2018 at 10:31 PM
So we got a range of 20 to 40 crores for opening? Does anyone know if the advance has picked up? Yesterday it wasn’t looking good
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December 19, 2018 at 10:34 PM
If movie gets a 35 to 40 crores opening and it’s a great movie it will get to 200 crores in 7 days
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December 20, 2018 at 12:26 AM
I thot it was supposed to do 50 cr after all that talk abt trailer views?
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December 19, 2018 at 10:46 PM
Few hours to ‘Zero Release’, now waiting for Kid-Man …
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December 20, 2018 at 1:55 AM
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December 20, 2018 at 2:01 AM
Brilliant stuff! Nicole is killing it here, literally. Wish it was releasing in India.
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December 20, 2018 at 2:03 AM
This puts Sarah O’Conner to shame.
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December 20, 2018 at 3:40 AM
@AnJo – Did u carch up with Mule? Please share ur review.
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December 19, 2018 at 11:29 PM
I want Zero to flop for the sake of Marcus (Aamirians) so they can recover from ToH debacle.
I want Zero to be superhit for the sake of Master, Z (SRKins) b/C the wait is quite long between CE and next SRK superhit.
Let the fight begin and see who wins ? Negativity or Positivity ? 😉😂
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December 19, 2018 at 11:40 PM
Marcus has gone crazy since the epic disaster toh. Now poor guy is hoping for some moral victory in 🇨🇳 He has spamming about China market 😂
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December 19, 2018 at 11:41 PM
No views for the “hurt” Katrina?
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December 20, 2018 at 12:25 AM
@Bob – Nice twist man! Its just payback time to give it back to srk trolls for their deeds during ToH. You can look up those troll threads if u r short on memory (which i doubt).
Regarding Toh, we are interested to see what happens in china. Why so averse to its china release? When u are sure about it being the worst movie ever made, then it will surely collect a lot less than the indian masterpieces that released there after SS?
Here is something more to chew – negativity or positivity does not matter, what can happen will happen. How not focus on the product? From the trailers, posters and songs it looks bad. Why not talk more about that? Instead of giving pseudo-gyaan like fake babas?
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December 19, 2018 at 11:45 PM
Negativity won during Toh. Positivity won during initial stages of 2.0.
I am neutral about Zero. It will not affect me either way. 2.0 acted as a buffer for Zero.
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December 19, 2018 at 11:49 PM
During WC also , negativity lost. Naveen tried his best and lost there. That too against a star who died under tragic circumstances.
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December 20, 2018 at 12:29 AM
“That too against a star who died under tragic circumstances.”
Ohh please!!!
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December 19, 2018 at 11:55 PM
Why the same sentiment about negativity was not expressed during those innumerable threads on Toh?
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December 20, 2018 at 12:01 AM
Hypocrites live by double standards. Its the norm.
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December 20, 2018 at 12:07 AM
Remember this by Master?
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December 20, 2018 at 12:16 AM
Is this positivity?
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December 20, 2018 at 12:17 AM
Did Bob Cristo or Naveen condemn this?
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December 20, 2018 at 12:32 AM
I understood this pic as “Flogging a dead horse”. Flogging a dead horse (alternatively beating a dead horse, or beating a dead dog in some parts of the Anglophone world) is an idiom that means to continue a particular endeavour is a waste of time as the outcome is already decided.
Whoever put it meant to a particular post by Marcus where it looked like he is trying to defend the indefensible.
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December 20, 2018 at 12:35 AM
Indefensible? LOL
This is why u r constantly flagged as a ‘moron’. Check my reviews of ToH and 2.0, but u cant read. Sad.
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December 20, 2018 at 12:35 AM
Master used it for aamir. Not explicitly but that amounted to beating aamir for whom his feelings are quite well known.
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December 20, 2018 at 12:38 AM
Its the frustration of not getting a hit for so many years. All the jealousy just poured out in those ToH threads.
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December 20, 2018 at 12:40 AM
.it was used by master to depict flogging a dead horse AFAIR
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December 20, 2018 at 12:42 AM
Krish, it is aamir, not dead horse. The real target.
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December 20, 2018 at 1:30 AM
“Master used it for aamir. ”
Are you serious? In this same thread you have lied twice where folks can easily go back and check. But if you are just trying to play a dirty game by blaming Master for no reason, no amount of explanation from other members will convince you. Other possibility is that you really don’t understand English idioms and posts by others.
Either ways, I don’t think I need to justify, folks who have even little brain can understand what I meant wrt the flogging dead horse image!
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December 20, 2018 at 1:35 AM
That was a distasteful gif and publishing it evokes distasteful feelings. Only big brains like Naveen can understand it!
The intention behind it also matters. Just do this for political leaders in India and you will be prosecuted.
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December 20, 2018 at 1:38 AM
“Just do this for political leaders in India and you will be prosecuted.”
Lol. You still thinking its referring to a ‘person’? Its an idiom and I didn’t make one. It’s not distasteful from any angle.
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December 20, 2018 at 1:51 AM
There are so many misogynistic idioms too in various languages including in English. Can we use them saying that ‘I have not created that idiom or phrase?’
https://www.marieclaire.com/politics/news/a10429/sexist-phrases-retired-immediately/
This flogging a horse is disapproved by PETA.
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December 20, 2018 at 1:36 AM
Dead horse was toh(implied to aamir obviously), yet so much irritation on china release? So much for idioms from trolls.
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December 20, 2018 at 12:19 AM
Padman in China. And also Baahubali 2, Sultan, maybe Toh.
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December 20, 2018 at 12:33 AM
Not relevant as noone is flogging a dead horse for Padman, BB2, Sultan, etc.
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December 20, 2018 at 12:37 AM
The chinese audience did that in the world’s second biggest market for movies.
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December 20, 2018 at 12:38 AM
It is flogging Akshay, Rajamouli, Salman indirectly. Just like doing the same to Aamir indirectly.
I have to explain everything. Sigh!
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December 20, 2018 at 1:00 AM
How kiddish can this be?
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December 20, 2018 at 1:30 AM
Kiddish comments get kiddish reactions.
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December 20, 2018 at 2:40 AM
really..’flogging a dead horse’ is hurting sentiments now? Now we are really into the current situation in our country..whatever, wherever hurt sentiments!
btw about negativity in social media, didnt start with toh, i did point it out extensively during JHMS, though then aamir fans were enjoying it then.. so, what went around has come around already!
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December 20, 2018 at 2:55 AM
Aamir fans are not singular entity the way srk fans are. I or LS did not troll JHMS. And it did not run into 4 threads.
We are always here. On other blogs too.
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December 20, 2018 at 4:28 AM
hehe..sounds like right wing trolls after recent losses!
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December 20, 2018 at 4:37 AM
Thats better than Rahul Gandhi fans, aint it?
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December 20, 2018 at 5:39 AM
who says? rahul gandhi fans r better positioned now! what goes around comes around, you know!
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December 20, 2018 at 5:41 AM
LOL, then feel ‘happy’ being the ‘greatest’ fan of a incompetent fool like RG! Nothing to debate.
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December 20, 2018 at 6:38 AM
The opposite party has a guy who has an MA in ENTIRE Political Science — a degree that can’t be put under RTI. He is the PM of India, no less.
This is not to suggest that Rahul Gandhi is some kind of genius but what are the standards operating elsewhere?!
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December 20, 2018 at 6:27 AM
yaa maybe, looking at what the competent genius did in 4.7 years!
well, when you buy TOH as a result in 2 years, no wonder!
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December 20, 2018 at 6:59 AM
Good to see RG fans, this completes the zero thread! I am not a modi fan but one one can practically fix the congress mess in one term. Lets not fool ourselves that academic degrees is a requisite for political ambition in india. RG cant even deliver a scripted speech!
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December 20, 2018 at 11:06 AM
nor our PM can take a single question from press..!
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December 20, 2018 at 12:40 AM
https://twitter.com/Aamirs_Batman/status/1075463426909003776
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December 20, 2018 at 12:42 AM
Everytime srk tried to ‘reinvent’ in last 10 years:
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December 20, 2018 at 1:03 AM
Marcus..Agree on that. Didn’t like anything about ZERO so far. Still I want 250cr+ for Zero. Just because I don’t want all Khan’s to fail in a single year. They are part of our teenage years. So many good memories. I do admit they all three went past thier sale by date. I too jumped on Ranveer singh. Still I don’t want Khan’s to fade suddenly.
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December 20, 2018 at 1:11 AM
None of them are going anywhere, whether Zero flops or becomes a Hit. They will be around playing leads for another 5 years. Rajni is doing it at close to 60.
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December 20, 2018 at 1:31 AM
“Rajni is doing it at close to 60.”
Rajni is 68 and will be 70 soon! Sigh!
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December 20, 2018 at 1:33 AM
Thats a typo. But what a typical response, sigh!
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December 20, 2018 at 1:55 AM
Lets elaborate for chimp minds. All 3 khans (even akshay) have accumulated enough success, fan following and wealth over the years to keep producing their films now and successfully fund the PR machinery to keep themselves relevant. And its not about Ranveer or Ranbir catching up. Nor can Rao/Anshuman participate in big game hunting.
The threat lies in increasing market share of hollywood films. And the constant threat of increasing penetration from southern industries – Baahubali films, 2.0, Saaho, RRR, etc etc. Sooner or later they will compete with Khan grossers. BB2 (2017) and AIW (2018) are already showing the way, while Khans have slowed down considerably.
Only Khan film in 2019 is Bharat. Dont be surprised if its competing with Avengers Endgame, Lion King, Spiderman or Saaho for the highest grosser title. And all these may fare a lot better than Shamsheera or Gully Boy.
To be precise, its upto Zero to beat AIW’s 227 cr nett in India – by real collections not fraud PR figures thrown by Red Chillies.
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December 20, 2018 at 2:06 AM
chimp minds? They will be offended.
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December 20, 2018 at 2:08 AM
But Darwin will approve given SRK’s continuous evolution!
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December 20, 2018 at 2:08 AM
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December 20, 2018 at 1:12 AM
Dark Phoenix:
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December 20, 2018 at 1:16 AM
2019 movies to look out for:
Jan – Manikarnika
Feb – Alita: Battle Angel
Mar – Captain Marvel
April – Avengers Endgame
June – Dark Phoenix
July – Lion King
Dec – Star Wars Epi IX
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December 20, 2018 at 1:32 AM
And Saaho in Aug.
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December 20, 2018 at 3:45 AM
Add Destroyer to this list. Its releasing in India on 25th Jan along with Manikarnika.
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December 20, 2018 at 2:04 AM
https://www.koimoi.com/bollywood-news/zero-reviews-fake-from-deepika-padukone-to-narendra-modi-everyone-is-talking-about-it/
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December 20, 2018 at 2:06 AM
Kannada got funk
KGF Chapter 1 has made people sit back and notice not just the film, but Kannada industry itself, says Yash
The cinematic mantra this month seems to be KGF. There were whispers about the grand sets, the budget and how rocking star Yash was overworking and putting his all into this project that is now one of the most talked about films — KGF Chapter 1. It is directed by Prashanth Neel and the best part is that KGF is not just creating waves in Karnataka, but across the country and also overseas. In a talk with MetroPlus, Yash confirms the film, which releases on December 21, will be screened in over 2,000 theatres on the national and international platform. The film will be simultaneously released in five languages. “We’ll be able to give you exact numbers on the eve of the release,” says the actor, who sits down with us after a tough press conference.. Questions were shot at him like sharp arrows from every corner of the room — some flattering and some accusing him of “ignoring” the Kannada media, but Yash patiently answered each one with a smile.
https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/kannada-got-funk/article25787174.ece
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December 20, 2018 at 2:22 AM
http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/news/box-office-special-features/box-office-zero-set-challenge-sanju-record-open-around-rs-35-crore-mark/
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December 20, 2018 at 2:45 AM
Watched 2.0 and came back with mixed feelings; joyful more of course. There was no Hindi version left here; only Tamil. One thing is for sure; Shankar aimed literally for the skies…I mean, birds here! The only hero in this film is his visual imagination put into action. This is one of the worst outings of Rajinikanth. Even that Hrinayakashipu-isque laugh of his that is a wolf-whistle SOS to his fans is a sore visually and aurally. It is truly an Akshay Kumar show all the way: He’s just not worried about his image and it shows. This is not great acting, but for sure this is a fine divorce from Akshay the actor, of course aided by prosthetics and visual effects. Shankar comes up with highly innovative ways to make a handsome man look ugly, and AK gleefully submits to the director.
Some of the visual effects are fantastic and heart-stopping; notably the stadium scenes and Akshay’s taking over of Vaseegaran’s body: Akshay’s transformation into a bird glued with mobiles and his walk along with the busy street at night with a robust back-ground score is terrific and got the most whistles — in a Tamil film where he beats up Rajinikanth, with Tamil audiences watching!!
Frankly, there’s nothing really here-in the stadium scenes, Shankar uses a couple of trade-mark scenes like cigarette flipping or the bullets’ swirling — that Rajinikanth adds, except of course, his mania in Tamil Nadu. In the first part, Shankar used Kanth’s iconic status to the hilt and so it was actually a joy even to non-fans to see the contrast between a timid inventor and a volatile robot that is cleverly depicted through the robotic frame-work invoking his fan-fare moments. Here, I seriously felt one could have used anybody else instead of Rajini and it would have made more sense and driven home the fact better that Shankar really wanted technology to do the talking.
Some lines are corny, and the less said about the wafer-thin plot, the better. However, it for sure is a great one-time watch in 3D on the big screen given the constraints — some of the aerial sweep-shots are really corny — and resources Shankar has worked with. I did not find much of a repeat value.
Shankar has a better imagination but a weaker story-teller; while Rajamouli is a better story-teller with a weaker imaginative mind visually. The contrast, couldn’t have been clearer as it is here.
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December 20, 2018 at 2:51 AM
Nice review AnJo, movie is still running here but in Tamil only.
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December 20, 2018 at 3:06 AM
Agree with ur review on all counts. Thanks for sharing. My thots were on similar lines too. Shankar’s imagination and Akshay’s performance takes the cake here.
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December 20, 2018 at 3:08 AM
My review of 2.0.
I happened to watch 2.0 last night. Nothing much to say about the film. Its not bad nor good, plain average. and nothing much remains with you the next day. Its less masala than a regular Shankar film, at least till the point where an irritating 2.0 or 3.0 version of Chitti show up (and Rajni starts his usual antics that he is famous for). Rajni was fine in the first half though. However, Akshay Kumar has done well here (and he shows up in the second half to save it). I think that is the main reason why hindi dubbed version is doing relatively better at box office. Akshay deserves all the credit for that.
This film needed to be an outright Rajni vehicle from the get-go to make it really big in TN/Telegu/Kerala belt. And to make it work well in high-end plexes all over india (referring to 227 cr nett from Avengers a few months back), it needed to mute Rajni in the second half. So its neither here, nor there – dangling somewhere in the middle.
