Bad News - Joker is a huge Flop, Good News - Akshay & Twinkle blessed with a baby girl

Joker starring Akshay Kumar & Sonakshi Sinha directed by Shirish Kunder released all over India on 31st August. But nothing went right for the film. First of all the slapgate incident which happened between Shairish & SRK made all SRK fans & industry people very angry over Shirish. Next Akshay the lead actor of the film remain aloof from the film promotion.

The songs were not liked by the public. As if Joker was already a huge flop even before its release. And that happened trully. All the critics thrashed it very badly. It didnt get an opening. And as days passed the collections went down & down. The paying audience also did'nt turn out to see the film. 

In its second week the collection of Ek Tha Tiger which is in its 4th week are higher than that of Joker. And lastly came Raaz 3 to bid a final goodbye to Joker. With a very poor 20 Cr collection in its 1st week, Joker will end up its final run within 26-27 Cr range of collection. This movie records the second lowest collection for an Akshay Kumar starrer after 8*10 Tasveer.

Joker is the second directorial venture of Shirish Kunder whose directorial debut was Jaan-e-man. This is the second film of the pair Akshay Kumar & Sonakshi Sinha. Previously they wre seen together in the movie Rowdy Rathore which was a Blockbuster.

At first there were rumors that Joker is Akshay’s 100^th film but later he clarified that he completed his 100^th 

film long before he signed Joker & Joker may be his 115^th film.

The film has been jointly produced by Shirish Kunder, Farah Khan & Akshay Kumar under the banner of Three’s Company & Hari Om Entertainment. The film was shot entirely on 3D cameras & was scheduled to release in 3D but in th fear of becoming Flop & loss for the distributors the decision was taken to release the film only in 2D.

The film was shot in Ludhiana, Chandigarh & Mumbai. 


Shirish has stopped tweeting since the release of Joker. But Akshay may well turnaround with his forthcoming movies Oh My God & Khiladi 786.

Heroine has good weekend but the trending is poor

Kareena Kapoor starrer Heroine released on 21st September. There are news from the industry people that Theatrical trailers of Race 2 & Talaash is set to release with Heroine. 

We have already seen a 75 sec promo of Talaash on Jan 25 & at that time the movie was schedule to release on May 1 just after IPL. But before the release of Talaash the movie Kahaani starring Vidya Balan came out & became Blockbuster

Heroine collected approximately 22.50 crore nett in its first weekend. On Friday the movie collected 7 crore, on Saturday it collected 7.25 crore & on Sunday the movie collected 7.75-8 crore nett.

The film did good business on Friday but could not capitalise on that & could mot make any improvements on Saturday & Sunday. At some places the collections of the movie on Sunday is even lower than the collections on Friday which does not indicate any good sign for the movie.


The weekend total of 22.50 crore nett is a good amount for a film like Heroine since it has no A lister hero in it but the trending of the movie suggests that it may struggle from Monday onwards. In mass areas the film has not performed well but did fair business in Mumbai & Delhi cities.

Heroine is a Kareena Kapoor starrer movie Co-produced, Co-written & directed by Madhur Bhandarkar. The role of the aspiring actress is played by Kareena Kapoor. The name of this character is Mahi Arora. The other starcast consists of Arjun Rampal as Aryan Khanna, Randeep Hooda as Angad Paul, Rakesh Bapat, Shahana Goswami, Divya Dutta, Mugdha Godse, Helen, Shilpi Sharma, Lillete Dubey & Ranvir Shorey as guest appearance. The music has been composed by Salim Sulaiman.

On the other hand Barfi collected a whopping 15 crore nett in its second weekend. The second weekend collection of Barfi is similar to the second weekend collection of big films like Bol Bachchan & Agneepath. The only big films which have collections better than the second weekend collection of Barfi are Rowdy Rathore, Housefull 2 & Ek Tha Tiger.