Hits continue to evade Bollywood as Raavan flops

Mr Singh Mrs Mehta

Cast: Aruna Shields [ Images ], Prashant Narayanan [ Images ], Naved Aslam and Lucy Hassan.
Director: Pravesh Bhardwaj

Prashant is good, deft handling of infidelity.

Slow pace.

Number of weeks: New.
BO Verdict: Weak opening.

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Raavan

Cast: Aishwarya Rai [ Images ], Abhishek Bachchan [ Images ], Vikram, Govinda [ Images ].
Director: Mani Ratnam

Visually stunning, great performances.

Weak screenplay.

Number of weeks: 1.
BO Verdict: Flop.

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Raajneeti

Cast: Ranbir Kapoor [ Images ], Ajay Devgn [ Images ], Katrina Kaif [ Images ], Nana Patekar [ Images ], Manoj Bajpai [ Images ], Arjun Rampal [ Images ] Naseeruddin Shah [ Images ].
Director: Prakash Jha [ Images ]

Shruti Seth.

Weak screenplay, clunky dialogue and too long.

Number of weeks: 3.
BO Verdict: Hit.

Kites

Cast: Hrithik Roshan [ Images ], Babara Mori [ Images ], Kangna Ranaut [ Images ], Kabir Bedi [ Images ].
Director: Anurag Basu [ Images ]

Hrithik and Babara look hot, film is visually appealing.

Everything else

Number of weeks: 5.
BO Verdict: Flop.

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Bumm Bumm Bole

Cast: Darsheel Safary [ Images ], Zia, Atul Kulkarni [ Images ], Rituparna Sengupta [ Images ].
Director: Priyadarshan [ Images ]
Darsheel shines.

Stretched climax

Number of weeks: 6.
BO Verdict: Flop.

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Bal Hanuman [ Images ]

Director: Pankaj Sharma.
Must watch for Superman and Spiderman fans

Very filmi

Number of weeks: 6.
BO Verdict: Flop.

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Badmaash Company

Cast: Shahid Kapoor [ Images ], Anushka Sharma [ Images ], Vir Das, Meiyang Chang.
Director: Parmeet Sethi [ Images ].
Good music and songs.

Weak plot

Number of weeks: 7.
BO Verdict: Average.

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Housefull

Cast: Akshay Kumar [ Images ], Lara Dutta [ Images ], Deepika Padukone [ Images ], Ritesh Deshmukh [ Images ], Arjun Rampal, Boman Irani [ Images ], Chunky Pandey [ Images ].
Director: Sajid Khan [ Images ].
Tough.

Lame humour, bad acting, senseless plot

Number of weeks: 8.
BO Verdict: Semi-hit.

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City of Gold

Cast: Shashank Shende, Seema Biswas [ Images ], Kashmira Shah [ Images ] and Sachin Khedekar.
Director: Mahesh Manjrekar [ Images ].
Great performances by the cast.

Not for everyone.

Number of weeks: 9.
BO Verdict: Flop.

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Paathshaala

Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Ayesha Takia [ Images ] Azmi and Nana Patekar.
Director: Milind Ukey.
Has its heart in the right place.

Very dull and outdated.

Number of weeks: 10.
BO Verdict: Flop.

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