I think in hindi version it will do 170-175 cr nett and be a plus film in the end. [ I am hoping it does 200 cr in hindi and gets certified as a hit. If Devgn could get a 200 cr film with the last Golmaal, then Akshay surely deserves to get there with his effort here.] However, in south its downward trend is likely to continue.
As for being a visual spectacle, Shankar uses his imagination better than he did in Enthiran. But the vfx execution is not as great as his imagination (probably budget constraints). There is a cartoonish feeling to the vfx execution here that it somewhat dilates Shankar’s visual ambitions. Hollywood extravaganzas are all beyond such amateurish feel. One needs to check the visuals from the upcoming chinese sci-fi production – The Wandering Earth, whose trailer recently released. Even our neighbors have cracked the vfx code much better than us.
The best thing about the film is Akshay by a margin. He has a good role, and performs v well. But his ‘message’ gets belittled by 2.0 – quite literally. Dont know why Shankar decided to trivialize the issue with cell-phones by the end of it all. He seems completely confused about what he wants to say in the film. Again a middle ground.
I wont recommend it as a visual spectacle. But wont discourage anyone who wants to watch it either – just for Akshay. For his message here and of course the way he entertains. And no, I am not an Akshay fan.
I wud prefer this film over ‘Katappa Kyon Maara’ sequel anyday. But its not a patch on Baahubali The Beginning either. Yet, its an upgrade from Enthiran – and a lot better than bollywood’s krrish series or any such sci-fi attempts from north.
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December 20, 2018 at 8:00 AM
Superb Review AnJo. Agree on everything.
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December 20, 2018 at 2:31 PM
Thanks Marcus, Naveen, and Jayshah.
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December 20, 2018 at 3:06 AM
Trolling trollers is better than trolling films.
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December 20, 2018 at 3:08 AM
https://www.koimoi.com/bollywood-news/heres-a-complete-timeline-of-sonu-nigam-sona-mohapatras-twitter-rant/
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December 20, 2018 at 3:10 AM
Huge Young crowd.
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December 20, 2018 at 3:36 AM
He is mainly interacting with students at campus events. Makes sense since thats his core fanbase given the popularity of 3I in mainland.
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December 20, 2018 at 3:17 AM
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December 20, 2018 at 3:37 AM
Will Shetty’s Singham Again be another Khan killer like Golmaal Again was?
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December 20, 2018 at 3:37 AM
Zero advance, decent
https://www.addatoday.com/2018/12/zero-advance-booking-report-for-friday.html?m=1
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December 20, 2018 at 3:46 AM
From reports we are looking at 25-35 cr opening day depending on audience response.
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December 20, 2018 at 4:00 AM
Good, decent, average, solid advance. No terms like gigantic, historic etc. Advance seems to have disappointed for sure. Don’t see doing it more than 20-22crrs on Friday.
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December 20, 2018 at 4:04 AM
2.0 hindi was also touted to open at 30-35 cr range. Ended up with 20 cr producer figure. This shud do better. What was JHMS opening day?
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December 20, 2018 at 4:41 AM
Just checked that producer figure for Imtiaz’s vintage classic was 15 cr opening day.
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December 20, 2018 at 4:09 AM
SRK is biggest YouTube superstar! But based on these reports so far, his stardom at box office is on a rocky path that is only going one way. I still think 25Cr is happening but really this should be north of 30Cr. Yes no marketing blitz but even here SRK fans have been positive in main on trailer, songs and juxtaposed with YouTube, bla bla (fyi never give a crap for) this is pretty average so far! Let’s see, never say never! SRK might pull a rabbit out of the hat still!
The Salman SRK song is terrible, considering the promo since EID has practically created some kind of hype for that moment.
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December 20, 2018 at 4:41 AM
No preview shows…and release in UAE was pushed to Friday. Usuallly these are hints of a bad movie.
I skimmed through some advances and I think this will open in the Dangal/PK range (26 to 29) and if WOM is good can touch Sanju first day numbers (32).
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December 20, 2018 at 4:42 AM
Sanju was 35. Thats why PR machine is flushing that number down our throat. Same thing was done before 2.0 release, just check those BO threads.
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December 20, 2018 at 4:47 AM
Marcus 2.0 would have surely opened closer to 30 cr if they had solved their distribution issues and flooded 3D prints..that was a bad job at distribution…
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December 20, 2018 at 4:45 AM
Krish – They are not hyping it, after TOH it is not sensible to go down that path.
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December 20, 2018 at 4:49 AM
Ya that’s okay..no issue with overhyping it but there cannot be any reason for moving the UAE release by 1 day..movie always release there on a Thursday..that doesnt sound too optimistic…in a sense they have kept the promotion low key..even if it opens between 25cr and 29 cr but is a good movie it wont have any issues in picking up….that’s a big if though
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December 20, 2018 at 4:49 AM
Lets get this thing cleared up before release. Zero’s India distribution rights sold for 100-105 cr. Here is the verdict scenario:
350+ cr – Blockbuster!
300+ cr – Superhit!
250+ cr – Hit!
200+ cr – Commission Earner/Recovery
Below 200 cr – Flop
Lets not pursue double standards after release.
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December 20, 2018 at 4:50 AM
And no excuses like Srk suffering from constipation or distribution goof-ups.
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December 20, 2018 at 4:55 AM
@Krish – Please commit to these verdict milestones. Please dont run-away like the other krish in the middle of making Manikarnika. Your biopic on srk can wait …
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December 20, 2018 at 4:58 AM
100 cr is surely the distribution cost and I had posted that 2 weeks back too..so 200 cr is recovery..anything above that is profit zone.. you are making me sound like some headmaster in classroom to commit to these numbers 🙂 but your numbers are right..addatoday has similar numbers for distribution too
https://www.addatoday.com/2018/12/zero-box-office-prediction-hit-or-flop.html?m=1
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December 20, 2018 at 5:00 AM
No dude, our resident headMaster is busy taking his masterclass in censoring – replacing ‘Harami Behenchod Ki Haramzaade Peechwade’ with ‘Diya’ as per Prasoon Joshi’s strict directive!
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December 20, 2018 at 5:03 AM
Who?
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December 20, 2018 at 5:04 AM
No comments (necessary)!
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December 20, 2018 at 4:56 AM
Ha good luck. Film will be a hit at 200Cr for many – mark my words!
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December 20, 2018 at 5:01 AM
I think if the movie gets to 225cr it will be called a hit by most..the verdicts after recovery are usually just ranges…..and when the amount being earned back is huge the hit verdict will be easier to get…so a 2.0 would have been called a hit even if it was just recovery because recovery itself was a massive 375 crs…
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December 20, 2018 at 5:02 AM
But isnt that convenient double standards at display?
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December 20, 2018 at 5:07 AM
Usually trade looks at the money flowing…so a movie with distrubion cost of 10cr needs 25 cr for hit..20 cr for recovery…and 5 cr is the profit made which is actually 50.percent of distribution..but the same standard cannot be applied for larger budget movies. For ex 100 cr distribution cost will still be 200 cr recovery but even if it earns say 225 cr the person has earned 25cr which though is a lesser proportion of distribution cost visavis the smaller movie just making 225cr itself cannot happen if the movie is not liked..and he has also made more money here..that’s why if you see addatoday their hit is at 205cr for zero..but yes I think at 225cr it will be called a clean hit…
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December 20, 2018 at 5:16 AM
225 cr means that 25 cr nett over that recover target of 200 cr, which will yield a distributor share of 10-12 cr (depending on how long the film takes to get there, as distributor share reduces in plexes after week one). So 10 cr profit for distributors is justified in ur books for a Hit verdict when the distribution price is 100 cr???
10% ROI and you will give a ‘Hit’ verdict? i hope u r kidding urself.
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December 20, 2018 at 5:28 AM
I think what Krish is saying in layman’s terms it’s a profit model. If you make 10Cr on 10Cr cost or 100Cr cost it’s a hit. I don’t personally agree. I think somewhere in middle, decent profits and ROI.
The 100Cr cost film is like a bluechip stock and the 10Cr cost film is a penny stock. Either way profit is good. But one model is infinitely better. You’d rather make 10 10Cr cost films but you risk winning and losing, but risk is spread. Zero is boom or bust! This is why it’s critical and prestige for Zero to get to at least 180Cr-200Cr, it gives everyone associated whether paid or not to spin it positively. And of course the bigger carrot is beating Race 3 and TOH!
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December 20, 2018 at 5:28 AM
That’s how they do the calculations..even TOH needed only around 250 cr only for a hit verdict which was pretty close to recovery amount..expectation wise it would have been bad but that was enough for hit…..as you pay more and more for distribution cost the percentage required to get to hit will reduce..because that small.percent itself will be a big amount..
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December 20, 2018 at 5:35 AM
Yes Jay..basically what I am saying is that the percentage profit made on distribution cost will not be the same for all budget movies…it is easy to make a profit of 50 percent on distribution cost when budget is smaller rather than when the budget is bigger….bahubali 2 was an exception which gave 300 percent profit even though distribution cost itself were huge…
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December 20, 2018 at 5:38 AM
But this is pretty bad way to think about business in general. Big companies obviously can’t grow as fast as small companies. So you can’t expect similar ROI’s I agree. But for example if a small film makes 2Cr profit on 10Cr cost it should not be penalised either. That’s a decent return.
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December 20, 2018 at 5:39 AM
I am not expecting 100% returns or even 50% when i am saying a hit verdict is sacrilegious below 250 cr nett. @250, the distributor profits will be around 20-25 cr which is decent returns in the given scenario. Why set the bar so low Krish?
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December 20, 2018 at 5:46 AM
Even at 250Cr,TOH would be awful. Expectations need to be accounted for. Otherwise film business is just that, a business. It’s disconnected to reality and perceptions.
The world is such that EXPECTATIONS are critical. It cost Manchester United some £18mm to sack Mourinho yesterday but the ‘value’ of brand Manchester United increased by some £125mm according to experts. So sacking him increased value. I say it’s important to refund losing propositions if you’ve cheated or looted fans as It future proofs your brand. Critical for Zero to make 180Cr by hook or crook as it can paint it’s beautiful fake public picture!
Protecting your brand is a business itself.
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December 20, 2018 at 5:43 AM
I am no one to set any bar..a site like adda today is saying 205cr and I was explaining how they usually think….i was just saying that at 225cr pretty much everyone will call it a hit…i am absolutely fine to wait till 250 cr to call it a hit but whether it makes 225 or 250 the spin and feedback for movie will be positive…at the moment srk will be happy with any total above 200cr honestly considering how his movies have fared
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December 20, 2018 at 5:51 AM
Lets not get swayed by what some addatoday or kadels think. Lets apply our own discretion to come to conclusions. What do you say?
As Jay says, its better to buy smaller stocks where the returns can be much greater than investing huge amounts in reputed brands. For example, I am so fucking fed up and become impatient with my current role in leading a dev team for a branded MNC due to its lackadaisical dev efforts, that I am happy to take up an architect designation for a startup where the pay is even greater than what top brands are offering in the market (like amazon). But its not the money that excites me, its the scope to add some value, whatever that turns out to be. What i make of it, i will only to know once i start in new year.
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December 20, 2018 at 5:53 AM
Here is a good example of how ABO classifies a movie..if a movie makes 10.percent less than recovery they call it above average..from.recovery to some crores above it is a hit and so on and so fore..this is how they do for telugu movies…that’s why I said 2.0 was a hit just if it touched recovery…and AAA was not a very big movie but atleast there is consistency in what they do and they also release their classification before the movie releases…
http://andhraboxoffice.com/info.aspx?id=4117&cid=8&fid=6005
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December 20, 2018 at 5:57 AM
You get what you are saying. The system is telling you breakeven is a hit or good enough! No one works just for break even. You don’t gamble to break even. That’s a lucky escape! In fact here 10% lower than recovery is ‘above’ average! LOL! This is nonsense even if transparent!
It fosters bad behaviour and ultimately nothing progressive. Set high standards, not gold or BB2 each time. But fair standards.
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December 20, 2018 at 4:51 AM
https://www.firstpost.com/entertainment/hu-bos-an-elephant-sitting-still-tarkovskys-stalker-the-godfather-and-the-concept-of-slow-cinema-5763511.html
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December 20, 2018 at 5:02 AM
https://www.koimoi.com/bollywood-news/zero-detailed-analysis-strategies-of-the-makers-turned-into-a-bane-from-a-boon/
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December 20, 2018 at 5:02 AM
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December 20, 2018 at 5:04 AM
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December 20, 2018 at 5:06 AM
So 50 cr opening is already given by our twitter trade experts?
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December 20, 2018 at 5:06 AM
boxofficeindia
The advance booking for Zero got some momentum this morning after an average response since it opened. The advance is well short of the likes of Thugs Of Hindostan and Tiger Zinda Hai but it is pretty much expected as those films were big action films and this is more of a love story.
The advance booking over the first few days were around the levels of Raees and Tubelight but since yesterday evening there is stronger momentum which has followed through today which means it should beat these films. Raees was an action film but as it had a regional feel the advance and even box office was always going to be restricted. It did have a clash but even with a solo release it could not have gone too far as business was going to be Mumbai / Gujarat mainly with Shahrukh Khan strongholds like West Bengal, TNK and Mysore helping a little.
Zero is a far superior product than Raees going by the trailer so if the advance was just at the level of Raees it would have been disappointing even though with Raees it would be said that it has more of the so called mass elements for an initial. But that is not how box office works and a universal looking film is more important which Zero potentially is.
The best advance for till date a Shahrukh Khan starrer (in terms of collections) till date is the Diwali release of 2014 Happy New Year and there is a chance that Zero should be able to beat that. Obviously the ticket sales will be less but the collections should be able to edge past Happy New Year if this momentum keeps pace.
The biggest advance for an outright Hindi film ever is Thugs of Hindostan released on Diwali this year and Zero has no chance of competing with that. It is also well short of films like Sanju and Race 3. Sanju the public just took a liking to the trailer and even the songs which was a first for Rajkumar Hirani film while Race 3 was a mass film with Salman Khan on Eid.
The advance will not be huge like a Shahrukh Khan starrer should get but its going to be a good number for the type of film it is which is not the huge bumper opener type but a film which builds momentum. The advance is building momentum slowly and more importantly the momentum should continue on Friday and through the weekend and there will be no looking back.
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December 20, 2018 at 5:08 AM
Superior than Raees??
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December 20, 2018 at 5:11 AM
In terms of appeal surely zero will be superior to raees..raees did 22cr or something with a clash..this will be around 27 to 29 cr I think…and then depends on wom and how it sells in current counters
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December 20, 2018 at 5:09 AM
Basically net net they are saying same.thing I said..pk dangal range….
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December 20, 2018 at 5:11 AM
And i thot Rice trailer was far better than Zero!
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December 20, 2018 at 5:13 AM
Fantastic BOI! On the money as usual!
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December 20, 2018 at 5:15 AM
Well short of Race 3? Unless the reviews and wom is positive not sure how it is going to touch 25crrs forget 30crrs.
No reviews yet. If its good movie and confident about their movie then they should have released the reviews. Looks like another dud from SRK. When was the last time SRK gave good or truly satisfying movie to audience?
