By Ashok

'Lakshya' opened to full houses at most places. The record advance booking means that the metros are already booked out for most of the week but in places where there is no advance booking system the film started to drop on Saturday. Now is the drop an initial knee jerk reaction or a long-term trend only the next week will tell. Due to the advance the film still has chances of breaking first week records in places like Mumbai and Delhi and other big cities where there is a heavy presence of multiplexes.

'Raghu Romeo' is a non-starter.

'Dev' has done reasonable business and its fate depends on the second week.

'Girlfriend' is safe due to its low price.

'Hum Tum' is doing very well and may become the biggest success of the year but a trade analyst cum Mumbai distributor has bracketed it with 'Koi... Mil Gaya' in the super hit category which is going too far. The same had labeled last years big hit 'Andaaz' as a flop to average film.

Here's a list of top ten for the week ending June 20th, 2004.

1. Dev
Number of Weeks: 1
Total Gross: 4.75 crore
Box-Office Verdict: Average First Week
Bollyvista.com Review



2. Hum Tum
Number of Weeks: 3
Total Gross: 13.40 crore
Box-Office Verdict: Doing Good Business
Bollyvista.com Review



3. Aan
Number of Weeks: 2
Total Gross: 9.35 crore
Box-Office Verdict: Big Drop in 2nd Week
Bollyvista.com Review



4. Main Hoon Na
Number of Weeks: 7
Total Gross: 33.50 crore
Box-Office Verdict: Semi-Hit
Bollyvista.com Review



5. Girlfriend
Number of Weeks: 1
Total Gross: 2.05 crore
Box-Office Verdict: Average First Week
Bollyvista.com Review



6. Yuva
Number of Weeks: 4
Total Gross: 11.75 crore
Box-Office Verdict: Flop
Bollyvista.com Review



7. Police Force
Number of Weeks: 3
Total Gross: 1.20 crore
Box-Office Verdict: Flop
Bollyvista.com Review



8. Run
Number of Weeks: 5
Total Gross: 4.90 crore
Box-Office Verdict: Flop
Bollyvista.com Review



9. Lakeer
Number of Weeks: 5
Total Gross: 5.60 crore
Box-Office Verdict: Disaster
Bollyvista.com Review



10. Murder
Number of Weeks: 11
Total Gross: 12.65 crore
Box-Office Verdict: Hit (Superhit at places)
Bollyvista.com Review




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

Top 5 Movies of the Week

By Taran Adarsh (As on June 26th, 2004)

Rank Film Producer Verdict Average per print (rs.) Last Week
1 Lakshya Excel, UTV Is excellent at big centres, but not as expected at towns and smaller centres. Collections have started sliding downwards 5,50,581 New


2 Hum Tum Yash Raj Films Hit 1,98,359 1

3 Girl Friend S.P. Creations Average 1,11,218 3

4 Dev Entertainment One, Applause Entertainment P. Ltd., Udbhav Dreamzone Flop 1,08,344 2

5 Chot S.M. International Flop 97,704 New

*** Seeing films like HUM TUM and GIRL FRIEND succeeding at box office shows mentality of most hindi cinema goers!! Who prefer SOFT PORN(any thing) and MASALA MUSH! at any time! Whatever LITMUS TEST you give it to them!

I expect DEEWAR will become at least ABOVE AVERAGE to GOOD for BUISNESS as MASS POT BOILER, PLEASER FLICK!