Box Office – Shivaay stays steady on Sunday, now all eyes on the BIG weekdays ahead ========================================== By Joginder Tuteja Shivaay has managed to score a fair weekend at the Box Office. The best collections for the weekend had to come on Friday since pre-Diwali festivities would have anyways put a dent in collections on Saturday…

Box Office – Ae Dil Hai Mushkil crosses 35 crore in pre-Diwali weekend ==================================================== By Joginder Tuteja Karan Johar’s Ae Dil Hai Mushkil has fetched a weekend of 35.6 crore [Friday – 13.3 crore, Saturday – 13.1 crore, Sunday – 9.2 crore]. Now considering the fact that this is a pre-Diwali weekend, the numbers are…

Box Office – Shivaay goes past 10 crore on Saturday too, shows consistent footfalls ================================ By Joginder Tuteja For Shivaay, need of the hour on Saturday was to hang on reasonably well. In that aspect, the Ajay Devgn produced, directed and acted film did well to collect 10.06 crore more, hence taking its overall total…

Box Office – Ae Dil Hai Mushkil overseas updates – 2nd highest after Sultan ADHM – Friday GBO of $ 2.5 m Second highest opening day of 2016 after Sultan ( $ 3 m) Key Market Break ups US – $ 765,000 Highest opening day for 2016 ahead of Sultan (462,000) 3rd Highest opening day…

Box Office – Karan Johar’s Ae Dil Hai Mushkil shows wonderful hold on Saturday ==================================== By Joginder Tuteja In the first two days of its run, Ae Dil Hai Mushkil has managed to cross the 25 crore mark. After Friday which stayed good at 13.3 crore, Saturday too brought in 13.1 crore and that has resulted…

Box Office – Ajay Devgn’s Shivaay goes past 10 crore on Friday ============================================   By Joginder Tuteja   Call it surprising but in 2016, there have hardly been any action releases even though 10 months have passed by. The biggest grossers of the year have been non-action flicks like Sultan, M.S. Dhoni – The Untold…

Box Office – Ae Dil Hai Mushkil registers one of the best opening days for a romantic musical =============================================================   By Joginder Tuteja   Ranbir Kapoor has shown once again that when it comes to a quintessential romantic musical tale with a dash of drama, he has a loyal fan following waiting to grab him…

Movie review – Shivaay – If you  are an action junkie, go for this Ajay Devgn flick ================================================================== By Joginder Tuteja Rating: ***1/2 What does a man do when his daughter is kidnapped in a foreign land and his worst fears come true? Well, he goes on an all around destruction, especially when his name goes…

Box Office – Sunny Leone’s Beiimaan Love is a non-starter, Manoj Bajpayee’s Saat Uchakkey tries to gain some momentum =====================================================================   By Joginder Tuteja   2016 is turning out to be a bad year for Sunny Leone as far as her stint in Bollywood is concerned. Mastizaade was butchered at the censors and what eventually came…

Box Office – Week One collections reveal how Fox won the game for M.S. Dhoni – The Untold Story ================================================================   By Joginder Tuteja   Fox could well be smiling from ear to ear. When they spent a fortune making the film and the procuring rights of the real footage from BCCI, many wondered if…

MSG The Warrior Lion Heart picks up references from past and present, aims at inspiring youth ===================================================== Inspired by the historic tale of the valiant combatant Maharana Pratap and its significance to the state of the current state of affairs, Saint Dr MSG applied the same line of story parallel to it in his film…

Box Office – M.S. Dhoni – The Untold Story to challenge Airlift and Rustom for a place in Top-3 – Day 6 collections ================================================================== By Joginder Tuteja M.S. Dhoni – The Untold Story has gone past another milestone. On its sixth day, the film has now gone past the lifetime collections of Fan [85 crore]. With…

Box Office – Mirzya to join tragic love stories with which debutants have been launched in Bollywood ========================================= By Joginder Tuteja Three distinct films release this weekend – Mirzya, MSG The Warrior – Lion Heart and Tutak Tutak Tutiya. Let’s talk about Mirzya first. The film is a quintessential romantic musical drama and when it…

Box Office – M.S. Dhoni – The Untold Story crosses 82 crore in 5 days ============================================   By Joginder Tuteja   Neeraj Pandey’s M.S. Dhoni – The Untold Story has turned out to be a good winner at the Box Office. The film is finding good audience coming its way during the weekdays too, something…

