Category - Bollywood

Happy New Year Sunday Collections

12 years ago
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Updated on Monday Happy New Year has collected around 32 crore on its third day at the domestic box office. The film took a record-breaking opening on Friday, but dropped by a little more than 25% on Saturday. On Sunday, business was about 15% higher throughout the day at most centres until late evening, night shows had lower occupancy.

Ek Tha Tiger, Dabangg and Dhoom 3: Which film had higher occupancy?

12 years ago
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Question: Which movies have seen the maximum percentage occupancy on the first day? Was it Ek Tha Tiger or Dhoom 3 or Dabangg? - ABAN FAROOQUI Answer: In the last 4 years or so, Ek Tha Tiger had the highest opening day occupancy, which is comparable to Happy New Year, but Ek Tha Tiger was little ahead occupancy-wise.

What’s the maximum a big film can collect on a single day?

12 years ago
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Question: What’s the maximum a big film can collect on a single day if it gets 100% occupancy? – Sridhar Answer: The current maximum market capacity is somewhere around 55 – 60 crore i.e if a film gets 100% occupancy for all shows, and at all centres where it has released, then the all-India net business could go well over 55 crore on a single day.

Happy New Year Box Office Collections: Two days

12 years ago
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Happy New Year has collected Rs 33 crore (approx) on its second day at the domestic box office, including collections from all versions. The film has sustained very well at multiplexes, the night shows in cities were packed to capacity. Single-screens especially in Central and North India dropped by 25-30%.

Vikram Bhatt to direct Dhadkan 2

12 years ago
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Remember Dharmesh Darshan’s Dhadkan 2 starring Akshay Kumar, Shilpa Shetty and Suniel Shetty? The musical love story with one of the best music albums, will now have a sequel to be directed by Vikram Bhatt. Ratan Jain of Venus Films, who have produced films like Main Hoon Na, Dhadkan, Hungama, Humraaz, Garam Masala and many others,

Aamir Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Kareena greet Narendra Modi: Photos

12 years ago
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The inauguration of Mumbai’s first general hospital was a star-studded event. Bollywood actors like Amitabh Bachchan, Aamir Khan, Shahrukh Khan and Hrithik Roshan were seated in the front row along with cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar, Mahendra Singh Dhoni and actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. Other stars like Kareena Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan, filmmaker Karan Johar were in the second row.

Shahrukh Khan and Hrithik Roshan greet Prime Minister Narendra Modi: Photos

12 years ago
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The inauguration of Mumbai’s first general hospital was a star-studded event. Bollywood actors like Amitabh Bachchan, Aamir Khan, Shahrukh Khan and Hrithik Roshan were seated in the front row along with cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar, Mahendra Singh Dhoni and actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.  Other stars like Kareena Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan, filmmaker Karan Johar were in the second row.

Happy New Year Saturday Box Office Update

12 years ago
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UPDATE 1AM on Saturday: Happy New Year has collected around 36 crore including all versions on Saturday. Happy New Year is on a historic run at the box office, as the morning shows on Saturday are only about 10-20% lower compared to yesterday at most multiplex centres that we have been tracking. Noon shows have picked up, most shows are running to capacity and the gap between Friday and Saturday business should narrow towards the end of the day.

Happy New Year Box Office: SRK achieves something that he hadn’t before

12 years ago
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Releasing Happy New Year on Friday was a masterstroke by Shahrukh Khan and his team, as opening day records give films tremendous publicity across print, television and social media. For first day records, getting the timing of the release right is important. If the opening day is not a holiday, it is almost impossible to break the previous records.