Last week's movies
In last week's column, I had admitted that a clear verdict on SARKAR RAJ wasn't really on the cards. However, first week's collections have proved one thing crystal clear - the film is certainly not a flop as has been made out by some sections of media.
In fact the film is a clear success at the box office. Even though some media reports have been questioning the film's pull, especially after a huge number of prints that the film was released at, the fact remains that over 23 crores coming in the first week means that at the least SARKAR RAJ would prove to be an average success at the box office. The film has been quite good in Mumbai where it earned close to 5 crores. Delhi was good too with close to 2.5 crores while NCR got another 1.5 crores plus.
While in case of RAM GOPAL VARMA KI AAG, it was crystal clear after the first show itself that the film was a failure, and hence everyone associated with it - especially Ramu - was pulled down, SARKAR RAJ has troubled a few in a different way. Because the film didn't under perform in a way as some would have expected, the focus shifted on - 'Collections are good but not very good'!
However, most seem to be ignoring an all important point that Ram Gopal Varma has finally managed to end his poor box office run with SARKAR RAJ which now happens to be the biggest first week money spinner of his career. In fact the film has even created city records at a few centers that seems to have gone unnoticed by majority of trade pundits.
AAMIR too would prove to be an earner for it's makers UTV. That's because slowly but steadily the film has started making an impression at the box office. AAMIR didn't open to a response which would have made everyone sit up and take notice but that wasn't really expected from AAMIR which had everyone from it's director to leading man to cinematographer and other prominent crew members being rank newcomers. Also UTV didn't pump in big money into the film's promotion and instead wanted audience to check it out by themselves.
The experiment has worked as the film showed decent progress as it moved from it's first weekend into the week days. This Raj Kumar Gupta directed film has enjoyed a 1 crore first week which is certainly decent. All of this is courtesy very good word of mouth that has spread on quite strongly, hence resulting in urban centers (which is basically the target audience of the film) waking up to the film's credentials. Rajeev Khandelwal has come up with a flawless act in the title role of AAMIR and the film deserves to be sustained at theaters on a continued note to see collections stabilizing over a period of time.
There, that is the latest Update😆 !!! Both the films might be Average !!😆😆...There was sooo much discussion over this that i thought post kar hi du !
Jodha Akbar
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