Of the three releases last week -- Love Sex Aur Dhokha, Lahore and Shaapit, Lahore performed the worst. The other two drew fair collections over the weekend.
Trade analyst Vinod Mirani gives us the box office verdict.
Note: Films are ranked according to their release dates. The thumbs ups and downs reflect rediff's views.
Love Sex Aur Dhokha Cast: Anshuman Jha, Raj Kumar Yadav, Neha Chauhan, Amit Sial, Arya Devdutta, Herry Tangri . Director: Dibakar Banerjee. Great script, editing, cinematography and acting. Tough. Number of weeks: New. BO Verdict: Opens well. | |
Lahore Cast: Aanaahad, Aashish Vidyarthi, Farooq Sheikh, Jeeva, Kelly Dorjee, Mukesh Rishi, Nafisa Ali, Nirmal Pandey, Pramod Moutho, Sabyasachi Chakravarthy, Saurabh Shukla, Shraddha Das, Shraddha Nigam. Director: Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan. Good fight scenes. Limited story-telling. Number of weeks: New. BO Verdict: Weak opening. | |
Shaapit Cast: Aditya Narayan, Rahul Dev, Shweta Agarwal. Director: Vikram Bhatt. Every scene is well woven. Cliched dialogues, predictable scenes and too many songs. Number of weeks: New. BO Verdict: Opens well. | |
Right Yaa Wrong Cast: Sunny Deol, Irrfan Khan, Konkana Sen Sharma, Eesha Koppikar, Vinay Pathak. Director: Neerraj Pathak. Good script. Can get a bit preachy. Number of weeks: 1. BO Verdict: Weak opening. | |
Road, Movie Cast: Abhay Deol, Satish Kaushik, Tannishtha Chatterjee Director: Dev Benegal. Wonderfully shot Disappointing dialogues. Number of weeks: 2. BO Verdict: Flop. | |
Athiti Tum Kab Jaoge Cast: Ajay Devgn, Konkona Sen Sharma, Paresh Rawal Director: Ashwini Dhir. Good comedy. Great performances Some boring parts. Climax could be better. Number of weeks: 2. BO Verdict: Average. | |
Karthik Calling Karthik Cast: Farhan Akhtar, Deepika Padukone Director: Vijay Lalwani. Deepika looks great. Great performance from Farhan Second half of the film loses pace. Climax is a letdown. Number of weeks: 3. BO Verdict: Flop. | |
Teen Patti Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, R Madhavan, Ben Kingsley, Dhruv Ganesh, Siddharth Kher, Shraddha Kapoor and Vaibhav Talwar Director: Leena Yadav. Good performances. Poorly executed film. Number of weeks: 3. BO Verdict: Flop. | |
Toh Baat Pakki Cast: Tabu, Sharman Joshi, Vatsal Seth, Uvika Choudhary Director: Kedar Shinde. Tabu and Sharman perform well. Bad script and weak dialogues. Number of weeks: 4. BO Verdict: Flop. | |
Director: Karan Johar. | |
Trade pundit: Vinod Mirani | |