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First and foremost I would like to thank Abhishek Bhandekar [Abzee] and Sandhya Iyer [Sandy] for being great hosts and welcoming this guest to Bombay and Pune. Sandy will not mind, but I must give huge thanks to Abzee. The guy just spoiled me. For 6 days, taking time out of his busy schedule, he [...]

New Releases
Fruit & Nut
Fruit & Nut starring Boman Irani posted inconsequential collections in the range of 0.3-0.4Cr and is a likely flop considering the opposition this week. With weak promotion and weak post release reports, the box office collections do not come as a surprise.
Past Releases
All The Best

New Releases

Blue
Blue arrived with the biggest of expectations of all the Diwali releases and at least delivered on its promise of a big opening. Starring Akshay Kumar, Sanjay Dutt, Lara Dutta and Zayed Khan – the actioner took a big start on opening and things looked good for the majority of the Diwali weekend. However, [...]

New Releases
Acid Factory
White Feather Films’ Acid Factory endured a horrible first week performance. The opening days were very lowin occupanices, with expectations of a slightly better performance blown away by poor audience and critical response. The thriller directed by Suparn Verma and produced by Sanjay Gupta stars Fardeen Khan and Irfan Khan but only managed [...]

Mumbaimirror
• You to seemed to have faced a lot of problems during your Los Angeles (LA) schedule of My Name is Khan?
Tell me about it. Besides minor problems, there were unforeseen problems too. Thank God for my fabulous technical team, without them I could not have made my film the way I [...]

Mumbaimirror
The war between multiplexes, producers and distributors has taken an ugly turn once again. After multiplexes refused to honour the agreement to give UTV Motion Pictures a 45 per cent share for its forthcoming film Dev.D, UTV has decided not to release the film in multiplexes across the country.
In fact, if matters are not [...]

Kaminey

IBNLIVE

Very Picturesque…

Note all numbers are from Trade Guide
Reporting Methodology
1) New films most of the time where possible will be benchmarked against other films ‘in the same range’. The gross used for the older films will be either one’s I have computed or a BOI gross or a gross from Joginder’s column
2) Films currently playing – I [...]

DNAINDIA
New Delhi: Legendary Australian spinner Shane Warne isimpressed by Mahendra Singh Dhoni-led team’s surge in international cricket but believes India could realise their number one dream only if Sachin Tendulkar keeps himself fit.
Warne also refused to believe that it was the best-ever Indian team so far despite its recent victories against Australia and England.
“I think [...]

Hindustantimes
So, West like slums, they like dogs and yeah they like slumdogs too. We like Obama, we like white stars and yeah we like nominations in Oscars too..
We love to be loved by Uncle Sam and brigade. We are so obsessed with the idea of being accepted by “the first world”. And yeah, we are [...]

Businessofcinema
MUMBAI: UTV Motion Pictures’ Kaminey, directed by Vishal Bharadwaj, is slated to release on 5 June.
Kaminey will be the first film to release post the IPL championship, which conclude on 29 May. With most filmmakers shying away from releasing their films during the IPL season, Kaminey has grabbed the first Friday, post the championship. [...]

Probably a rumour like the Jodha Akbar ones! Hope so!
Buzz18
I have it from my sources that the release date of Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra – UTV’s Delhi-6 has been postponed. The film was set to release on February 20th but has now been pushed back by almost a month.
Sources inform, “The major reason for the film’s [...]

DNAINDIA
Mumbai: India is definitely looking ahead. In fact, it is leaping ahead. There is so much happening that we need to be proud of. It is not necessarily a person or a group of people who make India. It is the change in attitude, it is the way we have started looking at things…
DNA
I wish [...]

Note all numbers are from Trade Guide
Reporting Methodology
1) New films most of the time where possible will be benchmarked against other films ‘in the same range’. The gross used for the older films will be either one’s I have computed or a BOI gross or a gross from Joginder’s column
2) Films currently playing – I [...]

Mumbaimirror
Hours after the announcement of three Oscar nominations one for Original Score and two for Best Songs, ‘Jai ho’ and ‘O Saya’, the usually reticent AR Rahman sounds more excited than he ever has.
A jubilant Rahman said, “What can I say? It’s a dream-come-true not so much for me as much as my wife. She’d [...]

Mumbaimirror
Though he’s sprawled out in his office, the picture of ‘cool’, emotions seethe within Nikhil Advani when he speaks about his completely detested and disdained Chandni Chowk to China. Tell him the film is being called the worst Bollywood film ever and he retorts that he has been in cinema houses and while some may [...]

Mumbaimirror
If all goes well, Shah Rukh Khan will return to his bad boy image, which catapulted him to success. Shah Rukh has been offered the role of the famous villain Mogambo in Shekhar Kapur’s Mr India 2. The film is a sequel to the 1987 hit Mr India starring Anil Kapoor and Sridevi and will [...]

Businessofcinema
MUMBAI: Akshay Kumar’s Chandni Chowk to China has been severely panned by the critics but the movie has gone on to collect Rs 330 million (Rs 33 crores) in India and RS 120 million (Rs 12 crores) from the overseas in its opening weekend. Most have started writing the actor’s epitaph as they feel that [...]