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Shikhar crashes at the box office |
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Expectations were high when John Mathew Matthan's Shikhar released last week. After all, his debut movie Sarfarosh was one of the best films of 1999.
Sadly, Shikhar opened to poor reviews, and a cold box office. The other two releases -- Mr Prime Minister and Anjaane -- were washouts.
Note: Films are ranked according to their release dates. |
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Shikhar Cast: Ajay Devgan, Bipasha Basu, Shahid Kapir, Amrita Rao. Director: John Mathew Matthan.  Good performances, beautiful locales. Poor climax, gets too preachy.Number of weeks: New. BO Verdict: Flop. |
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Mr Prime Minister Cast: Dev Anand, Boman Irani, Tara Sharma. Director: Dev Anand. Novel plot.Awful direction, pathetic screenplay.Number of weeks: New. BO Verdict: Flop. |
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Anjaane Cast: Manisha Koirala, Sanjay Kapoor. Director: Nilesh Ubhe, Shailesh Rane and Krishna Jani. Tough!-Bad acting, poor sets, bad direction.Number of weeks: New. BO Verdict: Flop. |
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Dosti: Friends Forever Cast: Akshay Kumar, Bobby Deol, Kareena Kapoor, Lara Dutta. Director: Suneel Darshan. Some good emotional scenes.Loud performances, old story, bad music.Number of weeks: 1. BO Verdict: Average. |
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Vaah! Life Ho Toh Aisi! Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Shahid Kapoor, Amrita Rao, Arshad Warsi. Director: Mahesh Manjrekar. Screenplay should have been tighter.The film has its moments, good special effects, good children's fare.Number of weeks: 1. BO Verdict: Flop. |
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Bluffmaster Cast: Abhishek Bachchan, Priyanka Chopra, Riteish Deshmukh, Nana Patekar. Director: Rohan Sippy. Good performances, great dialogues, hit music, very entertaining.Poor climax, too Westernised.Number of weeks: 2. BO Verdict: Doing well in Mumbai multiplexes. |
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Ek Ajnabee Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Arjun Rampal, Perizaad Zorabian. Director: Apoorva Lakhia. Amitabh Bachchan, good music.Slow second-half.Number of weeks: 3. BO Verdict: Flop. |
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Neal N Nikki Cast: Uday Chopra, Tanisha. Director: Arjun Sablok. Catchy music, some fun dialogues.Bad acting, zero plot.Number of weeks: 3. BO Verdict: Decent. |
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Kalyug Cast: Kunal Khemu, Deepal Shaw, Emraan Hashmi. Director: Mohit Suri. Novel plot, great music.Too many flaws in the script.Number of weeks: 3. BO Verdict: Average. |
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Apaharan Cast: Ajay Devhan, Nana Patekar, Bipasha Basu. Director: Prakash Jha. Great acting especially from Nana Patekar, dialogues with punch.Climax is too long, second half drags.Number of weeks: 4. BO Verdict: Average. |
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Design: Uday Kuckian
Last week's box-office results
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