The coming Friday will see three films taking on each other – Rensil D'Silva's KURBAAN, Devang Dholakia's MAREGA SALAA and the Shankar Mondal directed SHAABASH! YOU CAN DO IT. It is but obvious that the Karan Johar produced KURBAAN will be too hot to handle for both MAREGA SALAA and SHAABABASH! YOU CAN DO IT and the Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor and Vivek Oberoi starrer is likely to embark on a good start, both in India and Overseas.
As expected last week's battle was won by Kunal Deshmukh's Emraan-Soha starrer, TUM MILE, though it was the Hollywood venture, 2012 that turned out to be the champ of the week, both in its original English and the dubbed versions. The other release of the week, Aftab Shivdasani's AAO WISH KAREIN could not make any impression.
Released at 103 cinemas of Bombay-Thane (thru PVR Pictures Ltd.), TUM MILE embarked on an ordinary start but the opening was impressive in Delhi-U.P., C.I. and some centres of other circuits. However, the trade feels that TUM MILE will not be able to cover the investment of the producers, despite a very good initial at places. TUM MILE has been out rightly rejected in the Overseas with poor grosses of ?22,681 from UK and $13,937 from US during the opening weekend (13-15 November). In case of AAO WISH KAREIN, the film released at 25 cinemas of Bombay-Thane (By Mumbai Mantra Media Ltd.) and saw a poor opening. Outside of Bombay the opening was horrifyingly poor all over. As per the trade, the film is a total loss.
Let us now check out the performance of Rajkumar Santoshi's AJAB PREM KI GHAZAB KAHANI. The film has recorded extraordinary collections everywhere and yielded a distributors' share of approximately 20.50 crores in the first week. In its opening run the film collected 7.15 crores from Bombay, 2.25 lakhs from Lonavala, 1.60 crores from Ahmedabad, 60 lakhs from Surat, 8.50 lakhs from Nandiad, 15.75 lakhs from Anand, 55 lakhs from Baroda, 10 lakhs from Bharuch, 4 lakhs from Mehsana, 3.50 lakhs from Palanpur, 7.50 lakhs each from Vapi and Valsad, 28 lakhs from Rajkot, 6.50 lakhs from Jamnagar, 3 lakhs from Junagarh, 10 lakhs from Sundarnagar, 3 lakhs from Porbandar, 2.75 lakhs from Bhuj, 6.35 lakhs from Gandhidham, 2 crores from Pune, 9.15 lakhs from Kolhapur, 6.35 lakhs from Solapur, 2.25 lakhs from Satara, 5 lakhs from Sangli, 1.50 lakhs from Islampur, 2.25 lakhs from Malegaon, 5 lakhs from Ahmednagar, 24 lakhs from Nasik, 25 lakhs from Goa, 4 lakhs from Hubli, 9.50 lakhs from Belgaum, 4.50 crores from Delhi city, 55 lakhs from Noida, 75 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 22.50 lakhs from Kanpur, 50 lakhs from Lucknow, 18.25 lakhs from Agra, 16 lakhs from Varanasi, 4.15 lakhs from Allahabad, 18 lakhs from Meerut, 7 lakhs from Moradabad, 3.50 lakhs from Aligarh, 9 lakhs from Gorakhpur, 11 lakhs from Dehradun, 2 lakhs from Muzzafarnagar, 82 lakhs from Gurgaon, 50 lakhs from Faridabad, 40 lakhs from Chandigarh, 7 lakhs from Zirakpur, 15 lakhs from Jalandhar, 25 lakhs from Ludhiana, 5 lakhs from Bhatinda, 10.50 lakhs from Ambala, 7 lakhs from Kurukshetra, 10 lakhs from Panipat, 9 lakhs from Panchkula, 7 lakhs from Karnal, 3.50 lakhs from Shimla, 1.75 crores from Calcutta, 2.15 lakhs from Darjeeling, 8 lakhs from Guwahati, 55 lakhs from Nagpur, 5 lakhs from Akola, 21 lakhs from Raipur, 2 lakhs each from Dhamtari and Yavatmal, 6 lakhs from Bhilai, 3.50 lakhs each from Wardha and Chandrapur, 65 lakhs from Indore, 14 lakhs from Gwalior, 2.65 lakhs from Ujjain, 1.05 crores from Jaipur, 8 lakhs each from Ajmer and Bikaner, 25 lakhs from Kota, 12 lakhs from Udaipur, 6.50 lakhs from Bhilwara, 1.15 crores from Hyderabad, 2.25 lakhs from Warangal, 7.50 lakhs from Aurangabad, 6.25 lakhs from Gulbarga, 1.65 crores from Bangalore, 11 lakhs from Mangalore, 5 lakhs from Mysore, 2 lakhs from Davangere, 2.50 lakhs from Vijaywada and 2.25 lakhs from Madras. In its opening week, AJAB PREM KI GHAZAB KAHANI has netted a superb 38 crores from across India. The Ranbir-Katrina starrer is now an above average fare that will surely improve its status to at least a clean hit, if not more. The film has also done quite well in the Overseas, grossing ?346,296 from UK and $741,238 from US up to the second weekend (13-15 November).
