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Box Office: Special 26, ABCD do well
Last Friday saw two film releases -- Neeraj Pandey's Special Chabbis and Remo D'Souza's ABCD (Any Body Can Dance) -- at the box office.
Thanks to good word of mouth, Special Chabbis collections picked up following a slow opening while ABCD had an excellent opening at the box office.
Trade analyst Vinod Mirani gives box office verdict for the week.
Special Chabbis
Cast: Akshay Kumar, Anupam Kher, Manoj Bajpayee, Kajal Aggarwal
Director: Neeraj Pandey
What works: Acting, direction, plot
What doesn't: Romance angle, length
Number of weeks: New
BO verdict: Steady.
ABCD (Any Body Can Dance)
Cast: Prabhu Deva, Ganesh Acharya, Kay Kay Menon and Dharmesh Yolande
Director: Remo D'Souza
What works: Dance sequences, treatment
What doesn't: Contrived twist
Number of weeks: New
BO verdict: Excellent opening, going steady.
Read the review here
Vishwaroop
Cast: Kamal Haasan, Shekhar Kapur, Pooja Kumar
Director: Kamal Haasan
What works: Kamal Haasan's star power, Cinematography
What doesn't: Lengthy film, Amateurish plot
Number of weeks: 1
BO verdict: Below Average
Read the reviews here, here and here
David
Cast: Neil Nitin Mukesh, Vikram, Vinay Virmani, Isha Sharvani, Tabu
Director: Bejoy Nambiar
What works: Screenplay, Cast
What doesn't: Complicated plot
Number of weeks: 1
BO verdict: Flop
Read the review here
Race 2
Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Deepika Padukone, John Abraham, Jacquelien Fernandez, Anil Kapoor and Ameesha Patel
Director: Abbas-Mustan
What works: Production values, star power
What doesn't: Dialogues, hackneyed plot
Number of weeks: 2
BO verdict: Hit
Read the review here