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So Amitabh is also a traitor openly saying there should be aman between pak and india. Why his movie Rann wasn't stopped? Just because he has good relations with Thakkery and uddhav?If you want to be fair then be fair. The things are bad in the cinemas and Srk Mannat is protected, he has tightened his security more. Even when he was leaving for Abu Dhabi he had good police security around him. Aamir supported Srk openly, why isn't his movie going to be stopped? Why isn't aamir being called a traitor.

Honestly if Srk had cancelled his promotion, SS would had called him he's scared of us. Like one member mentions in another thread Srk took it very maturely. There was another article stating muslim community is going to support Srk, now i am sure he doesn't want to create muslim vs hindus now. Even in Abu Dhabi press conference, he said he won't comment because he doesn't know how worse is the situation, once he see it he will comment on it. If he wanted publicity he could had used it really well. He might know these cowards are using him for publicity but you never know on friday this publicity could backfire ss.

My Name Is Khan could lead to Rs 45-cr loss

The tussle between agitating Shiv Sena workers and the Mumbai police over the release of the Shahrukh Khan starrer My Name Is Khan is likely to cause financial losses to the tune of Rs 40-45 crore for producers, distributors and film exhibitors.

Made at a budget of around Rs 45 crore and sold to Fox Star Studios for Rs 85 crore, My Name Is Khan has been subjected to anger and wrath of Shiv Sena because of the comments made by Shah Rukh Khan in favour of selection of Pakistani cricket players for IPL-III.

On day 1 of the advanced bookings for the upcoming film, the Mumbai police arrested over 1,200 agitating Shiv Sena workers. Most of the 63 theatres in Mumbai stopped the advance booking on Wednesday and with hundreds of them across the state following suit; it could lead to a dismal opening for the most-awaited Bollywood film of this year.

The multiplex association and film analysts say as Maharashtra and Mumbai together contribute a third of the domestic box office collections for big Hindi films, they are staring at a huge financial loss in the coming weekend.

My Name Is Khan will be released on Friday with over 2,000 prints. Around 300 prints are being released for Maharshtra alone. "If the average footfall in cinema theatre drops to under 35% this weekend in Mumbai coupled with anticipated disruptions and fear among cine goers in Maharashtra, we are looking at a potential loss of Rs 40-45 crore to the film business," a top executive of a leading multiplex in Mumbai said.

"Losses on account of the damage to the publicity materials of the film and attacks to various theatres in the past few days have also been factored in," the executive said.

Most of the film exhibitor chains, including Cinemax, Big Cinema, PVR, Inox, etc have stopped advance bookings within hours on Wednesday after incidents of violence and losses to cinema properties reported in the suburbs of Mumbai.

According to film analysts, any big Hindi film tends to recover almost half its cost in the first three days of the release.

"Maharashtra and Mumbai together account of a third of the country's box office collections. My Name Is Khan, with its global release and hype could easily gross over Rs 100 crore within the first week. But with an atmosphere of fear prevailing in Mumbai and elsewhere, a bulk of collections will not come, causing loss to the production, distribution and exhibition business," said a Mumbai-based film distributor.

In order to counter the potential loss of business, My Name Is Khan will have a strong distribution network in overseas markets. Over 100 prints are earmarked for each of the United States, the United Kingdom and the markets in the Gulf region and southeast Asia. Smaller number of prints will go to other parts of the world including Europe and the African continent, a film analyst said.

48 Cr Loss??😲 Now that is huge loss. What else can karan do other than have protection outside of cinema but i doubt that will help. Even some policemen were taking off MNIK posters.

Maharashtra steps up heat on Sena, Uddhav defiant

TNN, 11 February 2010, 12:56am ISTText Size:|Topics:Shah Rukh Khan

MUMBAI: The political battle in Mumbai over mega Bollywood release 'My Name Is Khan' shows no sign of abating. Faced with potential violence and

protests during Friday's release of the Shah Rukh Khan starrer, the Congress-NCP government is pulling out all stops to ensure that the Shiv Sena is blocked.

The police on Wednesday rounded up over 1,600 Sainiks and arrested another 59 and charged them with violence and vandalism in Mumbai. Most of these 59 leaders have been remanded in custody till Monday.

Notices were also sent to 50 other middle-level Sena functionaries warning against joining protests.

Sena leader Uddhav Thackeray remained defiant and vowed to stop the film's release and implement his father and party chief Bal Thackeray's diktat against SRK, who angered the saffron, sectarian party by batting for Pakistani players in the Indian Premier League.

Maharashtra leaders and top cops promised to ensure a smooth release but these obviously failed to inspire confidence. Despite the state machinery moving into top gear and reports of only scattered incidents of violence and vandalism in the city during Wednesday, spooked theatre owners refused to sell advance tickets for the movie. Over 60 of the 70-odd theatres, where MNIK is scheduled for release, refused to open their box office windows.

