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  • ‘Haider’ sweeps IIFA Technical Awards

    ‘Haider’ sweeps IIFA Technical Awards

     NEW DELHI: The Shahid Kapoor starrer Haider has swept the Technical awards of the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA), bagging as many as six awards. 

     

    This year’s Videocon D2H IIFA Weekend celebrations are slated from 5 – 7 June in Kuala Lumpur.

     

    Awards won by Haider are Costume Designing (Dolly Ahluwalia), Background Score (Vishal Bhardwaj), Sound Mixing (Debajit Changmai), Sound Design (Shajith Koyeri), Production Design (Subrata Chakraborty & Amit Ray) and Make-up (Preetisheel Singh & Clover Wootton).

     

    Queen and Kick won two awards each. While Queen took home the award for Screenplay (Vikas Bahl, Chaitally Parmar, Parveez Shaikh) and Editing (Anurag Kashyap and Abhijit Kokate), Kick walked away with awards for Choreography (Ahmed Khan) and Special Effects – Visual (Reupal Rawal). 

     

    Ek Villian won for Song Recording (Eric Pillai) and PK got the honour for Dialogue (Abhijit Joshi & Rajkumar Hirani). The film 2 States won an award for Cinematography (Binod Pradhan) and Bang Bang took home an accolade for Action (Parvez Shaikh and Andy Armstrong).

     

    The IIFA Voting process is monitored by KPMG, the official auditors for the event.

     

     

  • ‘Kick’ starts with a bang

    ‘Kick’ starts with a bang

    MUMBAI: Kick, Sajid Nadiadwala’s directorial debut, was expected to go slow till ‘Eid’ but nothing seems to stop the Salman Khan action thriller as the film took a flying start despite the fasting month of Ramzan being in its last phase where no distractions work.

     

    The film, which collected an unprecedented Rs 83.85 crore for its opening weekend, is expected to continue to add healthy figures from Eid day (29 July) onwards.

     

    Hate Story 2 has done well to collect Rs 22.2 crore in its first week. Pizza 3-D, a horror suspense film has had limited appeal, managing to collect just Rs 4.45 crore in its first week.

     

    Amit Sahni Ki List caters humour that falls flat; the film collected Rs 4.2 crore in its first week.

     

    Ek Villain collected Rs 40 lakh in its fourth week taking its four week total to Rs 102.47 crore.

     

    Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania holds on very well in its second week to add Rs 19.8 crore taking its two week total to Rs 71.7 crore.

     

    Holiday: A Soldier Is Never Off Duty adds Rs 20 lakh in its seventh week to take its seven week total to Rs 111.27 crore.

  • Alia Bhatt and Arjun Kapoor most searched emerging stars online

    Alia Bhatt and Arjun Kapoor most searched emerging stars online

    BENGALURU: India’s crazy love for Bollywood stars, movies, and songs is a celebrated and known fact.  With the entry of fresh talent and dynamic performances over the last year, Bollywood buffs across the country have been extending their support to the stars of tomorrow. While some are new to film fraternity, the others hail from filmy homes and have grown up in Bollywood.

     

    Starry kids including the likes of Alia Bhatt, Shraddha Kapoor, Arjun Kapoor, Varun Dhawan and Tiger Shroff are leading searches on Google. Although filmy background gives them a clear edge, the other non-filmy newbies on screen including Sidhartha Malhotra and Ileana D’cruz have made their way to fans’ hearts with their performances and talent.

     

    An analysis of recent searches on Google (Google Search trends) takes a look at the popularity of these stars among the fans online. 

     

    Alia Bhatt’s dream launch in Student of the Year followed by blockbuster movies including Highway and Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania has gained a lot of interest online as she leads search interest among fans for emerging stars.

     

    Aashiqui 2 fame Shraddha Kapoor with her compelling performance in Ek Villian has also grabbed continuous attention from fans online. Interestingly their standing remains too close as the two continue to work hard to maintain their fast growing fan base.  Among those with no starry backgrounds, Ileana D’Cruz stood out of the crowd with high interest witnessed online.  

     

    Among the male stars, Arjun Kapoor is the latest on the block attracting huge search interest online. While he made his debut in 2012 with Isaqzaade, he took on the spotlight with his blockbuster hit 2 States this year.

     

    Sidhartha Malhothra’s journey with his charming performance in Student of the Year & Hasee Toh Phasee to the thrilling Ek Villian has been followed closely by his fans. The actor has shown steady and charismatic performances that are driving searches online.

  • ‘Ek Villan’ and ‘Holiday’ cash-in at BO

    ‘Ek Villan’ and ‘Holiday’ cash-in at BO

    MUMBAI: Bobby Jasoos was much publicised and Vidya Balan was expected to repeat the trick with another film after Dirty Picture and Kahaani. But, the moviegoers did not seem to share the enthusiasm of the makers. The film had a very weak opening day and managing to improve only symbolically as most films do on Saturday and Sunday. The film managed to put together Rs 7.5 crore for the opening weekend.

     

    Lekar Hum Deewana Dil has been rejected outright eking out a poor Rs 1.5 crore for its first weekend.

     

    Ek Villain continues its good run after a strong opening weekend. Appreciated for the story, the performances as well as the musical score, the film takes in a healthy Rs 70.2 crore for its first week and also holding on well through its second weekend.

     

    Humshakals collected Rs 4.3 crore in its second week to take its two week total to Rs 55.9 crore.

     

    Holiday: A Soldier Is Never Off Duty has managed a decent Rs 2.5 crore in its fourth week to take its four week total to Rs 110.2 crore.

     

  • ‘Ek Villain’, ‘Holiday’ shine at BO

    ‘Ek Villain’, ‘Holiday’ shine at BO

    MUMBAI: Ek Villan, a reasonably priced film with a limited face value where Riteish Deshmukh plays a negative role and gets a challenging one at that for the first time in his career, springs the biggest surprise with an outstanding opening weekend befitting a big star cast, big budget film. The film was expected to do well and the exhibitors were looking forward to it after a disappointing week with Humshakals. And, Ek Villain more than lives up to the expectations.

     

    The film was expected to do around a decent Rs 11 plus crore or so on its opening day but exceeded all estimates by going over Rs 16 crore and went on to maintain at the same level. The onset of Ramadan three days from the release also helped the weekend to be strong as the holy fasting month of Ramadan sets in on Monday and films are taboo for those observing it. The film has ended its first weekend with a grand figure of Rs 48.5 crore.

     

    Humshakals is poor, especially so considering its huge price tag. Having managed to collect Rs 51.6 crore for its first week and facing a poor second week, the film will be one of the major losers of the year.

     

    Holiday: A Soldier Is Never Off Duty has maintained wonderfully in its third week, thanks to poor oppositions and also thanks to its merits to a degree. The film has added Rs 10.65 crore in its third week to take its three week tally to Rs 107.7 crore.

     

    Fugly has added Rs 70 lakh to its total in its second week to take its total to Rs 9.95 crore.  

     

    Filmistan has collected Rs 50 lakh in its third week to take its three week total to Rs 5.8 crore.