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- July 19th, 2009
Kambakht Ishq Box office – Week 2
Akshay fans would be very disappointed to read this. Second week collections were very important for a big budget film like Kambakht Ishq, but the Akshay Kumar film has crashed in Week 2 by almost 75% all over India.
Usually films that release big (1000+ prints), fall by 40 – 50% in week 2, which is considered normal. 75% drop though, isn’t!
While KI, also starring Kareen Kapoor, grossed about 42 crores (official numbers) in week 1, the second week all India nett gross is less than 10 crores. Comparing Week 2 of Kambakht Ishq to other biggies in the past. Ghajini after a 60 crore+ first week, managed to gross about 26 crores. While Rab Ne after a first week total similar to Kambakht Ishq managed 24.6 crores. Akshay’s Singh Is King too did much better last year.
Comparison with other biggies from the past
- Ghajini – 26 crores
- Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi – 24.60 Crores
- Singh Is King – 19 crores
- Kambakht Ishq – 10 crores (approx figures, should be lesser)
So what went wrong in week 2, after a decent opening week? Well, the word-of-mouth is poor, the family audience especially have rejected the film outright and lastly the repeat value is almost nil.
From here on, super-hit / blockbuster, looks highly unlikely. Above average to HIT at best!
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ahsan khan: (July 19, 2009 at 11:08 am)
Priyanka: (July 19, 2009 at 11:45 am)
its just weird that all the movies that americans like turn out really bad in india….i mean everyone was like wow that movie is really good but india some how doesn’t like it! probably both of their’s thinking is really different!!! but its ok!! akshay can do better and he will!!!! soooooooooo good luck akshay!!!
Eshita: (July 19, 2009 at 1:35 pm)
Worst movie of the year…..
Bejul: (July 19, 2009 at 2:22 pm)
dont watch this movie…its crap!
Tawny: (July 19, 2009 at 2:58 pm)
Not surprising. K.I. is a steaming pile of utter rubbish. Rambo and assorted bikini babes provide novelty, but not quality.
Mithu: (July 19, 2009 at 3:53 pm)
We are forgetting the crisis factor. Yes the film is crap, but people are careful to spend money on crap movies.
Rony: (July 19, 2009 at 4:10 pm)
k.i. 2nd week business proving that it’s a bad movie. So don’t watch it.
Rony: (July 19, 2009 at 4:53 pm)
crap, crap, crap……………dom’t watch this type of movies.
ahsan khan: (July 19, 2009 at 7:14 pm)
INDICINE! be careful this is your last chance
ahsan khan: (July 19, 2009 at 7:16 pm)
thanks Priyanka for the comments
zesty: (July 19, 2009 at 9:23 pm)
This was a truly crap movie. Apart from some rare funny moments this film is rubbish. Purley a front benchers entertainer. Akshay’s talent is wasted in this movie.
AB: (July 20, 2009 at 12:20 am)
INDICINE, what Ahsan probably means is that we, Akshay fans very less often go out against any other actor as SRK fans do. Its ok if they did not like Akshay films but please do not lie to others by saying that this film is crap which it is not. It is just not a clean hit only in India. But if you combine overseas bo collections, it is at least a hit to super hit at best. It could have been a larger hit or blockbuster as though youngster liked it a lot, families avoided it as it was not a family film though some families are more open minded. Hence the audience is small compared to RNBDJ or even Ghajiini where audience is much larger as they are in some way family movies
We Akshay Kumar fans, are hurt by the anti-Akshay feelings in many websites. If you see in your site, two or more people here are commenting that AKshay is a bullshit actor probably in every article you are publishing of him. But even though SRK’s My Name is Khan is not yet released, they are praising him blindly and saying that he looks very handsome in the pictures of the shooting. To be honest I dont find him handsome at all nor do many other bollywood fans. He looks very old and has a much more uglier nose than Akshay. Akshay is damn(kambakkht) handsome. Please dont be bias in judging. PLus Akshay is a great personality as well. Recently I heard that he adopted a fill village district in Bihar after the KOSI floods.
Jealous SRK fans cannot change the minds of Akki fans how hard they try.
THanx
AB: (July 20, 2009 at 12:26 am)
Ahsan bro and other Akki fans, please dont vent your anger at the Indicine people. THey are very nice and impartial website and all they say is mostly true facts. I find them one of the least bias sites to check Akshay articles.
Ricky: (July 20, 2009 at 12:34 am)
Hi, Indicine.
Is it possible for you to publish an article either now or in the days to come, telling us how Akshay’s film fared at the box office both overseas and in india in terms of amount of collections and whether it was hit, superhit, semi hit or whatever.
Thanx
Please reply
bonita: (July 20, 2009 at 12:41 am)
yes this film is an above average movie not a blockbuster
and it didn’t make 100 cr like reported
crap movieeeee…just like cc2c
Leslie: (July 20, 2009 at 11:22 am)
hai Indicine….y u r publishing indecent comments frm akki fans… just publish only valuable comments yaar… y these guys raise against indicine for the worst movie of the year… poor akki.. we expected a better one frm you… and indicine u r doing a good job by publishing almost 99% correct report….
Super star can guarantee a huge opening, which is already done by kambakht ishq.
The rest depend on how good or bad is the movie.