By Ashok

'Yuva' opened to an average 70-75% response but collections crashed on the second day. Some centers in Haryana, Bihar and Rajasthan were less than 30% on the second day itself. The film has been rejected and distributors in circuits like Bihar and CP Berar are set to lose 60-70% of their investment. The film may well be a bigger disaster than 'Dil Se' unless their is a marked improvement in collections.

'Uff Kya Jaadoo Mohabbat Hai' had a poor opening of around 25%.

'Lakeer' and 'Run' are poor fares at the box office. 'Main Hoon Na' has totally recovered its distributor investment in 3 weeks with a Distibutor Share of around 18 crore on a cost of 16.75 crore. Now its all a matter of how much profit it can make.

'Masti' takes a heavy drop in its sixth week.

Here's a list of top ten for the week ending May 23rd, 2004.

1. Main Hoon Na
Number of Weeks: 3
Total Gross: 27.25 crore
Box-Office Verdict: Good first 3 weeks
Bollyvista.com Review



2. Lakeer
Number of Weeks: 1
Total Gross: 4.65 crore
Box-Office Verdict: Poor first week
Bollyvista.com Review



3. Run
Number of Weeks: 1
Total Gross: 3.60 crore
Box-Office Verdict: Poor first week
Bollyvista.com Review



4. Masti
Number of Weeks: 6
Total Gross: 20.10 crore
Box-Office Verdict: Semi-Hit
Bollyvista.com Review



5. Murder
Number of Weeks: 7
Total Gross: 12.20 crore
Box-Office Verdict: Hit (Superhit at places)
Bollyvista.com Review



6. Charas
Number of Weeks: 2
Total Gross: 1.45 crore
Box-Office Verdict: Flop
Bollyvista.com Review



7. Bardaasht
Number of Weeks: 4
Total Gross: 2.90
Box-Office Verdict: Disaster
Bollyvista.com Review



8. Munna Bhai M.B.B.S.
Number of Weeks: 22
Total Gross: 23.30 crore
Box-Office Verdict: Hit
Bollyvista.com Review



9. Krishna Cottage
Number of Weeks: 5
Total Gross: 3.15 crore
Box-Office Verdict: Flop
Bollyvista.com Review



10. Kal Ho Naa Ho
Number of Weeks: 25
Total Gross: 33.20 crore
Box-Office Verdict: Semi-Hit
Bollyvista.com Review




Note: Box-Office Verdict is based on the all India distributor returns against the price paid by the distributors.

by judge? lol

just 4 u and rana
http://www.bollyvista.com/boxoffice/

Box-office Report

(The verdict is based on all-India collections and indicates the overall status from the date of release)
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YUVA
Director: Mani Ratnam
Cast: Ajay Devgan, Abhishek Bachchan, Vivek Oberoi, Rani Mukherji, Kareena Kapoor, Esha Deol
Plus points: Splendid visuals, foot-tapping music
Weak points: Poor story narration, lacklustre dialogue track
Box-Office verdict: Flop

UUF KYA JAADOO MOHABBAT HAI
Director: Manoj Bhatia
Cast: Introducing Sammir Dattani, Pooja Kanwal
Plus points: Sincere performances by the newcomers
Weak points: Mediocre music, dialogue, plot
Box-Office verdict: Disaster

RUN
Director: Jeeva
Cast: Abhishek Bachchan, Bhumika Chawla
Plus points: Strong action and music
Weak points: Poor performances, outmoded storyline
Box-Office verdict: Poor 1st week

LAKEER
Director: Ahmed Khan
Cast: Sunny Deol, Suniel Shetty, Sohail Khan, John Abraham, Nauheed Cyrusi
Plus points: None
Weak points: Poor music, performances, storyline, execution, dialogue
Box-Office verdict: Poor 1st week

