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  • Raaz3 attracts audiences as Joker performs dismally

    Raaz3 attracts audiences as Joker performs dismally

    Mumbai: Raaz3 took an excellent draw in its opening weekend by collecting Rs 360.2 million. The collections were better at 3-D screening multiplexes and the film is reported to be sustaining well on Monday as well.

    Joker laboured through its first week at the box office. Disowned by its hero and part-producer Akshay Kumar, moviegoers followed suit as the film found few takers ending its first week with a meagre Rs 191 million.

    From Sydney With Love, Jalpari -The Desert Mermaid and I Am 24 fared poorly in their first week.

    Shirin Farhad Ki Toh Nikal Padi collected Rs 17.5 million in its second week to take its total collection to Rs 114 million.

    Ek Tha Tiger, after sweeping the box office in its opening nine days, is now steadily inching towards the Rs two billion mark. At the end of the third week (23 days) the film has collected Rs 1.95 billion with the addition of Rs 100.1 million during the week. The fourth weekend collections were Rs 23.1 million and, at the end of day 26, the collections added up to Rs 1.97 billion.

    Gangs Of Wasseypur came to the end of its run with a symbolic Rs 4.5 million for the fourth week taking its total collection to Rs 230 million.

  • Ek Tha Tiger continues to rule box office, nets Rs 1.75 bn in 12 days

    Ek Tha Tiger continues to rule box office, nets Rs 1.75 bn in 12 days

    MUMBAI: Ek Tha Tiger went on to become a new legend on the Hindi film box office, a fairytale for its makers as it scaled new heights.

    The film showed more action at the box office than the screen itself in its rollercoaster ride which began with Rs 329.3 million on Wednesday, 15 August. Its box office collections dropped over 60 per cent on the following days before it made the most of the weekend and the Eid and Basi Eid festive days.

    The film, which had registered the fastest Rs 1 billion after its extended weekend, closed its first week (nine days) with a whopping Rs 1.54 billion, all from multiple shows at 3,300 screens thereby exhausting most of its audience.

    The film added just Rs 207.4 million more in its second weekend, taking its 12 day tally to Rs 1.75 billion.

    The concept of overflow, which was a routine thing till before multiplexes and the concept of film release in hundreds of screens happened, occurred this time around. The houseful shows of Ek Tha Tiger disappointed many and some of them decided to take in Gangs Of Wasseypur instead rather than return watching nothing. Thus, the overflow audience helped Gangs Of Wasseypur get better collection than it would have in its second week as it netted Rs 27.5 million and took its total to Rs 214.5 million.

    Shirin Farhad Ki Toh Nikal Padi failed to get a decent opening due to its face value and then to improve over the weekend with poor word of mouth. The film ended its opening weekend with around Rs 63 million.

    Jism2 is almost through at the box office adding a symbolic Rs 6.5 million in its third week to gross a total of Rs 357 million.

    Kya Super Kool Hai Hum collected Rs two million in its fourth week taking its total collection to Rs 460.6 million.

  • Shirin Farhad Ki Toh Nikal Padi: Another failed attempt at being ‘different’

    Shirin Farhad Ki Toh Nikal Padi: Another failed attempt at being ‘different’

    Mumbai: The quest for something different, something that can be made in a limited budget and without big stars continues. As such, Shirin Farhad Ki Toh Nikal Padi is an experiment to that end.

     

    Producers: Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Sunil Lulla.
    Direction: Bela Bhansali Sehgal.
    Cast: Boman Irani, Farha Khan, Kavin Dave, Daisy Irani, Shammi, Kurush Deboo.

    The casting of Boman Irani and Farah Khan, as well as Bela Bhansali Sehgal directing a film for her brother’s banner, gets the film ample media attention. Parsis are known for marrying late or not marrying at all and that forms the basis of this film.

    Farhad (played by Boman Irani) is a 45-year-old bachelor with a dominating mother and loving grandmother. He makes his living working as a salesman at a local lingerie shop. Shirin (Farah Khan) is a single Parsi woman of 40 years. One fine day she walks into the shop where Boman works to buy a bra. She is specific about what she wants and Boman tries to convince her on a different size putting his years of experience to use. The sparks fly and both are drawn to each other. Boman, a pure heart simpleton, and Farah, an aggressive kind, want to meet again and again.

    Unknown to both of them, Farah is already enemy of the state as far as Boman’s mother, Daisy Irani, is concerned. As the secretary of the Parsi Trust, she has been responsible for destroying an illegal water storage tank which Daisy Irani’s late husband had lovingly built! Her late husband had done only two worthy things in his life: build that water tank and gave her a son like Boman. So there is no way Farah Khan can be her daughter-in-law. This apart, Boman and Farah keep having their own lovers’ tiffs and misunderstandings too.

    As the film makes it to its post interval part, it shreds any notion of being the love story of a middle-aged couple; it tries to incorporate everything that a regular teenage love story would have. The film’s backdrop is the famous Khushrow Baug in South Mumbai and almost all Parsis are made out to be nutty characters and their trust meetings are usually a free for all. What is more, the film concentrates only on the Parsi community with no non-Parsi character around.

    There are few characters in the film except when there is a meeting that turns into a free for all, which is made to look inevitable at each gathering. The film rests on the shoulders of Boman, Farha, Daisy Irani and Shammi. Shammi and Daisy Irani still make their presence felt. Boman Irani is his usual self, very natural. Farah carries a smirk all the time as if she was enjoying the experience.

    Directorially, Bela Bhansali Sehgal makes her debut but looks like she has a long way to go; the script is patchy and there is little she can do to rise above it. Dialogue is routine. Music wise, songs are well tuned but are out of place in most cases.

    Shirin Farhad Ki Toh Nikal Padi promises no box office prospects.