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Last Friday saw contrasting films at the marquee.
Aparna Sen's 15 Park Avenue opened to rave reviews, but, expectantly, didn't do too well at the box office. But Manish Sharma's out and out commercial film Jawani Diwani sank too. Looks like Celina Jaitley's much hyped bikini could not save the raunchy comedy.
Note: Films are ranked according to their release dates. |
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15 Park Avenue Cast: Shabana Azmi, Konkona Sensharma, Waheeda Rahman, Rahul Bose. Director: Aparna Sen.  Excellent performances, very well directed film. Too dark, repetitive dialogues at times.Number of weeks: New. BO Verdict: Poor opening. |
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Jawani Diwani Cast: Emraan Hashmi, Celina Jaitley, Hrishita Bhatt. Director: Manish Sharma. Good locales.Stereotypical storyline, miserable performances.Number of weeks: New. BO Verdict: Poor opening. |
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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: 1. 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: 1. 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: 1. 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: 2. BO Verdict: Average. |
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Vaah! Life Ho Toh Aisi! Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Shahid Kapoor, Amrita Rao, Arshad Warsi. Director: Mahesh Manjrekar. The film has its moments, good special effects, good children's fare.Screenplay should have been tighter.Number of weeks: 2. 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: 3. 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: 4. 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: 4. BO Verdict: Decent. |
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Design: Uday Kuckian
Last week's box-office results
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