CHARAS
Director: Tigmannshu Dhulia
Cast: Jimmy Shergill, Uday Chopra, Namrata Shirodkar, Hrishitaa Bhatt, Irrfan Khan
Plus points: Strong premise, locales and camera-work
Weak points: Lack of face value, mediocre music, monotonous screenplay
Box-Office verdict: Poor 1st week

SHEEN
Director: Ashok Pandit
Cast: Tarun Arora, Sheen, Raj Babbar & others
Plus points: None
Weak points: Poor performances, music and execution
Box-Office verdict: Poor 1st week

MAIN HOON NA
Director: Farah Khan
Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Sushmita Sen, Zayed Khan, Amrita Rao
Plus points: Enormous production values, melodious music, Sushmita Sen's gorgeous looks, great cinematography
Weak points: Lack of coherent plot, juvenile humour, sub-par performances by most of the cast
Box-Office verdict: Good first 2 weeks

SHAADI KA LADDOO
Director: Director: Raj Kaushal
Cast: Sanjay Suri, Mandira Bedi, Aashish Chaudhary, Samita Bangargi, Divya Dutta
Plus points: A confident performance by Sanjay Suri and Divya Dutta
Weak points: Flat dialogues, deflated humour, weak music, lack of face value
Box-Office verdict: Flop

BARDAASHT
Director: E.Niwas
Cast: Bobby Deol, Lara Dutta, Ritiesh, Tara Sharma, Rahul Dev
Plus points: Strong action and sincere performances by Bobby and Rahul
Weak points: Weak script and music
Box-Office verdict: Disaster

KRISHNA COTTAGE
Director: Santram Verma
Cast: Sohail Khan, Natassha, Ishaa Koppikar
Plus points: Strong premise, one or two lilting songs
Weak points: Weak main lead (Sohail), sluggish, tacky production values
Box-Office verdict: Flop

Looks like AE results were ulta!

http://sify.com/movies/tamil/fullstory.php?id=13485470

Aayitha Ezhuthu creates records

Friday, 28 May , 2004, 11:40

Mani Ratnam’s Aayitha Ezhuthu may not be palatable to the common man but is creating a new box office record!
At Satyam theatre in Chennai, the highest collecting movie house in South India, Aayitha Ezhuthu has netted an amazing Rs 15,00,300 in 30 shows (including Sat and Sun morning shows). This is a new theatre record for the 1260 seater which reported almost 100 percent collections.

Aayitha Ezhuthu is doing extraordinary business in Coimbatore, Kerala and Bangalore while in the rest of Tamilnadu in B centres like Tanjavur, Tirunelveli and Salem it is sliding. In Kerala, Aayitha Ezhuthu and Yuva combined has netted Rs 31 Lakhs from 13 prints in the first week.

For distributors in Tamilnadu the film may break even as it was sold at a reasonable price to compensate the losses they had incurred in Madras Talkies` earlier film Kannathil Muthamittal. Madras Talkies themselves were distributing the film in Chennai city where the film is expected to do Rs 80 Lakhs to 1 Crore business!

Top 5 Movies of the Week

By Taran Adarsh (As on May 29th, 2004)

Rank Film Producer Verdict Average per print (rs.) Last Week
1 Yuva Madras Talkies Started sliding downwards as days progressed. Will entail heavy losses to several distributors. Collections have dropped at metros as well. Flop 4,36,600 New


2 Main Hoon Na Gauri Khan, Ratan Jain Hit. 2,16,460 1


3 Uuf Kya Jaadoo Mohabbat Hai…! Rajshri Flop 1,03,336 New


4 Run Boney Kapoor Flop 80,518 2


5 Murder Mukesh Bhatt Hit 77,084 6


THE REST

6. Lakeer
Producers: Vicky Kumar
Verdict: Flop
Average per print: 69,487

7. Masti
Producers: Ashok Thakeria, Indra Kumar
Verdict: Semi-hit
Average per print: 46,845

(Ratings are based on the box office collections and the cost of the film)