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Haunted does well at box office

May 09, 2011 17:23 IST

Vikram Bhatt's Haunted has done well all over India, as it is India's first 3-D stereophonic film.

On the other hand
Y-Films Luv Ka The End stays below par in its opening weekend, it fails to attract youth to which it was essentially targeting.

Trade analyst Vinod Mirani gives us the box office verdict for the week.

Note: Films are ranked according to their release dates. The thumbs ups and downs do not reflect rediff's views.




Haunted

Cast: Mahaaskshay Chakraborty, Tia Bajpai, Arif Zakaria.
Director: Vikram Bhatt.

Music.

Performances, age old story idea.

Number of weeks: New.
BO Verdict: Good opening.

Review




Luv Ka The End

Cast: Shraddha Kappor, Taaha Shah, Shenaz Treasuryvala, Archana Puran Singh
Director: Bumpy.

Shraddha Kapoor, Pushtie Shaktie.

Taaha Shah.

Number of weeks: New.
BO Verdict: Poor opening.

Review




Chalo Dilli

Cast: Lara Dutta, Vinay Pathak
Director: Shashant Shah.

Good performances.

Poor execution of story.

Number of weeks: 1.
BO Verdict: Average.

Review




Shor In The City

Cast: Sendhil Ramamurthy, Tusshar Kapoor, Pitobash Tripathy, Nikhil Dwiwedi.
Director: Raj-Krishna.

Brilliantly directed film.

Tough.

Number of weeks: 1.
BO Verdict: Flop.

Review




I Am

Cast: Juhi Chawla, Nandita Das, Sanjay Suri, Rahul Bose, Purab Kohli, Arjun Mathur, Anurag Kashyap.
Director: Onir.

Touching stories, good performances.

Minor flaws in the story-telling.

Number of weeks: 1.
BO Verdict: Flop.

Review




Dum Maaro Dum

Cast: Abhishek Bachchan, Bipasha Basu, Rana Daggubati, Prateik Babbar.
Director: Rohan Sippy.

Good story.

Weak performances by Prateik and Bipasha.

Number of weeks: 3.
BO Verdict: Flop.

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Zokkomon

Cast: Darsheel Safary, Anupam Kher, Manajari Phadnis
.
Director: Satyajit Bhatkal.

Darsheel Safary

Lackluster script and overdose of cliched situations

Number of weeks: 3.
BO Verdict: Flop.

Review




Teen Thay Bhai

Cast: Om Puri, Shreyas Talpade, Deepak Dobriyal.
Director: Mrigdeep Singh Lamba.

Performance of the cast.

Script disappoints.

Number of weeks: 4.
BO Verdict: Flop.

Review




Thank You

Cast: Akshay Kumar, Irrfan Khan, Bobby Deol, Suniel Shetty, Sonam Kapoor, Celina Jaitley, Rimi Sen, Paresh Rawal
.
Director: Anees Bazmee.

Suniel Shetty

The entire film.

Number of weeks: 5.
BO Verdict: Flop.

Review




Game

Cast: Abhishek Bachchan, Sarah Jane Dias, Kangna Ranaut, Boman Irani.
Director: Abhinay Deo.

Short film

Old-fashioned murder mystery

Number of weeks: 6.
BO Verdict: Flop.

Review

Trade pundit: Vinod Mirani

Last week's box office results