Box Office: Will Baazaar's stock rise?

The hits and misses of the week.

Five movie releases last week, but only Baazaar managed some footfalls. Yet, it remains below average.

Kaashi In Search Of Ganga, Dassehra, 5 Weddings, The Journey Of Karma -- all flop badly.

Vinod Mirani gives us his weekly verdict.

Baazaar

Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Radhika Apte, Chitrangda Singh, Rohan Mehra, Denzil Smith.
Director: Gauravv K Chawla.
What works: Saif Ali Khan.
What doesn't: Predictable.
Number of weeks: New.
Box Office verdict: Below average.

• The Rediff Review

 

Kaashi In Search of Ganga

Cast: Sharman Joshi, Aishwarya Devan, Govind Namdev, Akhilendra Mishra, Manoj Joshi, Manoj Pahwa, Paritosh Tripathi.
Director: Dhiraj Kumar.
What works: Sharman Joshi.
What doesn't: The rest of the film.
Number of weeks: New.
Box Office verdict: Flop.

• The Rediff Review

 

Dassehra

Cast: Neil Nitin Mukesh, Tina Desai, Govind Namdeo, Murali Sharma.
Director: Manish Vatsalya.
What works: Good performances.
What doesn't: Average writing, excessive action.
Number of weeks: New.
Box Office verdict: Flop.

 

Badhaai Ho

Cast: Ayushmann Khurrana, Neena Gupta, Gajraj Rao, Sanya Malhotra.
Director: Amit Ravindernath Sharma.
What works: Well-written, wholesome, entertaining film.
What doesn't: Mishmash of Punjabi, Haryanvi and colloquial Hindi of Uttar Pradesh being spoken by the same characters.
Number of weeks: 1.
Box Office verdict: Hit.

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Namastey England

Cast: Arjun Kapoor, Parineeti Chopra, Satish Kaushik.
Director: Vipul Amrutlal Shah.
What works: Mallika Dua's special apperance.
What doesn't: Sketchy characters, bad writing, film drags.
Number of weeks: 1.
Box Office verdict: Flop.

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Helicopter Eela

Cast: Kajol, Riddhi Sen, Tota Roy Chowdhury, Neha Dhupia.
Director: Pradeep Sarkar.
What works: Riddhi Sen.
What doesn't: The script.
Number of weeks: 2.
Box Office verdict: Flop.

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FryDay

Cast: Govinda, Varun Sharma, Digangana Suryavanshi.
Director: Abhishek Dogra.
What works: Govinda.
What doesn't: A slow start.
Number of weeks: 2.
Box Office verdict: Flop.

• The Rediff Review

 

Tumbbad

Cast: Sohum Shah, Harish Khanna.
Director: Rahi Anil Barve, Anand Gandhi.
What works: Sohum Shah's performance; a fairytale vision.
What doesn't: The message isn't too original.
Number of weeks: 2.
Box Office verdict: Flop.

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Jalebi

Cast: Rhea Chakraborty, Varun Mitra, Digangana Suryavanshi.
Director: Pushpdeep Bhardwaj.
What works: The music.
What doesn't: Performance, cast, story, direction.
Number of weeks: 2.
Box Office verdict: Flop.

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Andhadhun

Cast: Ayushmann Khurrana, Radhika Apte, Tabu.
Director: Sriram Raghavan.
What works: Great performances, excellent story line with a lot of twists, good direction.
What doesn't: Too long.
Number of weeks: 3.
Box Office verdict: Hit.

• The Rediff Review