Our worse fears have come true and barring to an extent Bombay, Madhur Bhandarkar's JAIL has poor collections to show, as the film could not match up to the AJAB PREM KI GHAZAB KAHANI tornado, despite a high release volume. During its first outing JAIL collected 1.40 crores from Bombay city, 25 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 4.25 lakhs from Rajkot, 1.35 lakhs from Bhavnagar, 11 lakhs from Pune, 3 lakhs from Nasik, 2.75 lakhs from Goa, 65 lakhs from Delhi city, 11.50 lakhs from Noida, 5 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 6 lakhs from Kanpur, 8 lakhs from Lucknow, 3 lakhs from Agra, 1 lakh each from Allahabad, Meerut and Gorakhpur, 2 lakhs from Aligarh, 12.15 lakhs from Gurgaon, 4 lakhs each from Chandigarh and Faridabad, 12 lakhs from Calcutta, 7 lakhs from Nagpur, 3 lakhs from Indore, 2 lakhs from Bhopal, 5.50 lakhs from Jaipur, 2.25 lakhs from Kota, 20 lakhs from Hyderabad, 7 lakhs from Bangalore and 2.15 lakhs from Mangalore. In its opening week JAIL has netted a poor 6.15 crores from India and the Neil-Mugdha starrer is a washout. The Madhur Bhandarkar directed JAIL is also an Overseas disaster with a gross of ?12,314 from UK up to the second weekend (13-15 November), while the US collections have not been disclosed.
Moving on to Vipul Shah's LONDON DREAMS, the film crashed badly collecting 50 lakhs from Bombay city, 15 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 1.50 lakhs from Baroda, 4 lakhs from Rajkot, 2.25 lakhs from Jamnagar, 4.25 lakhs from Pune, 2 lakhs from Goa, 25 lakhs from Delhi city, 3 lakhs from Noida, 1.65 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 3 lakhs from Kanpur, 6 lakhs from Lucknow, 1 lakh each from Agra and Allahabad, 5 lakhs from Gurgaon, 1.15 lakh from Faridabad, 2.35 lakhs from Chandigarh, 5 lakhs from Calcutta, 2.50 lakhs from Nagpur, 1.50 lakhs each from Amravati and Akola, 3 lakhs from Raipur, 4 lakhs from Indore, 6 lakhs from Bhopal, 1.50 lakhs from Sehore, 5 lakhs from Jaipur, 1.50 lakhs from Ajmer, 1.65 lakhs from Kota, 15 lakhs from Hyderabad, 5 lakhs from Bangalore and 1.65 lakhs from Mangalore. Adding another 4 crores, LONDON DREAMS has netted a below par 27 crores in two weeks from India. The 60 crore plus Ajay, Salman and Asin starrer is a big flop for all concerned. LONDON DREAMS has also failed in the Overseas grossing a so-so ?252,695 from UK up to the third weekend (13-15 November) and a below par $300,293 from US till the end of its run.
Meanwhile Sujoy Ghosh's ALADIN has crashed beyond redemption. The film collected 5 lakhs from Bombay, 2 lakhs from Delhi city and 1 lakh from Lucknow. Adding another 35 lakhs ALADIN has netted a very poor 6.35 crores in two weeks from India. The 30 crore plus Amitabh, Ritesh and Jacqueline starrer is a trade disaster that has also been rejected in the Overseas with an ordinary ?105,202 from UK up to the third weekend (13-15 November), while the US collections have not been diclosed.
Our last entry of this week is Rohit Shetty's ALL THE BEST, which (in its fourth week) collected 20 lakhs from Bombay, 3.25 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 2 lakhs from Baroda, 3.15 lakhs from Surat, 2 lakhs from Rajkot, 3.15 lakhs from Pune, 5.50 lakhs from Delhi city, 2 lakhs from Noida, 1 lakh from Kanpur, 1.75 lakhs from Lucknow, 1.25 lakhs from Agra, 2 lakhs from Gurgaon, 1 lakh from Chandigarh, 2 lakhs from Calcutta, 1.25 lakhs from Indore, 5 lakhs from Hyderabad and 1.15 lakhs from Bangalore. Adding another crore during its latest outing, ALL THE BEST has netted a decent 40.85 crores in four weeks from India. The Dutt, Devgan, Fardeen and Bipasha starrer, ALL THE BEST ends up as an above average fare due to its ordinary run after the second weekend, and losing out to BLUE on the two opening festive days. ALL THE BEST has been rejected in the Overseas grossing a poor ?107,521 from UK and an equally ordinary $120,713 from the US till the end of its run.
