This Friday will see the release of Dharmesh Darshan's Akshaye-Priyanka-Dino starrer 'Aap Ki Khatir' and Anees Bazmi's fungus laden ('No Entry' and 'Pyaar To Hona Hi Tha') Govinda-Mahima starrer 'Sandwich' . Of the two 'Aap Ki Khatir' is expected to be the front runner and fare decently( comparatively) , though lack of a perceptable hype about movie or its music ( surprising for a Darshan movie) will go against the movie . But who knows . It may just pull through like some of Darshan's previous movies .
Opening of 'Ahista Ahista' and 'Kathputli' :- The Abhay-Soha starrer , released at 41 theatres of Bombay ( thru Goldie Films) had a poor opening . Outside of Bombay the opening ranged from poor to dull . The other release of last week , the Milind-Mink-Yukta starrer 'Katputtli' , released at 15 cinenmas of Bombay ( thru R.M. Ahuja and company) had a very poor opening . Outside of Bombay the story was more horrific .
Verdict :- Though well made and different , the fate of 'Ahista Ahista' is sealed by the poor start and lack of drama . 'Katputtli' will find it difficult to complete more than a few shows .
'Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna' : Despite all the misinformation campaign about the falling collections , the fall was seen only on the Thursday ( 7th day) , that is after the 'Janamashtmi' holidays , which was also the first working day !
Once the collections were declared on Saturday , it became clear that the multiplexes had recorded mindblowing collections while single screens were not the same level and expectedly ( given the theme and setting) less . However once again 'rejected at single screens' turned out to be another lie and we have marked out the single screens to highlight the same (we have mentioned ii brackets below).
The movie fetched extraordinary shares in Bombay( more than 6 crores) , East punjab , Delh-U.P. , West Bengal , Rajasthan and South . So what is left? Parts of flood ravaged Central India and Bihar !
Needless to add that 'Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna' is phenomenal in the Overseas and has smashed all previous( week 1) records .
We must add that the second weekend from Chennai is already in ( 21 lakhs) and it shows just a 30 percent fall , as compared to the first . What must be kept in mind is that a 50 percent fall is normal with such an oversaturated release in week two .
First week Collections :
Bombay - 4,83,18,869 from 46 cinemas
Thane district - 85,69,322 from 14 cinemas ( 8 on fixed hire)
Ahmedabad - 1,57,77,816 from 16 cinemas
Rajkot - 19,46,508
Jamnagar - 7,56,275 from 2 cinemas ( 1 unrecd.)
Bhavnagar ( 45 shows) - 9,85,631 ( 1 unrecd.)
Solapur - 3,80,415
Nasik - 12,20,696 from 2 cinemas
Delhi - 2,71,35,832 from 25 cinemas
Noida - 49,98,806 from 2 cinemas
Ghaziabad - 95,62,307 from 13 cinemas
Kanpur - 17,16,800 from 3 cinemas
Lucknow - 40,32,358 from 4 cinemas
Agra - 7,25,000 from
Meerut - 4,09,722 ( single screen)
Moradabad - 2,24,065 ( single screen)
Bulandshahar - 1,09,000 ( single screen)
Aligarh - 4,59,500 (single screen)
Mathura - 1,67,000 ( single screen)
Amroha - 57,000 ( single screen)
Dehradun ( Uttaranchal) - 4,63,850 ( single screen)
Rishikesh (Uttaranchal) - 1,17,150 ( single screen)
Gurgaon ( East Punjab)- 51,69,035 from 4 cinemas
Faridabad (East Punjab)- 17,64,858 from 2 cinemas
Nagpur - 14,70,846 from 3 cinemas
Jabalpur - 3,84,832 ( single screen)
Akola - 2,47,344 ( single screen)
Raipur - 4,10,282 (single screen)
Gondia - 63,321 ( single screen)
Wardha - 1,00,159 ( single screen)
Chandrapur - 1,79,440 ( single screen)
Indore - 38,46,513 from 5 cinemas
Sehore - 1,80,445 ( single screen)
Bhopal - 5,40,000 ( 3 unrecd. )
Ujjain - 1,65,000 ( single screen)
Jaipur - 64,44,393 from 9 cinemas ( 1 unrecd.)
Ajmer ( gross) - 8,29,022
Bikaner - 4,28,907 from 2 cinemas (single screens)
Jodhpur - 15,54,104 from 3 cinemas
Udaipur - 3,31,642 ( single screen)
Calcutta - 1,46,37,858 from 24 cinemas
Hyderabad - 1,01,49,294 from 20 cinemas
Bangalore - 16,91,968
Aurangabad - 5,91,199 from 2 cinemas
Vijaywada - 4,71,449
Madras - 54,52,568 from 3 cinemas ( 1 unrecd.)
First week collections : 18,61,74,032 from 230 cinemas
First week total (calculated) : All India 28.20 cr - 28.70 cr
Overseas - US-$2,383,517 , UK - $2,708,087 and Australia - $342,042
Verdict :- Given the selling prices ( including print and publicity) and the the new first week record collections , 'KANK' is already an above average in India and will get to a hit status next week and even higher in the coming weeks and we will update , as per our practice . The movie is a superhit in the Overseas and is on way to setting a new all time record for a Bollywood release
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