English Vinglish showed good jump over the weekend

On Friday English Vinglish opened to a poor response all across India. In multiplexes the collections were 15 – 20 % in the morning shows. English Vinglish opened to a much lesser collection in single screens than multiplexes. As a result the first day collection will come out to be very poor until & unless the film shows huge turn around in the evening & night shows.

English Vinglish is not a film for the youth, it is basically a family oriented film that is why it is bound to open low. So this film has a very good chance to pick up in the evening & night shows.

Now the first day numbers are out. The collection of English Vinglish is very low approximately 2.25 crore nett. Some multiplexes showed good collection in the evening shows & the reports of the film are very good among the multiplex audience but it remains to be seen how much the film jumps over the next two days.

The most important day of the movie is Saturday. And the film must show a huge jump on Saturday. If normal films shows a 25 – 30 % jump on Saturday then it is good but English Vinglish has a different picture. The collection of the film on Friday itself is very low so it should witness a much higher jump to stay in the long run. It should show a bigger jump than last week release Oh My God, Again Oh My God had a holiday on Tuesday but English Vinglish has no holidays.

The 2.25 crore nett figures is only for the Hindi version of the film, the film is also released in Tamil & Telegu. Now let us go through the territorial breakdown of the film on Friday.

Mumbai - 81 lakhs

Delhi/UP - 48 lakhs

East Punjab - 23 lakhs

West Bengal - 7 lakhs

CP Berar - 8 lakhs

CI - 4 lakhs

Rajasthan – 10 lakhs

Nizam – 9 lakhs

Mysore – 23 lakhs

Others – 6 lakhs

Total – 2.19 crore

Now let us see what English Vinglish did on Saturday. English Vinglish showed a huge jump on Saturday. The collection nearly of English Vinglish on Saturday is nearly double than that of Friday. It is the biggest jump for a film on Saturday in recent years. The collection of the film on Saturday is approximately 4.50 crore nett & the two days total stands for 6.75 crore nett.

Collection of Oh My God in its course of run

Oh My God is rock steady on Wednesday. It collected around 3.50 crore nett on that day. Despite the previous day was a holiday the collections did not drop by much & are only slightly lower than its first day.

The total collection of the film till Wednesday stands at 32.50 crore nett & the first week will likely to finish just more than 35 crore nett. And this a very good recovery from an average first day which was only 4 crore nett.

Oh My God is doing excellent business in areas like Mumbai, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh & Central India & the best collections have come from Gujarat.  The eastern India & southern India have recorded lower collections but are steady throughout the week.  Eastern Punjab should have been a strong performer but collections are low there since the film has not released in most of the areas of the circuit.

Two new films are releasing this Friday English Vinglish & Kismat Love Paisa Dilli. But Oh My God will also behave like a new film & will give a tough competition to them making the battle between three contenders.

Oh My Got has sustained very well over the weekdays & it is certain that the occupancy level of Oh My God will be higher than the other two films. But collection of the film will depend on how much screen space it gets at the theatres.

The two new films English Vinglish & Kismat Love Paisa Dilli will not get a very good opening & will depend on word of mouth of the audience. As a result there are very good chances that Oh My God becomes no 1 on this Friday.

In Kanpur Oh My God showed rock steady collections throughout the week. The Thursday collections are just 15% lower than the first day collection at Kanpur. Now let us see the day by day first week collections of Oh My God at Kanpur.

Friday - 2,53,743

Saturday - 3,93,671

Sunday - 5,86,427

Monday - 3,61,547

Tuesday - 7,26,817

Wednesday - 2,91,291

Thursday - 2,13,631

TOTAL - 28,27,127

Collection of "Oh My God" over the weekdays

The collection of the film on Monday is even better than Friday. The film collected 4.50 crore nett on Monday as per as early estimates. The collection of the film on Friday was low still it is rarely seen that the collection on Monday comes out higher than Friday.

Good films like Vicky Donor & Kahaani which performed well at the box office after a poor start could not even had a better Monday than Friday . The collection of Oh My God are down by only 30% on Monday from Sunday while generally films show a 50% fall on Monday from Sunday. The evening shows on Monday were strong as Tuesday is a holiday. The Monday figure indicates that if there were no cricket match on Sunday then the collection of suday would have been 8 – 8.50 crore.

The film collected 21 crore nett in its first four days & the week is heading towards more than 30 crore nett. And the collection can even touch 33 crore nett depending on the collection on tues day which is a holiday.

From here on the lifetime collection of the film can go over 50 crore nett & it remains to be seen hoe much the film collects in its long run.

At this moment of time the movie can easily be declared a HIT.

In Gurgaon the movie had a 22% jump on Monday than that from Friday. It may be first time in the history of Indian cenema that a movie jumped so much on monady than that of Friday & more surprisingly Monday is not a holyday. Below we give you the Monday collections of Oh My God in Gurgaon compared to that of Friday. The numbers in bracket are the Monday collections of Gurgaon.

PVR Ambience 

2,49,528

(2,07,645)

PVR MGF 

2,35,182

(1,81,896)

PVR Sahara 

99,861

(55,440)

DT City 

1,35,936

(93,438)

DT Mega  96,111 (91,919)

DT Star 

83,188 (83,112))

Big 

1,22,618

(92,112)

SRS Omaxe 

72,435

(45,253)

SRS Wedding 

65,076

(50,419)

TOTAL 

11,59,941

(9,01,238) +22.26%

"Oh My God" Box Office collections over the entire weekend

Oh  My God is not basically an Akshay Kumar starrer film. Akshay Kumar is not in the main lead while Paresh Rawal is in the main Hero. Though Akshay Kumar plays the part of God. It is basically a word of mouth film. The main audience for the movie are family & ladies & the fate of the film depends upon its growth on Saturday & Sunday. 

