Can My Name Is Khan beat 3 Idiots or Ghajini?

Can My Name Is Khan beat 3 Idiots is the hottest topic of discussion around, both in the trade and Bollywood websites.

But the benchmark that Aamir Khan has set with his last two releases is so high that any film hoping to break those mind-numbing records would need the following

1) Huge Star – Which MNIK does have in Shahrukh Khan
2) Great content and word of mouth – Very important. All the initial reviews of MNIK, so far, are good.
3) Mass Appeal – Both Ghajini and 3 Idiots had tremendous mass appeal and did great business at Single Screens in smaller cities too. MNIK is unlikely to hold the same appeal.
4) Repeat Value – 3 Idiots had great repeat value, many watched it multiple times in theaters.
5) Ticket Prices – The hike in ticket prices helped 3 Idiots greatly, but unless the film is liked greatly, it could put off a certain section of the audience.

What do you think, can My Name Is Khan beat 3 Idiots?

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  • Box Office: MNIK advance bookings: Better than Karan Johar’s Qurbaan, but down from top
    Thursday, February 11, 2010

    The other overseas caveat is the cost of overseas prints. Each overseas print costs about $4000-$5000 USD. So the prints themselves overseas may end up costing in millions of dollars. This is not counting the various promotional costs of advertising and event premiere costs for distributor Fox (which can run into hundreds of thousands of dollars). And in terms of returns overseas, a studio typically nets about 50-55% of collections reported as US/UK box office gross. All that has to be figured in before scale of profitability or loss for films like MNIK have to be figured in.

    Ultimately however the film has sought its launch certification from India and it will be judged by its performance in India first and foremost. So going back to its release issue, at this point it can be safely said, without Maharashtra, the 100 crore film is going to lose. Maharashtra generates 25-35% of national revenue share for Hindi films typically, higher for Shahrukh Khan films. The makers simply can’t afford to lose Maharahstra. With a release in Maharashtra, it may not lose. But earningswise it will depend on how strongly it performs in muslim influenced theaters to make up for the initial losses from other segments. If the film costs a distributor 100 crores, the rule of thumb is it has to generate 300 crores in gross revenues for it to break even. Only 3 Idiots has done this so far.

    So when it gets down to it, assuming things go as planned and violence doesn’t break out midway at the screenings, this is what will define the fate and that’s how the participation and revenue shares may ultimately break down for this venture.

  • afrid khan ……….. yaar dont worry . Mnik film VEER ka sunday ka collection 7.5 Crore bhi nahi break kar payegi . Because Maharashtra mein advance booking hua hai below 5% .

  • Dipen Sen

    friend i really want to say ki i am not jeoulas of srk and mnik ….but the critics had let down veer

    and mnik is overatted like srk now adays …

    i am the person beleieve in truth ….

    as they are trying mnik to get over the top for breaking 3 idiots and ghajni records …

    i am damn sure that mnik doesnt has impact like these two movie even our sallu bhai bhai veer …

    but just this 65% impure critics and media has overatted srk now adays despite being he is good actor

    but overatted ..an i am against the person who is overatted , otherwise even i like special appearance of

    srk in billu .

    i never gave bad wishes to some one but …i want to say this 65% impure critics and media just stop

    overatting srk …he is good actor he deserved his position in good stars category but not that much fame

    he deserve that he should be said as bollywood kaa baadshaah

  • afrid khan

    critics are all LIERS like taran adarsh & komal nahata .

    Maharashtra mein 5% hi booking hua hai aur kolkata main 20 %.

    according to IBOS sources . Sirf multiplex mein place like delhi & hyderabad main MUSLIM area main average booking hua hai .

    My opinoin this will be disaster for KJO .

  • @Adiii
    don’t you say to get out of this page to any one what the hell were you doing at the time of veer no see what you will get in return why are you so frustrated the movie has not yet released u have to bare this for some more days so relax malnutrition boy and you r right we will not compare sallu bhai with srk you know why kyunki gud(srk) ki ginti mardo ke category main nahin hoti (salman) samjha malnutrition boy media ka support leke to koi bhi hit de sakta hai eg srk k kutte teran aur komal jo abhi chilla rahe hai k mnik hit hai hit hai

  • yes critics are lier bcoz normally each and every film review in dna newspaper by taran adarsh is upadted
    on saturday after friday release of the movie

    but , today mnik review is upadated by impure critics baadshaah taran adarsh in dna newspaper today

    one day before release of mnik …from this what can we thought ?

