With Omung Kumar’s PM NARENDRA MODI being postponed yet again, there are bunched releases like Kunaal Roy Kapur and Tara Alisha Berry’s MARUDHAR EXPRESS , Vivek Agnihotri’s THE TASHKENT FILES, Rakesh Ranjan’s mystery thriller PAHARGANJ- THE LITTLE AMSTERDAM OF INDIA and Saurabh Shukla and Nandita Das’s ALBERT PINTO KO GUSSA KYON AATA HAI etc. It’s but natural that the above mentioned releases will find little patronage, especially as they have only four clear days to make a mark as Karan Johar’s Varun, Alia, Madhuri and Sanjay starrer, KALANK releases on Wednesday, 17th April due to National holiday, Mahavir Jayanti. Moreover, the audience will hold on its purse strings for the much awaited biggie,
Checking out last week’s premier release, Robbie Grewal’s, John Abraham-Mouni Roy starrer, spy thriller R.A.W, after an ordinary opening day the film did show some improvement netting 21 crore during the opening week, which gives the film a wee bit of chance and the outcome will depend upon the weekdays run. RAW. Has also disappointed in the overseas grossing £35,000 from UK and $140,000 from the US during the opening weekend (5-7 April).
The other release, Oscar nominated Ashwin Kumar’s NO FATHERS IN KASHMIR, found critical accolades but no commercial rewards and is a debacle.
Coming to Chuck Russel’s, Vidyut Jammawal’s JUNGLEE, the film saw a fair first week collecting 2.50 crore from Bombay (collections from other cinemas unrecieved), 80 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 25 lakhs from Surat, 14 lakhs from Baroda, 6.75 lakhs from Rajkot, 75 lakhs from Pune, 8.25 lakhs from Nasik, 12.55 lakhs from Goa, 2 lakhs from Belgaum, 1.25 crore from Delhi city, 30.75 lakhs from Noida, 33.50 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 16.50 lakhs from Kanpur, 42 lakhs from Lucknow, 15 lakhs from Agra, 6.25 lakhs from Allahabad, 4.25 lakhs from Aligarh, 10.75 lakhs from Dehradun, 30 lakhs from Gurgaon, 16.50 lakhs from Faridabad, 1.50 lakhs from Kurukshetra, 3.25 lakhs from Panipat, 7 lakhs from Chandigarh, 2.50 lakhs from Jalandhar, 1 lakh from Patiala, 3 lakhs from Amritsar, 4 lakhs from Ludhiana, 1.75 lakhs from Bhatinda, 4 lakhs from Jammu, 50 lakhs from Calcutta, 4.50 lakhs from Siliguri, 6.50 lakhs from Patna, 3 lakhs from Dhanbad, 8.50 lakhs from Ranchi, 11.25 lakhs from Bhubaneshwar, 10.75 lakhs from Guwahati, 3 lakhs from Muzaffarpur, 15 lakhs from Nagpur, 13.75 lakhs from Raipur, 20 lakhs from Indore, 5 lakhs from Gwalior, 15 lakhs from Bhopal(collections from 2 cinemas unrecieved), 35 lakhs from Jaipur(collections from 3 cinemas unrecieved), 7.75 lakhs from Jodhpur, 4 lakhs from Ajmer, 1.50 lakhs from Bikaner, 7 lakhs from Kota, 7.50 lakhs from Udaipur, 25 lakhs from Hyderabad, 7.50 lakhs from Aurangabad, 50 lakhs from Bangalore, 2.75 lakhs from Mangalore, 4.25 lakhs from Mysore, 2 lakhs from Vijayawada, 2.75 lakhs from Visakhapatnam, 3.75 lakhs from Madras and 1.50 lakhs from Kochi. Netting 21 crore during the opening week from India, JUNGLEE has it’s task cut out even to achieve a coverage status.
The other release, Salman Khan’s home production (Salma Khan produced) NOTEBOOK failed to entice audience and is a commercial failure netting around 3.75 crore during its opening week while Eros International’s GONE KESH is a washout.
