Though beautifully shot and packaged, Sonam Kapoor's Aisha has not been able to make a mark at the box office.
Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai, however is still going great guns.
Trade analyst Vinod Mirani gives us the box office verdict for the week.
Note: Films are ranked according to their release dates. The thumbs ups and downs reflect rediff's views.
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Aisha
Cast: Sonam Kapoor, Abhay Deol, Ira Dubey, Lisa Haydon, Amrita Puri, Cyrus Sahukar, Arunoday Singh.
Director: Rajshree Ojha
 Beautifully shot, great styling & makeup; good music.
 Too superficial.
Number of weeks: New.
BO Verdict: Average opening.
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Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai
Cast: Ajay Devgn, Kangna Ranaut, Emraan Hashmi, Prachi Desai.
Director: Milan Luthria
Good performances, direction, writing, music.
First half drags a bit
Number of weeks: 1.
BO Verdict: Hit.
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Khatta Meetha
Cast: Akshay Kumar, Trisha Krishnan, Johnny Lever, Rajpal Yadav, Asrani, Manoj Joshi
Director: Priyadarshan.
Witty. Akshay is energetic and sincere.
Too long.
Number of weeks: 2.
BO Verdict: Flop.
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Lamhaa
Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Bipasha Basu, Kunal Kapoor.
Director: Rahul Dholakia.
Honest and practical.
Songs appear abruptly.
Number of weeks: 3.
BO Verdict: Flop.
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Udaan
Cast: Rajat Barmecha, Ronit Roy, Aayan Boradia.
Director: Vikramaditya Motwane.
Rajat Barmecha.
Hard to find.
Number of weeks: 3.
BO Verdict: Flop.
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Tere Bin Laden
Cast: Ali Zafar, Pradhuman Singh.
Director: Abhishek Sharma.
Good performances.
Low budget, therefore most of the film is restricted to the interiors.
Number of weeks: 3.
BO Verdict: Average.
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Milenge Milenge
Cast: Kareena Kapoor, Shahid Kapoor.
Director: Satish Kaushik.
Kareena Kapoor.
Stale
Number of weeks: 4.
BO Verdict: Flop.
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Red Alert - The War Within
Cast: Suneil Shetty, Sameera Reddy, Vinod Khanna, Seema Biswas, Ayesha Dharker, Seema Biswas, Naseeruddin Shah, Gulshan Grover.
Director: Anant Narayan Mahadevan.
Brave foray into hitherto unexplored territory.
Trivialises a very serious issue.
Number of weeks: 5.
BO Verdict: Flop.
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I Hate Luv Storys
Cast: Imran Khan, Sonam Kapoor, Samir Soni, Bruna Abdullah, Samir Dattani.
Director: Punit Malhotra
Good performance from Samir Soni. Lovely songs.
Very cliched. Filled with masala.
Number of weeks: 6.
BO Verdict: Average.
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Mr Singh Mrs Mehta
Cast: Aruna Shields, Prashant Narayanan, Naved Aslam and Lucy Hassan.
Director: Pravesh Bhardwaj
Prashant is good, deft handling of infidelity.
Slow pace.
Number of weeks: 7.
BO Verdict: Flop.
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Trade pundit: Vinod Mirani
Last week's box office results
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