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December 20, 2018 at 5:17 AM
Rnbdj worked universally in 2008. And this is 2018 …
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December 20, 2018 at 5:23 AM
I can explain this..race 3 released on pre-eid and a large part of the advance was skewed towards the 2nd and 3rd day and not 1st day..so 1st day advance was lower and hence it opened in the 27 cr 28 cr range…so even if zero advance is lower than race 3 the first day advance can be higher…now I have not checked if that’s the case but I wont be surprised if that’s the case…again this is just advance figures which in the end is just 20 percent of the days collections..the wom and current sales decide the remaining 80 percent…best ever example is Golmaal 4 which opened to 32 cr with practically zero advance
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December 20, 2018 at 5:27 AM
This doesnt need to do much to match Race 3’s opening. Race 3 was tracking 25 cr throughout the day till evening shows (check the usual sites), then producer Sallu gave us 29 cr figure the next day. I am sure Red Chillies will easily overdo the misreporting, if not the collections.
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December 20, 2018 at 5:53 AM
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December 20, 2018 at 7:12 AM
Nice song.
Kat is actually acting in this one.
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December 20, 2018 at 5:56 AM
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December 20, 2018 at 6:02 AM
Classic fan – YouTube hits are historic so my *star* is biggest. Biggest cost ever.
Days before release, set the lowest hurdle possible for success.
Respect to Naveen for always going high!
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December 20, 2018 at 6:02 AM
Box OfficeTrending
Zero Advance Booking Update: How Things Are Changing For This Shah Rukh Khan Starrer!
But is it big enough for a movie having stars like SRK, Katrina Kaif and Anushka Sharma? Let’s analyze!
By Koimoi.com Team -December 20, 2018
Zero Advance Booking Update: It has started since a couple of days and there have been many developments from day 1. Many cities are just buzzing up and thanks to the Shah Rukh Khan factor; many regions are already filling fast. But is it big enough for a movie having stars like SRK, Katrina Kaif and Anushka Sharma? Let’s analyze!
Mumbai is sleeping! The advance booking has still not picked up here since yesterday. It has boiled down to the last day of the booking scenario and today should possibly give a clearer picture. It’s somewhere similar to 2.0 (a day before) and as that movie picked up on the last day, expecting the same for this one too.
Delhi:
Delhi is better than yesterday but still, it needs a lot to attain the expected day 1 from the film. Mass centres would come into play in Delhi and usually, it’s seen they rely mostly on spot bookings. The oranges (fast filling) have increased but not enough as expected.
Bengaluru:
Bengaluru is SOLID! Better than both Mumbai and Delhi. Despite Yash’s KGF, Zero has managed to rise and shine in this area. The advance booking here is a sight to see which also hypes up our hope for the other regions as well.
Pune is getting better & that’s good news for the film. It will eventually get better for sure but it’s decent till now. It’s low if we compare it with Race 3, Sanju and 2.0 but then all of those 3 had a much better pre-release hype than Zero. Still, if we see all the regions combined, Zero has a great chance to outshine Race 3 on the 1st day.
Hyderabad, Chennai & Kolkata:
All these are few of the regions which are doing amazing than the rest. Hyderabad, especially, is the best of all and could help in adding a huge chunk in day 1. Chennai & Kolkata are very good too, but still, many cinema halls are yet to open the booking.
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December 20, 2018 at 6:54 AM
Hyderabad, especially, is the best of all and could help in adding a huge chunk in day 1
LOL this is such a freaking joke. Hyderabad is always on the higher side for each film. It was high for Race 3, 2.0 and even smaller films.
Hyderabad is the only metro I see that has a very high occupancy rate for Hindi films, no matter who stars in them! Another BOI lie busted, thanks to twitter.
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December 20, 2018 at 6:56 AM
Saket you are busy this weekend giving us Zero numbers 😀
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December 20, 2018 at 6:58 AM
Yeah, plan to do it for both Zero and Simmba.
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December 20, 2018 at 7:01 AM
Thats great!
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December 20, 2018 at 7:13 AM
too bad you didn’t start with TOH 🙂
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December 20, 2018 at 7:26 AM
I actually started comparing numbers with ToH only. Only because master called me too much of a ‘novice’ to discuss box office matters!
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December 20, 2018 at 7:38 AM
just comparing or actually start giving out totals based on your assumption? With indian BO, you will have like at max 40% data (probably more like 10%), rest is just assumption.
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December 20, 2018 at 7:56 AM
Comparing apples to apples. Based on the data that I have, which comprises all the metros and about 7-8 Tier 1 cities, I can give out a good estimate of what the total is.
The universal standard for everyone here is BOI. So I have chosen Race 3 numbers as the starting point. Everything and every film is compared to that.
If my totals are off compared to BOI then it can mean one of two things:
1) The first day total for Race 3 was wrong
OR
2) BOI is using different metrics for different films — nay, different stars.
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December 20, 2018 at 7:58 AM
And this isn’t some kind of exercise to refute BOI. It’s primarily to bring some form of consistency to Box Office metrics.
If BOI gets exposed in the process, or the producers for that matter, it’s not my concern — although I don’t mind that one bit!
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December 20, 2018 at 7:51 AM
70% of bollywood business was being tracked by comscore when Sanju released 6 months back. Not sure if Inox has come on baord too by now. Lets come out from living in dark ages. But oldies often cant accept change.
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December 20, 2018 at 6:57 AM
Part of this is due to the fact that Hyderabad has a big filmy culture. They also have the highest proportion of theatres based on population.
It is more of an anomaly compared to other metros.
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December 20, 2018 at 7:06 AM
That’s koimoi.com article
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December 20, 2018 at 8:08 AM
@Krish
Sorry, I got confused about the source. But the point still remains — these guys have been in business for far too long to not make such a simple connection.
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December 20, 2018 at 6:13 AM
@Jay – One good thing that has come out of brexit is relaxation (proposed) of supposed ‘high-skill’ visas and 2 month extension for students to find work.
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December 20, 2018 at 6:20 AM
Brexit is not that bad. Bad is how politicians are fighting each other instead of just getting out of EU. That’s what the vote is, get us OUT.
It’s like divorce when the couple are fighting over who gets what but forget about their children.
Visas damn we’ll have to pay €6 to go abroad. LOL. Not a lot but generally I am warming to change. No change means UK has just spent billions to leave to stay LOL. Change is opportunity.
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December 20, 2018 at 6:27 AM
Lol @ the conundrum. Divorce proceedings are usually messy and flop shows like ahat.
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December 20, 2018 at 6:28 AM
I like that movie though (with anu malik’s godfather theme and all). But it flopping meant end of mansoor-aamir teamup. Aamir rejected josh.
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December 20, 2018 at 3:44 PM
Aamir didn’t get the role he wanted in Josh; so he opted out of it, hence came Shahrukh onboard for Josh.
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December 20, 2018 at 3:44 PM
Aamir didn’t get the role he wanted in Josh; so he opted out of it, hence came Shahrukh onboard for Josh.
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December 20, 2018 at 6:41 AM
Google wins the award for best Xmas advert!
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December 20, 2018 at 7:19 AM
https://www.ndtv.com/entertainment/zero-preview-shah-rukh-khan-loves-anushka-sharma-to-the-moon-and-back-katrina-kaif-is-the-twist-1965703
Zero Preview: Shah Rukh Khan Loves Anushka Sharma To The Moon And Back. Katrina Kaif Is The Twist
Zero will clash with the Hindi version of Kannada film KGF, starring Yash. Nevertheless, get ready for fireworks at the box office!
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December 20, 2018 at 7:23 AM
Just curious, who are the mod on this forum?
Is it okay to continue bashing a star, I know it will degrade the site value and so on but is it okay if all of us do it like marcus continuously does?
It’s very easy to get down to gutter level but should we and more importantly, are we all allowed to do it or is it okay only if you’re not bashing aamir?
It will get pretty interesting here next few days so just trying to understand where mods stand on this.
And as I always say, for reference go thru any threads to make a judgement. It’s pretty crystal clear.
It’s perfectly okay if mods wants someone like marcus here but come out and say it, that if marcus is rss/vhp, we are his bjp, silent supporter…
It’s okay to have debates, like satyam and i don’t agree on many things and we debate about it, this guy/girl marcus is down right nasty and here for nothing but bash srk (again, just for thru any thread).
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December 20, 2018 at 7:39 AM
I think Marcus is targetting Red Chillies for inflating the numbers. Just like Roshans have become notorious for inflating numbers. And also some sites are doing so for a long time.
The issue is about inflated numbers. But ultimately the star also becomes part of the debate.
The debate is also about how much a film needs to be a hit or superhit. Boi, Taran have given superhit tags to 2.0 which can be disputed and which was disputed.
While we agree that Toh was a monumental disaster. And even if it was a hit, these debates would have gone on.
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December 20, 2018 at 7:44 AM
The main problem will be solved if Aamir is banned in china.
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December 20, 2018 at 7:48 AM
I suggest you go thru many threads to make a clear judgement, many have complained about marcus including Krish, Naveen, Master, myself and others.
Even Satyam made a comment on it.
And what proof is he providing that RC is inflating numbers? He just makes statements (kind of like donald trump) without providing any proof.
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December 20, 2018 at 7:45 AM
https://twitter.com/China_BOC/status/1075716708185399296
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December 20, 2018 at 12:11 PM
I cant see any NRI there all r local Chinese fans.
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December 20, 2018 at 12:13 PM
These are fake people. Aamir has ordered Chinese food and by mistake got Chinese people following him around like entourage. 😀
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December 20, 2018 at 7:53 AM
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December 20, 2018 at 8:34 AM
Banks likely to be closed from December 21-26. Here is why
Bank Holidays in December 2018: Apart from December 24, banks will remain closed from December 21 to 26.
By Express Web Desk |New Delhi |
Updated: December 20, 2018 2:44:08 pm
Bank Holidays in December 2018: All banks will remain closed for five days this week.
Calls for a strike by bank employee unions, coupled with public holidays, are likely to cripple financial transactions across the country between December 21 to 26. Apart from December 24, banking services are likely to be affected on December 21 and 26 as the United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU) and All India Bank Officers Confederation (AIBOC) have threatened to go on strike to protest against the merger of three PSBs, respectively.
The banks will remain closed on December 22 and 23 on account of fourth Saturday and Sunday respectively and on December 25 in view of Christmas, a national holiday.
Citing the reasons behind the strike, AIBOC Assistant General Secretary Sajay Das said, “We called the strike on December 21 demanding full and unconditional mandate for the XIth bipartite wage revision talks based on a charter of demands submitted in May 2017. No headway has been made in the process so far even after 19 months since the discussion on wage revision began.”
Around 3.2 lakh officers are expected to participate in the strike.
https://indianexpress.com/article/india/bank-strike-five-days-december-dates-5501913/
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December 20, 2018 at 8:40 AM
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December 20, 2018 at 8:44 AM
https://www.ndtv.com/entertainment/why-no-women-in-this-room-dia-mirza-to-akshay-kumar-on-film-delegations-meeting-with-pm-modi-1965642
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December 20, 2018 at 8:45 AM
Marcus and Z stop your verbals. I’m going to delete a lot of comments into trash now, Satyam/munna can then decide if they are allowed back after.
That’s 30+ comments of nonsense. God help you munna and Satyam! Get rid of me if I did something wrong.
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December 20, 2018 at 8:57 AM
Good call.
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December 20, 2018 at 12:53 PM
I do look but there is not enough time to look at each and every comment.
So if there is offending comments then I expect commentators to tag me, I typically do my screen name search.
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December 20, 2018 at 2:17 PM
How does one tag?
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December 20, 2018 at 2:20 PM
Just write @munna or just munna asking him to look at it.
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December 20, 2018 at 8:46 AM
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December 20, 2018 at 9:11 AM
Wow that is a beautiful poster…
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December 20, 2018 at 8:49 AM
MODs and others, once again, I sincerely apologize for the above comments.
Please feel free to delete any and all of my comments.
Thanks.
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December 20, 2018 at 8:54 AM
End it, both of you.
Guys – Satyam set this blog up nearly a decade ago. In my memory he hasn’t been away sporadically like this ever since 05. I don’t know why but he is busy. Do some introspection and just stop spamming verbals. I will delete every silly comment I see and leave it to munna and or Satyam to decide whether the comments come back or not. I am not a moderator but I’m not sitting by and watching this when people I know who have busted their spare time for this blog are being treated like this.
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December 20, 2018 at 9:33 AM
Some Youtube stats: (draw your own conclusions)
Zero Trailer — 109 million views
Simmba Trailer — 49 million views
Mere Naam Tu (Zero) — 38 million views
Issaqbaazi (Zero) — 34 million views
Husn Parcham (Zero) — 29 million views
Aankh Maare (Simmba) — 121 million views
Tere Bin (Simmba) — 24 million views
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December 20, 2018 at 9:41 AM
Aankh Maare is perhaps genuinely popular at this stage. If this is indeed true, then Simmba may get 20+ cr opening on 28th, not far behind Zero’s opening by actual collections (ignoring pr numbers). Shetty has his own market.
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December 20, 2018 at 10:05 AM
Simba is the most un-original piece of Pure LAZY Filmmaking. It’s seriously Time for Rohit Shetty to put in some hard work in his works.
A Southern remake which appears to have a mediocre, done-to-death storyline with two song promos, both of which are, AGAIN, remade!
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December 20, 2018 at 10:10 AM
Can’t disagree with you on Shetty. Never liked his films at all.
But will say this — the Aankh Maare remake is better than the original. It’s not really surprising because the original wasn’t exactly a classic to begin with. Neither was the original shot in an imaginative fashion.
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December 20, 2018 at 10:17 AM
I have a soft spot for Shetty films, they’re good time pass films.
Thou agree with what you’ve said.
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December 20, 2018 at 11:33 AM
“Aankh Maare (Simmba) — 121 million views”
Just an FYI: Aankh Maare is a dance number and many places play such songs in a loop. The numbers will be eventually crazy. You just cannot compare that to regular songs like Mere Naam Tu or Tere Bin from Simmba itself.
Imagine Swag se swagat craze? Its trending over 667 million now. Even Befikre songs were craze – Nashe se chad gayi is almost 500 million! All such dance numbers will always be huge and it needs to be compared to Apples to apples. Nashe se chad gayi did over 250 million before release I think.
This is just FYI, take it how you want.
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December 20, 2018 at 11:37 AM
Agree but then everything can be played on loop right?
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December 20, 2018 at 11:39 AM
Clubs and happening places play dance numbers not slow songs. Any dance number will always be more popular than a slower songs.
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December 20, 2018 at 11:42 AM
More popular can also mean there is at least some interest in the film.
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December 20, 2018 at 11:42 AM
I have already agreed Master. But the question I ask is doesn’t it mean everything can be played on loop? Simple yes or no suffices.
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December 20, 2018 at 11:40 AM
Kaala Chashma from Baar Baar Dekho has close to 500 million views as well.
But, it’s not all irrelevant. Sonu Ke Tittu Ki Sweety has 100s of millions of views for its songs. That film went on to do quite well.