Coming to the premier Holi release, Akshay Kumar and Parineeti Chopra starrer, KESARI, after a good opening week (8-days) the film saw a big fall as it collected 2.50 crore from Bombay (collections from other cinemas unrecieved), 75 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 31.50 lakhs from Surat, 18.50 lakhs from Baroda, 11 lakhs from Rajkot, 1.25 crore from Pune, 10.25 lakhs from Nasik, 8 lakhs from Goa, 2.50 lakhs from Belgaum, 3.50 crore from Delhi city, 85 lakhs from Noida, 75lakhs from Ghaziabad, 28.50 lakhs from Kanpur, 58 lakhs from Lucknow, 18.25 lakhs from Agra, 13.50 lakhs from Allahabad, 5.25 lakhs from Aligarh, 26 lakhs from Dehradun, 90 lakhs from Gurgaon, 37.50 lakhs from Faridabad, 4.75 lakhs from Kurukshetra, 8.50 lakhs from Panipat, 24.50 lakhs from Chandigarh, 16 lakhs from Jalandhar, 8 lakhs from Patiala, 23.50 lakhs from Amritsar, 50.25 lakhs from Ludhiana, 7 lakhs from Bhatinda, 5.25 lakhs from Ambala, 1.50 lakhs from Shimla, 12.50 lakhs from Jammu, 75 lakhs from Calcutta, 7.50 lakhs from Siliguri, 12 lakhs from Patna, 5.25 lakhs from Dhanbad, 10 lakhs from Ranchi, 12.50 lakhs from Bhubaneshwar, 2 lakhs from Guwahati, 3.50 lakhs from Muzaffarpur, 20.75 lakhs from Nagpur, 22.50 lakhs from Raipur, 45 lakhs from Indore, 14.50 lakhs from Gwalior, 25 lakhs from Bhopal (collections from 2 cinemas unrecieved), 90 lakhs from Jaipur(collections from 3 cinemas unrecieved), 20 lakhs from Jodhpur, 9 lakhs from Ajmer, 5.75 lakhs from Bikaner, 15 lakhs from Kota, 20 lakhs from Udaipur, 37.50 lakhs from Hyderabad, 10.25 lakhs from Aurangabad, 1 crore from Bangalore, 1.75 lakhs from Mangalore, 5 lakhs from Visakhapatnam, 4 lakhs from Madras and 1.50 lakhs from Kochi. Adding another 29.50 crore during its second week , KESARI has netted 135.50 crore in two weeks from India and is a hit. KESARI is decent in the overseas (good in US) grossing $3.75m with £330,00 from UK and $1,825,00 from the US till the third weekend (5-7 April).
Moving on, Red Chillies and Azure Entertainment’s Amitabh-Taapsee starrer, BADLA, the film saw another rewarding week collecting 1 crore from Bombay (collections from other cinemas unrecieved), 20 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 8 lakhs from Surat, 7 lakhs from Baroda, 2.50 lakhs from Rajkot, 45 lakhs from Pune, 2.75 lakhs from Nasik, 1.50 lakhs from Goa, 60 lakhs from Delhi city, 20 lakhs from Noida, 15 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 9.75 lakhs from Kanpur, 10.75 lakhs from Lucknow, 1 lakh from Agra, 1.50 lakhs from Allahabad, 2.50 lakhs from Dehradun, 20 lakhs from Gurgaon, 3.75 lakhs from Faridabad, 5 lakhs from Chandigarh, 2.50 lakhs from Ludhiana, 35 lakhs from Calcutta, 2 lakhs from Siliguri, 4.25 lakhs from Patna, 1.75 lakhs from Ranchi, 5lakhs from Bhubaneshwar, 2 lakhs from Guwahati, 6 lakhs from Nagpur, 5 lakhs from Raipur, 8.50 lakhs from Indore, 1.50 lakhs from Gwalior, 4.50 lakhs from Bhopal, 10 lakhs from Jaipur, 1.50 lakhs from Jodhpur, 1.75 lakhs from Kota, 2.25 lakhs from Udaipur, 10.50 lakhs from Hyderabad, 1.55 lakhs from Aurangabad, 45 lakhs from Bangalore, 1.50 lakhs from Visakhapatnam, 1.75 lakhs from Madras and 1.50 lakhs from Kochi. Adding 6 crore during its fourth week , BADLA has netted 85 crore in four weeks from India and is a clean hit ! BADLA is also on a good overseas run (great in US) grossing over $4m with £225,000 from UK and $1,865,000 from the US.
Concluding with Films’ Kriti Sanon and Katrik Aryan starrer LUKA CHUPPI, added another 1.50 crore, thus netting 86.50 crore in four weeks from India and is a hit. LUKA CHUPPI has also performed very well in the overseas (especially US) grossing £140,000 from UK and $975,000 from the US.
