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This Friday saw an Amitabh Bachchan double bill with Khakee and Aetbaar.
Rajkumar Santoshi's cop drama opened to rave reviews and 100% opening day collection. Vikram Bhatt's version of Hollywood's Fear met with a cold response. 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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Khakee Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Ajay Devgan, Akshay Kumar, Aishwarya Rai, Tusshar Kapoor, Atul Kulkarni. Director: Rajkumar Santoshi  Detailed characterisation of every actor. AB's first rate performance Too many action scenes in the first half.Number of weeks: New BO Verdict: Average |
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Kal Ho Naa Ho Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Preity Zinta, Jaya Bachchan Director: Nikhil Advani Well-written, good direction and performances.Excessive melodrama and nothing for rural centres.Number of weeks: 8 BO Verdict: Super Hit |
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Plan Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Dino Morea, Sanjay Suri, Bikram Saluja, Rohit Roy, Mahesh Manjrekar, Priyanka Chopra, Sameera Reddy, Riya Sen, Payal Rohatgi Director: Hriday Shetty Good chemistry between the four boys, great performance from Sanjay Dutt.Slack in the second half. Once Dutt makes his entry, the others fade into the background.Number of weeks: 2 BO Verdict: Flop |
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Ek Hasina Thi Cast: Urmila Matondkar, Saif Ali Khan, Seema Biswas Director: Sriram Raghavan Great performances, film shows the darker side of love.Script is too convenient and does not offer explanations for things like Urmila's competence with a gun, shadowing people and killing.Number of weeks: 1 BO Verdict: Flop |
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Aetbaar Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, John Abraham, Bipasha Basu Director: Vikram Bhatt Amitabh Bachchan.Bhatt packages last year's Inteha in a new parcel.Number of weeks: New BO Verdict: Flop |
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LoC-Kargil Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Sanjay Dutt, Namrata Shirodkar, Abhishek Bachchan, Esha Deol, Ajay Devgan, Rani Mukerji, Suniel Shetty, Isha Koppikar, Sanjay Kapoor, Raveena Tandon, Raj Babbar, Akshaye Khanna, Kim Sharma, Nagarjuna, Manoj Bajpai, Mahima Chaudhry Director: J P Dutta Story, amazing starcast, music.Lengthy, less time devoted to each character.Number of weeks: 4 BO Verdict: Average |
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God Only Knows Cast: Anjan Srivastava, Dilip Prabhavalkar, Vijoo Khote, Sharbani Mukherjee, Vihang Nayak, Kishore Pradhan, Shahriyar Atai Director: Bharat Dabholkar Good comedy.Some of the jokes seemed forced.Number of weeks: 1 BO Verdict: Flop |
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Chameli Cast: Kareena Kapoor, Rahul Bose, Rinke Khanna, Yashpal Sharma, Makrand Deshpande Director: Sudhir Mishra Chameli attempts to be different; great performance from Rahul Bose; good music.Stagey look, half-baked characters.Number of weeks: 2 BO Verdict: Flop |
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Munnabhai MBBS Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Sunil Dutt, Gracy Singh, Arshad Warsi, Jimmy Shergil, Boman Irani Director: Rajkumar Hirani Good humour, funny dialogues.Totally Mumbai-oriented.Number of weeks: 5 BO Verdict: Hit |
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Paisa Vasool Cast: Manisha Koirala, Sushmita Sen, Sushant Singh, Makarand Deshpande Director: Srinivas Bhashyam Zany humour, great show from Sushmita.Cannot hold viewer interest, gets repetitive.Number of weeks: 2 BO Verdict: Flop |
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Trade expert: Indu Mirani
Last week's box office results
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