Next Friday will see the release of two diverse genre films. Thursday (at some cinemas and then a regular release on Friday) will see Himesh Reshammiya's Radio DJ/FM film, RADIO, and the next day will see the dynamite father son duo of Amitabh Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan with a role reversal in the Progeria based movie PAA. One feels that given the budgets, 6 crore for RADIO and 15 crore for PAA, the films will be beneficial for the parties involved. However, what must be added here is that while there is a lot of curiosity and expectations from PAA, the hype is somehow not of the level that one expected from any of the two releases. Of the two, PAA is expected to be the front runner and is expected to put up some good numbers from Mysore, NCR and Bombay circuit multiplexes.
Last Friday saw a solo Eid-ul Azha release in the form of Priyadarshan's Akshay, Suneil, Paresh, Katrina and Sameera starrer, DE DANA DAN. Released at 111 cinemas of Bombay-Thane (thru Raksha Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.) the film saw a good opening at single-screen cinemas but was rather disappointing at the multiplexes. DE DANA DAN was also released at 90 plus cinemas of Delhi-UP (by Sukrit Pictures) and saw a good opening in U.P., East Punjab, Bihar, C.P. Berar, C.I. and Rajasthan but was below the mark in Delhi. The picture however changed on Saturday and Sunday and the film picked up further (and improved in Delhi and Bombay multiplexes also). During the weekend, DE DANA DAN netted a good 23 crores from India. DE DANA DAN has also done very well in the Overseas, grossing ?308,029 from UK during the opening weekend (27-29 November) and $772,377 from the US during the thanksgiving weekend. However, as per the trade, the Indian theatrical rights of DE DANA DAN were picked up by Baba Arts Limited for 31 crores and the rights were then sold off to sub-distributors at fancy prices and so DE DANA DAN has to sustain till at least the second weekend to succeed in India. EROS International, the overseas distributors are more or less in the safe in the safe zone, based on just the first weekend business.
Checking out Karan Johar's Rensil D'Silva directed KURBAAN; the film has more or less been rejected. During its first week KURBAAN collected 4 crores from Bombay, 1.55 lakhs from Lonavala, 80 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 25 lakhs from Surat, 3 lakhs from Nandiad, 5.50 lakhs from Anand, 22 lakhs from Baroda, 2.50 lakhs from Navsari, 3.40 lakhs from Bharuch, 1.50 lakhs from Himmatnagar, 2 lakhs from Palanpur, 4 lakhs from Vapi, 15 lakhs from Rajkot, 3.50 lakhs from Jamnagar, 1.05 lakhs from Junagarh, 3.50 lakhs from Bhavnagar, 3 lakhs from Gandhidham, 80 lakhs from Pune, 3.50 lakhs from Kolhapur, 3.50 lakhs from Solapur, 2 lakhs each from Sangli and Ahmednagar, 12 lakhs each from Nasik and Goa, 4.55 lakhs from Belgaum, 2.50 crores from Delhi city, 32 lakhs each from Noida and Ghaziabad, 15 lakhs from Kanpur, 2 lakhs from Lucknow, 8 lakhs from Agra, 3.15 lakhs from Allahabad, 3 lakhs from Meerut, 2.15 lakhs from Bareilly, 3 lakhs from Aligarh, 45 lakhs from Gurgaon, 18 lakhs from Faridabad, 25 lakhs from Chandigarh, 2.50 lakh from Zirakpur, 10 lakhs from Jalandhar, 17 lakhs from Ludhiana, 3 lakhs from Bhatinda, 2.50 lakhs from Patiala, 5 lakhs from Ambala, 1.25 lakhs from Simla, 2 lakhs from Pathankot, 8 lakhs from Jammu, 85 lakhs from Calcutta, 12 lakhs from Patna, 1.15 lakhs from Muzzafarpur, 5 lakhs from Ranchi, 2 lakhs from Dhanbad, 20 lakhs from Nagpur, 2 lakhs each from Amravati and Akola, 8 lakhs from Raipur, 1.65 lakhs each from Durg and Dhule, 1.35 lakhs each from Jalgaon , Wardha and Chandrapur, 24 lakhs from Indore, 11 lakhs from Bhopal, 25 lakhs from Jaipur, 4 lakhs from Jodhpur, 3.50 lakhs from Ajmer , 1.50 lakhs from Bikaner, 9 lakhs from Kota, 88 lakhs from Hyderabad, 2 lakhs from Warangal, 4 lakhs from Aurangabad, 6 lakhs from Latur, 2.50 lakhs from Nanded, 2 lakhs from Parbhani, 4.75 lakhs from Gulbarga, 1 crore from Bangalore, 7 lakhs from Mangalore, 4 lakhs from Vijaywada, 30 lakhs from Madras and 4.15 lakhs from Ernakulam. In its opening week, KURBAAN has netted a very ordinary 20 crores from India. The Saif-Kareena starrer has flopped badly. KURBAAN has disappointed in the overseas (given the cast and banner) grossing ?309,649 from UK and $680,326 from US up to the second weekend (27-29 November) and will be a heavy loser for its all world distributor, UTV.
Moving on to Kunal Deshmukh's TUM MILE, the film crashed out of the cinemas collecting 7.50 lakhs from Bombay (collections from 7 cinemas unreceived), 5.15 lakhs from Delhi city, 1.25 lakhs from Noida, 1.10 lakhs from Kanpur, 1.75 lakhs each from Gurgaon and Calcutta, and 5.50 lakhs from Hyderabad. Adding a further 50 lakhs in the second week, TUM MILE has more or less ended its run, netting around 10.50 crores from India. The Emraan Hashmi and Soha Ali Khan starrer is a trade disaster. The film has also been totally rejected in the Overseas, grossing a poor ?38,005 from UK at the end of its run.
Our last entry of this week is Rajkumar Santoshi's AJAB PREM KI GHAZAB KAHANI. The film has once again done well at major centres collecting 1 crore from Bombay, 20 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 10 lakhs each from Surat and Baroda, 2 lakhs from Anand, 1.20 lakhs each from Navsari and Vapi, 5 lakhs from Rajkot, 2.50 lakhs from Jamnagar, 1.25 lakhs from Bhavnagar, 25 lakhs from Pune, 3 lakhs from Kolhapur, 4 lakhs from Nasik, 40 lakhs from Delhi city, 6.50 lakhs from Noida, 4.50 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 4 lakhs from Kanpur, 3.25 lakhs from Agra, 2 lakhs from Aligarh, 10 lakhs from Gurgaon, 1.25 lakhs from Faridabad, 3.50 lakhs from Chandigarh, 20 lakhs from Calcutta, 9.75 lakhs from Nagpur, 3.50 lakhs from Jabalpur, 2 lakhs each from Akola and Amravati, 4.50 lakhs from Raipur, 8 lakhs from Indore, 7 lakhs from Jaipur, 2.10 lakhs from Jodhpur, 3 lakhs each from Ajmer and Kota, 25 lakhs from Hyderabad, 2.55 lakhs from Aurangabad, 1.10 lakhs from Gulbarga, 7.50 lakhs from Bangalore and 1.50 lakhs from Mangalore. Adding a further 5.50 crores, AJAB PREM KI GHAZAB KAHANI has netted an excellent 60 crores in the three weeks from India. The Ranbir-Katrina starrer is sure to finish as a super hit from India. APKGK has also done good business in the Overseas, grossing ?432,174 till the fourth weekend (27-29 November) and $741,238 from US at the end of its run.
