ABCD 2 - Box Office & Review thread - Page 11

Looks like ABCD2 is gonna have a bumper opening. Good luck to the team.😊

Komal Nahta @KomalNahta 5m5 minutes ago

Opening of ABCD2 outstnding from Bombay circuit to Bihar circuit, sure sign that it is unstoppable.With this,Varun joins league of top stars

taran adarsh @taran_adarsh 4m4 minutes ago

#ABCD2 promises to dance into your heart and also dance its way to success at the box-office. Another SURE-SHOT HIT on the cards. Watch it!

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Varun Dhawan and Shraddha Kapoor starrer ABCD 2, which released today worldwide, took a great opening almost all over the country. The film witnessed a good to very good occupancy in the morning shows pan India.

The performance in Gujarat, Jaipur was superb, followed by Delhi NCR which was good, while East Punjab saw a decent occupancy and UP is fairing quite well. Interestingly, despite heavy rains, Mumbai opened well however, due to water logging practically everywhere in the city, the collections will be severely affected here today!

ABCD 2s overall opening occupancy is in the range of 45-50% mark. The film will definitely have a double digit Day 1 collections, however it is to be seen, whether the film beats any biggie's record or not.

Wow! seems like a decent opening. This is sooo good to hear.

Sure shot hit! Best of luck to the team.

Originally posted by: .Hajmola.

ABCD 2 Takes Biggest Opening Of Year Till Date

Friday 19 June 2015 12.00 IST

Box Office India Trade Network

ABCD 2 has taken the biggest opening of the year by beating Gabbar Is Back by a quite a distance. Below are the average occupancies in morning shows.

1. ABCD 2 - 50%

2. Gabbar - 40%

3. Tanu Weds Manu Returns - 35%

4. Roy - 32.5 %

5. Dil Dhadakne Do - 30%

6. Badlapur - 27.5%

7. Baby - 25%

-. Tevar - 25%

8. Ek Thi Leela - 22.5%

There is a difference in the number of screens with ABCD 2 at 2550 screens and Gabbar Is Back at 3300 but the occupancies do favour ABCD 2 which should be enough for it to record the biggest opening day of the year. Of course it does depend on how the rest of the day goes but it is looking very good for ABCD 2 at the moment.

This should open Akki's Eyes for sure, not to do those jhand kind of films, stick to what he is @ best.

Originally posted by: -Mr.CooL-

Shradha's Dance is Amazing How it Wouldn't Be! Varun Contributed Some Good Moves Too
But This Girl Seemed Working so Hard She Must Deserve This Opening. ⭐️

Where is Nick, BeingChevi?? W8g for their reviews.

ABCD 2 review: Not a movie, but a string of Varun Dhawan, Shraddha Kapoor, Prabhudeva music videos
Jun 19, 2015 10:56 IST


Remo D'Souza's latest, ABCD 2, suffers from a strange problem - it's let down by its very raison d'tre: dance.
For a film revolving around a hip hop dance championship, one expects actors to break into twists regularly, but ABCD 2's many and needlessly frequent dance sequences make it less of a film and more of a bunch of loosely-strung music videos that can't tell a compelling story. Worse, they end up inflating the film's runtime: 155 minutes feels at least 30 minutes more than it actually is or needs to be.
Moreover, what's upsetting about the film is D'Souza and writer Tushar Hiranandani's reluctance to flesh out its most crucial plot point. Early in the movie, we meet the dance team Mumbai Stunners, helmed by Suresh and Vinnie (Varun Dhawan and Shraddha Kapoor). They're competing for a reputed dance competition, Hum Kisise Kum Nahin. Once Mumbai Stunners' performance is over, we get to know that their dance routine was copied from a Filipino team. Suresh and Vinnie's troupe is not only thrown out of the competition, but also shamed. A YouTube video called "Same to Shame"- comparing the original and copied performances-soon goes viral.
But why did Mumbai Stunners, a bunch of performers who is really passionate about and good at dancing, decided to be so dishonest and so stupid? Who was responsible for this lapse of reason? Why did these otherwise conscientious and hard-working dancers chose to take the easy and dishonourable way out? In the absence of convincing answers to these questions, it becomes difficult to relate to or care about these characters.
Still, ABCD 2 is a much-improved effort than its prequel. This one reverberates with genuine love for the art form, as evidenced by well-choreographed dance numbers aplenty. The initial chemistry between Suresh and his mentor-to-be, Vishnu (Prabhudeva), even though half-baked, is passably funny. Dhawan and Kapoor's relationship doesn't follow the tropes of mainstream Bollywood romance: they get together only by the end of the film.
What ABCD 2 lacks, though, is a central conflict and D'Souza's attempts at creating moments of tension come across as superficial. It's also confused. Most of ABCD 2 is about Mumbai Stunners' core group (later called India Stunners) travelling to Las Vegas, along with Vishnu Sir, to compete in a World Hip Hop Dance Championship. However, in the final segment, the focus suddenly shifts: ABCD 2 wants us to know dance can be used to assert a national identity.
This sudden burst of patriotism is both abrupt and unbelievable because nothing prior to Las Vegas suggested the dancers saw this competition as a chance to put their country on the world map. In fact, for most of the film, the film is all about entirely personal goals. The shamed dancers see the competition as their chance to redeem themselves and given they belong to Nalasopara, a victory would help them inch closer to dislodging the chip on the shoulder that comes from being from that neglected and far-flung Mumbai suburb.
Instead of dwelling into these subplots in any detail, ABCD 2, in its final moments, has Indian Stunners' members exchanging verbal volleys with a German dancer. Bollywood films are no strangers to fixating on patriotism where a plot point requires an Indian contingent taking on a group of foreigners. Happy New Year, too, which coincidentally revolved around a dance competition, had plenty of awkward diversions into jingoism.
Based on the true story of Suresh Mukund and Vernon Montero's Fictitious Group, which made it to the finals of the 2012 World Hip Hop Championship, ABCD 2 had a chance to say something important: about ambitions and the price people pay for them, about carving identities through something that's typically considered frivolous, about coming to terms with lost pride. But ABCD 2 couldn't hear these stories. You wonder why. Maybe we do know the answer: The sound from the box office cash register must have been quite deafening.