  • My Name Is Khan Movie Review

    Director
    Karan Johar

    Main cast

    Shahrukh Khan, Kajol, Christopher B. Duncan, Tanay Chheda, Steffany Huckaby

    ” My name is khan and I am not a terrorist” it shows that movie is about terrorism. Oh My God another terrorism movie. In recent last 3, 4 years bollywood made so many movies about terrorism and some movies worked and some movies declared flop. Now a days 9/11 issue is best issue if you are interested to make a terrorism movie instead of Hindu Muslim fight. Last couple of years we watched 3 movies about 9/11 issue. Khuda Ke Liye, New York and Kurbaan.
    Shahrukh is back with his best friend Karan Johar with the same issue which Karan highlighted in Kurbaan. People are thinking that it is similar to Kurbaan and New York. I will say only one thing that there is only one resemblance between Kurbaan and My Name Is Khan which is Karan Johar.

    Now people are really tired of post 9/11 subject. Does it go against MNIK? But we watch every year lots of same type of love stories, comedies and action. And if movie is good it will work, doesn’t matter subject is outdated or fresh.

    for full review and rating please log on to my site.

  • afrid khan ,,,,,,,,,,,

    VEER film ka sunday’s 7.5 Crores ki record bhi nahi break kar payega .

    Veer film ko toh critics ne bahut bura ratings dene ki baad bhi 7.5 Crores ki record collections kia.

    MNIK ko good reviews dene ki baad bhi iss film ko bacha pate hai yeah nahi .

  • Dipen Sen

    yes , i agreed with you i am being sallu fan i always accept truth that is sallu bro aamir my fav actor is
    at the top and he deserved with his hardworks

    i want to clear that i love sallu bhai but like aamir khan bhai ..then there is long list …but these two were top two since i born

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  • nauman ……….

    IBOS

    Box Office: MNIK advance bookings: Better than Karan Johar’s Qurbaan, but down from top
    Thursday, February 11, 2010

    My Name is Khan’s box office bookings are good in multiplexes in muslim heavy regions (Delhi, Hyderabad, parts of Bombay where it may open) and not so good outside. Claims of a 80% advance booking across India are hallucination as in some theaters, bookings are not even 8% forget 80%. Distribution and their PR reps at theaters are painting a far rosier picture in the media than it actually is. But it may not be necessarily a disaster like Kurbaan either, which it will be recalled was too a Karan Johar movie made on a similar theme of a muslim man with Hindu wife thrown in to boot in US after 9/11 (starring a Khan, Saif Khan and Kareena Kapoor). On average the advance is about 25%, with best slottings in metros like Hyderabad and Delhi, which have high muslim populations. Parts of Mumbai city which have this demographic have a similar pattern. In Kolkata the bookings at multiplexes like Fame at Highland park are in the 20% range even as tons of screenings are being conducted. The morning show is booked at 85%, ostensibly by people looking to make a statement, while rest of the 15 shows are currently booked at 5%. In interiors the response is poor, though again in some places the polarized demographic turrnout will see 80% in some theaters, 5% in others. The film has almost 40% dialogues in English and is set in US. This is why a clean release in Maharashtra is critical for MNIK’s survival. The current benchmark holder, 3 Idiots generated almost 70 crores of its 180-190 crore national net off Bombay territory.

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  • MNIK never can’t beat the record of “3 IDIOTS”…..the movie is so special because we have again Srk & Kajol….but the subject is similiar with Kurbaan & New York…..it’s not a new & great story, how it was and it is “3 IDIOTS”.

  • @dipen sen juast day dream every one knows that srk is n onu one aamir a copy cut actor paranoid arrogant complectic

  • nauman just answer my one ? that is mnik had that impact to break ghajni and 3idiots records overseas and india …except uk becoz srk has a good image in uk for his films till yet .

  • Nauman , ADII & Yousuf this for you ……………….

    IBOSNETWORK

    Box Office: MNIK advance bookings: Better than Karan Johar’s Qurbaan, but down from top
    Thursday, February 11, 2010

    My Name is Khan’s box office bookings are good in multiplexes in muslim heavy regions (Delhi, Hyderabad, parts of Bombay where it may open) and not so good outside. Claims of a 80% advance booking across India are hallucination as in some theaters, bookings are not even 8% forget 80%. Distribution and their PR reps at theaters are painting a far rosier picture in the media than it actually is. But it may not be necessarily a disaster like Kurbaan either, which it will be recalled was too a Karan Johar movie made on a similar theme of a muslim man with Hindu wife thrown in to boot in US after 9/11 (starring a Khan, Saif Khan and Kareena Kapoor). On average the advance is about 25%, with best slottings in metros like Hyderabad and Delhi, which have high muslim populations. Parts of Mumbai city which have this demographic have a similar pattern. In Kolkata the bookings at multiplexes like Fame at Highland park are in the 20% range even as tons of screenings are being conducted. The morning show is booked at 85%, ostensibly by people looking to make a statement, while rest of the 15 shows are currently booked at 5%. In interiors the response is poor, though again in some places the polarized demographic turrnout will see 80% in some theaters, 5% in others. The film has almost 40% dialogues in English and is set in US. This is why a clean release in Maharashtra is critical for MNIK’s survival. The current benchmark holder, 3 Idiots generated almost 70 crores of its 180-190 crore national net off Bombay territory.

