B.O. update: ‘Jannat’ fetches excellent start
(This has indeed come as a huge surprise !!)
The lull has finally ended! Mahesh Bhatt and Mukesh Bhatt’s JANNAT, directed by debutante Kunal Deshmukh, has fetched an excellent start. At places, the occupancy was 100%, at places 70%-80%. Inox, PVR and Velocity, Indore had a 100% start in the first show, Fame Surat was 100%, Inox Baroda was 100%, Prasad Hyderabad was 100%, Satyam Delhi was 100%.
According to Aditya Choksey, one of the leading distributors of C.I., “JANNAT has fetched the biggest start after RAAZ, for the Bhatts.” The Rajasthan distributor was ecstatic as well, so was the Punjab distributor. Mumbai and Delhi also recorded very good opening. The Bhatts seem to have a winner on hand!








Comment by Tango on 16 May 2008:
What an asshole, corrupt and ignorant this IBOS and its owner is. Not only did he predict a poor picture for Bhoothnath ( before jumping on to the success bandwagon mid-week, on the advise of…), he is proved a fool again
http://www.ibosnetwork.com/newsmanager/templates/template1.aspx?articleid=21345&zoneid=9
“Meanwhile this upcoming week, an Emran Hashmi starrer Jannat, once again releases to a paltry opening. The film will be lucky to do 4-5 crores all over India with the opening bookings hovering around a negligible 5%”
Comment by texas_swat on 16 May 2008:
This is really a big opening for any film, not just an Emraan film.
Last week, did somebody say Bhootnath’s opening is one of the biggest in recent times ?. LOL.
Comment by rockstar on 17 May 2008:
JUST A QUESTION WHAT IS WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THIS SORT OF REPORTING ?
u have taken some general multiplexes and generalized whole thing ,
http://boxofficeindia.com/npages.php?page=shownews&articleid=217&nCat=news&PHPSESSID=172d15eee2f626f90c64b790046be100
(The initial is not good but the huge release gives the film a good chance to get good shares in the first week if it is appreciated by the public), here is one quote from another source
Comment by jayshah on 17 May 2008:
Lol this report is playing into the hands of those with statistical deficiencies. Lets pick a few scattered places across India and make it sound like the opening of Aap Ka Suroor.
Comment by jayshah on 17 May 2008:
Indeed the IBOS guy has made a huge blunder in the estimated Mumbai figure. He is out by over 1Cr it seems. Making such predictions is a no win situation.
Comment by jayshah on 17 May 2008:
Correction ‘Indeed IBOS has made a huge blunder in the estimated Mumbai figure’
Comment by don123 on 17 May 2008:
Very valid point rockstar. Unusual reporting this, and in my view unethical.
Comment by texas_swat on 17 May 2008:
don123: why is this reporting unethical. What should Taran say if indeed the film has taken 100% opening at many multiplex. I didnot see him generalising this and saying that the opening is 100% all over or that this is the best opening in recent times. He is just saying that this is on par with Raaz opening.
Comment by rockstar on 17 May 2008:
u can’t just put random multiplexes and generalize things , no information about any single screen is there neither any all india content is here
Comment by texas_swat on 17 May 2008:
sure he has just listed down some centers where the film got 100%. but he didnt generalize at all. He has even mentioned that at places it is 70-80%.
Comment by Simply Som on 17 May 2008:
well… I can say the various sources claiming an excellent start for Janat does not seem unusually grotesque.the theater where I saw the movie today had 3 shows housefull out of 4.
Comment by akshay shah on 18 May 2008:
JANNAT always was going to be fairly big….i’m surprised that people are surprised as Emraan has managed to see this kind of stuff to thumping results before…
A.Shah
Comment by Kanwal on 19 May 2008:
Infact Emraan has a success rate of more than 50% rivalled only by the khans/roshan in bollywood.He has seen to it many of his movies make average+ mark as A.SHAH told.
Comment by manoj16_391 on 19 May 2008:
kanwal ,emraan success rate of >50%?
Film Role Co-star
2003 Footpath flop
2004 Murder hit
Tumsa Nahin Dekha flop
2005 Zeher below avg to flop
Aashiq Banaya Aapne flop
Kalyug below avg to flop
2006 Chocolate flop
Jawani Diwani: flop
Aksar flop
Gangster hit
The Killer flop
Dil Diya Hai flop
2007 Good Boy, Bad Boy flop
The Train flop
Awarapan flop
so % is (2/15)x 100= 14 % success rate
Comment by jayshah on 19 May 2008:
2003 Footpath flop
2004 Murder hit
Tumsa Nahin Dekha flop
2005 Zeher below hit
Aashiq Banaya Aapne hit
Kalyug hit
2006 Chocolate flop
Jawani Diwani: average
Aksar hit
Gangster hit
The Killer flop
Dil Diya Hai flop
2007 Good Boy, Bad Boy flop
The Train hit
Awarapan hit
Success ratio = 9/15 = 60%
Thats music, not films