That’s precisely what I meant when I posted the stats — draw your own conclusions. These stats may or may not mean anything.
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December 20, 2018 at 11:54 AM
These are pretty irrelevant overall. If views can be manipulated they don’t mean much. All these things; views, IMDB ratings etc should be looked at together to get an overall impression. The reality is any production house looking at YouTube views should change profession and count sheep, go to sleep.
IMDB ratings – such a farce. My father won’t know IMDB, his rating is excluded. It’s a passionate lover of films vote and filtered by ones who can first access internet, then know how to use it, then care enough to log on etc. It’s age demographic ruins it. Nonsense stuff.
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December 20, 2018 at 12:22 PM
Its not all horsehit. Its data thats difficult to interpret. Identifying the fake ones is the problem.
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December 20, 2018 at 12:23 PM
I said use as overall impression. In isolation it’s very difficult to use at face value.
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December 20, 2018 at 12:37 PM
Of course, and you will also have to prioritize depending on the context within ur domain. As you said, one cant give equal value to ratings of Bachchan’s older films in imdb as one can for Aamir films due to the demographic that frequents a platform like imdb. Even for Aamir his nineties stuff may be under-represented there.
Appropriate data engineering is a lucrative business because of this chaos only.
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December 20, 2018 at 9:36 AM
Everyone should enjoy holidays with family and friends. Films come and films go. Arguments are like waves. They never end. Just make one’s point with one or two comments and end it and move on.
Certain things are not in our hands. But arguments are in our hands.
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December 20, 2018 at 9:57 AM
It is one thing to write essays/comments on box-office or films. Another thing to comment only so as to pick up fights. As I was telling Bob earlier today, say something on Zero as a film or comment about the teasers, posters or songs instead of giving gyaan on trivial stuff like positivity or negativity.
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December 20, 2018 at 9:37 AM
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December 20, 2018 at 9:49 AM
Some details and predictions on KGF here:
https://www.1films.in/2018/12/kgf-box-office-collection-prediction.html
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December 20, 2018 at 9:51 AM
KGF is tracking 15 cr gross from Karnataka on day one. BB2 was 18-19 cr for ref.
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December 20, 2018 at 9:52 AM
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December 20, 2018 at 10:04 AM
There is a release problem for KGF in Karnataka…High court has held up its release not in entirety but in some way , i haven’t read whats the issue…
Zero also is having an issue in Central India and Bihar and exhibitors have no clue which movie they are going to show tomorrow morning. Anil Thadani is flexing his muscle and showing SRK who is the king in distribution
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December 20, 2018 at 10:22 AM
It’s amazing that even releasing movies could have issues like these.
You would think all the issues are taken care off weeks before the actual release date.
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December 20, 2018 at 9:41 AM
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December 20, 2018 at 9:53 AM
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/exclusive-katrina-kaifs-love-story-with-ranbir-kapoor-to-be-depicted-in-zero/articleshow/67180578.cms
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December 20, 2018 at 9:58 AM
Destroyer Review
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December 20, 2018 at 10:01 AM
No kid-ding that Kid-man is looking like one of our esteemed superstars in this pic?
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December 20, 2018 at 12:22 PM
LOL.
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December 20, 2018 at 10:02 AM
Nicole Kidman was my favourite actress for a long time. I haven’t seen a film of hers for ages. Maybe I check this out.
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December 20, 2018 at 10:06 AM
Same here. Its currently doing 79%@RT with avg rating of 7/10.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/destroyer
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December 20, 2018 at 10:49 AM
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December 20, 2018 at 11:11 AM
Warner Bros. and DC Films’ Aquaman has been making waves at the box office for the last two weeks prior to it finally opening in the U.S., having crossed the $300 million mark already. The film is expected to ride that wave to box office success once again with a forecast of around $82 – 85 million in its first three days before Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. The film is expected to perform quite well thanks to mostly positive reviews from critics.
As for Paramount Pictures’ Transformers spinoff Bumblebee, that film is expected to debut with around $22 million in its first three days. Heavy competition from Aquaman, Mary Poppins Returns and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse may play a factor in its overall totals this weekend, but the film has received great word of mouth from critics and is the Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, so it is expected to have massive legs in the weeks to come.
https://heroichollywood.com/aquaman-bumblebee-box-office-forecast/
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December 20, 2018 at 11:18 AM
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December 20, 2018 at 1:11 PM
Padman ended week one in china with 8m. Wud be interesting to see how much it can add from here considering both Spider-Verse and Aquaman are projected to have big weekends.
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December 20, 2018 at 11:46 AM
Frankly they shud release the 2 hr chinese cut titled as ‘Firangi’. Whether it works or flops, Aamir is having a ball promoting it in mainland.
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December 20, 2018 at 12:04 PM
Quick review of Zero
https://www.timesnownews.com/entertainment/news/bollywood-news/article/zero-quick-movie-review-the-shah-rukh-khan-anushka-sharma-katrina-kaif-film-is-promising/334123
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December 20, 2018 at 12:10 PM
Just half a review. I read media is watching right now!
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December 20, 2018 at 12:15 PM
yes i also heard this. by 12 am review should pour in…
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December 20, 2018 at 12:19 PM
A funny thing happened on NG. A night before I posted a fake review of Rab Ne Bana De Jodi, with a fake link from Bollywoodhungama, pretended review was written by Taran Adarsh. Next morning the blog owner got a call from the site and said the review is fake, take it down.
So Taran became Toron. And my review imitating TA was famous!
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December 20, 2018 at 12:24 PM
LOL @Toron … shud have replaced the ‘T’ with ‘M’ if you were a perfectionist!
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December 20, 2018 at 12:24 PM
Lol….Amazing the number of fake reviews out there…SRK had to tweet that the fake reviews are too positive…Funny tweet….
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December 20, 2018 at 12:26 PM
There are as many fake bad as good. One from the North Korean PM is out there! LOL! SRK fans can claim celebrity status in North Korea!
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December 20, 2018 at 12:31 PM
This is how SRK fans work.
Oh my god negative fake reviews from India critic Rajeev Masand.
I must counter this with North Korea PM.
Cos that will seem more “real’.
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December 20, 2018 at 12:28 PM
So China for Aamir & N. Korea for Srk? Makes sense i guess …
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December 20, 2018 at 12:28 PM
Haha yes i also saw one from yogi adityanath where he mentioned he saw it with Modi 🙂
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December 20, 2018 at 1:56 PM
After Krish said, went and read the tweet! Its funny!
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December 20, 2018 at 12:13 PM
interestingly, aamir will still rule Xmas period – this time in China!
I bet, it will post huge nos. in first 3 days…..no doubt about it considering his popularity.
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December 20, 2018 at 12:39 PM
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm?sort=adjustedgross&order=ASC&adjust_yr=1&p=.htm
Interesting read. While the biggies in India, a land of over 1.3 billion hardly generate 30-40 million theatrical footfalls, the biggest Hollywood grossers sell over 50 million tickets regularly in the domestic market despite being 1/3rd the population.
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December 20, 2018 at 12:51 PM
Sholay sold 50 million tickets more than four decades ago! That too when the population was less than half of what it is now.
The problem lies in the current pricing. A huge section of the audience is simply priced out of the market.
But there is another issue — films are no longer universally loved. In a masala universe, there’s something for everyone, and hence the possibility of attracting a diverse demographic. Since this genre is no longer popular (chiefly because there are no directors who are able to pull it off organically), we are left with good trending genre films. And they seem to have a ceiling on the number of people flocking to watch ’em.
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December 20, 2018 at 12:58 PM
Both are v relevant factors. Indian diaspora is perhaps more diverse in nature too, so we end up hating one genre and loving another. Maybe states and china markets are more balanced in that aspect.
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December 20, 2018 at 1:27 PM
I can’t seem to find the link right now but recall Ravish Kumar recounting that dubbed South Indian masala films are more popular in Bihar than anything else.
Stars like Allu Arjun, Nagarjuna etc are more popular in the heartland compared to Aamir, SRK or Salman.
People, in effect, settle for second-grade masala cinema at the cost of multiplex hits.
It’s not very surprising. We have different tastes in different parts of the country. And our multiplex hits are barely covering the different strata or our society. Pretty much in line with the different societal concerns in the metros vis-a-vis the small cities.
In the metros, traffic and air pollution is a major concern. In small cities and villages, adequate rainfall is perhaps the biggest reason for people to worry.
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December 20, 2018 at 1:43 PM
Hindi film makers seem to have forgotten the art of making universally appealing entertainers which can cater to an audience as diverse as the one’s in B/C centers to the urban multiplexes. Its a formula that SS Rajamouli got perfect in the 2 BB blockbusters. Even the biggest Hindi hits like Dangal and Bajrangi are not exactly universal mass entertainers in the Sholay or Bahubali domain. The Allu Arjun/nagarjuna being more popular than Aamir and Salman in the Hindi heartland is an exaggeration though. TV viewership is not a yardstick to measure mass popularity. Dubbed telugu films make inroads in Bihar and UP alone because that brand of cinema is missing in Bollywood nowadays. If an Aamir or Salman get a truly universal blockbuster franchise like Bahubali, the collections in the Hindi market would go over the roof for sure. Perhaps even higher than BB2 in a franchise scenario.
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December 20, 2018 at 1:20 PM
So…Advance for Zero is just OK. Expected. Neutral viewers are indffrent to SRK film since long. Best case scenario for Zero if it touches 30 cr. If film is good then no problem with 30 cr opening because it can compansate later with christmas holiday and in general new year holiday mood.
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December 20, 2018 at 1:24 PM
Some of the fake reviews are hilarious.
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December 20, 2018 at 1:28 PM
Lol
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December 20, 2018 at 1:26 PM
https://twitter.com/SumitkadeI/status/1075802832350064642?s=20
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December 20, 2018 at 1:30 PM
https://www.koimoi.com/reviews/zero-movie-review-quicker-the-most-brave-hilarious-attempt-by-shah-rukh-khan/
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December 20, 2018 at 1:31 PM
SRK has a winner!
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December 20, 2018 at 2:33 PM
Or may be not.
#Zero handsomely overtakes Thugs of Hindostan in being the biggest let down of 2018. There is not a chance one can empathize with this colossal drag.
One star! https://t.co/MvfadqfJvZ
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December 20, 2018 at 2:39 PM
Problem is the anti mob and SRK fans have created a spiders web of truth and fiction. What’s genuine? I’d think our Kadels and Jaiswals plus koimoi reviewer who is from a Facebook blog will at least not be way off the mark.
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December 20, 2018 at 2:43 PM
I don’t know this person but he put out his tweet before the show ended. I don’t know if he was invited to the special show. I don’t think anyone will be tweeting from the special show.
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December 20, 2018 at 1:35 PM
https://twitter.com/rohitjswl01/status/1075810257681743872?s=20
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December 20, 2018 at 2:44 PM
Show has ended now. Will put just 1 tweet to indicate the same.
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December 20, 2018 at 3:08 PM
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December 20, 2018 at 2:45 PM
Advance bookings of Zero compared with Race 3
Zero
Delhi NCR 24.0% (1085 Sh)
Mumbai 17.4% (1060 Sh)
Pune 15.4% (0436 Sh)
Bengaluru 41.6% (0212 Sh)
Hyderabad 56.5% (0256 Sh)
Kolkata 33.2% (0293 Sh)
Ahmedabad 14.6% (0347 Sh)
Race 3
Delhi NCR 29.3% (1150 Sh)
Mumbai 23.3% (1260 Sh)
Pune 20.8% (0503 Sh)
Bengaluru 21.1% (0428 Sh)
Hyderabad 49.6% (0346 Sh)
Kolkata 26.0% (0281 Sh)
Ahmedabad 23.6% (0406 Sh)
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December 20, 2018 at 2:45 PM
Thursday Night @ 9 PM for both
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December 20, 2018 at 2:47 PM
Only Kolkata is better for Zero, so far.
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December 20, 2018 at 2:55 PM
The show count makes it a bigger difference.
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December 20, 2018 at 2:58 PM
yep, and the likes of Jaiswals were calling it a humongous advance!
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December 20, 2018 at 3:16 PM
I think Zero is falling prey to the poor 2nd half trope that all SRK films of recent times have been affected by. At least thats the impression I’m getting on twitter. Needless to say, Aamir/Salma fanboys are literally peeing their pants at any hint of negativity, quite entertaining!
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December 20, 2018 at 3:17 PM
Shah Rukh Khan, Katrina’s performances lift Aanand L Rai’s film from average to ambitious.
Zero falls prey to the second-half curse. It’s also a very long film, that tests your loyalty to its protagonist.
https://www.firstpost.com/entertainment/zero-movie-review-shah-rukh-khan-anushka-sharma-katrina-kaif-performances-lift-aanand-l-rais-film-from-average-to-ambitious-5766111.html
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December 20, 2018 at 3:26 PM
2 stars
The first half of the film is fun, entertaining, fairly well-written and on occasion also relatable.
However, in the second half of the film, he tries to tackle the fantastical and everything goes to s**t!
ttps://www.timesnownews.com/entertainment/reviews/movies/article/zero-movie-review-shah-rukh-khan-anushka-sharma-and-katrina-kaif-starrer-is-a-reflection-of-its-title/334153
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December 20, 2018 at 3:59 PM
This review is how I felt about TOH. First half could be classed as promising but 2nd half ruined experience.
But on the whole it seems like reviews aren’t as embarrassing as TOH. So it’s got a chance, the worry is Simbaa if these initial views hurt WOM, then it will be very tough. The initial doesn’t seem huge, TOH had that at least.
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December 20, 2018 at 3:28 PM
Looks like another semi hit for SRK. 2nd half slow and fails. That seems to be the reason as the critics who were overjoyed by first half didn’t came back to give full review soon.
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December 20, 2018 at 3:36 PM
Not sure if any of the reviews are authentic for now except the one Jay put from KoiMoi and they’re usually on mark.
But here’s another…
‘Zero’ Movie Review: An extraordinary experiment that entertains and excites
https://www.bollywoodbubble.com/movie-reviews/zero-movie-review-an-extraordinary-experiment-that-entertains-and-excites/
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December 20, 2018 at 3:36 PM
3/5
The first half is a treat to watch while the second half is too long and stretched.
https://www.pinkvilla.com/entertainment/reviews/zero-movie-review-shah-rukh-khan-anushka-sharma-and-katrina-kaif-make-zero-hero-434982?amp
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December 20, 2018 at 3:53 PM
aaah..wonder why nobody tells the director about second half flaws before the final edit..
anyways, reviews (on twitter too, more of the critical ones are getting posted here) look promising!
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December 20, 2018 at 4:00 PM
At minimum, this doesn’t look like it’ll be crappy like Race3 or TOH.
“wonder why nobody tells the director about second half flaws before the final edit”
Agree 100%, have an outsider watch the film to get their take on it. Heck, have even KRK watch it and get his inputs. Guy is a jerk an really nobody but he does seem to what movie will work and what won’t.
