The hits and misses of the week.
Mohammad Azharuddin may have lots of fans but they certainly did not throng the theatres to watch a film on him. Azhar got mostly poor reviews, despite Emraan Hashmi's sincere performance, and it saw an average opening on the weekend. Its fall is inevitable, and it will stand to lose.
Arvind Swami's Bollywood comeback with Dear Dad was poor at the box office.
Buddha in a Traffic Jam also failed to find an audience.
Trade analyst Vinod Mirani gives us the weekly box office verdict.
Azhar
Cast: Emraan Hashmi, Nargis Fakhri, Prachi Desai, Kunal Roy Kapur, Lara Dutta.
Director: Tony D'Souza
What works: Emraan Hashmi.
What doesn't: Bad direction, poor storytelling.
Number of weeks: New.
BO verdict: Average opening.
Read the review here: Prem Panicker /Raja Sen
Dear Dad
Cast: Arvind Swamy, Himanshu Sharma.
Director: Tanuj Bhramar.
What works: Performances by Arvind Swamy, Himanshu Sharma.
What doesn't: We don't see much of Arvind Swamy.
Number of weeks: New.
BO verdict: Poor opening.
Buddha in a Traffic Jam
Cast: Anupam Kher, Arunoday Singh, Mahie Gill, Anchal Dwivedi, Pallavi Joshi.
Director: Vivek Agnihotri.
What works: Nothing!
What doesn't: Preposterous plot, bad performances and direction.
Number of weeks: New
BO verdict: Flop.
One Night Stand
Cast: Sunny Leone, Tanuj Virwani, Nyra Banerjee.
Director: Jasmine D'souza
What works: The story idea behind the film.
What doesn't: Clunky writing, bad performances.
Number of weeks: 1
BO verdict: Flop.
Traffic
Cast: Manoj Bajpayee, Jimmy Shergill, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Parambrata Chatterjee, Sachin Khedekar, Amol Parashar, Vishal Singh, Divya Dutta.
Director: Rajesh Pillai
What works: Kitu Gidwani and Divya Dutta's performances.
What doesn't: Monotonous acting and hackneyed characterisations.
Number of weeks: 1
BO verdict: Below average.
1920 London
Cast: Sharman Joshi, Meera Chopra, Vishal Karwal.
Director: Tinu Suresh Desai.
What works: The music.
What doesn't: The story is predictable and the film is not scary.
Number of weeks: 1
BO verdict: Fair.
Baaghi
Cast: Tiger Shroff, Shraddha Kapoor, Sudheer Babu, Sunil Grover, Sanjay Mishra.
Director: Sabbir Khan
What works: Tiger Shroff and Sudheer Babu's performances.
What doesn't: Poor dialogues and the love scenes are boring.
Number of weeks: 2
BO verdict: Hit.
Nil Battey Sannata
Cast: Swara Bhaskar, Ratna Pathak Shah, Sanjay Suri.
Director: Ashwini Iyer Tiwari
What works: Performances and engaging narrative.
What doesn't: Second half drags.
Number of weeks: 3
BO verdict: Flop
Laal Rang
Cast: Randeep Hooda, Piaa Bajpai, Akshay Oberoi, Rajniesh Duggall, Meenakshi Dixit.
Director: Syed Ahmad Afzal
What works: Randeep Hooda's performance.
What doesn't: Unnecessary melodrama.
Number of weeks: 3
BO verdict: Flop
Fan
Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Waluscha De Sousa, Sayani Gupta, Shriya Pilgaonkar.
Director: Maneesh Sharma
What works: Shah Rukh Khan.
What doesn't: Lazy writing, plot has too many loopholes.
Number of weeks: 4
BO verdict: Flop
Read the review here: Raja Sen / Sukanya Verma
