MNK is a flop?

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Jasmine

@jasminerahul

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Posted: 16 years ago

My Name Is Khan failing to draw moviegoers as numbers drop

IANS | Thursday, 18 February , 2010, 17:24

After a bumper opening, Shah Rukh Khan starrer My Name Is Khan is being cold-shouldered by the audience in New Delhi. Cinema hall owners blame the 'non-entertaining content' of the movie. "There is a huge fall in My Name Is Khan ticket sales. While it was just 30 per cent on Wednesday, it is only 20 percent on Thursday. The film is not being appreciated because of the content," Amit Awasthi, manager (programming and operations) of Spice Cinemas, said. "The entertainment aspect in the movie is zero. Thought is has some emotions, there is nothing much to offer," he added. A source in PVR cinemas echoed the news. Lack of any entertainment? "Our occupancy has fallen from around 90 per cent to 50 per cent from Monday onwards because of the content of the movie. We are guessing it will stretch to one week more," said the source. A love story set against the backdrop of racial discrimination post 9/11, My Name Is Khan grossed an estimated $18 million at the worldwide box office in its opening weekend. Directed by Karan Johar, the movie is being marketed and distributed by Fox Star in India, in the US by its sister company Fox Searchlight, and in the rest of the world by parent group company 20th Century Fox International. "There has been a drastic fall after Monday for My Name Is Khan. There is no entertainment aspect in it and lacks mass appeal. It has repeated the history of Saif Ali Khan starrer Kurbaan," said Delhi-based distributor Joginder Mahajan. "From critics' point of view both have been good movies but the youngsters today want only entertainment which these two could not fulfil," he added. Rizwan Khan is not dead yet Yogesh Raizada, corporate head (cinemas) of Wave Cinemas, however, has a different opinion for the fall in occupancy of the movie.

"Footfalls for My Name Is Khan have fallen but the weekend is expected to be good. The occupancy at present is about 30 per cent which is decent enough considering it is a working week and that there are close to 12-14 shows per day across different properties for the movie," said Raizada.

"The movie will sustain business and occupancy will be close to 70-80 per cent over the weekend," he predicted.

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Posted: 16 years ago

Why open a new topic? We already have one similar to this:

http://www.india-forums.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1342014

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Silence

@SecretKhabri420

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Posted: 16 years ago

The media is so funny, they call the film which broke the biggest records in the history of Indian cinema a flop, they need to get a life, even today in UAE Zee channel, they mentioned the sucess of this film for being it making history for Bollywood..........

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Hira

@_Hira_89

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Posted: 16 years ago

Not a flop.
According to BO India, it had the third biggest worldwide opening after Ghajini and 3 Idiots and will emerge as a 'hit'. However, performance beyond that is dependent on week 2.