Box Office – Vikram Bhatt’s Raaz Reboot opens on a positive note By Joginder Tuteja Raaz Reboot is collecting well at the single screens. Emraan Hashmi’s last few films [Azhar, Hamari Adhuri Kahani, Mr. X, Ungli, Raja Natwarlal, Ghanchakkar, Ek Thi Daayan] were all catering primarily to multiplex audiences. Unfortunately, none of them emerged as good…

Box Office – Pink opens well, set to score well with powerful word of mouth By Joginder Tuteja Other release of the week, Pink, is diametrically opposite to Raaz Reboot and is happy collecting at the multiplexes. The film isn’t even designed for the single screen audience (a complete reversal from the kind of audience…

Box Office – Baar Baar Dekho is very low ============================================== By Joginder Tuteja Baar Baar Dekho has disappointed big time at the Box Office. In fact it is a surprise failure commercially since even in the worst case scenario, one wouldn’t have expected a Week One total of just 29.4 crore. With a film like…

Box Office – Freaky Ali barely hangs on ============================================== By Joginder Tuteja   Freaky Ali wasn’t much in news though while being made and the title was an afterthought too. The promo had given an impression of a rollicking entertainer but suddenly the promotional buzz went down and the musical campaign didn’t work either. The film…

  Box Office – Pink expected to open on the same lines as Talvar ====================================================== By Joginder Tuteja This Friday is set to be quite exciting for the audience, what with Raaz Reboot and Pink arriving in theaters. Last few weeks have been depressing at the Box Office with films like Baar Baar Dekho, Freaky…

Box Office – Raaz Reboot expected to open better than Azhar ================================================== By Joginder Tuteja This Friday is set to be quite exciting for the audience, what with Raaz Reboot and Pink arriving in theaters. Last few weeks have been depressing at the Box Office with films like Baar Baar Dekho, Freaky Ali, Akira and…

Box Office – Baar Baar Dekho and Freaky Ali stay low =====================================   By Joginder Tuteja   Baar Baar Dekho and Freaky Ali are not collecting as per expectations. Both the films were touted to collect much better, considering the credentials as per the response that the promos had generated. In fact even after the…

Box Office – Baar Baar Dekho does low business, deserved better ===== By Joginder Tuteja Baar Baar Dekho has been collecting lesser than what one expected out of it. The film has netted 21.16 crore in its opening weekend but given the credentials that it came with, it has brought in at least 5 crore…

Box Office – Freaky Ali is stable ===== By Joginder Tuteja Freaky Ali had a stable weekend with 8.5 crore coming in. The promo had given the impression though that 10 crore would be comfortably crossed in its first three days. In that perspective the opening, though stable, hasn’t quite been on the same lines as…

Box Office – Baar Baar Dekho takes a decent opening ===== By Joginder Tuteja Sidharth Malhotra and Katrina Kaif’s Baar Baar Dekho has taken a decent opening at the Box Office. With 6.81 crore coming in, the film has been powered by business that has come in from major multiplexes across the country. This is…

Box Office – Freaky Ali is biggest solo opener ever for Nawazuddin Siddiqui === By Joginder Tuteja Second release of the week, Freaky Ali, arrived at 1200 screens. The film has taken an opening of 2.55 crore and is the highest solo opener of Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s career. Again, anything over 3 crore would have given…

Birthday boy Akshay Kumar tops 2016 with 365 crore from Airlift, Housefull 3 and now Rustom ======================================================================= By Joginder Tuteja Meanwhile, Akshay Kumar’s Rustom has touched the 127 crore* mark. Though the film would just fall a few lakhs short of Airlift [129 crore], it still is from an academic perspective since both Akshay Kumar starrers…

Box Office – Diana-Abhay-Jimmy-Ali’s Happy Bhag Jayegi is a good success for Mudassar Aziz, Eros and Aanand L. Rai ===================================================== By Joginder Tuteja Happy Bhag Jayegi has gone from strength to strength and has ended its third week on a high as well. So far, the film has collected 28 crore* and that is a…

Box Office – Akira steps into Week Two with a decent total ========================== By Joginder Tuteja Sonakshi Sinha’s Akira had a decent first week as it went on to collect 26 crore* at the Box Office. Of course, anything in excess of 30 crore would have been an even better news for the film. However, the…

Box Office – Khan brothers set a good platform for Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s Freaky Ali ========================== By Joginder Tuteja Freaky Ali is yet another Nawazuddin Siddiqui starrer where he is the central protagonist. His Manjhi – The Mountain Man [1.4 crore] and Raman Raghav 2.0 [1 crore] haven’t quite boasted of a good start though former…

