Last week's releases Tum Milo Toh Sahi and Sadiyaan fared poorly at the box office. Pankh and The Great Indian Butterfly too could not draw enough patrons mandatory to hold a show at most places.
Trade analyst Vinod Mirani gives us the box office verdict.
Note: Films are ranked according to their release dates. The thumbs ups and downs reflect rediff's views.
Number of weeks: New. BO Verdict: Poor opening. | |
Sadiyaan Cast: Rekha, Hema Malini, Rishi Kapoor, Luv Sinha and Ferena Wazir. Director: Raj Kanwar. Tough. Long annoying film. Number of weeks: New. BO Verdict: Poor opening. | |
Pankh Cast: Bipasha Basu, Maradona Rebello. Director: Sudipto Chattopadhyay. Very courageous film. Director tries to explore too many sub-themes simultaneously. Number of weeks: New. BO Verdict: Poor opening. | |
The Great Indian Butterfly Cast: Sandhya Mridhul, Aamir Bashir and Koel Puri. Director: Sarthak Das Gupta. Great performance from Sandhya Mridhul, Aamir Bashir and Koel Puri. Outdated. Number of weeks: New. BO Verdict: Poor opening. | |
Well Done Abba Cast: Boman Irani, Minissha Lamba, Sammer Dattani. Director: Shyam Benegal. Great performance from Boman Irani. Audience might not relate to situations. Number of weeks: 1. BO Verdict: Flop. | |
Hum Tum aur Ghost Cast: Arshad Warsi, Dia Mirza, Boman Irani and Sandhya Mridul. Director: Kabeer Kaushik. Dia and Arshad are fun to watch together. Second half is melodramatic. Number of weeks: 1. BO Verdict: Flop. | |
Mittal vs Mittal Cast: Rohit Roy and Rituparno Sengupta . Director: Karan Razdan. Tough. Predictable climax. Number of weeks: 1. BO Verdict: Flop. | |
Love Sex Aur Dhokha Cast: Anshuman Jha, Raj Kumar Yadav, Neha Chauhan, Amit Sial, Arya Devdutta, Herry Tangri . Director: Dibakar Banerjee. Great script, editing, cinematography and acting. Tough. Number of weeks: 2. BO Verdict: Flop. | |
Lahore Cast: Aanaahad, Aashish Vidyarthi, Farooq Sheikh, Jeeva, Kelly Dorjee, Mukesh Rishi, Nafisa Ali, Nirmal Pandey, Pramod Moutho, Sabyasachi Chakravarthy, Saurabh Shukla, Shraddha Das, Shraddha Nigam. Director: Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan. Good fight scenes. Limited story-telling. Number of weeks: 2. BO Verdict: Flop. | |
Shaapit Cast: Aditya Narayan, Rahul Dev, Shweta Agarwal. Director: Vikram Bhatt. Every scene is well woven. Cliched dialogues, predictable scenes and too many songs. Number of weeks: 2. BO Verdict: Flop. | |
Trade pundit: Vinod Mirani | |