Bollywood Box Office Report May 2008

Bollywood Box Office Report May 2008

The only major release of the coming Friday is the Bhatt camp venture,
JANNAT. The Kunal Deshmukh directed Emraan Hashmi and Sonal Chauhan
starrer is sure to have a decent start at the ticket window. And that
because of some brilliant publicity, super music and the craze of the
nation, cricket as its theme, in the midst of the Indian Premier
League (IPL) frenzy!

As we had predicted in our last column, Ravi Chopra's Vivek Sharma
directed BHOOTHNATH got a reasonable start, based on interesting
promos and excellent release timing for the target audience, the kids.
What is important to note here is that despite the fact that the first
day had a so-so start in Bombay and a dull one at many other places,
the film picked up as the weekend progressed. However, the Amitabh,
Juhi, Aman and SRK (special appearance) starrer has failed to impress
in the Overseas with an ordinary gross of $330,246 from the US and a
poor $127,693 from UK.

MR. WHITE MR. BLACK has predictably failed to make an impact. The film
managed poor collections in its first week, with 48 lakhs from Bombay,
17.15 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 1.35 lakhs from Patan, 1.05 lakhs from
Palanpur, 2.50 lakhs from Rajkot, 1.75 lakhs from Jamnagar, 2.65 lakhs
from Bhavnagar, 1.05 lakhs from Gandhidham, 2.35 lakhs from Pune,
17.30 lakhs from Delhi, 3.30 lakhs from Noida, 2.25 lakhs from
Ghaziabad, 1.20 lakhs from Kanpur, 4.25 lakhs from Lucknow, 1.65 lakhs
from Agra, 3.05 lakhs from Gurgaon, 1.15 lakhs from Faridabad, 1.05
lakhs from Guwahati, 4 lakhs (approx) from Nagpur, 2.40 lakhs from
Indore, 3.70 lakhs from Jaipur, 9.70 lakhs from Hyderabad and I lakh
from Mangalore . The Arshad Warsi , Suneil Shetty and Sandhya Mridul
starrer manages a poor 2.75 crores in its opening week from India.
Needless to add that the much delayed film is a failure, both in India
and Overseas. The Deepak Shivdasani directed MR. WHITE MR. BLACK has
been outrightly rejected in the UK with a poor gross of just $51,321.