Box Office – Sidharth and Katrina’s Baar Baar Dekho to open well for audience looking for a romantic entertainer =================================================================== By Joginder Tuteja Sidharth Malhotra and Katrina Kaif can well be happy. Makers of their Baar Baar Dekho have done their job quite well to put the film on the map where audiences are indeed looking…

Box Office – Sonakshi Sinha gets fair results with her action affair Akira ======================= By Joginder Tuteja Bollywood traditionally revolves its action films around male protagonists. One seldom sees a leading lady not just kicking butt but also picking up the mantle to have the entire story revolve around her. In that aspect, it was…

Box Office – Sonakshi Sinha’s Akira opens fine for a female centric action affair ===================================================== By Joginder Tuteja Sonakshi Sinha’s Akira has taken the best start amongst all female centric releases of 2016. With 5.15 crore coming in on Day One, the film has managed to find a decent footing for itself. When compared to the other…

Box Office – Rustom just a few crore away from surpassing Airlift ===== By Joginder Tuteja In three weeks, Rustom has now scored 124.72 crore. The film stayed decent during the weekdays and is now approximately 4 crore away from Akshay Kumar’s own Airlift. That could well happen, considering the fact that Akira is the…

Box Office – A Flying Jatt has a lower than expected Week One ==== By Joginder Tuteja Tiger Shroff is facing disappointment for the first time in his career. After Heropanti and Baaghi, there was good fan following that the youngster had managed to build. It was expected that with A Flying Jatt belonging to…

Box Office – Happy Bhag Jayegi stays stable through the week ===== By Joginder Tuteja Happy Bhag Jayegi benefitted from not much competition around it and hence has managed to accumulate 24.52 crore in two weeks. The film stayed stable hrough the week and has a good number of shows in the third week as…

  Box Office – Sonakshi Sinha’s Akira to open on same lines as Rani Mukerji’s Mardani and Anushka Sharma’s NH10 ====================================================   By Joginder Tuteja   Close to 20 months after her last release Tevar, Sonakshi Sinha is returning with Akira. This time around, she is the central protagonist in there and the only lead…

Box Office Economics of Sonakshi Sinha’s Akira – Recovers more than 50% of its investment already ========================================================== By Joginder Tuteja Sonakshi Sinha’s Akira is arriving at the Box Office with good economics in place. Here is why: ·         Cost of Production: 22 crore ·         P&A: 8 crore…

Box Office – Low Monday for Bollywood =============================================== By Joginder Tuteja It was a low Monday for Bollywood as just around 4 crore came in from the theatrical Box Office. Considering the fact that a day’s capacity via ticket sales is in the excess of 40 crore, numbers like these indicate just around 10% theatrical…

Box Office – Rustom set to go past Akshay Kumar’s own Airlift ==== By Joginder Tuteja As for the makers of Rustom, there are continued celebrations already and now it is time to track more records. The film gathered 5.27 crore more in its third weekend, as a result of which the overall collections are…

Box Office – Happy Bhag Jayegi is keeping it’s date with the youth ======================================   By Joginder Tuteja Happy Bhag Jayegi is keeping its date with the youth though. A kind of film which would have perhaps done even better had it been planned for Valentine’s Day arrival, the Diana Penty starrer managed to accumulate…

Box Office – A Flying Jatt grows over the weekend =========================================   By Joginder Tuteja   Over the weekend gone by, A Flying Jatt collected almost double of the other two Hindi films in the running – Happy Bhag Jayegi and Rustom. That said, former is in its second week and latter is in the…

Box Office – Rustom continues to do well, could surpass Akshay Kumar’s own Airlift ============================================== By Joginder Tuteja For the ultra-dramatic Rustom, there is steady audience coming in the third week as well. The film is seeing a good number of shows reserved for it and there is good audience footfalls as well, as a…

Box Office – Happy Bhag Jayegi is the first romcom in 2016 to do well ============================================== By Joginder Tuteja Happy Bhag Jayegi is unwilling to give up. With the word of mouth in the positive direction, audiences are slowly but steadily waking up to the humor quotient that the Mudassar Aziz directed film carried. With the…

Box Office – A Flying Jatt is aiming for a 30 crore extended weekend ============================================== By Joginder Tuteja Back in 2014, Tiger Shroff’s debut film Heropanti had collected 21.33 crore over the weekend. The Sabbir Khan directed film had managed to find good appreciation and eventually touched the 50 crore mark. Circa 2016, and Tiger Shroff’s…