Bad times continue with flop show in Bollywood

  • IndiaGlitz, [Monday,May 09 2011]

Bollywood continues to wait for a successful film with 'Chalo Dilli', 'Shor In The City', 'I Am', 'Naughty @ 40', 'Men Will Be Men' and 'Queens! Destiny of Dance' hardly finding any shows running for them in their second week. Theaters can't really be blamed here as even the combined collections of these six films struggled to cross the 10 crores mark at the end of their first week run.

'Chalo Dilli' was the best of them all with close to 6 crores coming in. Not that this was any good but when compared to the rest, it was face saving at the least. Low costs of the film means that there are still chances for the film to manage meeting the break even point at the least. However it is hardly the kindly of box office reception that Lara Dutta would have wanted to bargain for her maiden production.

One wonders if 'Shor In The City' would have arrived a little silently instead of making so much 'shor', it's 3 crores collections may have looked far better than what they do currently. Reason being that an underdog's success is celebrated more than the one which arrives with fanfare. However since this Tusshar Kapoor starrer had been given a relatively bigger release than one would have expected for its genre, the results too were expected to be much better. That was not the case to be with the film going unnoticed expect for that niche discerning audience.

Same was the case with 'I Am' which didn't quite have any worthy collections to show and failed miserably at the box office. An arrival amidst the crowd was always a suicide more than a gamble. The makers had to pay for it which is a pity because the film got some of the best reviews in last so many months.

'Naughty @ 40' totally failed and with horrific collections to show, it was discontinued from many theaters inside it's first week itself. Even Govinda knew what the film's fate would be and hence largely stayed away from the film's promotion for all the right reasons. This wasn't a comeback that he would have bargained for anyways.

As for 'Men Will Be Men' and 'Queens! Destiny of Dance', they are certified disasters and don't even have any chance whatsoever to do well in any other form of film viewing, whether satellite or home video.

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