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December 20, 2018 at 4:06 PM
Those were certified crapfests. But here SRK needs something. Salman and Aamir flopping rarely happens. Zero with what you’ve said had decent to good trailers plus music is a winner. Reviews are better but that is offset by weaker initial (probably) and a worse position, throw in Simbaa and the cocktail of a potential loser is possible. It always was but I thought Rai’s confidence would work here. He seemed bullish, but I’m not writing it off on 3-4 reviews. Not a promising start IMO.
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December 20, 2018 at 4:14 PM
You were expecting 4 or 5 stars from everyone?
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December 20, 2018 at 4:16 PM
I expected at least what Rai has dished out to date. Nothing spectacular but something that doesn’t fall apart. Like Chennai Express at least. I’m fed up of big films failing via one half being good and second bad. This is basic stuff. I can say the same of PK but at least the narrative and style is in sync. It’s not like Hirani goes drunk.
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December 20, 2018 at 4:21 PM
If PK had a poor second half, it would not have trended like it did. And since poor is a subjective argument, let’s just say that for the paying public, PK did NOT have a poor second half.
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December 20, 2018 at 4:24 PM
Let me correct myself. PK is like a 4 on 5 first half and 3 on 5 second half. It’s good enough.
With others it’s like a 2 on 5 first half and for me a 1 on 5 second half for TOH. If second half is 2or 3 on 5 for TOH it’s acceptable.
PK is weaker in 2nd half but a weak Hirani film is still better than most!
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December 20, 2018 at 4:34 PM
I don’t want to open up on PK here. I’m simply saying a film like that I prefer both halves to practically any big film since barring Dangal or Bajrangi Bhaijaan. But it having a weaker second half IMO doesn’t hurt it as it’s first half is so good.
Football wise, if Spain knock in 4-0 at half-time and second half they lose 1-0, 4-1 against Brazil say is very good. But if Spain knock in 2-0 in first half and only 1-0 in second half against San Marino it’s disappointing as everyone scores 6’s and 7’s against San Marino!
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December 20, 2018 at 4:22 PM
I love football but it’s bizarre when a team plays well for 45mins and then capitulates for no regular reason just 15mins later. These directors should be seasoned enough to start, middle and finish a story is all I am saying.
I hated TOH for this. And Rai from his TWM and TWMR didn’t do this there.
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December 20, 2018 at 4:08 PM
The issue arises when it comes to evaluate one’s own movie than ‘others’ as it’s very difficult to be objective while judging your own work. If KRK were such a great ‘judge’, shouldn’t he be making movies than ‘tearing them apart’ based on his whims and fancies??
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December 20, 2018 at 4:13 PM
I guess true, but I’m thinking there should set of people (professionals) who watches the film first cut and then provide suggestion.
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December 20, 2018 at 4:14 PM
Krk is an idiot. I can’t recall the last film he liked. He trashes so many films, opposite of Taran.
But I agree with vijjie and Z, basic feedback should be a norm. These directors are a bit too precious IMO. Getting feedback is only good IMO. Listening, changing a bit is good.
This is where I love the Joshi/Hirani way of working. It’s trusted collaboration, I’m sure it’s conflicting at times but overall it seems to work.
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December 20, 2018 at 4:49 PM
How do we know that they don’t show it to the people who matter to them?? As film-making is such a subjective thing where it’s very hard to create a piece of art which is universally entertaining but meaningful as well as most of the times it’s either the former or the latter but seldom an amalgamation of both!!
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December 20, 2018 at 4:52 PM
I agree that in it’s purest sense it’s art. But with the sums of money involved vetting it, refining it to a wider audience is some logical thing to do IMO. Otherwise make the film you want with no outside interference without baggage and cost hanging over your head.
It’s worrying that the small to medium films have worked but when a director gets a big budget, big star everything goes to pot! I’d expect progression not regression!
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December 20, 2018 at 4:59 PM
It’s worrying that the small to medium films have worked but when a director gets a big budget, big star everything goes to pot! I’d expect progression not regression!
When a big star enters a project, unfortunately the first casualty is the script. An organic script that suits a distinctive milieu is altered to give the star his due importance. Signature moments of the star are forcefully thrust in, the vision gets distorted to appease the star’s fan-base etc. A lot of compromises are made to make the star fit in rather than the other way round.
If Anand L Rai has never made a film that lasted more than 2 hours, then why exactly is Zero clocking 2:45?
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December 20, 2018 at 5:04 PM
True I get it. But is this not a directors ultimate medium? Do Bollywood have strong headed directors who work on convinction rather than stardom? When a star reaches a certain status does it create such a massive problem? I’m truly baffled by how many big films fail.
The only guys who seem to be able to handle this are Hirani and Bhansali.
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December 20, 2018 at 4:58 PM
I’m going to stew on this comment more and think of a response. Right now I speak more like a business man than an artist. But with great power comes great responsibility as Spiderman was told!
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December 20, 2018 at 4:10 PM
sure, many wud have watched it..or they didnt want to tell the director to cut a few scenes here and there..or the director himself didnt want to delete any. maybe he is in love with his every frame..
just that it feels so easy it wud have been to fix, when everybody goes on a chorus, how the second half cud hav been crisper! such a shame!
khair, as naseerudheen shah today said, ‘the genie is out of the bag’. so letsee what happens tomorrow. Maybe more flaws will come out!
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December 20, 2018 at 8:51 PM
**At minimum, this doesn’t look like it’ll be crappy like Race3 or TOH.**
Have you watched any of these 2? Or both? If yes, then fine, else, would be cautious using such adjectives.
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December 20, 2018 at 4:11 PM
Public Reviews, seems genuine, not like 0 stars or 5 stars…
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December 20, 2018 at 4:31 PM
At this point of time SRK needed universally acclaimed movie both from critics and audience (specially from audience). These mixed reviews won’t help. Tomorrow could be further harsh reviews when big critics review it. Rona dhona and emotional drama in 2nd half is trademark SRK drag. I think after this Ranbir and Ranveer have moved ahead of SRK overall and stand next to Aamir and Salman. Even Akki may be now ahead of SRK
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December 20, 2018 at 4:41 PM
He needed it. But this is 3 hours. Let’s see some more reviews or feedback from here. It still sounds more stable than TOH. But that might not mean anything at box office.
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December 20, 2018 at 4:32 PM
We’ll get to know opening day numbers tomorrow.
But a mixed WoM film rules out a > (8 x opening day) final figure.
There is a holiday on the 25th but by that time the WoM would be fully out.
For WoM, the best trackers are the numbers from Bangalore and Pune. If it’s bad, these cities tend to drop very quickly. If these cities don’t drop, then the film can be stable or even see an upswing.
This is precisely what happened with 2.0 recently. And even after a positive WoM, 2.0 is ending its run at 9x its opening day number.
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December 20, 2018 at 4:41 PM
1 star
Shah Rukh Khan’s Zero Is The Most Impossibly Ridiculous Film Of The Year
https://m.desimartini.com/news/amp/reviews/shah-rukh-khans-zero-most-impossibly-ridiculous-film-year-article100203.htm?__twitter_impression=true
Didn’t expected ALR to make such poor movie.
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December 20, 2018 at 4:47 PM
Scathing, worrying. Hollywood big films tend not to be so bad, wtf do Bollywood do with films like D3, TOH etc. I’ll spare Zero till we get more reviews but I think these guys are like stupid with lots of money or what!
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December 20, 2018 at 4:57 PM
D3 is still the biggest grosser in UK, Jay!! D3 is not comparable to TOH in any which way as the former was not only an all time grosser at the time of its release but was liked by a fair bit of paying audience as it couldn’t have made 275 if it were so bad.
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December 20, 2018 at 5:00 PM
Ok fair enough. ‘I’ think it was trash but paying public liked it. I can’t asterisk every comment like this! 😀
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December 20, 2018 at 5:05 PM
We are not talking about our personal choices but movies acceptance at the mass level as I found Talaash to be better than 3 Idiots, but the paying public didn’t think so!!
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December 20, 2018 at 5:12 PM
This is a box office answer. D3 is a bigger brand, glitzy, glamourous etc relative to a Talaash that is genre handicapped, dark and mysterious. It’s like saying why does a Badhaai Ho make more than Andhadhun.
This is not apples to apples. Talaash is just as accepted as D3. The scales, productions and expectations are different. No one would compare how a Titanic does with a Departed.
Talaash for it’s genre did good business. D3 too. But the latter if little better could do even better. A Talaash kind of film has a ceiling to some extent.
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December 20, 2018 at 5:30 PM
We are going in circles as D3 did achieve what was expected from it as nobody expected it to be a classic as Dhoom universe is more about style than class which it delivered. It didn’t flounder on the entertainment quotient as was expected from it. I quoted Talaash just to put an analogy to your reply.
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December 20, 2018 at 5:39 PM
My only response to D3 is a non box office one. As villain, cop films go it could have been way better. Any number of reviews would say the same.
And my box office answer is simple. It could have been a 300Cr film just like D2 could have been a 100Cr film.
I get the mass belts on the main must have got their monies worth otherwise the film would have trended badly. But basically even if you look at numbers of D3 it’s historic upto 10 days. It’s what I call a 2-3 week film. TZH for whatever reason (haven’t seen it) was stable for much longer.
Else I concede whatever point you are making as it’s bedtime for me.
D3 did what was expected but I say it could have done more. Even I prefer Dhoom and D2. That’s the gap basically. The gap is VKA!
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December 20, 2018 at 5:56 PM
Let’s agree to disagree Jay but amicably as we aren’t going to meet on this one anywhere as we’ll keep going parallel!! 😊😊
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December 20, 2018 at 5:59 PM
Another day, another time. I’m sure we kind of agree lol. But anyway, Zero thread it is. It’s SRK fans’ time to shine 😀
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December 20, 2018 at 5:19 PM
i think ALR got carried away with so-called-SRK-magic of yore and just like shetty ended up with Dilwaale….he may end up with a disaster….
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December 20, 2018 at 5:25 PM
Anyway from tomorrow I’m interested in Kadel only. Hopefully Saket’s numbers and RCE, BOI etc will help me figure out the genuinety of Mr Kadel. Guys a jerk IMO. I’m gunning for you! Watch out!
But I’m open minded too.
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December 20, 2018 at 6:10 PM
Lies exposed:
https://twitter.com/kamaalrkhan/status/1075589224513134592
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December 20, 2018 at 6:11 PM
Another one:
https://twitter.com/rohitjswl01/status/1075789159804096513
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December 20, 2018 at 6:13 PM
Mr. Kadel aka Jay’s best friend:
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December 20, 2018 at 6:14 PM
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December 20, 2018 at 6:18 PM
And this, is the reality:
Advance bookings of Zero compared with Race 3
Zero
Delhi NCR 24.0% (1085 Sh)
Mumbai 17.4% (1060 Sh)
Pune 15.4% (0436 Sh)
Bengaluru 41.6% (0212 Sh)
Hyderabad 56.5% (0256 Sh)
Kolkata 33.2% (0293 Sh)
Ahmedabad 14.6% (0347 Sh)
Race 3
Delhi NCR 29.3% (1150 Sh)
Mumbai 23.3% (1260 Sh)
Pune 20.8% (0503 Sh)
Bengaluru 21.1% (0428 Sh)
Hyderabad 49.6% (0346 Sh)
Kolkata 26.0% (0281 Sh)
Ahmedabad 23.6% (0406 Sh)
@ 9 PM on Thursday, for both films.
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December 20, 2018 at 6:29 PM
Reviews look poor, I think Rajeev and Anupama will give this a 3/5, with their last line being “an extra star for SRK” which just means that the film is very average. Opening day seems to be <30, WOM will kick in on Wednesday, and it should have 20+ days on Saturday, Sunday, and Tuesday. Lifetime <150, flop.
Watching this tomorrow, but these initial reviews are making me go into the theater like I did TOH and JHMS. Hopefully its more like TOH bc that didn't make me yell at the screen unlike JHMS.
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December 20, 2018 at 6:39 PM
SRK will never get a big grosser ever if this fails damn how times have changed I know srk was down for few years but cracks can be seen in Salman to a lesser extent Aamir, looks like Ranveer, Ranbir will take over
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December 20, 2018 at 7:44 PM
I can already see the Space movie failing – unknown director with SRK, its like Raees all over again!
I heard rumors he might team up with Sriram Raghavan. That’s a good start I think. Start with a solid 100 crore grosser and woo the Multiplex audience again. Unless Raghavan also messes up and puts a SRK romantic track into a serial killer movie…
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December 20, 2018 at 7:54 PM
Lol who knows the man just needs to make a good content movie
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December 20, 2018 at 6:35 PM
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December 20, 2018 at 6:35 PM
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December 20, 2018 at 6:38 PM
Another review.. Some what Positive
https://www.huffingtonpost.in/entry/zero-movie-review-shah-rukh-khan-powers-this-ambitious-drama-with-a-terrific-performance_in_5c1bf672e4b08aaf7a8685ab
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December 20, 2018 at 6:47 PM
I like how this review is written. Nicely written.
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December 20, 2018 at 6:43 PM
Zero movie review: Shah Rukh Khan, Katrina’s impressive performances lift Aanand L Rai’s film from average to ambitious
Charm and Shah Rukh Khan go hand in hand. Even the staunchest of his critics cannot deny he has a unique way of making people smile. In Zero, you will find it hard to stop smiling at SRK’s Bauua Singh. This is partly due to his effortless performance, and partly due to Hemanshu Sharma’s witty screenplay.
The story starts in Meerut, Bauua’s home town. Where he lacks in physical form, Bauua makes up for with affability and ambition. He’s the city’s sweetheart, but has a huge crush on Bollywood actress Babita Kumari (Katrina). He meets Aafia Bhinder (Anushka Sharma) — a differently abled scientist — through a matrimonial portal and slowly, they fall in love. Anushka gives an impassioned performance as Aafia, and kudos to her for picking offbeat roles time and again.
Zero is an extremely self-aware film (to the point of being hilarious), at least in the first half, which goes by swimmingly with jokes and heart-warming moments. Bauua’s ambition, though, takes him from Meerut to Mumbai, from Aafia to Babita Kumari. In Mumbai, he is introduced to the world of glitz, glamour and heartbreak. The references in this section of Zero are smart and engaging. Credit for this goes to Katrina’s whole-hearted performance as an emotionally unstable but ballsy actress. She’s sassy, seductive and gives no f*cks, and yet is vulnerable. It’s refreshing to see Katrina play a character that isn’t an NRI or some other excuse to explain her choppy Hindi. But she rises above her stereotype. Katrina pulls off complex scenes with ease and almost makes you forget you’re watching someone who has been criticised for her acting skills through her career. This is a side to Katrina that I love. More of this, please.
Bauua’s ambitious journey eventually takes him from a small town to the stars. Literally. And in more ways than one. But what goes up always comes down. And despite its inherently pleasing quality, spot on performances (special shout out to Tigmanshu Dhulia and Zeeshan Aayub), cameos by several celebrities and chucklesome one-liners, Zero falls prey to the second-half curse.
The less I say about the second half, the better, for no words can express the surreal feeling I felt while I watched it. The plot takes many cinematic leaps and liberties, and at some point you are bound to lose track. It’s also a very long film, that tests your loyalty to its protagonist.
