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The hits and misses of the week.
With a poor opening response and disastrous weekend, Rangoon is slated to become the biggest debacle of the year.
Running Shaadi and Irada are poor at the box office.
Jolly LLB 2 hasn't recovered yet either.
Cast: Kangana Ranaut, Shahid Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan.
Director: Vishal Bhardwaj.
What works: Good performances.
What doesn't: Over-the-top spectacle, a hotchpotch of conflicts that don’t mix well.
Number of weeks: New
BO verdict: Poor opening.
Read the reviews: Raja Sen/ Sukanya Verma
The Ghazi Attack
Cast: Rana Daggubati, Kay Kay Menon, Atul Kulkarni, Taapsee Pannu.
Director: Sankalp Reddy.
What works: Nail-biting thriller, riveting war story.
What doesn't: Over-dramatised.
Number of weeks: 1.
BO verdict: Poor.
Running Shaadi
Cast: Taapsee Pannu, Amit Sadh.
Director: Amit Roy.
What works: The Bihari tadka.
What doesn't: Everything else!
Number of weeks: 1.
BO verdict: Poor.
Irada
Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Arshad Warsi, Sagarika Ghatge, Divya Dutta
Director: Aparnaa Singh.
What works: Good performances.
What doesn't: Sloppy editing, doesn't hold your attention.
Number of weeks: 1.
BO verdict: Poor.
Jolly LLB 2
Cast: Akshay Kumar, Huma Qureshi, Saurabh Shukla, Annu Kapoor
Director: Subhash Kapoor
What works: Good performances, fun dialogues and well-directed.
What doesn't: Predictable.
Number of weeks: 2.
BO verdict: Above average.
Kung Fu Yoga
Cast: Jackie Chan, Sonu Sood, Disha Patani, Amyra Dastur.
Director: Stanley Tong
What works: Jackie Chan.
What doesn't: Lousy acting, bad CGI, terrible dialogues, illogical film.
Number of weeks: 3.
BO verdict: Flop.
Kaabil
Cast: Hrithik Roshan, Yami Gautam, Ronit Roy and Rohit Roy.
Director: Sanjay Gupta.
What works: Hrithik Roshan.
What doesn't: Predictable story, slow first half.
Number of weeks: 4.
BO verdict: Below Average.
Read the reviews here: Sukanya Verma/ Namrata Thakker
Raees
Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Mahira Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui.
Director: Rahul Dholakia.
What works: Nawazuddin Siddiqui.
What doesn't: Script and narration doesn't grab you.
Number of weeks: 4.
BO verdict: Below Average.
Read the reviews here: Saisuresh Sivaswamy/ Prasanna Zore
Coffee With D
Cast: Sunil Grover, Pankaj Tripathi.
Director: Vishal Mishra
What works: Good performances, a few genuinely funny scenes.
What doesn't: Poorly executed, boring music.
Number of weeks: 5.
BO verdict: Flop.
Ok Jaanu
Cast: Shraddha Kapoor, Aditya Roy Kapur, Naseeruddin Shah, Leela Samson
Director: Shaad Ali
What works: Beautiful cinematography.
What doesn't: Shaad Ali cannot pull off a remake of the well-made original, O Kadhal Kanmani.
Number of weeks: 6.
BO verdict: Flop.