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Box Office: Great Grand Masti opens poorly

July 18, 2016 16:32 IST

The hits and misses of the week.

Like Vivek Oberoi said at a press conference recently, piracy killed his latest film, Great Grand Masti. The film opened poorly at the box office, as it had been leaked 17 days before its scheduled release date.

Salman Khan's Sultan, on the other hand, is a superhit.

Trade analyst Vinod Mirani gives us the weekly box office verdict.

 

Great Grand Masti

Cast:  Vivek Oberoi, Ritesh Deshmukh, Aftab Shivdasani, Urvashi Rautela.

Director: Indra Kumar.

What works: A few comic gags.

What doesn't: Over-the-top performances, sloppy script.

Number of weeks: New.

BO verdict: Poor.

Read the review here.

 

Sultan

Cast: Salman Khan, Anushka Sharma, Randeep Hooda, Amit Sadh

Director: Ali Abbas Zafar.

What works: Salman Khan.

What doesn't: Predictable climax, film is too long at nearly three hours running time.

Number of weeks: 1.

BO verdict: Superhit.

Read the review here.

 

Shorgul

Cast: Ashutosh Rana, Jimmy Sheirgill, Sanjay Suri, Ejaz Khan, Hiten Tejwani, Anirudh Dhave, Suha Gezen.

Director: Jitendra Tiwari.

What works: Great performances by Ashutosh Rana, Jimmy Sheirgill.

What doesn't: Bad direction and poor execution.

Number of weeks: 2.

BO verdict: Flop.

Read the review here.

 

Raman Raghav 2.0

Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Vicky Kaushal, Sobhita Dhulipala.

Director: Anurag Kashyap.

What works: Great performances by Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Vicky Kaushal.

What doesn't: Anurag Kashyap's films are getting too similar.

Number of weeks: 3.

BO verdict: Flop.

Read the review here.

 

Junooniyat

Cast: Pulkit Samrat, Yami Gautam.

Director: Vivek Agnihotri.

What works: Music and exotic locations.

What doesn't: Story, dialogues, performances.

Number of weeks: 3.

BO verdict: Flop.

Read the review here.

 

Udta Punjab

Shahid Kapoor in Udta Punjab

Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Alia Bhatt, Diljit Dosanjh

Director: Abhishek Chaubey.

What works: Brilliant performances, hard-hitting and well made film.

What doesn't: Not meant for family audiences.

Number of weeks: 4.

BO verdict: Average.

Read the review here: Raja Sen /Sukanya Verma

 

Dhanak

Krrish Chhabria and Hetal Gada in Dhanak

Cast: Hetal Gada, Krrish Chhabria, Vipin Sharma, Gulfam Khan.

Director: Nagesh Kukunoor.

What works: Good performances, engaging story.

What doesn't: The second half is too slow, and long.

Number of weeks: 4.

BO verdict: Flop.

Read the review here.

 

Te3n

Amitabh Bachchan and Vidya Balan in Te3n

Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Vidya Balan.

Director: Ribhu Dasgupta

What works: Amitabh Bachchan's ace performance.

What doesn't: The thriller has no suspence.

Number of weeks: 5.

BO verdict: Flop.

Read the reviews here: Raja Sen / Sukanya Verma

 

Do Lafzon Ki Kahani

Kajal Aggarwal and Randeep Hooda in Do Lafzon Ki Kahani

Cast: Randeep Hooda, Kajal Aggarwal

Director: Deepak Tijori

What works: Randeep Hooda's performance, good music.

What doesn't: Weak screenplay, boring storyline.

Number of weeks: 5.

BO verdict: Flop

Read the review here

 

Housefull 3

Housefull 3

Cast: Akshay Kumar, Abhishek Bachchan, Riteish Deshmukh, Jacqueline Fernandez, Nargis Fakhri, Lisa Haydon, Boman Irani

Director: Sajid-Farhad

What works: Akshay Kumar's performance and dialogues.

What doesn't: The plot.

Number of weeks: 6.

BO verdict: Hit.

Read the review here