Abid, Bollywood Trade News Network

The coming Friday will see multiple releases in the form of Deepak Shivdasani's MR. BLACK MR. WHITE, Anant Mahadevan's ANAMIKA and PRANALI - THE TRADITION, a film about the devdasi tradition. One feels that it will be the Sunil Shetty, Arshad Warsi and Sandhya Mridul starrer MR. BLACK MR. WHITE that is likely to fare best (comparatively) from the three scheduled releases.

Last week's major release, Yash Raj Films' Vijay Krishna Acharya directed multi-starrer, TASHAN, featuring Anil Kapoor, Akshay Kumar, Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor, proved to be an anti-climax, because a huge opening was on the cards. The lack of house-full initial for the 35-crore TASHAN and the less-than-ordinary reports have sent shock waves in the industry. The first day in Bombay saw a so-so opening while outside of Bombay the opening was fair at places and below the mark at others. TASHAN not opening at a lot of multiplexes (especially Bombay) due to Aditya Chopra's stubborn approach, will further tell on its business prospects. The film also had a weak start in the US grossing $301,226 but was comparatively better in the UK with a gross of $361,451.

The other release of the week, SIRF - LIFE LOOKS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE, starring Manisha Koirala, Kay Kay Menon, Ranvir Shorey, Sonali Kulkarni, Nauheed Cyrusi and Rituparna Sengupta, had a poor to bad start and will join the list of the big failures of the year.

Both the releases of last week, SALAKHAIN and Tanuja Chandra's English film, HOPE and A LITTLE SUGAR, have been out rightly rejected by the audience with total collections of 15-20 lakhs from India.

Ajay Devgan's U ME AUR HUM drops in the second week, after a below par performance in the first. In trade parlance it is referred to as 'steady on the lower side'. The Ajay-Kajol starrer collected 1.30 crores from Bombay, 33 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 3.60 lakhs from Rajkot, 2.10 lakhs from Jamnagar, 1.75 lakhs (gross) from Bhavnagar, 1.10 lakhs from Gandhidham, 6.40 lakhs from Pune, 1 lakh from Sangli, 3.10 lakhs from Nasik, 70 lakhs from Delhi, 10.85 lakhs from Noida, 6.50 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 3.85 lakhs from Kanpur, 7.80 lakhs from Lucknow, 2.10 lakhs from Agra, 1.50 lakhs from Meerut, 1.25 lakhs from Bareilly, 11.60 lakhs from Gurgaon, 4.50 lakhs from Faridabad, 22.25 lakhs from Calcutta, 1.60 lakhs from Guwahati, 4.60 lakhs from Nagpur, 1 lakh from Amravati, 4 lakhs from Indore, 2.70 lakhs from Jaipur, 14.10 lakhs from Hyderabad and 2 lakhs from Mangalore. During the week, U ME AUR HUM added around 6.75 crores and so far the film has netted 19.25 crores in two weeks from India. With TASHAN unlikely to cut into the business of any film, chances are that the 25-crore U ME AUR HUM may turn out to be a recovery venture by the next week. In the Overseas, U ME AUR HUM has so far grossed a decent $785,430 from the UK and a good $1,028,191 from US. The movie is a good success for its distributors EROS.

As may be recalled, KRAZZY 4 scored heavily during the first four days but saw quite a fast drop afterwards. Well, KRAZZY 4 continues to drop badly. During the week the Jaideep Sen directed film collected 92 lakhs from Bombay, 25 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 1 lakh each from Sangli and Gandhidham, 3.80 lakhs from Rajkot, 1.60 lakhs from Jamnagar, 1.30 lakhs from Bhavnagar, 4.50 lakhs from Pune, 2.80 lakhs from Nasik, 38 lakhs from Delhi city, 5.40 lakhs from Noida, 4.85 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 3.25 lakhs from Kanpur, 7.35 lakhs from Lucknow, 1.40 lakhs from Agra, 1 lakh from Meerut, 1.40 lakhs from Aligarh, 7.05 lakhs from Gurgaon, 3 lakhs from Faridabad, 1.35 lakhs from Guwahati, 7.30 lakhs from Nagpur, 1 lakh from Sagar, 5.60 lakhs from Indore, 3.30 lakhs from Jaipur, 14.20 lakhs from Hyderabad and 1.40 lakhs from Mangalore. During the week, KRAZZY 4 added another 5 crores and has so far netted close to 21.50 crores in two weeks from India. The film though remains in the above average category. Meanwhile in the Overseas, KRAZZY 4 is a reasonable success ( due to low procurement prices) with grosses of $268,364 and $487,215 from the UK and US respectively.

Samar Khan's SHAURYA continues to trickle in the moolah. The film collected 1.20 lakhs from Bombay, 6.50 lakhs from Delhi and 2.40 lakhs from Gurgaon. Adding another 20 lakhs, SHAURYA touches 2.70 crores from India. The Rahul Bose, Kay Kay Menon, Jaaved Jafferi, Minissha Lamba and Deepak Dobriyal starrer has a creditable average status to show from India..

KHUDA KAY LIYE is steady in big cities. The film collected 18 lakhs from Bombay, 3.15 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 8.15 lakhs from Delhi, 1.15 lakhs from Noida and 1.25 lakhs from Gurgaon. The Shoaib Mansoor directed KHUDA KAY LIYE adds another 50 lakhs and has so far netted 1.85 crores in three weeks from India. Like SHAURYA, the film from Pakistan, KHUDA KAY LIYE has got to an average status from India.

Ashwani Dheer's ONE TWO THREE, featuring Sunil Shetty, Tusshar Kapoor, Paresh Rawal, Upen Patel, Esha Deol, Sameera Reddy, Tanisha Mukherjee and Neetu Chandra, is on its last legs. The film collected 2.20 lakhs from Bombay, 3.20 lakhs from Ahmedabad and 1.25 lakhs from Delhi. Taking into account the current week's 25 lakhs, ONE TWO THREE has so far netted an unexpected 18 crores in four weeks from India! ONE TWO THREE, a semi-hit from India, given its low costs , is also a decent success in the Overseas, grossing $229,209 from the UK and 274,589 from US.

Abbas-Mustan's RACE has another good and steady week and significant collections to show! The film collected 17 lakhs from Bombay, 9.85 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 2.45 lakhs from Rajkot, 1.15 lakhs from Pune, 10.30 lakhs from Delhi, 1.60 lakhs from Noida, 1.25 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 3.60 lakhs from Lucknow, 1.60 lakhs from Gurgaon, 2.20 lakhs from Nagpur and 3.90 lakhs from Jaipur. With another 1.25 crores during its fifth week, RACE has so far netted an excellent 61.75 crores from India. The Anil Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan, Akshaye Khanna, Bipasha Basu, Katrina Kaif and Sameera Reddy starrer RACE is a hit from India. RACE is a good hit in the Overseas with an impressive gross of $1,750,917 from UK and is also doing quite well in the US grossing $1,367,024.

JODHAA AKBAR is ending its run in India. The film collected 1.65 lakhs from Bombay, 1.05 lakhs from Ahmedabad and 2 lakhs (approx) from Delhi. Adding another 15 lakhs, JODHAA AKBAR has netted 62.35 crores, after 70-days in India. The Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan starrer is nearly a superhit from India and a blockbuster in the Overseas.