While the VFX in Zero is not seamless, the effort is visible and one must laud Aanand L Rai, Red Chillies and the man himself, Shah Rukh Khan, for executing an ambitious project like Zero. You may or may not like the film, but you will most certainly fall in love with Bauua Singh.
This is a first impression review of Zero. Our critic Anna MM Vetticad’s movie review will be published soon. Stay tuned. Meanwhile, watch the trailer here:
https://www.firstpost.com/entertainment/zero-movie-review-shah-rukh-khan-katrinas-impressive-performances-lift-aanand-l-rais-film-from-average-to-ambitious-5766111.html
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December 20, 2018 at 6:49 PM
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December 20, 2018 at 6:45 PM
Initial reviews are good. looks like a 3.5/5 movie overall.
Stop judging and go to the theatre and watch Zero.
Probably the best SRK movie since CDI.
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December 20, 2018 at 6:47 PM
Many are assuming a slow paced second half is bad.
In a romantic movie, second half is slow means family is going to love it. To watch a fast paced second half, go for a porn movie or an action flick.
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December 20, 2018 at 7:06 PM
Not really. SRK films tend to go melodramatic in second half, not slowdown. KJo syndrome, IMO. Something has to happen like some greek tragedy. Either he’s dying, someone else is, someone is finding him, he’s finding someone, brothers lost, sisters lost, mum finds him, dad loves him again or he’s trying to fool his future in laws into getting his girl. Whatever it is it embodies the SRK goodboy act whereas the neutral just wants him to clock his girlfriend off the top of the building or just be some kick ass bad guy from 93, or do something like Swades, strip him bear of every mannerisms possible and see where it goes.
Instead every director wants to reboot DDLJ in some sick and twisted way.
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December 20, 2018 at 8:03 PM
I think JHMS and Dilwale’s poor BO and response shows that even fans aren’t interested in seeing the same old 1998 SRK! If he and other directors can’t figure that out, then no one can help them.The only time it has worked is with Chennai Express.
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December 20, 2018 at 11:02 PM
‘judgemental’ is the wordfor this..as in english vinglish!
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December 20, 2018 at 6:47 PM
two sites I like for reviewsale are koimoi and gulfnew, they’re usually spot on. if they give 3 stars or less, movie will fold in less than 125.
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December 20, 2018 at 6:59 PM
Naseeruddin Shah says he fears for his children in India of today
Naseeruddin Shah said he fears his children because they will not have an answer if a mob surrounds them asks them are whether they are Hindu or Muslim
Actor Naseeruddin Shah says that he is worried for children in today’s India. He’s worried because he imagines a situation where his children may be surrounded by an angry mob and asked: “Are you Hindu or Muslim?”
“My children will have no answer,” Naseeruddin Shah says, “Because we chose not to give a religious education to our children.”
Naseeruddin Shah also says that there is a “poison” that has spread in the Indian society. “It will be very difficult to capture this djinn [genie] back into the bottle.”
“There is complete impunity for those who take the law into their own hands,” Naseeruddin says. “We have already witnessed that the death of a cow has more significance [in today’s India] than that of a police officer.”
Naseeruddin was referring to the recent Bulandshahr violence in which a police officer was killed by a mob. The violence was sparked by the discovery of cow carcasses.
The Uttar Pradesh Police has arrested three people in connection with the alleged cow slaughter. The policeman’s killers remain free.
Naseeruddin Shah’s comments were put online by Karwan-e-Mohabbat India (Caravan of Love) a travelling activist collective that is focussed on highlight and combating instances of hate crimes and lynching.
In a short YouTube video put up by Karwan-e-Mohabbat India, Naseeruddin Shah says that he worries for his children.
“I was given a religious education…But Ratna [Pathak Shah, Naseeruddin’s wife] did not get any religious education…[And] we chose not to give a religious education to our children,” Naseeruddin says.
Naseeruddin adds that he believes “good and evil have nothing to do with religion” and so his children were not brought up in a religious environment.
“So I fear for my children…Because if a mob gathers around them and asks them are you a Hindu or Muslim, they will not have any answer…Because they have no religion,” Naseeruddin says, before signing off with: “I am angry and I believe every right thinking man must be angry and must not fear.”
Watch the full video here:
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December 20, 2018 at 7:00 PM
Campaign for 2019 starts for Congress Party.
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December 20, 2018 at 10:48 PM
Naseer channeling his inner Gulfam Hassan here.
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December 20, 2018 at 11:01 PM
Good reference!
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December 20, 2018 at 7:20 PM
https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/movie-review/zero-movie-review-rating-shah-rukh-khan-5503184/
Disastrous review as per Shubhra Gupta. 1.5!!
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December 20, 2018 at 7:21 PM
https://www.firstpost.com/entertainment/zero-movie-review-shah-rukh-khan-katrinas-impressive-performances-lift-aanand-l-rais-film-from-average-to-ambitious-5766111.html
An Above Average 3/5 on First Post. Same on TOI. Seems like another Fan, just with a better initial and a better first week due to X’mas festivities.
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December 20, 2018 at 7:49 PM
Twitter is a VILE HORRIBLE PLACE FOR LOW LIFES. Who in the hell creates a handle for Yash Chopra to give a crap review for Zero. Absolutely disgusting stuff.
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December 20, 2018 at 8:16 PM
True. It is a shame actually. Whoever is doing this is a low life indeed.
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December 20, 2018 at 8:19 PM
And Mahatma Gandhi too. Father of the nation has given *****
Twitter is now a deeper gutter. It will soon exist to find anything good.
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December 20, 2018 at 7:50 PM
I think Bollywood is a disaster in terms of superstars and big budgets. Only SLB can pull off big budgets. Aamir can pull of being a superstar, and Salman can with the right director. But no one can combine the two!
SLB can succeed with a Ranveer Singh because he isn’t a superstar, and no one expects a Ranveer Singh movie to be any particular way. Put SRK in there and you get…Devdas.
In terms of big budget movies, honestly just looking forward to South Indian movies like Saaho, Dhruva, the Chiranjeevi one, Rajamouli’s next
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December 20, 2018 at 7:51 PM
WOW! From the guy who predicted 350+ lol…
Bobby Sidhu
@BobbyS_BO
2m2 minutes ago
Hello everyone,
As per the early critic reviews and public feedback pouring in, it seems that unfortunately, #Zero has turned out to be a weak film… ( see next tweet)
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Bobby Sidhu
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I would like to apologize to everyone for my incorrect box office prediction this time. As things stand now, the film may finish with lifetime collections of 150 crore nett, possibly even lower.
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December 20, 2018 at 8:11 PM
Wow that bad…Twitter response is mixed too..let’s wait for audiences..alr movies are usually dominated by families if they dont take to it then its curtains..
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December 20, 2018 at 8:17 PM
Why someone takes twitter reviews so seriously and to the extent of even predicting life time total when puch review is still to come.
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December 20, 2018 at 8:31 PM
So … trailer was crap with no hint of any story and hamming all around, songs were ok-ish and posters were damn ridiculous. Yet we expected a good film and also srk’s highest grosser. The bubble was waiting to burst and expose all the trolls here and jay’s pals in twitter.
200 cr for recovery before release. After preview show itself the debate has shifted to whether it can match ToH’s 150 cr.
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December 20, 2018 at 8:42 PM
Most sympathetic review written for fans …
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Vision Zero: Even the best drivers make mistakes, and that’s where a robust safety system comes in
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/109457594/vision-zero-even-the-best-drivers-make-mistakes-and-thats-where-a-robust-safety-system-comes-in
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December 20, 2018 at 9:11 PM
Big day has come first shows are about to start let’s see what this day will bring in 5 hours we will know the audience word of mouth this is make or break for srk hope it works for him, it’s sad seeing the actor you grew up watching go downhill
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December 20, 2018 at 9:29 PM
How much did JHMS do?
15 cr on day one.
60 cr total.
ToH total may look gigantic!
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December 20, 2018 at 9:22 PM
End of 2.0’s run. Lets look at the fraud producer totals (Please note that all india business has conveniently beaten Baahubali Beginning’s total!) … These morons need to learn how to manipulate without looking so silly!
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On the next day i.e. 4th Thursday (as 2.0 was released on Thursday), S.Shankar’s directorial managed to collect 0.65 crore and raised its 3 weeks total collection to 187.35 crores. Including all the versions- Hindi, Tamil & Telugu, the film has raked total 421.50 crores nett (585 crores gross) at the domestic box office within 22 days.
From the international market as well, Lyca Productions’ presentation has shown very good performance so far and has done the business of 142 crores gross. With this, the total worldwide gross collection of 2.0 has become 727 crores, which is incredible.
https://boxofficecollection.in/box-office-report/22nd-day-collection-of-2-0-mints-over-187-25-crores-in-3-weeks-from-its-hindi-version-39571
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December 20, 2018 at 9:22 PM
Some ‘trade’ guys are saying 2.0 actual ww gross may be lower than 600 cr!
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December 20, 2018 at 9:25 PM
Happy Holidays!
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December 20, 2018 at 9:28 PM
Padman is struggling for survival @ China today. Check this …
http://english.entgroup.cn/boxoffice/cn/daily/?date=12%20/21%20/2018
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December 20, 2018 at 9:35 PM
Nice poster!
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December 20, 2018 at 9:42 PM
Don’t know how far Zero Goes as far as BO in concerned but my problems with Zero right from the trailer til now is, As Shubhra Gupta written on her Indian Express Review
1- That vertically challenged bit should have been the differentiator. But it’s nothing but window dressing, a hook on which hangs nothing.
2- But all too soon, the film abandons its minimal air of rootedness, and flees towards preposterousness.
I mean don’t go sympethetic on vertically challenged bit but still show him real. Here Bauva singh is doing everything what SRK does in his most of the films.
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December 20, 2018 at 10:01 PM
The last bit in the trailer abt rocket was a hint enuf. But the chimp poster took it to a ridiculous level. This will not end well for anyone involved. Most expensive film for its star, director, production house and vfx team. Will take time for everyone to recover.
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December 20, 2018 at 9:52 PM
TOI review : 3/5
The film’s first half is spent on setting up this unconventional romance. While the ideas are unique and appreciable, the narrative doesn’t connect all the proverbial dots in the arc of the story. The plot of Zero, neither engages you, nor does it offend you.
In second half, It’s here that the graph of the movie and the characters just does not add up. The writing by Himanshu Sharma, has its moments, but it does not translate into the larger-than-life love story that it aspires to be. It swiftly goes hurtling out of orbit and at 2 hours and 25 minutes, the film definitely feels too long drawn.
The good part is that director Aanand L Rai’s characters never let their a physical challenges overpower their spirit and resilience. There’s no rocket science to the fact that Shah Rukh pulls off romantic moments and he does that here with charm and intensity. He is excellent as the short but charismatic Bauua in a story that relies highly on special effects. Katrina Kaif appears in a smaller part, but she totally impresses in the performance of a conflicted Bollywood star, who is also heartbroken. Sadly, while Anushka Sharma’s character had wonderful potential, the mannerisms employed by the actress to portray the handicap, don’t always look consistent or convincing.
The same inconsistency plagues the movie, too. At one point, Zero dazzles with moments of colour and vibrancy, but then it also follows up with dull scenes that fail to launch the drama in the zone that it’s supposed to be in. Some of the comedy moments between SRK and Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub stand out, so does the song Mere Naam Tu with SRK dancing in a storm of colours. While the film has a wealth of references to Bollywood and its stars, these details don’t compensate for a story that starts with a beautiful plot, but takes off on a bizarre ride. At first go, the film makes you light and easy, which is good, but the problem is that it doesn’t really take you on that flight of entertainment, which you set out for.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/movie-reviews/zero/movie-review/67185916.cms
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December 20, 2018 at 9:54 PM
India TV review: 2.5/5
As far as the story was set in the ground, it was an enjoyable ride but it becomes a snooze-fest after Bauua decides to go on space exploration. We love Aanand L Rai’s world and would have warmly accepted more of his imperfect and endearing small-town characters. But this one was not expected from the master of storyteller.
https://www.indiatvnews.com/entertainment/movie-review/bollywood-zero-movie-2018-review-shah-rukh-khan-anushka-sharma-katrina-kaif-starrer-aanand-l-rai-film-rating-and-stars-380
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December 20, 2018 at 9:59 PM
Looks like when the canvas was to become bigger in second half, Anand Rai couldn’t cope with it. His skills are in telling stories about people with complex personalities. No wonder first half is good.
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December 20, 2018 at 10:24 PM
This is increasingly giving me the RNBDJ vibes…you had the simpleton there you have a dwarf here..the leap of faith there was the dance program and here it is some space thingy..that movie was loved by families we need to see this one..the only positive till now is the reviews are not downright terrible and much better than last movies ark movies…no idea of wom as first show is just started..
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December 20, 2018 at 10:14 PM
5 of these featured in my list of 2019, maybe i am chinese.
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December 20, 2018 at 10:17 PM
I dont understand why SRK doesn’t come with a simple story with medium budget. Raees in a way fitted this bill but there also 2nd half went heywire. SRK should work a film like Jolly LLB 2.
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December 20, 2018 at 10:20 PM
Don 2, Raees and Dear Zindagi were decent attempts from him in the last 10 years. But none of these worked that well for him @BO. When a star is facing a downturn, then even decent to average films tend to under-perform and one needs a real good film to recover in all aspects, be it critically or box office wise. Sadly Zero never looked like that film, despite fan rants.
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December 20, 2018 at 11:13 PM
How to define simple as dear Zindagi was low budget and fell into simple category by Shahrukh’s standards, but despite Alia’s presence with Shahrukh, it couldn’t make the desired impact at the box-office. The biggest issue Shahrukh has been facing that neither his strength genre is working for him nor the experimental stuff. His over dependence on his lover boy image is now harming him as he is well past that phase and also the generation which loved him in those roles is replaced by a new generation which has moved on to Ranbir, Ranveer, Tiger, Ayushmann, Rajkumar. With Swades and CDI, he tried but half-heartedly, had he persevered with those kind of roles & films, probably he would have been in a better position than where he is right now fighting for his relevance.
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December 20, 2018 at 11:37 PM
Agreed. Never understood why he chose NOT to follow-up the leads he got with Swades, CDI. Swades was a bo flop and that may have deterred him. But he himself to chose to follow Oso/Rnbdj route instead of recognizing the gold in CDI. Chasing mindless BO money eventually leads to ur downfall.
Moral of the story – Never boast abt ur paycheck. Some one else is always earning more. Just focus on ur work and get the job done.
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December 20, 2018 at 10:25 PM
Lootera…My most fav film of last ten years. Look at the review. Raja sen gave 5 star. Still a BO flop. You can’t judge indian audience even in multiplex era. I listen its song atleast once in a week and revist the film whenever get chance.
Critic Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama gave the film 4 on a scale of 5 and wrote.
Raja Sen of Rediff rated 5/5 stars and noted.
Meena Iyer of The Times of India assigned the film 4 out of 5 and noted.
Deccan Herald gave four stars and stated.