Gujarat will open well since the movie has a Gujarati flavor but the business in other parts of the country will have to depend on word of mouth of the movie. Now lets see what it does over the entire weekend.

Oh My God opened 30% - 40% at the multiplexes on Friday morning which is below the mark. The collections are better in few parts of India but major parts of India remained low. Now everyone is waiting what happens to the evening & night shows as collection in the morning shows are not good.

The best opening state was Gujarat due to the film’s local flavor. The film did not open well in other parts of the country since it is not for masses or youths & is for family audiences at the multiplexes.

So the main business of the movie was expected to come from family audiences on Sunday. Since on Sunday families come in huge numbers in the multiplexes. If a good jump is noticed on Sunday then the film will surely do good business in the long run.

Oh My God did a business of 3.75 to 4 crore nett on its first day which is poor. The business in Gujarat where the film performed best is average but the collection elsewhere is very low.

In Delhi/UP the film collected 75 to 80 lakhs, in Mumbai the film collected 1.50 crore due to good business in Gujarat. Eastern & southern parts of India is very low & central India is low with a collection of 55 lakhs approximately. The film was banned in few places of Punjab that is why the film did not performed well there.

If the film grows 25% to 30% on Saturday & Sunday then the film will score well at the box office.

All about "Cover Story - The Ultimate Interview" starring Jackie Shroff & Anjum Nayar

Cover Story - The Ultimate Interview is an upcoming thriller Bollywood movie starring Jackie Shroff & Anjum Nayar. The movie has been directed by Hollywood director Laurence Postma. It has been inspired from a dutch film named Interview directed by Theo Van Gogh released in the year 2003. It was first remade in 2007 by Steve Buscemi.

The story is based on an interview of a popular & successful film actress & model Anjum Nayar taken by a journalist cum reporter Jackie Shroff. The interview was just a one night stand between these two characters. And as a result the actress becomes more famous & popular.

The film has been produced by a team of four - Sunitha Ram, Laurence Postma, Ram Samtani & Pappee Sangtani & is distributed under the banner of Glorious Entertainment. Written by Laurence Postma & Farrukh Dhondy. The music is composed by Monty Sharma & Shamir Tandon.

Jacjie Shroff was born on 1^st  February 1957. He has acted in both Gujrati films & Hindi films for about 30 years in more than 150 films. He has done films in Hindi, Gujrati, Tamil, Telegu,Malayalam, Bengali, Kannada, Marathi.

His original name is Jai Kishen Shroff & his parents are Kaku Bhai & Rita Shroff. They resided at Walkeshwar Mumbai near Teen Batti Area. He first became a model. He was first launched in the movie Hero by producer cum director Subhash Ghai & gave him the name Jackie.

Jackie Shroff married his girlfriend Ayesha Dutt in the 80s who later became producer of his movies. They then purchased a Flat at Bandra Bandstad between Shah Rukh Khan’s Mannat & Salman Khan’s Galaxy Apartments & shifted to that house.

They opened a production house named Jackie Shroff Entertainment Limited.They have a son Tiger & a daughter Krishna.

Jackie Shroff started his career with the film Swami Dada which was a Dev Anand’s film.

In the year 1983 he made Hero with Meenakshi Sheshadri, Shammi Kapoor, Sanjeev Kumar & Omrish Puri. The film was made by Subhash Ghai. The film became Super Hit & both Jachie Shroff & Meenakshi Sheshadri became huge stars. From then on Jackie started his friendship with Subhash Ghai & till today he is very fond of film. Nowadays also he is known by the name Jackie Dada which was his character’s name in Hero.

From then on till today he has done more than 150 films. He is very fond of Anil Kapoor & has done many films together like Yudh, Karma, Parinda, Andar Bahar, Ram Lakhan, 1942 a Love Story etc.

Is film "Barfi" a Copycat ?

Barfi is an Anurag Basu film which has created a lot of Buzz among the audience & has been selected for the Oscars. But do we know the fact? It is mainly a copy of many Hollywood films most of which are classics.

Barfi is mainly a love story between two especial people & has been selected for the Oscars. Nevertheless we are very proud of that. But we cannot deny the fact that it has been copied from various Hollywood classic films. The director has admitted that it is inspired from Charlie Chaplin but he did not mention the other names. We will now show you the total picture of Barfi.

The base of this Bollywood film Barfi has a strong resemblance with the Hollywood film Benny & Joon released in the year 1993 & the Korean film Oasis released in 2002. And not only this, one of the composition of Pritam in this movie has been copied collectively from the tune of Yann Tiersen from the movie Amelie released in the year 2001.

The scene where Ranbir woke up under a covered statue has been copied from Charlie Chaplin's City of Light released in the year 1931. And the scene where Ranbir tries to get rid of a sticky paper while putting up posters in Kolkata has been copied from an episode of Mr Bean named Back to School.

The scene where Ranbir entertains Priyanka by sticking papers on eyelids & lips has been copied from Mr Bean's Holiday which released in the year 2007. The scene where Ranbir chased by cops rides a bicycle through narrow lanes has been copied from Jackie Chan's Project A released in the year 1983. And the ladder scene by Ranbir Kapoor has been copied from Buster Keaton's Cops released in the year 1922.


And this is not all, the scene where Rupa Ganguly introduces Ilieana D'cruz to her former boyfriend & the scene where Priyanka Chopra snuggle up Ranbir in the hospital bed have been inspired from the movie The Notebook which released in 2004.