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PostPosted: Sat May 08, 2004 4:30 pm 
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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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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: Average

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: Flop

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

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

HAWAS
Director: Karan Razdan
Cast: Tarun Arora, Meghna Naidu, Shahwar Ali
Plus points: None
Weak points: A remake of 'Unfaithful', sleazy, poorly enacted
Box-Office verdict: Average

MASTI
Director: Indra Kumar
Cast: Ajay Devgan, Aftab Shivdasani, Vivek Oberoi, Ritesh Deshmukh & others
Plus points: Strong performances by Aftab & Ritesh
Weak points: Poor music, tacky dialogue, Ajay Devgan and female protagonists wasted
Box-Office verdict: Semi-Hit

MEENAXI
Director: M.F.Hussain
Cast: Tabu, Introducing Kunnal Kapoor
Plus points: Splendid camerawork, a great performance by Tabu, melodious music
Weak points: Outmoded storyline, a bit sluggish
Box-Office verdict: Disaster

MURDER
Director: Anurag Bose
Cast: Ashmit Patel, Mallika Sherawat, Emraan Hashmi
Plus points: A high dosage of sex (enormous front-bencher appeal), lilting music
Weak points: Weak performances
Box-Office verdict: Hit (largely in Mumbai because of its throwaway sale price and theatre strike)

MUSKAAN
Director: Rohit-Manish
Cast: Aftab Shivdasani, Gracy Singh, Neha, Anjala Zaveri & others
Plus points: Prime shooting locales, high publicity, a sincere performance by Gracy
Weak points: Poor music, weak storyline, shaky screenplay
Box-Office verdict: Flop

WOH
Director: Raj Sippy
Cast: Priyanshu Chatterjee, Cleo Isaacs, Ayub Khan
Plus points: None
Weak points: Tacky looking, weak performances, poor music and publicity
Box-Office verdict: Disaster


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PostPosted: Sat May 08, 2004 9:35 pm 
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Depends how you define a Hit or Average.

MHN has broken the previous record of Total First Week Collections from India (despite releasing with one thiord less prints than the previous record holder K3G).
viewtopic.php?p=50151#50151

It sure is going reach HIT staus in the coming weeks.

Then, how is it Average?? I guess, they mean that presently, just one week after it's release, the distributors have revovered their cost and hence reached AVERAGE?? Further collections will keep improving this status upwards.


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PostPosted: Sun May 09, 2004 5:10 am 
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rana wrote:
Depends how you define a Hit or Average.

MHN has broken the previous record of Total First Week Collections from India (despite releasing with one thiord less prints than the previous record holder K3G).
viewtopic.php?p=50151#50151

It sure is going reach HIT staus in the coming weeks.

Then, how is it Average?? I guess, they mean that presently, just one week after it's release, the distributors have revovered their cost and hence reached AVERAGE?? Further collections will keep improving this status upwards.

All of these reports are joke. By the fact that the film has broken all previous first week records, it must be considered a super duper hit, for now atleast.


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Then, how is it Average?? I guess, they mean that presently, just one week after it's release, the distributors have revovered their cost and hence reached AVERAGE?? Further collections will keep improving this status upwards


Then how HIT in ONE DAY???


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arsh wrote:
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Then, how is it Average?? I guess, they mean that presently, just one week after it's release, the distributors have revovered their cost and hence reached AVERAGE?? Further collections will keep improving this status upwards


Then how HIT in ONE DAY???


It all depends what they mean. Most of the times they are ambigeous.

Boxoffice India attaches a status to a film based on how much it has collected so far and when they get the indication that at the rate of collections coming in, their hit/average/flop staus won't change. So far, they haven't given any status to MBBS as according to present collections it's already Hit, but it's still collecting decent collections and may reach Super Hit or Super Duper Hit or---.

Some declare Hit or Flop basesd on their assesment of final outcome. This is just a prediction.