Manohar Basu of Koimoi gave it 4/5 stars.
Saibal Chatterjee of NDTV gave it 4/5 and wrote.
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December 20, 2018 at 10:29 PM
I like that film. Ranveer’s best till date. Songs are fab! I also end up listening to that entire album now and then.
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December 20, 2018 at 10:49 PM
Song of the day … what trolling leads to eventually.
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December 20, 2018 at 10:52 PM
Did Rangan get to watch it?
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December 20, 2018 at 10:55 PM
Zero Movie Review: A Surreally Bad Shah Rukh Khan Starrer, But A Worse Aanand L. Rai Film
The Bermuda Triangle is the only triangle that comes to mind with actors Shah Rukh Khan, Katrina Kaif and Anushka Sharma, mostly because the audiences that dare to enter their story never find themselves again
Early on in Zero, we see Bauua Singh, a 38-year-old Meerut resident with an offensive sense of humour, leap onto the seat of a crusty movie theater and dance with gay abandon. He enjoys an item song. A half-naked Katrina Kaif writhes to music on screen. I think: How quaint, a metaphor detailing Shah Rukh Khan’s fierce post-2010 desire to win over single-screen audiences. An analogy for his accessibility, perhaps. Further proof arrives in the form of a dance-off with Salman Khan, the ultimate single-screen messiah, at a venue that looks like a renovated MMA dungeon. The subtext is undeniable. Even Kaif is playing herself; she obsesses about an ex named Mr. Kapoor.
I find some more subtext: Bauua is a huge Bollywood fan, which is why he behaves uncannily like Shah Rukh Khan, spreads his arms, sings romantic songs, flashes his dimples and references them extensively, woos a girl in the corniest ways possible, sees stars in a polluted night sky, and then flakes on the girl because cinema has given the small-town man an unrealistic perception of love and physicality. “But you drink alcohol; girls like you are not supposed to get serious about guys like me,” he explains. And he chases the glamorous, arrogant larger-than-life superstar instead. I think: How clever, a nod to Gaurav, his starry-eyed counterpart from Fan. Further proof arrives in how he sees everyone from Alia Bhatt to Kajol to Rani Mukerji to Deepika Padukone and the late Sridevi at a randomly placed promotional event.
Once the 580-minute-long second half begins, however, I realize that maybe – just maybe – the writer didn’t quite intend for subtext, or even text at times, as much as I set about looking for some. I saw what I wanted to see, like the cerebral version of that shallow chap from a crass Hollywood comedy who sees people’s inner beauty reflected in their frumpy outward appearance. At one point, a couple argues while floating emotionally in a zero gravity chamber. Zero Gravity. No. No more. That’s when the rose-tinted glasses come off, and it hits me: Is Bauua…a dwarf? Does Afia have…cerebral palsy? Is Katrina playing an alcoholic superstar named…Babita Kumari? Are Alia, Katrina and Deepika really in…one frame? Is this film not called…Hero?
I never thought I’d say this, but here goes: Katrina Kaif is the best thing about Zero. If not for her love affair with Jesus Christ, she might have been the best thing about the god-awful Jab Tak Hai Jaan, too – the last movie starring this doomed trio. The Bermuda Triangle is the only triangle that comes to mind with these three, mostly because the audiences that dare to enter their story never find themselves again. She drinks herself silly, almost as if she can foretell the fate of the film. Almost as if she can see a scene ahead that involves an angry monkey, human baby, gun, wheelchair and R. Madhavan’s haircut on the same stage. A dramatic scene, no less. Followed by a mugging at Times Square and a free-for-all “competition” to qualify as the first human to reach Mars. Maybe she could almost hear Alfonso Cuaron (Gravity), Ridley Scott (The Martian), Ashutosh Gowarikar (Swades) and Damien Chazelle (First Man) collectively gasp at the prospect of realizing that “Liftoff” in their shuttle-launch countdowns is Zero for the country that invented zero.
I never thought I’d say this, but here goes: Katrina Kaif is the best thing about Zero. If not for her love affair with Jesus Christ, she might have been the best thing about the god-awful Jab Tak Hai Jaan, too – the last movie starring this doomed trio.
Kaif has the most able part in a film that thinks disability is merely an accessory designed to enable an actor’s stature. This isn’t all that surprising in an industry where ambition is measured by the pectoral scale of six-pack abs and protein shakes. Bauua Singh is a gimmick, as is (a horribly performed) Afia. Khan tries, but he has clocked way too many years as a witty conversationalist and dream interviewee to reconnect with the craft that put him in those seats. The more I see him struggling to undo his self-reverence within movies, the more I feel like going back in time and appreciating Fan for its aspirations. It might, after all, be the last Hindi film to feature Shah Rukh Khan as we’d want to remember him: audacious, edgy, talented. As for Anushka, she always swings hard, but it’s only opposite Khan that she spectacularly misses. Afia is a half-Afghani scientist for NASA – which is enough of a “condition” in contemporary cinema. She didn’t need more of our sympathy.
I’ve always maintained that writer Himanshu Sharma is better at colouring a scene – with banter, energy, personality – than connecting them. He is terrible at forming a coherent screenplay out of them; this was especially evident in the Tanu Weds Manu series. Here, this flaw is amplified tenfold, much like how most storytellers’ flaws these days seem to amplify tenfold when Shah Rukh Khan is occupied in their vision. In fact, even the texture of his scenes might have been handicapped if not for the characters’ disabilities. Bauua and Afia are shown to partake in the kind of chemistry where they openly mock each other’s deficiencies – a ‘romantic’ trait that makes us thankful for Barfi being deaf and mute around an autistic Jhilmil.
Some of the film’s best lines, again, belong to Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub, who plays the little man’s best friend. But he, too, is half-blind. You get the gist. On another day, I’d have looked at his partial blindness as a metaphor for Bauua’s half-ticket stature or Aanand L. Rai’s half-witted film. Or maybe because he can sense two imperfect halves yearning to form a perfect full. But as they say: subtext lies in the eyes of the beholder. Today, his blindness exists only so that a glass eye makes him the comic in the group of pariahs. Maybe, though, there is more to Bauua’s cosmic gesture of love: he can conjure up shooting stars by simply tracing his finger across the sky. In other words: A star, falling, once the count reaches zero. And crashing down to earth.
1 star
Rahul Desai
A film critic (formerly of Mumbai Mirror, Catch News) and columnist (The Hindu), Rahul Desai writes about everything cinematic under Mumbai’s hot sun, including short films, web shows and desi B-movies. When he isn’t writing, you can find him in obscure countries nostalgically identifying locations of the films he writes about.
https://www.filmcompanion.in/zero-movie-review-shah-rukh-khan-kartina-kaif-anushka-sharma-rahul-desai/
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December 20, 2018 at 10:57 PM
Open challenge to Rangan, Satyam, Q, Saket, AnJo to beat this review with subtextual context!
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December 21, 2018 at 12:21 AM
This is just a brutal, eviscerating review!
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December 20, 2018 at 11:13 PM
KGF MOVIE REVIEW
TIMES OF INDIA
Sunayana Suresh, Dec 21, 2018, 08.22 AM IST
Critic’s Rating:
3.5/5
Rocky is an ambitious boy, who wants to die as the richest and most powerful man. From the streets of Bombay to the fields of KGF, he embarks on the mission. And his tale is being retold by a journalist who chronicled his life in the 1980s.
Prashanth Neel’s KGF, which stars Yash in the lead, has become arguably the most spoken about Kannada film nationally. The expectations have been enormous. Does the team deliver? Yes, they do. The film has a fast-paced first half, which does seem a little long, but the second half and the climax sets up the right premise for the second part of the film.
The screenplay is the most interesting part of the film. The non-linear pattern keeps the viewers engaged, with the growth of Rocky being shown in a steady fashion. While there are a fair share of scenes and dialogues that bring out the hoots and cheers from the masses, the makers have still maintained a clever story telling pattern that assures one to also keep pace with the narrative. The film traverses from 1951 to 2018, while maintaining a sense of curiosity as each character is unveiled.
Adding the extra edge to the film are the cinematography, art direction and the locales. Everything looks top notch and one is often left spellbound at the scenes. Be it the dark dreary world in KGF to the more glitzy nightlife scenes in Bangalore, all of them are shown beautifully. Yash, as Rocky, lives his character to the fullest and his screen presence definitely has the viewers cheering alongside him. The ensemble cast play their respective parts, with each of them playing minor building blocks in setting up Rocky’s character.
The narrative in the first part builds the character of Rocky as the maverick mastermind who will not stop for anything until he reaches his mission. While there is a sense of temporary closure in the first chapter of the film, one also leaves the hall yearning for more. KGF surely seems to have delivered what it set to achieve.
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December 20, 2018 at 11:40 PM
Great, this was in watch-list anyways. The trailers were zillion times better than Zero, yet no one was commenting abt KGF except AnJo and Sanjana.
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December 20, 2018 at 11:14 PM
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/all-eyes-on-isha-ambani-s-new-50-000-sq-ft-multi-million-dollar-mansion/story-ASdpfwGk1XwvWpBlj5ZzSL.html
All eyes on Isha Ambani’s new 50,000 sq ft multi-million dollar mansion
After the wedding, Isha Ambani, 27 and Anand Piramal, 33, are into Gulita, a 50,000 square foot mansion that the groom’s parents gave them as a wedding present.
Gulita, a bungalow which according to local media will be the marital home of Isha Ambani, daughter of the Chairman of Reliance Industries Mukesh Ambani, is seen in Mumbai, December 7, 2018. REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas/File Photo(Reuters Photo)
As the celebrations from what many in India are calling the wedding of the year wind down, all eyes are now turning to the multi-million dollar mansion that Isha Ambani, the daughter of India’s richest man will move into with husband, Anand Piramal.
The 50,000 square-foot mansion, which stands in the swanky locality of Worli in South Mumbai and has sweeping views of the Arabian Sea and the Sea-Link bridge is still a step down for the bride, given her father’s home is more than eight times that size.
Isha’s father is Mukesh Ambani, a telecom and petroleum magnate whose net worth is pegged at $43 billion, and whose 27-floor, 400,000 square foot Tetris-tower-like residence is a prominent structure on the Mumbai skyline.
It was in that house that Isha got married to Anand Piramal on Wednesday, the culmination of week-long celebrations that included a private concert by US singer Beyonce.
The wedding was described by some as a mini-Davos summit, as it was attended by two former U.S. secretaries of state, Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, along with Saudi Oil Minister Khalid Al-Falih, private equity doyens Stephen Schwarzman and Henry Kravis, CPPIB CEO Mark Machin, and WPP Founder Martin Sorrell, along with dozens of Bollywood celebrities.
The Piramals, who have interests in real estate and pharma, bought the property, previously owned by Hindustan Unilver, at a reported price of $62 million in 2012.
Marked by a stunning glass facade and three glazed steel structures, Gulita has seen hectic remodelling work in the months leading up to the wedding.
The largest of the steel structures is 11 metres tall and it was constructed using 3D modelling tools, according to Eckersley OCallaghan, a London-based engineering firm which was involved in the project.
The Mumbai Mirror newspaper reported that the house has three basements, multiple dining rooms and an outdoor pool.
Many in India, where tens of millions live in dire poverty, have followed the wedding, for its dazzling display of wealth and influence.
Isha’s twin brother, Akash, is set to marry fiancee Shloka Mehta early next year.
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December 20, 2018 at 11:14 PM
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December 20, 2018 at 11:15 PM
The reviews are overall very poor. Except couple of 3 stars. Looks like another disaster. SRK cannot give a good movie. Even with the likes of ALR. I think even Hirani might sink if he attempts to save SRK lol
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December 20, 2018 at 11:32 PM
Maybe the chimp diya will direct his next 500 cr production?
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December 20, 2018 at 11:19 PM
A New Russian First Lady: Vladimir Putin Hints He May Marry Again
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/a-new-russian-first-lady-russian-president-vladimir-putin-hints-he-may-marry-again-1965872?pfrom=home-lateststories
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December 20, 2018 at 11:20 PM
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December 20, 2018 at 11:29 PM
NTR biopic
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December 20, 2018 at 11:31 PM
Glad to see sanjana in action.
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December 20, 2018 at 11:36 PM
I am trying to ignore the elephant in the room!
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December 20, 2018 at 11:41 PM
Not the chimp?
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December 20, 2018 at 11:41 PM
Ok guys not sure what to make of it but its interval time and the feedback seems very positive. not mildly positive but very positive. The second half has to be seriously pathetic for it to get 1star rating from here on..
The real public reviews will be out by 1130
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December 20, 2018 at 11:47 PM
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December 20, 2018 at 11:48 PM
From the reviews looks like a disaster of a movie disappointed big time, where the heck did the 90s SRK go, going to have a bad Friday now, I’m watching the movie on Saturday with my whole family members but the mood has changed I’m disappointed
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December 21, 2018 at 12:01 AM
I think you are bang on with the RNbDJ comparison. Except its 2018 and not 2008 and the audience is supposedly “Smarter”. So the absurd leap of faith that bollywood movies used to take will not work anymore. I’m guessing that’s what happens in the second half of Zero. Are you watching it right now?
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December 21, 2018 at 12:06 AM
Nopes..called a few theatre friends who are..like TOH…
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December 21, 2018 at 12:32 AM
Second half has gone haywire for sure…wont crash but will struggle to get to recovery..I think 150cr …
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December 20, 2018 at 11:53 PM
Scroll review
https://scroll.in/reel/906457/zero-film-review-null-all-the-way-into-the-void
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December 21, 2018 at 12:24 AM
So Scroll ‘nail’s it! Hope the chimp has enuf of ‘thick’-skin to bear it with jesus like grace … JHMS seems like vitage classic now.
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‘Zero’ film review: Null all the way into the void
Shah Rukh Khan shrinks to conquer in Aanand L Rai’s Zero, a movie that probably sounded interesting at the concept stage but ends up being irretrievably outlandish in its execution.
The romantic comedy about a vertically challenged man’s attempt to balance his love for a cerebral palsy-affected scientist with his adoration of a movie star ends up as an unintended circus act. It involves A-list actors, respectable performers cast as extras, a swooning Ajay-Atul score and cameos by Bollywood royalty. The presence of a chimpanzee completes the feeling of the film being a freak show whose main attraction is a severely diminished version of one of Hindi cinema’s most outsized idols.
Rai’s grand folly of a movie, based on a story and screenplay by Himanshu Sharma, is about Bauua Singh (Khan), a Meerut resident who measures less than five feet. Always the shortest man in the room and a frequent target of ridicule, especially by his father Ashok (Tigmanshu Dhulia), Bauua has adopted a John Wayne strut and a devil-may-care attitude. Bauua is 38 years old and unmarried, and when he sees a photo of Aafia (Anushka Sharma) at a matchmaking agency, he decides that she will do.
Aafia’s photograph offers an incomplete picture of her. One side of her body twitches uncontrollably, she speaks with difficulty and uses a wheelchair. If Bauua overcompensates for his lack of height with brashness and derring-do, Aafia has braininess to offer: she is a mathematics genius and an acclaimed scientist who is steering a mission to send humans to Mars.