Movie review – Mirzya – A lyrical drama where Rakeysh Mehra makes Harsh and Saiyami shine ====== By Joginder Tuteja Rating: ***1/2 To make a film that happens to be the launchpad of youngsters is akin to walking on a sword’s edge. Make something conventional and it is tagged as ‘playing safe’. Make something totally…

Box Office – Sushant Singh Rajput’s M.S. Dhoni – The Untold Story may turn out to be next only to Salman Khan’s Sultan in 2016 ====================================================================== By Joginder Tuteja M.S. Dhoni – The Untold Story has done the unthinkable. It has managed to become the 10th highest grosser of 2016 in just 3 days. For a…

Box Office – Dhoni scores in Bollywood too as he hits a six on the opening day of his film M.S. Dhoni – The Untold Story ============================================================================   By Joginder Tuteja   M.S. Dhoni – The Untold Story has defied all predictions at the Box Office. In this column I had predicted that the film…

Box Office – Pink is one of the biggest Hits of Amitabh Bachchan ============================== By Joginder Tuteja There is some sigh of relief for the audience as well as industry in general. Since the release of Rustom, no new film had managed to do good business. Well, Pink has managed to do that and has turned…

Box Office Predictions – M.S. Dhoni – The Untold Story to take a very good opening. Here is why! ========================================   By Joginder Tuteja   This didn’t quite seem on the cards till around three-four weeks back. However, a massive push by Fox coupled with a well chalked out marketing and release plan has done…

Box Office – Raaz Reboot to end its run under 30 crore ===== By Joginder Tuteja On the other hand Raaz Reboot too would just about complete two weeks at the Box Office. The film collected only 2.25 crore* in its second weekend, hence bringing the overall total to 29 crore*. Though this is better…

Box Office – Banjo is very low, other new releases fail to take off ========== By Joginder Tuteja A film which hasn’t unfortunately turned out to be a treat for the audience though is Banjo. The film just couldn’t pull audience into theaters and stayed largely flat right through the weekend. A sum total of…

Box Office – Pink hits half century ====================================================== By Joginder Tuteja Last year, Amitabh Bachchan delivered a Superhit with Shoojit Sircar when latter directed him in Piku. This year, he has scored another major success with Shoojit (as a producer), courtesy Pink. Incidentally, both films had females as the central protagonists with Big B playing…

Box Office – Raaz Reboot flops ================ By Joginder Tuteja Raaz Reboot has turned out to be an utter disappointment. A first week total of a mere 26.5 crore* is way too low for the horror franchise. In fact if one compares it with Raaz – The Mystery Continues, it doesn’t stand much taller since…

Box Office – Pink is a SOLID HIT =================================================== By Joginder Tuteja Pink has turned out to be a surprise big success of 2016. Just when one was witnessing a string of flops [A Flying Jatt, Akira, Baar Baar Dekho, Freaky Ali] and was hoping for at least an average runner at the Box Office,…

Box Office Predictions – Wah Taj, Parched, Days of Tafree ==== By Joginder Tuteja New releases of the week are dependent on word of mouth. Wah Taj has been in the making for a while and now is seeing a release after a modest round of promotion. The film has Shreyas Talpade and Manjari Fadnis…

Box Office – After Raanjhana, NH10, Happy Bhag Jaayegi, Krishika Lulla backs another content based film – Riteish Deshmukh’s Banjo ================================================   By Joginder Tuteja   Riteish Deshmukh is one of the most successful stars when it comes to his multi-starrer flicks. He has a track record of more than 80% successes when it comes…

Box Office – Raaz Reboot in wait-n-watch mode for rest of the week ======================================================== By Joginder Tuteja T-Series, Vishesh Films and Vashu Bhagnani would be pretty much hoping that the weekdays help their Raaz Reboot to somewhat sail through. The film has collected 18 crore* so far and needs its Indian theatrical business in the vicinity…

Box Office – Big B’s thunderous baritone returns as Pink enjoys a good weekend ======================================================== By Joginder Tuteja Wow, what a turnaround! A few months back when Amitabh Bachchan’s TE3N had released, it didn’t really warm up either the critics or the audiences. The film took a dull beginning, had a sluggish weekend and then ended…