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Box office analysis-August 28 , 2008
First weekend performance of latest releaseIn the Friday gone by, three distinct films had released - PHOONK (horror), MAAN GAYE MUGHALL-E-AZAM (comedy) and MUMBAI MERI JAAN (social). As pointed out in this very column last week, PHOONK was always the front runner and credit…
Box office analysis-August 22 , 2008
First weekend performance of latest releaseYASH RAJ FILMS finally have a success in their hands. After four back to back flops (LAAGA CHUNARI MEIN DAAG, AAJA NACHLE, TASHAN, THODA PYAAR THODA MAGIC) which boasted of big names like Rani Mukherjee, Abhishek Bachchan, Madhuri Dixit,…
Box office analysis-August 14 , 2008
First weekend performance of latest releaseThere was a mention in this column last week about RACE and WELCOME being the only two films which were under threat of their opening week record (35 crores) to be broken by the release of SINGH IS KINNG.…
Second man against SRK
More trouble is brewing up Shah Rukh Khan and choreographer/director Farah Khan.The celebrations for the success of 'Om Shanti Om' had ceased long ago, but the triumph has now come back as a curse.Veteran actor Manoj Kumar has already moved to the court…
Deepika officially declared the hottest
If Katrina cornered the sexiest tag, Deepika is the one who is finally burning hot as the queen of the Maxim Hot 100 Girls worldwide list.By winning, Deepika Padukone can be proud of being the number one among the ravishing beauties in the first…
Box office analysis-August 07 , 2008
First weekend performance of latest releaseUGLY AUR PAGLI has turned out to be a film which not many have watched at theaters on it's release but would find some audience for itself on it's DVD arrival. Let us first talk about why the film…
Box office analysis-July 03 , 2008
First weekend performance of latest releaseNo, it just isn't working out for Yash Raj Films any more! At least not with the current crop of films coming out of the premier production house which may just loose it's shine if it's subsequent projects in…
Badshah of Bollywood is the king of IIFA
Two of Shah Rukh Khan's super hit films ruled this year's IIFA awards at Bangkok.'Chak De India' the film of the Indian women's hockey team who starts off as the underdogs in the Hockey world championship eventually going on to win the cup inspired…
Box office analysis-May 02 , 2008
First weekend performance of latest releaseWhen most trade pundits were unanimous about TASHAN being all set to take a humongous opening, I could see the alarm bells ringing which indicated the otherwise. And this was before multiplex imbroglio. I strongly believe that even if…
'Akshay is King'
He may not be one of the khans, he might have started out without having any godfather by his side, but today Akshay kumar, the Bollywood Khiladi has created an exclusive brand name and carved out an exclusive territory for himself in the land of…