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Sssshhh! It's a quiet Diwali!
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This Diwali saw four releases, Pinjar, Sssshhh..., Inteha and Raja Bhaiya, at the box office.
Though the Urmila Matondkar-starrer Pinjar was critically acclaimed, it fared worse than Tanisha's debut film Sssshhh....
Ashmit Patel's launch vehicle Inteha could not recreate the Vikram Bhatt magic and the long-delayed Raja Bhaiya never had a hope at all.
Note: Films are ranked on the basis of their performance at the box office every week. Though a film may be declared a flop, it may have performed better than the other films that week.
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Baghban
Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini, Paresh Rawal, Lilette Dubey, Aman Verma, Samir Soni, Divya Dutta, Suman Ranganathan, Nasir Khan, Asrani, Sahil Chadda, Rimi Sen, Yash Pathak
Director: Ravi Chopra
Moving performances from AB and Hema Malini
Tired plot. Audience disinterested in watching an oldies' romance
Number of weeks: 2
BO Verdict: Average
The review
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Sssshhh...
Cast: Dino Morea, Karan Nath, Tanishaa, Gaurav Kapoor, Suvarna Jha, Kushal Punjabi, Teena Chowdhary, Aly Khan
Director: Pavan S Kaul
Good locales. Great performance from Dino
Poor climax, too long
Number of weeks: New
BO Verdict: Flop
The review
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Pinjar
Cast: Urmila Matondkar, Manoj Bajpai, Sanjay Suri, Sandali Sinha, Priyanshu Chatterjee, Ishaa Koppikar, Seema Biswas
Director: Dr Chandraprakash Dwivedi
Good costumes, ambience, performances
Too long. Too many songs in first half
Number of weeks: New
BO Verdict: Flop
The review
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Inteha
Cast: Ashmit Patel, Nauheed Cyrusi, Vidya Malavade
Director: Vikram Bhatt
Decent music
Weak storyline with huge loopholes. Awful performances
Number of weeks: New
BO Verdict: Flop
The review
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Raja Bhaiya
Cast: Govinda, Aarti Chhabria, Sadashiv Amrapurkar
Director: Raman Kumar
Shorter than the regular Hindi film
Poor performances, story, music
Number of weeks: New
BO Verdict: Flop
The review
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Samay: When Times Strikes
Cast: Sushmita Sen, Sushant Singh
Director: Robby Grewal
Sushmita's excellent performance
Too Hollywoodish
Number of weeks: 1
BO Verdict: Flop
The review
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Khel
Cast: Sunny Deol, Sunil Shetty, Ajay Jadeja, Celina Jaitley, Gulshan Grover, Mohan Joshi, Akhilendra Mishra
Director: Yusuf Khan
Sunny Deol
Suspense revealed in first half of the thriller
Number of weeks: 2
BO Verdict: Flop
The review
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Main Madhuri Dixit Banna Chahti Hoon
Cast: Antara Mali, Rajpal Yadav, Govind Namdeo
Director: Chandan Arora
Great performance from Yadav. Earnest one from Antara
Too unrealistic
Number of weeks: 1
BO Verdict: Flop
The review
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Koi... Mil Gaya
Cast: Hrithik Roshan, Preity Zinta, Rekha
Director: Rakesh Roshan
Hrithik Roshan's performance. Jaadoo the alien
Tacky SFX
Number of weeks: 10
BO Verdict: Superhit
The review
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Zameen
Cast: Ajay Devgan, Abhishek Bachchan, Bipasha Basu
Director: Rohit Shetty
Great action
Extraordinarily long car chases. Slow motion action shots
Number of weeks: 3
BO Verdict: Flop
The review
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Trade expert: Indu Mirani
Design: Uday Kuckian
Last week's box office results
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