October 28, 2003
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Sssshhh! It's a quiet Diwali!

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.




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





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





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





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





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





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





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





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





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





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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