Category - Box Office

Sultan Teaser with Shah Rukh Khan’s FAN

Yash Raj Films’ has announced that the theatrical teaser of Salman Khan’s Sultan will be attached to the prints of Shah Rukh Khan’s FAN, which hits theatres on April 15. The teaser is expected to be out on the internet on April 14.

Fan Indicine FBO and LBO Update

The response to the theatrical trailer and the ‘Jabra’ song from Shah Rukh Khan’s FAN has increased the excitement around the film, both in the trade and the audience. We start FBO (First day box office) with Rs 20.5 crore, which would be a terrific start for a non-festive release. The makers have to now sustain the buzz leading upto the release of the film on April 15. Note: The final prediction will be made on April 14 (i.e one day before the release of the film)

Bollywood Actors Career Collections and Analysis

The top actors in the industry are the men who drive the industry. Without them the star-driven Hindi film industry would struggle for its very existence. For some unknown reason, the industry hasn’t been able to produce too many bankable stars in the last few years. Four of the current Top 5 actors, made their debut before before 1993. Since then, only Hrithik Roshan has managed to make it to the ‘superstar’ league and even he made his debut 16 years ago.

Can Neerja beat Special 26 and My Name Is Khan?

Sonam Kapoor’s Neerja has collected Rs 54 crore at the domestic box office and the film should complete its 2-week run with net business of around 57-58 crore. The film has an outside chance of beating My Name Is Khan and Special 26 to become the 2nd or 3rd all-time highest grosser of February. But for that it has to sustain as well as it did from Week 1 to Week 2, which will be difficult because the film benefitted from entertainment tax exemption at select states in its second week.

Loveshhuda Box Office Collections

Girish Kumar’s comeback film Loveshhuda has failed to make a mark at the box office in its first weekend. The film opened poorly on Friday and needed a miracle on Saturday to have any of recovering costs at the box office. Unfortunately, Loveshhuda remained flat throughout the weekend.

Neerja Day 1 (Friday) Box Office Collections

Sonam Kapoor’s Neerja has collected Rs 4.7 crore at the box office on Friday. The film took a fairly good start in the morning, as the occupancy was around 20-25% at metro city multiplexes. With positive reports and reviews, the occupancy doubled evening onwards as the late night shows at select centres were running at 65% plus occupancy.

Neerja Box Office Prediction

Sonam Kapoor’s Neerja releases in theatres tomorrow and there is genuine interest to watch the film in theatres. Usually, female-centric films don’t open well at the box office and Neerja isn’t expected to take a big opening either. But the film could surprise on Day 1, simply because of the fact that the pre-release reports are excellent and if the word-of-mouth is good, multiplex business could pick up evening onwards tomorrow. Also, the success of a film like Airlift could also help.

Sanam Re Weekend Box Office Collections

Sanam Re, made on less than half the budget of Fitoor, has emerged as the winner of the clash this week. It isn’t a big winner at the domestic market like Bajirao Mastani or Airlift, but has probably done enough to just about recover costs by the end of its first week. The film opened to a decent response on Friday, picked up by around 10% on Saturday and showed a big jump in business on Valentine’s Day. The drop is more than 50% at most centres today (Monday).

IndicineLBO Update and Trade Notes

IndicineLBO Update and Trade notes: Airlift remains the only big success so far this year. All other films have disappointed. Fitoor has been the biggest disappointment, as it’s unlikely to recover even its marketing expenses. The distributor’s share will struggle to cross the 15 crore mark, the film should finish with lifetime business of around 25 crore. Love Shuddha and Neerja release this week. The Sonam Kapoor film might take a decent opening at the box office, there is interest to watch the film. As for Love Shuddha, not many are even aware of the fact that the film is releasing this weekend. Kapoor and Sons was looking like yet another ‘Shaandaar’ from Dharma, but the theatrical trailer has received a overwhelmingly positive response. All eyes will now be on the music. Chull is a potential chartbuster, the first song promo will be out tomorrow. Kapoor and Sons is now trending above the 50 crore mark on IndicineLBO. The trailer of Ki and Ka was released at 2PM today, the initial response has been positive. We start IndicineFBO (first day prediction) of Ki and Ka at Rs 6.3 crore. Meanwhile, Shah Rukh Khan will begin the promotional campaign of FAN tomorrow. It’ll be the superstar’s first non-festive release after My Name Is Khan (2010) and also the first Khan film to release in the first half of the year after Jai Ho. The 2nd major shooting schedule of Rock On 2 has resumed. Sultan shoot is in progress in Mumbai, Anushka Sharma has begun shooting. The film is on schedule to release during Eid. Akshay Kumar has started shooting for Rustom, he has also allocated around 65 days to shoot for the costliest Indian film of all time Robot 2.0. There are reports that sets used to shoot one action scene, has cost the makers more than the production costs of most other Tamil films. Reports of Raees shoot getting disrupted has been highly exaggerated in the media, the Gujarat government has beefed up the security and police force has ensured that the shoot progressed smoothly. Shah Rukh is shooting about 10 kilometres to the south of Ahmedabad. The Bhuj schedule was wrapped up last week. Hrithik’s injury is said to have delayed the first schedule of Sanjay Gupta’s Kaabil (unconfirmed)