Julie..an excellent observation.
However, when it comes to the movie of their fav star, their perception shifts remarkably.

‘Today Akshay Kumar is having the last laugh at the BO. This just goes to show how big he is now in the BO terms.’

This feeling is yet to sink in with many on NG. It may not change also as liking in all the cases are personal.

However, i get surprised when even after the non-performance/absence of their fav actors, most on NG still like their star to remain unaffected. They come up with theories to suit their star without realising/accepting the other side of the hard-hitting story.

Pranav, ultimately likes and dislikes for a product are very subjective, but I have maintained that a handful of opinion at NG does not represent the likes and dislikes of the masses. There are a lot of average and sub average products (according to our personal opinion) that click at the BO and good products don’t. This is all about star power. Today Akshay Kumar is having the last laugh at the BO. This just goes to show how big he is now in the BO terms. I am glad that he has a very good line up of different products now in the coming years which will further cement his position as a superstar.

Thanks for clarifying. I have never questioned personal anyones likes and dislikes.

This year has seen lots of average movies (content wise) becoming superhits.
I too will like to see the overall content of Hindi film be more than what it is currently.

I have not seen welcome but going by the mixed response, it looks to be better than Heyy Babyy which i enjoyed as it was different from other comic features.

However will love to see more of Munnabhai kinda comedies. but then we have only one raj kumar hirani and he seems to be confused on whom he wants to cast next. Last i read was that he had approached Aamir.

Other good directors like SLB, Ashutosh Gowarikar, etc does not seem to have tried making a good sensible comedies. They are concentrating more on providing meaningful cinema instead of entertaining cinema like munnabhai.

Unless these directors come and raise the bar of comedy films, we will continue to see no-brainer comedies. I beleive that comedy can be used more effectively to make meaningful cinema.

Unfortunately Shaad Ali’s Jhoom Barabar Jhoom failed otherwise we could have seen better entertaining movies.

For those who have stopped liking no-brainer comedy because of Akshay Kumar…message for them is that he is ensuring more and more people get to see this. Imagine how much his films will score if he were to come in meaningful comedies (-> extraordinary opening + sustained collection over the week = 90 Cr+)

However, more than the movie, it is Akshay Kumar who is in news. He has towered over the movie’s performance itself.

It shows it has to do with an average content of the movie because now all the publicity is driven by Akshay to take the boat towards the shore.

It is not a good opening it is EXTRAORDINARY in Bombay and FANTASTIC everywhere.

And how is it an absolute disaster?

Akshay has deservadly given his middle finger to the critics.

Nitesh: the opening weekend has been very impressive for Welcome, but OSO was infact a monster so to speak.it has not outgrossed OSO in UK and UAE, dont think it will outgross the approx.$1700,000 record set in US too.

Just kidding Nitesh, I am just too engrossed in JWM songs.

After OSO we were talking about which film in 2008 will repeat its overseas success…
never knew that in 2007 end and so soon, another film will repeat its overseas performance in the opening weekend.

2008 will be phenomenal for Akshay…