Bauua is undeterred by Aafia’s condition. Reasoning that two outliers can unite against a cruel world, Bauua woos Aafia in a manner reminiscent of a certain movie star, the one who flings out his arms to express his love and makes women offers they can never refuse. Lost in the sweet music of wedding bells is an alarm bell that goes by the name of Babita Kumari (Katrina Kaif). Babita is a troubled movie star, struggling to recover from a broken heart. A chance encounter between Babita and Bauua sets him on a journey that winds through Mumbai’s film industry and ends up in a rocket that blasts off to Mars.
Mars is where the future of humankind lies, Aafia declares, and Zero takes her advice very seriously, blasting off unto the unknown without a care for the consequences. Written without any irony and turgid for the most part, Zero comes through in only a handful of scenes. Better than the cringe-worthy moments between Bauua and Aafia are the scenes involving him and Babita. Katrina Kaif is spot-on as Babita, a cynical and shambolic celebrity who adopts Bauua as her mascot and forges a relationship of empathy and mutual understanding with her knee-high friend. Kaif has rarely been this good, and she emerges as Zero’s surprise element.
Shah Rukh Khan’s earnest performance is always undercut by the visual effects that render him as a pint-sized version of himself. Bauua is meant to be a doughty fighter whose dreams cannot be contained by the borders of Earth. But the visuals of a shrunken Khan are never anything but a distraction, and undermine Khan’s effort to convey Bauua’s romantic troubles. Like a meme or a gif inserted into a serious study, Bauua never quite blends into the backdrop, and feels less a real person than a product of slick machine-aided trickery.
Among the bits that belong on Mars rather than in this movie’s universe are the songs in which Bauua prances with children and dances for the benefit of Salman Khan, and Bauua’s attempt to impress a bevy of Bollywood beauties, all of whom have appeared with Shah Rukh Khan in his films.
Bauua might have been more credible if he had been played by an actor with less wattage than Khan. Like Khan’s 2016 movie Fan, Zero provides a side commentary on Khan’s recently troubled career graph. In Fan, Khan played a movie star modelled on himself and a deranged admirer who looked just like him – an idea that probably sounded fascinating on paper but confused audiences who didn’t quite get the meta-analysis joke.
Khan’s fanbase will possibly be even more perplexed with Zero. By trying to play the man next door rather than a larger-than-life personality, Khan has all too literally let himself be cut to size. The romantic declarations are less effective, the conviction with which Khan has carried off more modest romances is missing, and the package is smaller than before. As the space rocket blasts off towards Mars, the superstar is transformed into a supernova, and it’s null all the way into the void.
Scroll Review
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December 21, 2018 at 12:26 AM
@Saket – Is this any less brutal?
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December 21, 2018 at 12:07 AM
So it’s come true wahi I am saying from day one and I will stick to it even if zero does 300 cr. The dwarf part is gimmick. Haven’t seen any dwarf who acts like baba singh. Infact haven’t seen a small town guy who acts like a monkey. I belongs to a small town of uttrakhand. I have some relatives in western UP(Meerut and adjoining area). Who acts like a fool (Baba) in this day and as. But here I will put 70% blame on Director and script writer. 30% on SRK b/C even after acting over 25 years he doesn’t get basics right. SRK and Amitabh both are pathetic in thier script sense. Even Salman has better sense then them. Look at even John abraham and his choice of films.
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December 21, 2018 at 12:10 AM
Srk script sense is garbage, you would think after 4 underperformers I did like raees srk would hire someone to help him find a good script wtf is he thinking, I’m beyond pissed
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December 21, 2018 at 12:20 AM
I’m totally with you, this nonsense Red Chilies VFX will be the end of him. There’s no reason to have VFX in everything! And I can’t judge his script sense because to have that you would at least need to read the script! It sounds like he still does movies based off 2 line summaries and with people he feels comfortable/gels with.
But he’s also delusional- I thought JHMS was rock bottom and he would change, but looks like we have not gotten there yet. He is on track to have a 300 crore movie (in terms of losses).
I’m imagining the climax of Zero and the space scenes like the climax of RA. 1 lol
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December 21, 2018 at 12:14 AM
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December 21, 2018 at 12:18 AM
This, I completely agree with. Vineet Kumar Singh in Mukkabaaz is the male performance of the year (haven’t seen Manoj Bajpayee in Gali Guleiyan).
Similarly, Tapsee in Manmarziyan is just head and shoulders above everyone else.
Special Mention: Abhishek Bachchan in Manmarziyan; Pankaj Tripathi in Stree and Tabu in Andhadhun.
Radhika Madan and Sanya Malhotra in Pataakha are also quite good.
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December 21, 2018 at 12:34 AM
Ranbir in sanju was very good…I havent seen many of the movies you have mentioned..even vicky was very good in same movie…
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December 21, 2018 at 12:45 AM
Yes, Vicky Kaushal is quite good in Manmarziyan as well.
I wasn’t too impressed with Ranbir in Sanju. He gets Dutt’s mannerisms all right but what else is there?
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December 21, 2018 at 12:17 AM
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Twitter Filled With Pics, Videos Of Strange Light Seen Over California
The bright light was seen over California skies.
Photos and videos of a mysterious light that appeared over Sacramento and the Bay Area in California filled social media on Wednesday – throwing up more questions than answers. The lasso-shaped illumination led to many conspiracy theories, according to CBS News.
“It was far too big to be a firework,” said Gus Graves of San Francisco. “I’m thinking it’s some sort of high-tech rocket that they’re working on, possibly? Or aliens. One of the two.”
The Sacramento Bee reports that a Delta IV Heavy rocket, carrying satellites, was supposed to launch from in Santa Barbara County on Wednesday evening. The launch was cancelled at about the same time the light appeared and has been rescheduled for Thursday evening.
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December 21, 2018 at 12:19 AM
Sorry, did not edit the crap.
Photos and videos of a mysterious light that appeared over Sacramento and the Bay Area in California filled social media on Wednesday – throwing up more questions than answers. The lasso-shaped illumination led to many conspiracy theories, according to CBS News.
“It was far too big to be a firework,” said Gus Graves of San Francisco. “I’m thinking it’s some sort of high-tech rocket that they’re working on, possibly? Or aliens. One of the two.”
The Sacramento Bee reports that a Delta IV Heavy rocket, carrying satellites, was supposed to launch from in Santa Barbara County on Wednesday evening. The launch was cancelled at about the same time the light appeared and has been rescheduled for Thursday evening.
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December 21, 2018 at 12:24 AM
https://www.hindustantimes.com/bollywood/zero-movie-review-shah-rukh-khan-dazzles-in-a-strange-romance/story-SdQK5zHgA4ZTva8cNcJhAJ.html
Raja sen’s review.
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December 21, 2018 at 12:27 AM
Zero Movie Review: Shah Rukh Khan, Anushka Sharma, Katrina Kaif Get A For Effort In Outlandish Film
NDTV review.
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December 21, 2018 at 12:29 AM
https://www.ndtv.com/entertainment/zero-movie-review-shah-rukh-khan-anushka-sharma-katrina-kaif-get-a-for-effort-in-outlandish-film-2-s-1965981?pfrom=home-lateststories
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December 21, 2018 at 12:28 AM
Looks like its goner! This will wrap just over 100 crores or max 130 crores IMO.
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December 21, 2018 at 12:32 AM
3 Khans giving flops in same year never happened before. Its giving the year where newer geneation officially takes over. Still Aamir & Salman will give hits here and there but the prime show will be run by the newer generation.
3 Khans 1994 – 2018
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December 21, 2018 at 12:51 AM
Some stuff happened in 1988 and 1989 too, hai na? Some stuff will happen after 2018 too.
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December 21, 2018 at 12:35 AM
I might watch ZERO tomorrow and if I do, hopefully can pen my views. I am also interested in KGF though: Unfortunately, it isn’t playing near me.
I am still confident of ZERO. This has got to be the lowest of the lows; people using names of dead people and the ones alive to spread lies. These are cowards of the highest degree: They should be given arms and made to sit vigil at the border; shoot with the rifle; not your key-board – then as Tapsee says in MANMARZIYAAN: Zimmedariyan ke naam pe hag deta hain tu…
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December 21, 2018 at 12:55 AM
So after what happened for 10-14 days since Nov 8, you did NOT expect this on social media for Zero???
I dont think u r so naive …
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December 21, 2018 at 12:59 AM
Never play with firearms without knowing their reach, else it will just implode on ur face. And u will b forced to watch and suffer helplessly.
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December 21, 2018 at 1:01 AM
No not that..I might be wrong here then..I am specifically pointing out to people impersonating real people’s names and posting negative things..I don’t remember that happening with TOH..I understand selective posting and gloating..I did point that out..like the Suchitra Krishnamoorthy — whose only public-claim to life till date has been being the divorced wife of Shekhar Kapur [ forget KHKN; it was the 2 Shahs all the way – Rukh and Kundan] tweet where she was ‘afraid’ of watching a film alone!!!!
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December 21, 2018 at 1:05 AM
U think Aamir fans in twitter wud take all that shit lying down? I expected worse … and it may get there as the zero disaster result gets sealed with BO figures. Lets see.
There is no ‘lowest of low’ in this game. U probably havent seen the worst yet. PRK trolls triggered this, now its just the beginning.
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December 21, 2018 at 3:14 AM
Marcus – What is this PRK? If this is for SRK then, please stop using it.
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December 21, 2018 at 1:15 AM
It didn’t happen like this with TOH. It’s disgusting using dead people. The rest what goes around comes around.
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December 21, 2018 at 1:19 AM
I am not on twitter and so I am not that influenced by it.
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December 21, 2018 at 1:21 AM
You are fortunate. I am not a fan of Twitter to the degree I have to think and judge the comment before I post it. And that process becomes longer nowadays.
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December 21, 2018 at 12:36 AM
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December 21, 2018 at 12:37 AM
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December 21, 2018 at 12:41 AM
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December 21, 2018 at 12:37 AM
I will not write off so soon. Audience may like it.
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December 21, 2018 at 12:41 AM
I agree. Reviews are not outright disappointing. It’s just not as good as expected.
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December 21, 2018 at 12:55 AM
In this internet age, it won’t survive. Any movie below mark will be killed and buried without any second thoughts. Nothing can stop it from crashing. Simmba coming next week will restrict it from touching even 100 crores or max 130 as I said earlier.
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December 21, 2018 at 12:40 AM
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December 21, 2018 at 12:43 AM
Faridoon has 4 tweets on zero – 3 about the actors and 1 about the VFX. That’s his way of saying the film is bad lol he’s a SRK fan boy, he can’t say it directly
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December 21, 2018 at 12:40 AM
Blame the director instead of the stars. Stars maybe clueless sometimes. Director needs to be.
One Sanju will not make Ranbir the biggest star.
Simmba will tell us what Ranveer’s actual star power is.
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December 21, 2018 at 12:42 AM
I always blame the budget and marketing.
One needs to know the cost while planning a go to market strategy.
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December 21, 2018 at 12:50 AM
Simmba will do 2.0 hindi range (170-175 cr) if it turns out to be a okay-ish remake in Shetty style. After all the hullabaloo, Zero will probably struggle to get to 150 cr. May end up in Raees range (120-125 cr) if his fans like it to some extent.
This MAY give room for KGF to do some decent business with its hindi version and Aquaman shud now be able to get to 50 cr mark.
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December 21, 2018 at 12:55 AM
So much unpredictability for all the films.
Problem with KGF is its hero for the north Indians.
Simmba may take advantage of New Year just like Zero.
And our Firangi in China.
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December 21, 2018 at 12:57 AM
Firangi’s road trip has not even reached Shanghai and Beijing, just imagine the irritation that will cause.
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December 21, 2018 at 12:44 AM
M walking out…
#Zero
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December 21, 2018 at 12:48 AM
This is epic disaster. Sumit kadel and rohit jaiswal are biggest srk fans. Both gave 1/5.
BMS rating is 62% and it is just the beginning. It may settle below 50%, which be lowest since Bombay velvet.
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December 21, 2018 at 1:00 AM
Both of them never give wrong reviews to mislead..they thrashed jhms too…
By the way Jay can we get a new thread pls
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December 21, 2018 at 12:49 AM
Kadel and Jaiswal who are SRK fans giving such kind of reviews says it all. It’s JHMS again.
SRK needs to take few years of break and get his script sense straight.
Aamir is not going anywhere and Salman too will hang for few years. But it’s been a decade since SRK gave any good movie. This may crash and fold under 100crrs.
Salman may be laughing as his laughable Race3 will be highest grosser among three khans.
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December 21, 2018 at 12:53 AM
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December 21, 2018 at 1:04 AM
so, 457 comments thread in the first day itself! Can we call this trolling?
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December 21, 2018 at 1:08 AM
The bigger the star, the bigger the trolling.
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December 21, 2018 at 1:09 AM
Its not yet started, forget reaching TOH level.
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December 21, 2018 at 1:23 AM
Thats bcos you woke up after two years for an aamir film..have been happening be4 that!
or maybe then you were the one trolling!
problem is that nobody defends if the film is really bad.. or unless u r an aamir fan, as seen with toh. flogging a dead horse and all, u see!!
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December 21, 2018 at 1:08 AM
Please check Master Z’s opening figures in China today … [ Less said abt Padman masterpiece the better! ]
http://english.entgroup.cn/boxoffice/cn/daily/?date=12%20/21%20/2018
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December 21, 2018 at 1:08 AM
Merry Christmas SS
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December 21, 2018 at 1:13 AM
Zero had an average advance as it picked up around 13 crore nett before release. This is the second best total ever for a Shahrukh Khan starrer after Happy New Year but the ticket count is far lower than that film and also lower than Raees.
The advance is less than 50% of Thugs Of Hindostan and 30-35% lower than Race 3 but these films had more going from them in terms of initial due to the action factor and as they had holidays over the first three days. On On one hand the advance should have been better considering its a Shahrukh Khan starrer but on the other hand it looked like it would not even get to this level on Monday and may just hit double digits.
A 17-18 crore nett figure would have been a good result for this film but this film was never going to be about the initial but more about the public reports wnd where it lands up on Sunday and that is still the case. the to advances of all time in terms of collections pre release are as follows.
Boxoficeindia
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December 21, 2018 at 1:15 AM
Boi
Kedarnath did well in its second week as it picked up 18.75 crore nett apprx. This takes the total business of the film to 61 crore nett. The drop in the second week is 55% which is very good trending though it will be stopped in its tracks by the release of Zero.
The second week is better than films like Veere Di Wedding, Dhadak, Parmanu – The Story Of Pokhran and Pad Man. The film is at around 17.50 crore nett in Mumbai circuit and at around 14 crore nett in Delhi / UP. Generally all circuits have done decent be it Mumbai or Assam. It remains to be seen where the film goes as the screenings have dropped to 1 or 2 shows at the big multiplexes..
Thursday – 1,75,00,000 apprx
Second Week – 18,85,00,000 apprx
TOTAL – 61,01,00,000 apprx
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