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Box Office: Ghayal Once Again gets poor response

February 08, 2016 18:01 IST

The hits and misses of the week.

Sunny Deol's Ghayal Once Again failed to live up to the 1990 original.

The other release of the week -- Sanam Teri Kasam -- paid a heavy price for being an old fashioned, cliched film. 

Trade analyst Vinod Mirani gives us the latest box office verdict.

Ghayal Once Again

Poster of Ghayal

Cast: Sunny Deol, Soha Ali Khan, Om Puri, Narendra Jha.

Director: Sunny Deol.

What works: Sunny Deol.

What doesn't: Old fashioned story, haywire second half!

Number of weeks: New

BO verdict: Poor opening.

Read the review here

 

Sanam Teri Kasam

Harshvardhan Rane, Mawra Hocane in Sanam Teri Kasam

Cast: Harshvardhan Rane, Mawra Hocane, Murli Sharma, Vijay Raaz, Sudesh Berry.

Director: Radhika Rao and Vinay Sapru.

What works: The lead pair and the music of the film.

What doesn't: Weak script, melodramatic, too long, bad execution.

Number of weeks: New.

BO verdict: Poor opening.

Read the review here

 

Mastizaade

Sunny Leone in Mastizaade

Cast: Tushar Kapoor, Vir Das Sunny Leone, Suresh Menon, Asrani

Director: Milap Zaveri

What works: Sunny Leone

What doesn't: Weak script.

Number of weeks: 1

BO verdict: Flop

Read the review here

 

Saala Khadoos

R Madhavan and Ritika Singh in Saala Khadoos

Cast: R Madhavan, Ritika Singh, Nassar

Director: Sudha Kongara

What works: Leads actors.

What doesn't: Overdone aggression and neglecting the finer details.

Number of weeks: 1

BO verdict: Flop

Read the review here

 

Airlift

Cast: Akshay Kumar, Nimrit Kaur, Feryna Wazheir

Director: Raja Krishna Menon

What works: Excellent performance by Akshay Kumar.

What doesn't: The song breaks the film's rhythm.

Number of weeks: 2

BO verdict: Hit

Read the reviews here: Raja Sen / Sukanya Verma

 

Kyaa Kool Hai Hum 3

Cast: Tushar Kapoor, Aftab Shivdasani, Mandana Karimi, Krishna Abhishek

Director: Umesh Ghadge

What works: Sleazy porncom.

What doesn't: Too much skin fest.

Number of weeks: 2

BO verdict: Flop

Read the review here

 

Chalk N Duster

 Juhi Chawla in Chalk N Duster

Cast: Juhi Chawla, Shabana Azmi, Divya Dutta, Upasana Singh, Arya Babbar, Girish Karnad

Director: Jayant Gilatar

What works: Excellent performances.

What doesn't: Weak direction.

Number of weeks: 3

BO verdict: Flop

Read the review here

 

Wazir

Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Farhan Akhtar, Aditi Rao Hydari, John Abraham, Neil Nitin Mukesh

Director: Bejoy Nambiar

What works: Amitabh Bachchan's performance, good dialogues.

What doesn't: Dull, predictable thriller.

Number of weeks: 4

BO verdict: Flop

Read the review here

 

Chauranga

Cast: Sanjay Suri, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Soham Maitra, Ena Saha, Riddhi Sen 

Director: Bikas Ranjan Mishra

What works: Good performances.

What doesn't: Lacks a strong story.

Number of weeks: 4

BO verdict: Flop

Read the review here