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Bhatt overtakes Chopra at Box Office

TNN / Updated: Jan 10, 2017, 14:44 IST

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Vikram Bhatt��s ��Haunted (3D)�� overtakes Y-Film��s ��Luv Ka The End�� at the box-office. Tusshar and Ekta to battle at box-office next week.

Vikram Bhatt��s ��Haunted (3D)�� overtakes Y-Film��s ��Luv Ka The End�� at the box-office. Tusshar and Ekta to battle at box-office next week.
Both releases of the week �� Luv Ka The End (comedy) and Haunted 3D (horror) might have had the youth as its main target. But the youth (esp. in metros) preferred the Hollywood release Fast Five (Fast and the Furious 5) over the Hindi films.
Vikram Bhatt��s Haunted, India��s first film in stereoscopy started on a slow note but showed a steady rise over the weekend. Clearly the 3D version was preferred over the 2D and with the film being dubbed in Tamil and Telugu languages, it catered to a larger audience. The opening weekend collection is Rs 13 crores and considering the modest budget of the film, it should be able to break even.
The other release Luv Ka The End had a dull opening and couldn��t manage more than Rs 2.5 crores in its opening weekend which is not an encouraging start for the first venture from the Y-Films banner.

Again multiple releases will collide at the box office this Friday. Ekta Kapoor��s Ragini MMS is making lot of noise for being an experimental offshoot after Love Sex aur Dhoka and Shor in the City from her banner. Amol Gupte��s Stanley Ka Dabba promises to be the small surprise packet of the week. Nana Patekar��s Shagird seems somewhat dated but might click with the masses. And finally it really needs to be seen if Rajshri Productions��

Love U... Mr. Kalakaar! starring Tusshar Kapoor and Amrita Rao finds any takers in contemporary times. With the brother-sister duo of Ekta Kapoor and Tusshar Kapoor clashing at the box-office, the former has much better prospects.
Top 5 Films this Week
Film: Haunted (3D)
Position: 1
Director: Vikram Bhatt
Cast: Makaakshay Chakravarthy, Tia Bajpai, Arif Zakaria, Achint Kaur
Upside: Good 3D work, some scary moments, time-travel in plot, good music and cinematography
Downside: Clich��d horror gimmicks, conventional horror story, wooden performances
Running Week: 1
Trade Comments: Collected 13 crores over the opening weekend. Other than in Hindi, the film was also dubbed and released in Tamil and Telugu sectors which added to the revenue.
Film: Luv Ka The End
Position: 2
Director: Bumpy
Cast: Shraddha Kapoor, Taaha Shah
Upside: Interesting concept, some funny moments, works as a chick flick to an extent
Downside: Uneventful screenplay, dull climax
Running Week: 1
Trade Comments: Started on a low noted and collected around Rs 2.5 crores in its opening weekend which is not an encouraging start for Y-Films.
Film: Chalo Dilli
Position: 3
Director: Shashant Shah
Cast: Vinay Pathak, Lara Dutta
Upside: Good performances. Lara-Vinay unusual chemistry. Interesting road-movie genre. Doesn��t resort to clich��s like romance, culture trap, or class divide
Downside: Screenplay could have been more adventurous and eventful
Running Week: 2
Box Office Verdict: Average to below average
Film: Dum Maaro Dum
Position: 4
Director: Rohan Sippy
Cast: Abhishek Bachchan, Rana Daggubatti, Prateik Babbar, Bipasha Basu
Upside: Smart storytelling, decent performances, slick cinematography, good dialogues
Downside: Tame climax, somewhat predictable suspense
Running Week: 3
Box Office Verdict: Average to below average
Film: Shor in the City
Position: 5
Director: Raj Nidimoru, Krishna DK
Cast: Sendhil Ramamurthy, Tusshar Kapoor, Nikhil Dwivedi, Pitobash
Upside: Decent performances, good music, well-directed
Downside: Stretched screenplay, too much buildup of character conflicts, Sendhil��s conventional revenge plot, storytelling could have been better, Tusshar romance track peripheral to the plot
Running Week: 2
Box Office Verdict: Below average

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