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The hits and misses of the week.
Cine-goers were treated to six films last week but all of them failed to impress at the box office.
Banjo, Wah Taj, Parched, Days of Tafree (a remake of Gujarati film Chhello Divas), Dil Sala Sanki and Chapekar Brothers have proved to be disastrous.
Trade analyst Vinod Mirani gives us the weekly box office verdict.
Banjo
Cast: Riteish Deshmukh, Nargis Fakhri, Dharmesh Yelande, Aditya Kumar and Ram Menon
Director: Ravi Jadhav.
What works: Good supporting cast, music.
What doesn't: Predictable screenplay.
Number of weeks: New.
BO verdict: Flop.
Wah Taj
Cast: Shreyas Talpade, Manjari Phadnis.
Director: Ajit Sinha.
What works: Novel idea and intriguing premise.
What doesn't: Execution, exaggerated performances and cartoonish sound effects.
Number of weeks: New.
BO verdict: Flop.
Parched
Cast: Radhika Apte, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Surveen Chawla, Sayani Gupta.
Director: Leena Yadav.
What works: Good performances, direction, the way the film is shot by Russell Carpenter.
What doesn't: Scenes end on an unreal note.
Number of weeks: New.
BO verdict: Flop.
PINK
Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Taapsee Pannu, Kirti Kulhari, Andrea Tariang, Angad Bedi, Dhritiman Chatterjee, Piyush Mishra
Director: Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury.
What works: Good performances, great execution.
What doesn't: Nothing!
Number of weeks: 1.
BO verdict: Hit.
Raaz: Reboot
Cast: Emraan Hashmi, Kriti Kharbanda
Director: Vikram Bhatt.
What works: Decent music.
What doesn't: Same old story, cliched dialogues.
Number of weeks: 1.
BO verdict: Flop.
Baar Baar Dekho
Cast: Katrina Kaif, Sidharth Malhotra.
Director: Nitya Mehra.
What works: Good looking film, novel way to show a romance.
What doesn't: Poor performances, second half drags.
Number of weeks: 2.
BO verdict: Flop.
Freaky Ali
Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Arbaaz Khan, Amy Jackson, Seema Biswas, Nikitin Dheer.
Director: Sohail Khan.
What works: Nawazuddin Siddiqui.
What doesn't: Daft writing.
Number of weeks: 2.
BO verdict: Super Flop.
Akira
Cast: Sonakshi Sinha, Konkona Sen Sharma, Anurag Kashyap.
Director: AR Murugadoss.
What works: Sonakshi Sinha and Anurag Kashyap.
What doesn't: Bland, dated film.
Number of weeks: 3.
BO verdict: Flop.
Island City
Cast: Vinay Pathak, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Amruta Subhash, Chandan Roy Sanyal, Uttara Baokar, Ashwin Mushran.
Director: Ruchika Oberoi.
What works: Complex, engaging film, laced with humour and satire.
What doesn't: Lack of A-listers will restrict its viewership.
Number of weeks: 3.
BO verdict: Flop.
A Flying Jatt
Cast: Tiger Shroff, Jacqueline Fernandez and Nathan Jones.
Director: Remo D'Souza.
What works: A superhero film that children will enjoy.
What doesn't: Loud performances, poor climax.
Number of weeks: 4.
BO verdict: Below average.