Top hits and Top flops of 2011 - Page 10

Originally posted by: Relda

Both Sonam and Deepika will be in in their 6th year in BW in a few days (7th for Deepika if you count her South Indian movie). How long are we going to grace them with the euphemism of a "newcomer"? They just don't have it in them, IMO. Amisha Patel part deux.

Originally posted by: VanityGirl

You won't get anything, but since you made the statement that it is biased, I thought you'd have sound proof to back it up. But alas!
I never called it the most unbiased site either! It is a newspaper with different reporters and different sections.. so not everyone will sing the same jingle! 😆
And if I may ask.. can you post that link to that article you're referring to?? No, I'm not asking you because I think you're making it up. I just wanted to give it a read! 😃

Alas! Not available online. You can go over to the Mid-Day office in Mumbai and ask them for their 2003 articles. They might be able to point you to the right dates too.
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I knew you'd say that. 😆

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No seriously you should do that. Madamji had her share of fun before the newspapers took to going online in a big way.

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Ahh, ignorance is bliss ain't it? But for real? 😲Better than any BW star has performed in the South? 😲 Umm not quite.. Aishwarya's Jeans despite being female oriented + without any major hero broke all the previous records of that time. Hrithik's Krrish and Dhoom 2 have been doing great in the Southern versions. But look at Ra.One's fate.. poor distributors lost more than half of what they invested.. forget profits. http://www.supergoodmovies.com/31119/tollywood/ra-one-is-a-huge-flop-in-telugu-news-details
All this DESPITE having THE Rajnikanth in the film.
So much for the most successful BW star in the south! 😆

LOL! Now you are saying Ra1 is a Rajni film. FYI Rajni sir had a tiny appearance in the movie. I wont even bother to go to your bogus site link you have put up here.
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Duhh! 🤔 Please read properly. I'm NOT saying Ra.One is a Rajnikanth film. I'm saying that whatever the tiny little amount of collections the movie made in the South was because of Rajni's special appearance. So if SRK was the biggest BW pull in the South, wonder why he has made no contributions?
Yeah, the site is a bogus. Midday is a bogus too because it put down Don 2. 😆
But anyway, please give me a link to an article from an apparently-not-so-bogus site that says how well Ra.One did in the South? Then we shall decide which site is a bogus. 😛

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Ra1 was never promoted as a Rajni film. Even Rajnji's sir cameo wasnt promoted like SRK's Dulha Mil Gaya cameo was. So how can the collections be attributed to his presence?

Mid-day is not a bogus site. But its being biased and is trying to pull down Don2 which just started its theaterical run. But its not surprising. Media is quick to pull down idols. Like today Anna Hazare is being pulled down for not being able to gather crowds and is being called irrelevant but veteran journos. Yet the same journos are failing to point out that if not for Anna's movement the Lokpal Bill wouldnt have even been passed at all. The same bill was introduced 7 times since 1968 and it never got passed. The media was similarly harsh with Akshay in 2010.

Coming to links to genuine sites to BO collections of South movies there are none that exist. The South industry works differently. Every big star has fan club which books theatres in advance to make the star's movie seem a superhit. This is never written about as every star has political connections and the whole media in South has links to one or another political party. Whichever party the star is a part of the media controlled by that party will praise the film while the media controlled by the opposing party will thrash it. There have been incidents when goons(fan club members) have gone to newspaper offices and thrashed it for carrying a negative review of a film.

The site whose link you have posted if genuine might have thrashed Ra1 because the owners might be bearing a grudge against SRK for another reason.

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And LMAO, I didn't compare Aamir to Vidya. I made two seperate statements. Vidya was an example that quoted to your point that BO performance is directly proportional to a star's popularity. But yet Vidya's movie has got great returns to her latest film that none of the big budget films have succeeded in, off late.

Yes...BO performance is a proof of a star's popularity. Consistent BO performers like Vidya and Emraan are popular to a large extent. Yet their movies so far have had a much smaller budget where its easier to recover costs. AK's movies are usually big budget ones where stakes are higher for everyone involved. If a small movie flops not much attention is paid to it. If a big movie flop an actor has to bear the cross of it for years. Like even today Raj Kapoor's Mera Naam Joker is pointed out as a huge flop.

Similarly its easier to declare a smaller budget movie like TDP a superhit compared to a big budget Ra1 eventhough Ra1 has made more money simply because percentage of profits for the producers of TDP was more than Ra1. But the reason why more money is invested in a Khan move compared to a Balan movie whether the Khan movie is a hit or superhit because the producers are more sure he will recover his costs from a 100 cr Khan movie rather than a 100 Cr Balan movie. Why? Because he is popular. The audience has confidence that he will be entertained when he is watching the movie.

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I wouldn't say Vidya is very popular. She doesn't even feature in the Top 5 actresses in terms of popularity. As I said, Priyanka is more popular than Vidya despite not having a clean hit for about 5 years now. So you can NEVER measure a star's popularity only by Box office.
TDP's collections were due to a different reason. 😛 So yeah, obviously people won't invest 100 crore in Vidya Balan.

People like Aamir for his movies and nothing else.. whereas SRK and Salman have this huge following which is beyond movies. And Aamir is not as popular as them in that sense.

I agree...though in terms of buzz for a movie AK is as good as the other two.

Aamir is actually better than the other two in terms of movies. SRK has been on a downhill for the past many years.. Salman's movies run by excitement for the first few days and then the excitement dies down. Aamir's movies run with the same enthusiasm from the first week to the fourth week. The major pull about Aamir is movies. That's why I prefer to call him a big actor than a big superstar. Whereas superstar term suits SRK and Salman more than actors.

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I think we are saying the same thing in different ways. I disagree that BO success doesnt mean a star is popular. One follows the other.

The ones who are popular without much BO success are not able to sustain in the long run and fade out sooner. The Khans are still around purely because they are still consistently performing at the BO

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Originally posted by: -Kruti.S-

^^ OMG did you just say that, now get ready to be bombarded and also have a helmet handy with you 😆

Shreya : chuck it, you are just wasting your time and energy now