The superstar at the centre of the controversy is in Dubai for the Rs 50 crore film's world premiere. "SRK feels that the film should be released and he would have no problems meeting Bal Thackeray to thank the leader. But he does not see why he should first apologise," said a source close to the developments.

Meanwhile, distributors have dispatched prints across the country and elsewhere - including Pakistani cities like Lahore, Karachi and Rawalpindi - but are keeping their fingers crossed in Bollywood's hometown. Mumbai alone is expected to contribute Rs 10-12 crore of the film's opening at the box-office. "We are waiting to see what happens on Thursday. There is heavy police bandobast around halls but nothing, not even security, is foolproof," a theatre owner said.

Saying the agitation was spontaneous and that he could not control his supporters, Uddhav Thackeray said, "We wanted to resolve the issue amicably. However, the CM has exacerbated the crisis and in his attempt to please his New Delhi bosses, he has thought it wise to deploy hundreds of policemen at Mumbai's cinema halls. Why is the government provoking the Sena?"

"It's my wish that this should be sorted out with mutual understanding," Chavan said. "The common man should not be made to suffer because of this ongoing controversy. The police department is taking stock of the situation and adequate security arrangements will be made for the release of film," he added.

State home minister R R Patil, too, assured film distributors of adequate security cover. "Those who want to protest against the film can do so but it should be done peacefully and not by disturbing law and order," Patil said. "We will spare no one guilty of lawlessness," he added.

However, the CM's and the home minister's statements failed to evoke much confidence. It wasn't that the state government and the police machinery did not walk the talk. But an uneasy calm prevailed near cinema halls and most theatres didn't sell a single ticket in the city, Thane and Navi Mumbai.

A group of Shiv Sainiks came prepared to vandalise Kasturba theatre in Malad on Wednesday afternoon.

"Twenty-five persons were nabbed before they could tear up posters or smash glass panes. The accused included a vibhag pramukh, a shakha pramukh and four women," an official said. Another group damaged some hoardings on the Western Express Highway - away from any multiplex or single-screen theatre - in Andheri and a band of around 10 Sainiks landed up at Kulraj's Broadway multiplex in Borivli (E) though they were picked up before they could resort to any vandalism.

The central and eastern suburbs, which saw heavy-duty protests on Tuesday, did not see any violence at all on Wednesday. Much of the activity on Mumbai's streets on Wednesday was actually courtesy policemen.
More than 1,600 people were detained. The biggest names were those of MLA Vinod Ghosalkar and former MLA Dagdu Sakpal but both were released after some time. The others were taken into preventive custody included corporator Aparna Narvekar, deputy shakha pramukhs Shaila Gaikwad, Shyam Salvi, Jaywant More and Vinod Salvi, shakha pramukhs Sunil Chavan and Hemangi Joshi and shakha sanghatak Amit More. Many of them, however, got bail after court production.

Officials said around 3,000 cops would be deployed in and around halls to prevent trouble the next couple of days. Police commissioner D Sivanandhan has cancelled all casual leave and weekly offs of all 42,000 policemen of 85 police stations and other branches.

Top cops, too, echoed the chief minister and the home minister in assuring exhibitors of security. "We have advised theatre owners to keep the first three rows empty and post guards near the screen to preempt mischief. They have also been asked to instal closed-circuit television cameras with night-vision facility," joint commisioner (law and order) Himanshu Roy said.

SECURITY AT MATOSHREE

Uddhav Thackeray played to the gallery, asking the senior inspector in charge of his personal security to go. But the official refused to budge, saying he could not leave his post without written instruction.

Chief minister Ashok Chavan deftly parried questions about whether his threat -- to remove the Thackerays' security -- added to the controversy. "I do not add fuel to the fire nor do I add fire to the fuel," he replied.

SECURITY AT MANNAT

Adequate security has been given to Shah Rukh Khan's Bandra bungalow. Additional commissioner (west) Amitabh Gupta said, "We are continuing the security deployment at Khan's residence."
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Let not us be too worried --- let the week end pass then we'll know....about the BO --- anyway it's not the most important - People's security in Mumbai is more important ...

i don't think SS is attacking entire mumbai, he's only against MNIK release. He did promise he won't create any problem when Srk was in India, As soon Srk left india, he showed his true colors. Srk should had known politics(Anywhere) never keeps their promise lol. It is not as Srk is partying in London, NY, Dubai or Berlin. It's all for work.

I know he's not partying lol

I highly doubt SS will be able to do anything! At this point they are only trying to terrify people off and I don't think they will create a mess, unless they want the entire country against them.

Short term: The movie may NOT have the best opening in Mumbai, but how long can SS threaten? Within a week or two everything should technically calm down.

IF the movie is exceptionally good, then there is absolutely NOTHING that can stop the movie from working.

^I agree, srk or team of MNIK doesn't want a person to risk his/her life over a movie. It's really a sad situation. I doubt SS will hurt anyone.

KJO RT @AalifSurti: Just announced: The entire force of 45,000 Bollywood film union workers will stand by SRK and go to see MNK over the weekend