Category - Box Office

Whats Your Rashee Box office collections

In India its the leading men who get audiences to theaters during the initial weekend. But Ashutosh Gowariker’s Whats Your Rashee starring Harman Baweja lacked star-value and was expected to pick up, with good word of mouth, after the slow start on Friday. And that’s exactly what happened, the movie started very slow (30 – 40%) and picked up during the weekend at multiplexes (60%), but unfortunately the audience verdict is a big thumbs down, which should result in a mighty drop in collections on Monday. Here are some reasons why The runtime (3 and half hours) has come in for immense criticism.  Gone are the days when only a 3 hour+ movie was

Wanted Box Office prediction

Salman Khan’s Wanted is expected to do well for several reasons, here are some of them along with the opening weekend and final net gross prediction. 

Salman Khan’s Wanted – Release date

Salman Khan’s much anticipated Wanted : Dead and Alive, a remake of the Tamil blockbuster Pokiri,  was all set to release on July 3rd this year. But unfortunately due to the Producers – Multiplex owners strike, the release was postponed indefinitely. The release date was announced soon after the strike ended and the film is all set to release on 18th September 2009. Prabhu Deva who also directed the Tamil film makes his Bollywood debut as a director. Interestingly, Salman’s character name (Radhe) in the film is similar to Tere Naam (Radhe Mohan). In Wanted, he plays the role of a hardcore gangster!

Shortkut Box office collections and fate

Shortkut starring Akshaye Khanna, Arshad Warsi and Amrita Rao was expected to do well at the box office, as the movie was well-promoted and had enough buzz surrounding it. Unfortunately, it hasn’t done too well. The Anil Kapoor produced film was expected to do well, as Akshaye Khanna’s had a good 2008. Race was a super-hit and Mere Baap Pehle Aap did reasonably well and grossed (nett) close to 12 crores (more than 8 crores coming during the weekend) in week 1. So what went against the film? Lack of star power. Race was a multistarrer, with  bigger names like Saif Ali Khan and Bipasaha Basu in the film. Mere Baap Pehle Aap was directed by