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: Average

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: Flop

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: Flop (fair in Maharashtra and Gujarat)

'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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Veer Zara that's minting money left right and center and is just Average??
Similarly MEA and a flop??

May be these are the standings based on the achieved status from earnings till the reporting date only.

BTW, what role did Nirupa Roy play in MEA??

VZ is making money only overseas. It is not really raking it in India. In speaking with my brother over the weekend, he said that tickets for VZ were available in Current Booking on the Saturday and Sunday of the week of release and this when the release was during Eid and Diwali. That should tell you how the people have reacted to it.

He also mentioned that inspite of Yash-Raj Films' claim of DHOOM being a mega hit, he has not seen any theatres in Mumbai where it was running to packed houses. With no scientific way of collecting box-office results, the only way people come with these terms of a hit or a success or a flop or a mega-flop, is by sheer guess work. The real story comes out only six months after the release when the hype is all done and the distributors are no longer willing to mince words about a particular movie's state.

http://www.boxofficeindia.com

Veer Zara breaks First Week All India Net Gross record from 13.63 cr set by Main Hoon Na to 18.07 cr.

A whopping 32.5% better than previous record holder Main Hoon Na; And that too without Karnataka ckt.

Veer Zara:
Wow, 18 cr Indian Net Gross for first week and another 18 cr (Indian Rupees) from Overseas in just 10 days. (Dollar Power)

http://www.indiafm.com/boxoffice/overseas/24nov04.shtml

U.K. BOX-OFFICE


VEER-ZAARA [last weekend: No. 4, this weekend: No. 6] is a one-horse race. In its second weekend, the film has collected £ 323,905 on 59 screens, with the per screen average working out to £ 5,490. The total so far has been £ 1,117,703 [approx. Rs. 9.34 crores].

U.S.A. BOX-OFFICE


VEER-ZAARA [last weekend: No. 15, this weekend: No. 18] continues its victorious march. In its second weekend, the film has collected $ 547,956 on 83 screens, with the per screen average working out to $ 6,602. The total so far has been $ 1,752,335 [approx. Rs. 7.90 crores].

AUSTRALIA BOX-OFFICE


VEER-ZAARA [last weekend: No. 15, this weekend: No. 14] climbs the ladder. Has emerged a blockbuster in this market as well. In its second weekend, the film has collected Australian $ 77,549 on 8 screens [1st weekend: $ 83,830 on 8 screens], with the per screen average working out to $ 9,694 [1st weekend: $ 10,479]. The total so far has been $ 197,037 [approx. Rs. 69.71 lacs].

Well, Rana!! So Galaan di Eko Gal!!

VZ can make BILLION, but My verdict wont change for film!!
AVERAGE!