  • Nauman , ADII & Yousuf this for you ……………….

    IBOSNETWORK

    Box Office: MNIK advance bookings: Better than Karan Johar’s Qurbaan, but down from top
    Thursday, February 11, 2010

    The 100 crore billed MNIK is going up against a current record of 3 Idiots but it will be nearly impossible to generate the same universal response for My Name is Khan than for 3I because of the already communal polarization. While helping it get increased collections from muslim influenced stations, it may not be able to compensate from the losses from the Hindu dominant ones, the center-right wing of which numbers atleast 300 million in population in the country and is positioned largely in the Hindi speaking bollywood markets as compared to minor ones like say a Madras down south.

    The chances of MNIK breaking collection records in Bombay or India at large are therefore extremely unlikely since without the mainstream Hindus at sizeable levels, it virtually can’t be done.

    Overseas is a slightly difference case. The US/UK so called NRI market is actually heavy with muslims from Pakistan and other muslim countries. The political leanings in the segment tend to be more along MNI Khan’s ideological tilt so it is possible in US/UK the film may get the records.

    However there too, especially in USA which has a heavy Gujarati population, it is doubtful if that won’t impact it a bit as well. Earlier the film was supposed to release in 200 screens in USA, but given the lack of interest from the non-ethnic (ie regular American) crowd, the actual number has come down to about 120. 3 Idiots’ US opening record is about $1.7 million off 119 screens.

  • Dipen why it is for me ???
    abd BTW there is no resemblence between Kurbaan and MNIK except both are Karan Johar movies.
    not even a single scene
    just theme is abt 9/11 just like 100s love triangle movies, or story less comedies.

  • @Nauman…………… Honestly

    You can tell me that Taran Adarsh & Komal Nahata what % lier ?

    I think they are 99% Lier .

    Please reply

  • Nauman , ADII & Yousuf this for you ……………….

    IBOSNETWORK

    Box Office: MNIK advance bookings: Better than Karan Johar’s Qurbaan, but down from top
    Thursday, February 11, 2010

    Box Office: MNIK advance bookings: Better than Karan Johar’s Qurbaan, but down from top
    Thursday, February 11, 2010

    The other overseas caveat is the cost of overseas prints. Each overseas print costs about $4000-$5000 USD. So the prints themselves overseas may end up costing in millions of dollars. This is not counting the various promotional costs of advertising and event premiere costs for distributor Fox (which can run into hundreds of thousands of dollars). And in terms of returns overseas, a studio typically nets about 50-55% of collections reported as US/UK box office gross. All that has to be figured in before scale of profitability or loss for films like MNIK have to be figured in.

    Ultimately however the film has sought its launch certification from India and it will be judged by its performance in India first and foremost. So going back to its release issue, at this point it can be safely said, without Maharashtra, the 100 crore film is going to lose. Maharashtra generates 25-35% of national revenue share for Hindi films typically, higher for Shahrukh Khan films. The makers simply can’t afford to lose Maharahstra. With a release in Maharashtra, it may not lose. But earningswise it will depend on how strongly it performs in muslim influenced theaters to make up for the initial losses from other segments. If the film costs a distributor 100 crores, the rule of thumb is it has to generate 300 crores in gross revenues for it to break even. Only 3 Idiots has done this so far.

    So when it gets down to it, assuming things go as planned and violence doesn’t break out midway at the screenings, this is what will define the fate and that’s how the participation and revenue shares may ultimately break down for this venture.

  • @nauman,…………….

    also you cant imagine that in single screens advance booking is so poor around 5%-10% all over india .

    what do you say?

