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  • ‘Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!’ collects Rs 14.06 crore in opening weekend

    ‘Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!’ collects Rs 14.06 crore in opening weekend

    MUMBAI: Yash Raj Films usually has a good experience with its small budget films and the studio’s one such film, Dum Laga Ke Haisha, has already established itself as a mini hit. These films also create a valuable repertoire for the studio. 

     

    However, its latest, Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! is not quite living up to expectations. The film did not make much of the Friday despite being a holiday. The collections remained stagnant on Saturday but showed some improvement on Sunday to close its opening weekend with a figure of Rs 14.06 crore.

     

    Barkhaa rates as a total loss film barely managing to touch the Rs 1 crore mark in its first week.

     

    Delhiwali Zaalim Girlfriend adds Rs 40 lakh in its second week to take its two week tally to Rs 4.1 crore.

     

    Hunterrr collects Rs 2.9 crore in its second week to take its two week total to Rs 9.75 crore.

     

    NH 10 maintains reasonably good collections in its third week in absence of any watchable opposition. The film collects Rs 3.15 crore in its third week to take its three week total to Rs 30.2 crore.

     

    Dum Laga Ke Haisha has become a mini hit; the film has added Rs 1.9 crore in its fifth week to take its total to Rs 29.97 crore. The sixth weekend took it past the Rs 30 crore mark by adding Rs 17 lakh for three days.

     

    On the other hand, Dirty Politics has added approximately Rs 5 lakh in its second week to take its two week total to Rs 6.11 crore.

  • ‘Dum Laga Ke Haisha’ collects Rs 28.07 crore at box office

    ‘Dum Laga Ke Haisha’ collects Rs 28.07 crore at box office

    MUMBAI: The plight of the exhibition sector continues as the supply of crowd puling films remains scarce. What’s more, the next few weeks will also see small budget films releasing. While the ICC Cricket World Cup has reached its logical conclusion, come 8 April and the next major hurdle for films will come in the form of the Indian Premiere League (IPL).

     

    Barkhaa, an old-fashioned love story, which released last week, saw poor box office collections in its opening weekend.

     

    The other release, Yahan Sabki Lagi Hai, unfortunately found no audience.

     

    Hunterrr, a film about a self-confessed skirt tail chaser, remained below average. The film collected Rs 7.85 crore in its first week.

     

    Dilliwali Zaalim Girlfriend showed poor performance with collections of Rs 3.7 crore in its first week and no further prospects.

     

    The Anuskha Sharma starrer NH10’s first week figures were Rs 19.85 crore. The film has added Rs 7.2 crore in its second week to take its two week tally to Rs 27.05 crore. This being an open week, NH10 may be able to sustain and add a few crores more to its tally.

     

    Dirty Politics managed to add about Rs 10 lakh in its third week to take its three week total to Rs 6.6 crore.

     

    Dum Laga Ke Haisha makes the most of its status of being the only family fare catering to all kind of audience as well as facing poor oppositions. The film maintains steady collections of Rs 2.37 crore in its fourth week to take its four week tally to Rs 28.07 crore.

     

    Badlapur: Don’t Miss The Beginning has added a symbolic Rs 8 lakh in its fifth week to take its five week total to Rs 48.75 crore.

  • Barkhaa…Who?

    Barkhaa…Who?

    MUMBAI: Barkhaa is an old fashioned story revisited. It is about a city lad on a visit to a picturesque location where he falls for another visitor. As a modern version, the theme is about one sided love, an obsession and about his love ending up in a dance bar.

     

    Taaha Shah, a reputed and wealthy lawyer’s son, is on a visit to Haryana, where he spots Sara Loren and falls in love with her. She is not aware of his feelings or scrutiny. But, soon, Sara has vanished from the scene and Tahaa does not know where to look for her.

     

    Back to routine, he is asked to run an errand for his lawyer father, Puneet Issar, to meet a dance bar owner client of his. Taaha is invited by the bar owner to come visit his bar. When Taaha does so, he gets an unpleasant surprise. Sara is one of the bar dancers at the joint. Now, Taaha may be obsessed with Sara but, for a reputed, traditional Tahaa, son of a renowned lawyer, a bar girl is not supposed to be an ideal object of romance.

     

    Since Taaha is in a quandary as his love for Sara is overpowering, he is drawn to the bar constantly. He lands up there and takes to drinking. He drowns his sorrows and shock of his love being a dance bar girl by just looking at her every day without communicating.

     

    Sara is not a mere bar girl, she is talented too and has penned a book, which Taaha is invited to inaugurate. After reading the book, Taaha learns the story of Sara’s life, her betrayal by Taaha’s own friend and her having been left with a child out of wedlock.  The book mentions no author’s name but Taaha somehow connects it to Sara.

     

    It is time for the old-fashioned melodrama. Taaha is summoned to his hospitalized mother. Meanwhile, Issar is plotting to get Sara out of Taaha’s life. As a reputed lawyer, he can’t have a bar girl as his daughter in law. But, such films are all about happy endings. So be it.

     

    Sara acts well and has a good presence. Taaha does well. The direction is fair and the film has a pleasant musical score.

     

    But with no face value and a lack of promotion, Barkhaa will only add to numbers, nothing to box office.

     

    Producer: Shaban Hashmi.

    Director: Shadaa Mirza.

    Cast: Sara Loren, Taaha Shah, Puneet Issar.