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Zoran009
PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 5:39 pm 
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Maqbool: Critically sound, commercially sorry
Last week saw small-budget films making it to the marquee.
The critically-acclaimed Maqbool may not find a big audience, though it has been well appreciated at prestigious international film festivals.

Pooja Bhatt's directorial debut Paap was not as lucky and successful as her previous production, Jism. Industrialist Vijaypat Singhania's first filmi venture, Woh Tera Naam Tha bombed.

Note: Films are ranked on the basis of their performance at the box-office every week. Though a film may be declared a flop, it may have performed better than the other films that week.








Maqbool

Cast: Tabu, Irrfan, Pankaj Kapoor, Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri, Masumi
Director: Vishal Bharadwaj
Superb performances, technically sound direction.

Slow paced, will appeal only a niche audience.

Number of weeks: New
BO Verdict: Flop
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Paap

Cast: John Abraham, Udita Goswami, Mohan Agashe
Director: Pooja Bhatt
Good music and locations.

Poor performances, bad voice modulations.

Number of weeks: New
BO Verdict: Flop
The review









Khakee

Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Ajay Devgan, Akshay Kumar, Aishwarya Rai, Tusshar Kapoor, Atul Kulkarni.
Director: Rajkumar Santoshi
Detailed characterisation of every actor. AB's first rate performance

Too many action scenes in the first half.

Number of weeks: 1
BO Verdict: Average
The review









Aetbaar

Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, John Abraham, Bipasha Basu
Director: Vikram Bhatt
Amitabh Bachchan.

Bhatt packages last year's Inteha in a new parcel.

Number of weeks: 1
BO Verdict: Flop
The review









Ek Hasina Thi

Cast: Urmila Matondkar, Saif Ali Khan, Seema Biswas
Director: Sriram Raghavan
Great performances, film shows the darker side of love.

Script is too convenient and does not offer explanations for things like Urmila's competence with a gun, shadowing people and killing.

Number of weeks: 2
BO Verdict: Flop
The review









God Only Knows

Cast: Anjan Srivastava, Dilip Prabhavalkar, Vijoo Khote, Sharbani Mukherjee, Vihang Nayak, Kishore Pradhan, Shahriyar Atai
Director: Bharat Dabholkar
Good comedy.

Some of the jokes seemed forced.

Number of weeks: 2
BO Verdict: Flop
The review









Chameli

Cast: Kareena Kapoor, Rahul Bose, Rinke Khanna, Yashpal Sharma, Makrand Deshpande
Director: Sudhir Mishra
Chameli attempts to be different; great performance from Rahul Bose; good music.

Stagey look, half-baked characters.

Number of weeks: 3
BO Verdict: Flop
The review









Plan

Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Dino Morea, Sanjay Suri, Bikram Saluja, Rohit Roy, Mahesh Manjrekar, Priyanka Chopra, Sameera Reddy, Riya Sen, Payal Rohatgi
Director: Hriday Shetty
Good chemistry between the four boys, great performance from Sanjay Dutt.

Slack in the second half. Once Dutt makes his entry, the others fade into the background.

Number of weeks: 3
BO Verdict: Flop
The








Paisa Vasool

Cast: Manisha Koirala, Sushmita Sen, Sushant Singh, Makarand Deshpande
Director: Srinivas Bhashyam
Zany humour, great show from Sushmita.

Cannot hold viewer interest, gets repetitive.

Number of weeks: 3
BO Verdict: Flop
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Ishq Hai Tumse

Cast: Bipasha Basu, Dino Morea, Alok Nath, Gokhale, Neena Kulkarni, Tiku Talsania, Beena, Himani Shivpuri
Director: G Krishna
Good performance from Dino.

Story is very old-fashioned, poor music.

Number of weeks: 4
BO Verdict: Flop
The review







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Aarkayne
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 6:30 pm 
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arsh wrote:
Maqbool: Critically sound, commercially sorry

Did I even say this the other day :p .....the audiences have yet to grow out of their teen-routine....they want their song-n-dance gig in EVERY damn film....we all suffer the "KAL HO NA HO"s then !

interestingly in the 70s when Shyam Benegal(and with other similar neo movement film makers) et al had just about hit the scene, ANKUR ran to packed houses in Strand Cinema in then Bombay...everyone heralded this as the new wave cinema movement....ofcourse it died its own death as soon as the audiences dried up by the time Benegal finished making KALYUG in the eighties....and a period of about 10-15 years after this has been the bleakest ever in history.....it appears there maybe a resurgence of the new wave, and if this dies again, god knows what kind of crap we will have to put up with !

But the eternal optimist that I am, I hope that with the emergence of the multiplexes there will be 'filmware' made to supply these exhibition halls.....but the other problem is the NRI audience sending wrong signals to the celluloid factoryowners in Mumbai that films like KHNH is what will bring them returns.....on the one hand the forex reserves maybe swelling because of NRI monies being sent home, but on the other hand, progress in terms of artistic and cinematic achievement seems to be stunted !!!



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rana
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The above Rediff rankings are based on:

"Films are ranked on the basis of their performance at the box-office every week. Though a film may be declared a flop, it may have performed better than the other films that week.""

According to this report, Khakee boxoffice collections over the weekend are behind that of Maqbool and Paap. I doubt that. With a 40% drop in Khakee collections in its 2nd weekend (as reported), it should still be better than Maqbool and Paap??

(Rankings are certainly not based on Hit or Flop basis as Khakee is classified as Average and Maqbool & Paap as Flops.)

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 6:41 pm 
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IMHO, reason, behing POP CORN, CANDY FLASH, CHEEZY MUSH..succeeding as BLOCK BUSTERS is OVERSEAS/NRI community, who SEEMS to OVERTLY PATRONIZE this JUNK, I will blame UK more than US for this!!

There filmmakers RECOVER their COST! 1000X with BONUS!! so why they should TRY? to make QUALITY FILMS !!What a shame? :nopity:
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DVD Collector
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Isn't YRF distributing this film overseas? What happen to its overseas theatrical release?

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