  • My Name Is Khan Movie Review

    Director
    Karan Johar

    Main cast

    Shahrukh Khan, Kajol, Christopher B. Duncan, Tanay Chheda, Steffany Huckaby
    ” My name is khan and I am not a terrorist” it shows that movie is about terrorism. Oh My God another terrorism movie. In recent last 3, 4 years bollywood made so many movies about terrorism and some movies worked and some movies declared flop. Now a days 9/11 issue is best issue if you are interested to make a terrorism movie instead of Hindu Muslim fight. Last couple of years we watched 3 movies about 9/11 issue. Khuda Ke Liye, New York and Kurbaan.
    Shahrukh is back with his best friend Karan Johar with the same issue which Karan highlighted in Kurbaan. People are thinking that it is similar to Kurbaan and New York. I will say only one thing that there is only one resemblance between Kurbaan and My Name Is Khan which is Karan Johar.

    Now people are really tired of post 9/11 subject. Does it go against MNIK? But we watch every year lots of same type of love stories, comedies and action. And if movie is good it will work, doesn’t matter subject is outdated or fresh.

    Story:

    Shahrukh Khan (Rizwan Khan), a Muslim guy from Mumbai, suffers from Asperger syndrome (a form of high-functioning autism complicating socialization). Shahrukh marries a Hindu single mother Kajol (Mandira), in San Francisco who has one son. After 9/11, due to Muslim identity of Kajol’s husband some school boys kill her son. Then she thinks that Shahrukh is responsible of her son’s death and she left her and said to her when u will clear yourself that you guys are not terrorist then come to me. Shahrukh then begins a journey to meet US President Bush to clear his name.

    Story is well written and execution of the script is mind blowing. 1st half is little funny due to Shahrukh’s behavior. 2nd half is much batter than 1st half and original story starts after death of Kajol’s son.

    Scenes which have worth to watch MNIK:

    . 1st scene at airport tells the whole story and tells us what is the movie all about.

    . Shahrukh’s sales scenes are very funny and they make you laugh.

    . When Shahrukh Asks Kajol “can we have sex please” he looks so innocent.

    . 1st 15 minutes after the interval are very fast and audience will be in shock.

    . Shahrukh’s help in Georgia shows his positive character.

    . Perfect Climax.

    Performances:

    i- There is no need to talk about Shahrukh. He is one man show and his every single movie proves himself. At this time he did another good job after Chukde India and Veer-Zara.

    Whole movie he handled alone with his career best performance. He looks very innocent. People will love his character.

    ii- Kajol is back after 2 years. Her last release U Me Aur Hum was not box office hit but her performance was superb. In MNIK she is batter than her last release. She has less screen appearance she comes after 30 minute and in 2nd half you will again miss her.

    iii- Rest of others like Jimmy, Soniya, Arjun Mathur, Yuvan Makaar and all others are good in their roles.

    Direction:

    Karan Johar is a brand in Bollywood. He started his career with KKHH and from KKHH till Wake Up Sid his success rate was 100 %. Industry was thinking that why he made two movies Kurbaan and MNIk on a same subject. But I will say there is only one similarity between both movies which is Dharma productions. He handles script very well at one side SRK is trying to proof that he is not a terrorist and on same time Kajol is trying to find her son’s murderer. This part is best part of the movie and it shows how talented is he.

    Music:

    Music director is Shankar Ehsan Loy and music of MNIK is just ordinary and very disappointing. Movie has only 3 songs. Tere Naina comes lots of times again and again which is very irritating. We always have great expectations with SRK movie’s music and if it is Dhamra production then there is no need to think just go to the market and get the music album. But this time it couldn’t happened. Music is not great as compare other Karan-SRK movies. Only one song is worth listening to. Which is Noor -e- Khuda.

    Back ground score is good.

    Negative Points:

    i- There is some confusion about time period. They got marry before 2001 and Kajol’s son killed in 2007. Where 6 years were didn’t show and age of Kajol’s son remain same.

    ii- Shahrukh has back ground voice in more than 80 % scenes. It looks like a documentary movie instead of commercial cinema

    iii- In church Shahrukh gives a speech in Hindi. I don’t know how American people understood his hindi and then they started sing a song.

    iv- Muslims can’t give Zakat to any non Muslim person but Shahrukh gave it to 9/11 effected
    people. Even they can’t marry with Hindu girl.

    Overall:

    Overall My Name Is Khan well made, well told with a good story line. And we can consider it Best movie about 9/11 theme. Just some negative things and lack of good music is go against it. Otherwise it is a perfect movie. Due to Shahrukh’s star power this movie will get huge opening and it can sustain for next 2, 3 weeks. May be business will effected in Maharashtra due to Shiva Sena issue.

    Rating:

    4/5

    (My name is Khan and i am not a flop)

  • Dipen yes i know it is very sad for me because srk promised me that he will give me 5 % share from his profit . so now may be i wont get good money.

    Arshan review is up did u see how much i love u.
    cant live without u
    lets make dostana 3

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