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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Veer-Zaara
Director: Yash Chopra
Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Preity Zinta, Rani Mukherjee, Divya Dutta, Kirron Kher and others
Plus Points: Lavish production values, well mounted, two lilting songs, fine performances by Rani Mukherjee, Shah Rukh Khan and Divya Dutta
Weak Points: Clichéd, long, unconvincing emotions, gaping errors in the screenplay
Box-Office verdict: Hit

Naach
Director: Ram Gopal Varma
Cast: Abhishek Bachchan, Antara Mali, Ritesh Deshmukh
Plus Points: First-rate cinematography, exotic looking, superlative performance by Antara Mali, catchy music, experimental and different
Weak Points: Subject not intense enough, sluggish, weak climax
Box-Office verdict: Disaster

Aitraaz
Director: Abbas-Mustan
Cast: Akshay Kumar, Kareena Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra
Plus Points: Sincere Performance by Priyanka Chopra
Weak Points: Clichéd storyline, mediocre cinematography and music, superficial (just not emotional enough)
Box-Office verdict: Flop

Mughal-E-Azam (re-released and colourized)
Director: K.Asif
Cast: Prithviraj Kapoor, Dilip Kumar, Madhubala, Nirupa Roy and others
Plus Points: Yesteryear's classic
Weak Points: Colourization is jarring and garish at places
Box-Office verdict: Average-Plus

'Stop' fails
Director: Ajai Sinha
Cast: Tejaswini Kolhapure, Isshita Arun, Gauri Karnik, Rocky Bhatia
Plus Points: Sincere performances by the girls
Weak Points: Pointless and looks like an amateurish tele-film
Box-Office verdict: Flop

Inteqam
Director: Pankaj Parashar
Cast: Manoj Bajpai, Isha Koppikar, Nethra Raghuraman
Plus Points: None
Weak Points: Just about everything
Box-Office verdict: Disaster

Kis Kis Ki Kismat
Director: Govind Menon
Cast: Dharmendra, Mallika Sherawat, Introducing Sidharth Makar
Plus Points: Mallika's flesh exposure and kissing (frankly, there's nothing else!)
Weak Points: Mallika's flesh exposure and kissing (you have seen it before, and that's all she does!), Dharmendra behaving asinine
Box-Office verdict: Disaster

Vaastu Shastra
Director: Sourabh Usha Narang
Cast: Ahsaas Channa, J.D. Chakravarthy, Sushmita Sen
Plus Points: Strong performances by Ahsaas Channa, Steady Cinematography
Weak Points: Lazy script, unexplained loopholes, irritating sound effects
Box-Office verdict: Average

Dil Bechara Pyaar Ka Maara
Director: Onkar Mishra
Cast: Vikaas Kalantri, Divya Palat, Aslam Khan, Aman Sondhi & others
Plus Points: None
Weak Points: Everything
Box-Office verdict: Disaster

Hatya
Director: Kader Kashmiri
Cast: Akshay Kumar, Varsha Usgaonkar, Raza Murad, Johnny Lever, Rajendra Gupta
Plus Points:: None
Weak Points:: Everything
Box-Office verdict: Disaster


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