BTW, All Films are Super Duper Hits at the time of their launch and stay that way till the time of their release. :)

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MHN First Week Collections from All India have been revised, further upwards, again.
Ist wk All India Collections now are estimated at over Rs 13.4 crore.


http://www.boxofficeindia.com/
Main Hoon Na update-9th May 20.00 IST

As more and more and collections are received the total seems to get better and better.The estimated total now stands at 13,40,87,984.SIMPLY AMAZING


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Well, Number of shows has been INCREASED locally!!

On your kind ADVICE! I accepted a FREE OFFER to RE WATCH with a FRIEND...this time in a THX theatre!!

Some how I had to sit a bit closer this time!!

It was a MAITNEE show was Almost FULL!!


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King Khan - The Czar of Chennai

By Moviebuzz
Saturday, 08 May , 2004, 12:40


King Khan has become the Czar of Chennai as his Main Hoon Na has taken a record net collection of Rs 24,69, 575 from four screens in its first week.

This is a record for a Hindi film and industrywallas say that superstar Vikram’s Arul and Ajit’s Jana released around the same time has not been able to garner so much money at the Chennai box-office.

Anyone who grew up watching Hindi films of the roaring 70’s and 80’s will turn nostalgic watching Farah Khan’s Main Hoon Na which is a formulaic fun entertainer. At the epicentre of all the mirth is King Khan and his knockout performance, which has made the film, this summer’s blockbuster. SRK has finally managed to take Chennai, the last bastion of regional cinema. Remember Hyderabad and Bangalore both which have vibrant regional superstars, had fallen earlier to King Khan’s charms.

It has sent shockwaves in the placid Tamil dominated Chennai film world as big regional films could not stand up to SRK’s Main Hoon Na!


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PostPosted: Mon May 10, 2004 5:51 pm 
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By Ashok

'Charas' and 'Sheen' are non-starters with less than 20% openings. 'Main Hoon Na' has created many records all over but its fate depends on the next few weeks due to the record prices, which were fetched in some circuits. It is the second most expensive film ever for distributors after 'The Hero', with an all India cost including print and publicity of 17 crore. The film has fetched an amazing 7 crore+ net gross from the 7 big cities of Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Pune, Hyderabad and Bangalore. The collections have started to fall at some centers.

Here's a list of top ten for the week ending May 8th, 2004.

1. Main Hoon Na
Number of Weeks: 1
Total Gross: 13.5 crore (updated on May 9th, 2004)
Box-Office Verdict: Excellent first week
Bollyvista.com Review



2. Masti
Number of Weeks: 4
Total Gross: 18.70 crore
Box-Office Verdict: Semi-Hit
Bollyvista.com Review



3. Murder
Number of Weeks: 5
Total Gross: 11.40 crore
Box-Office Verdict: Hit (Superhit at places)
Bollyvista.com Review



4. Bardaasht
Number of Weeks: 2
Total Gross: 2.70 crore
Box-Office Verdict: Disaster
Bollyvista.com Review



5. Shaadi Ka Laddoo
Number of Weeks: 2
Total Gross: 1.15 crore
Box-Office Verdict: Flop
Bollyvista.com Review



6. Krishna Cottage
Number of Weeks: 3
Total Gross: 3.00 crore
Box-Office Verdict: Flop
Bollyvista.com Review



7. Munna Bhai M.B.B.S.
Number of Weeks: 20
Total Gross: 23.20 crore
Box-Office Verdict: Hit
Bollyvista.com Review



8. Kal Ho Naa Ho
Number of Weeks: 23
Total Gross: 33.10 crore
Box-Office Verdict: Semi-Hit
Bollyvista.com Review



9. Khakee
Number of Weeks: 15
Total Gross: 27.00 crore
Box-Office Verdict: Average
Bollyvista.com Review



10. Hawas
Number of Weeks: 6
Total Gross: 1.90 crore
Box-Office Verdict: Average
Bollyvista.com Review




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

http://www.bollyvista.com/boxoffice/


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