Fun and games at BO this week!
Indra Kumar's multi-starrer Masti had a good opening, especially in the metros. The film stars Vivek Oberoi, Aftab Shivdasani, Ritesh Deshmukh, Amrita Rao, Genelia D'Souza and Tara Sharma.
But Silence Please... The Dressing Room, with Sonali Kulkarni and Salil Ankola, wasn't as lucky and sank.

A Shah Rukh Khan-Raveena Tandon starrer, Yeh Lamhe Judaai Ke also snuck in from years of being in production. The film is so outdated that the lead cast has disassociated themselves from the film.

Note: Films are ranked according to their release dates.








Masti

Cast: Ajay Devgan, Vivek Oberoi, Aftab Shivdasani, Ritesh Deshmukh, Tara Sharma, Amrita Rao, Genelia D'Souza, Lara Dutta
Director: Indra Kumar
Good comedy, decent performances.

May get crude and vulgar at times.

Number of weeks: New
BO Verdict: Hit
The review







Silence Please... The Dressing Room

Cast: Salil Ankoli, Sonali Kulkarni, Tom Alter
Director: Sanjay Srinivas
Tom Alter's performance.

Too many subplots and unexplained angles.

Number of weeks: New
BO Verdict: Flop
The review








Yeh Lamhe Judaai Ke

Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Raveena Tandon
Director: Ritesh Nayyar
Has the usual ingredients of romance, drama and mystery.

Too outdated.

Number of weeks: New
BO Verdict: Flop









Murder

Cast: Mallika Sherawat, Emran Hashmi, Ashmit Patel
Director: Anurag Basu
Good music.

The many steamy scenes will not bring in family audiences.

Number of weeks: 1
BO Verdict: Hit







Meenaxi

Cast: Tabu, Kunal Kapoor, Raghuvir Yadav
Director: M F Husain
Great cinematography by Santosh Sivan, excellent music, good performances.

Not the usual Hindi film, weak characters.

Number of weeks: 1
BO Verdict: Flop
The review








Hawas

Cast: Meghna Naidu, Tarun Arora, Shavar Ali
Director: Karan Razdan
Good performances, realistic story.

Film title will not bring in family audiences.

Number of weeks: 2
BO Verdict: Average









Woh

Cast: Priyanshu Malik, Cleo Isaacs, Ayub Khan
Director: Raj Sippy
Interesting plot.

Weak screenplay, poor performances.

Number of weeks: 2
BO Verdict: Flop







Muskaan

Cast: Aftab Shivdasani, Gracy Singh
Director: Rohit-Manish
Captivating locales.

Too many subplots, too many songs.

Number of weeks: 2
BO Verdict: Flop







Ab Tak Chhappan

Cast: Nana Patekar, Revathy, Nakul Vaid
Director: Shimit Amin
Good performances, realistic story.

Poor film editing.

Number of weeks: 4
BO Verdict: Hit
The review









Agnipankh

Cast: Jimmy Shergil, Sameer Dharmadhikari, Rahul Dev, Divya Dutta, Shamita Shetty
Director: Puneet Sira
Some well-executed scenes.

Poor direction, loose script.

Number of weeks: 4
BO Verdict: Flop





Design: Uday Kuckian



Last week's box office results

What is ur report rana on YLTK? ha ha

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LOL

Well, did not get a chance to see it in theatre. May be for a good reason.

Box Office reports are not good for YLJK.
http://www.boxofficeindia.com/

BOX OFFICE NOTES-10th April 16.00 IST

Masti opened to a decent response yesterday.Its business seems set to be better in metros and multiplexes.The opening was lukewarm in places like West Bengal and Bihar.

Yeh Lamhe Judaai Ke opened to a poor response all over

Murder records excellent collections in the first week though there is a fairly large drop on the eighth day.The film is the biggest success of 2004 so far.Delhi/UP was extraordinary in the first week.

Meenaxi is a washout

FIRST DAY INITIAL(ALL INDIA AVERAGE)

Masti 75-80%

Yeh Lamhe Judaai Ke 15-20%

I meant DID u see it? and did it fall into ur ENJOYABLE MASALA FLICK CATEGORY? LOL

The first line answered that.
(No, I didn't get a chance to see it in theatre.)

Rana

I apologize, didnt see that LINE!! I think I was reading INBETWEEN the lines..LOL..

Well, seems like U got SAVED from TABAHI KE LAMHE!!

Actually, I had my Lamhe Tabaahi Ke when I made a grave mistake of watching PLAN in theatre, with elder members of my family. Actually, with selective editing/ censoring, PLAN may be as interesting, or even better, as Munnabhaaii.

YLJK seems like a loveable interesting film from its promotions. Actually, it's doing reasonably well at Albion Cinemas, in comparison to Masti.

Rana