Box Office Report 1st September 2007

Movie name	Week	Note
Dhokha	New	Dhokha had a limited release and opened to poor houses of 15%. Its low costs will be its biggest advantage.
Ram Gopal Ki Verma Ki Aag	New	The film was expected to open well due to the hype and being a remake of the legendary blockbuster film Sholay(1975). But the opening was a shocker at 20-25%. It may do better in Mumbai and South but not enough to recover costs. In the North it has bombed already. The reports are very poor.
Victoria 203	New	This remake also had a poor opening of around 15% and will struggle at the box office.
Heyy Babyy	1	Heyy Babyy has done very good business of around 25-26 crore in its first week. The film had drops at small centres from Wednesday but multiplexes and big cities have gone into the second week with good 65-70% collections. The film is hit and remains to be seen if it becomes a superhit.
Chak De India	3	Very poor first week business.
Cash	2	Falls 50% in week three but with many states going tax free the film could reach Blockbuster status in the long run.

Chak De India will emerge a hit or better in Mumbai, Delhi/UP(UP is only fair but Delhi/NCR is strong), East Punjab, CI, Nizam and Mysore. The other circuits will depend on how well they sustain collections from here on. But it’s unlikely to have a losing circuit as even Bihar may notch up 18-20 lakhs from the 7 prints sent to the circuit.On an all India basis the first week nett business should come in the region of 17-19 crore.. The approx breakdown of collections are Friday-2.35 crore, Saturday-3.40 crore and Sunday-3.75 crore giving it a 9.50 crore nett gross for the first three days.
Cash scores over the weekend
Cash has managed business of 11crore in its first three days. Despite a bashing from the media and critics the film managed to rake in the moolah over its first 3 days. The film did drop from Monday onwards but will still manage business of around 18 crore in its first week. Gandhi My Father managed just 1.50 crore business over the weekend and is struggling at the box office.
Partner collects a massive 95 crore world wide in 2 weeks
The figures after 2 weeks are as follows
India-80 crore(48.75 crore nett)
UK-5.50 crore
USA-4 crore
Rest of the World-5.50 crore
TOTAL-95 crore

Movie name	Week	Note
Buddha Mar Gaya	New	Poor opening of 15-20%. The film will struggle at the box office.
Marigold	New	Poor opening of 10-15% and has had a very small release for a Salman Khan film. Reports are poor.
Chak De India	1	The film recorded good first week collections of about 20 crore but it is in the second week that the will come into its own as 8th day was excellent at 80% with the weekend expected to be better. The film will emerge the second major hit of 2007 after Partner.
Kaafila	1	Extremely poor first week all over.
The Blue Umbrella	1	Very poor first week business.
Cash	2	Falls heavily in week 2FLOP.
Partner	4	BLOCKBUSTER.