The coming week will witness multiple releases in the form of KYA DILLI KYA LAHORE, PURANI JEANS, ANGRY YOUNG MAN, KAHIN HAI MERA PYAAR and THE DIRTY MMS (in Mumbai). Needless to add that with so many films listed for release, the business will get divided, though the Vijay Raaz and Manu Rishi starrer KYA DILLI KYA LAHORE and the EROS International venture PURANI JEANS will vie for first position. Once again the older releases like 2 STATES and REVOLVER RANI will prove competitors to the new films.
Very much as expected, it was the Kangana Ranuat starrer REVOLVER RANI which led the show from amongst last week's new releases (netting 7 crore during the opening weekend), followed by Subhash Ghai's KAANCHI and Rajshri's SAMRAT & CO. Given the fact that REVOLVER RANI was sold to Wave Cinemas for 10 crore, and with another 6-7 crore added for publicity and release, it is the only film that has some chances of succeeding, provided that it can be stable on weekdays.
Moving on, Sajid Nadiadwala and Karan Johar's 2 STATES saw a great run collecting 8.95 crore from Bombay (collections from other cinemas unreceived), 2 crore from Ahmedabad, 53.25 lakhs from Surat, 55 lakhs from Baroda (collections from 5 cinemas unreceived), 31 lakhs from Rajkot, 2.65 crore from Pune, 35.50 lakhs from Nasik, 24.50 lakhs from Goa, 11.25 lakhs from Belgaum, 6.50 crore from Delhi city, 91.50 lakhs from Noida, 58 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 33.75 lakhs from Kanpur, 68 lakhs from Lucknow, 10.50 lakhs from Agra, 5.50 lakhs from Allahabad, 5.50 lakhs from Aligarh, 1.50 crore from Gurgaon, 20.50 lakhs from Faridabad, 6.50 lakhs from Kuruskhetra, 8.50 lakhs from Panipat, 34.25 lakhs from Chandigarh, 22.75 lakhs from Jalandhar, 15 lakhs from Amritsar, 17.25 lakhs from Ludhiana, 6.15 lakhs from Bhatinda, 4 lakhs from Jammu, 2 crore from Calcutta, 3.15 lakhs from Darjeeling, 18.20 lakhs from Siliguri, 5.15 lakhs from Patna, 11.25 lakhs from Dhanbad, 7 lakhs from Ranchi, 20 lakhs from Bhubhaneshwar, 6 lakhs from Guwahati, 75 lakhs from Nagpur, 50 lakhs from Raipur, 95 lakhs from Indore, 16.50 lakhs from Gwalior (collections from 4 cinemas unreceived), 50 lakhs from Bhopal (collections from 3 cinemas unreceived), 1.65 crore from Jaipur, 27.25 lakhs from Jodhpur, 7.25 lakhs from Bikaner, 25 lakhs from Kota, 24 lakhs from Udaipur, 85.50 lakhs from Hyderabad, 20 lakhs from Aurangabad, 2.50 crore from Bangalore, 12.50 lakhs from Mangalore, 10.75 lakhs from Vijayawada, 15.50 lakhs from Visakhapatnam, 10.50 lakhs from Madras, 3.15 lakhs from Coimbatore and 8.50 lakhs from Kochi. Netting 60 crore during the opening week, the Arjun-Alia starrer, 2 STATES, is on way to a hit status, if not more. The film is doing great in the overseas (especially US) grossing ?392,000 from UK and $1,743,000 from US till the second weekend (25-27 April).
Meanwhile Amitabh Bachchan's BHOOTHNATH RETURNS fell heavily (in the second week) but in the context of the 2 STATES wave the performance is creditable as the film collected 1.25 crore from Bombay (collections from other cinemas unreceived), 30 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 8.50 lakhs from Surat, 8 lakhs from Baroda (collections from 3 cinemas unreceived), 5.25 lakhs from Rajkot, 25 lakhs from Pune, 5 lakhs from Nasik, 2.50 lakhs from Goa, 1.25 lakhs from Belgaum, 60 lakhs from Delhi city, 10.50 lakhs from Noida, 8.50 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 6.50 lakhs from Kanpur, 10 lakhs from Lucknow, 1 lakh from Agra, 2.50 lakhs from Allahabad, 10.50 lakhs from Gurgaon, 2.50 lakhs from Faridabad, 1.50 lakhs from Panipat, 4.55 lakhs from Chandigarh, 2 lakhs from Jalandhar, 1.50 lakhs from Amritsar, 2 lakhs from Ludhiana, 20 lakhs from Calcutta, 2 lakhs from Siliguri, 1 lakh from Patna, 2 lakhs from Dhanbad, 1.50 lakhs from Ranchi, 2 lakhs from Bhubaneshwar, 8.15 lakhs from Nagpur, 7 lakhs from Raipur, 13 lakhs from Indore, 2.50 lakhs from Gwalior (collections from 2 cinemas unreceived), 4.50 lakhs from Bhopal(collections from 2 cinemas unreceived), 10 lakhs from Jaipur, 2.50 lakhs from Kota, 3.50 lakhs from Udaipur, 10 lakhs from Hyderabad and 1.50 lakhs from Aurangabad, 15 lakhs from Bangalore. Adding another 7 crore BHOOTHNATH RETURNS has netted 37 crore in two weeks from India and may just about scrape through to a semi-hit status.
Concluding with David Dhawan's Varun, Nargis and Ileana starrer, MAIN TERA HERO, the film is ending its successful run as it collected 50 lakhs from Bombay, 20 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 18 lakhs from Surat, 10 lakhs from Baroda, 6.50 lakhs from Rajkot, 12 lakhs from Pune, 2.50 lakhs from Nasik, 1.50 lakhs from Goa, 15 lakhs from Delhi city, 2.75 lakhs from Noida, 2.55 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 3.50 lakhs from Kanpur, 4.75 lakhs from Lucknow, 3 lakhs from Gurgaon, 1.50 lakhs from Chandigarh, 10 lakhs from Calcutta, 3.50 lakhs from Nagpur, 3.50 lakhs from Raipur, 3.15 lakhs from Indore, 10 lakhs from Jaipur (collections from 2 cinemas unreceived) , 1.50 lakhs from Kota, 2 lakhs from Udaipur, 10 lakhs from Hyderabad and 5.50 lakhs from Bangalore. Adding another 3 crore, MAIN TERA HERO has netted 51 crore in three weeks from India and is a semi-hit.
