Six Hindi films released last week: Shor In The City, Chalo Dilli, I Am, Naughty @ 40, Men Will Be Men and Queens! Destiny Of Dance. However, none of them made a mark at the box office, as they all saw poor collections.
Trade analyst Vinod Mirani gives us the box office verdict for the week.
Note: Films are ranked according to their release dates. The thumbs ups and downs do not reflect rediff's views.
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Chalo Dilli
Cast: Lara Dutta, Vinay Pathak
Director: Shashant Shah.
 Good performances.
 Poor execution of story.
Number of weeks: New.
BO Verdict: Poor opening.
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Shor In The City
Cast: Sendhil Ramamurthy, Tusshar Kapoor, Pitobash Tripathy, Nikhil Dwiwedi.
Director: Raj-Krishna.
Brilliantly directed film.
Tough.
Number of weeks: New.
BO Verdict: Poor opening.
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I Am
Cast: Juhi Chawla, Nandita Das, Sanjay Suri, Rahul Bose, Purab Kohli, Arjun Mathur, Anurag Kashyap.
Director: Onir.
Touching stories, good performances.
Minor flaws in the story-telling.
Number of weeks: New.
BO Verdict: Poor opening.
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Dum Maaro Dum
Cast: Abhishek Bachchan, Bipasha Basu, Rana Daggubati, Prateik Babbar.
Director: Rohan Sippy.
Good story.
Weak performances by Prateik and Bipasha.
Number of weeks: 2.
BO Verdict: Poor response.
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Zokkomon
Cast: Darsheel Safary, Anupam Kher, Manajari Phadnis.
Director: Satyajit Bhatkal.
Darsheel Safary
Lackluster script and overdose of cliched situations
Number of weeks: 2.
BO Verdict: Flop.
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Teen Thay Bhai
Cast: Om Puri, Shreyas Talpade, Deepak Dobriyal.
Director: Mrigdeep Singh Lamba.
Performance of the cast.
Script disappoints.
Number of weeks: 3.
BO Verdict: Flop.
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Thank You
Cast: Akshay Kumar, Irrfan Khan, Bobby Deol, Suniel Shetty, Sonam Kapoor, Celina Jaitley, Rimi Sen, Paresh Rawal.
Director: Anees Bazmee.
Suniel Shetty
The entire film.
Number of weeks: 4.
BO Verdict: Losing.
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Game
Cast: Abhishek Bachchan, Sarah Jane Dias, Kangna Ranaut, Boman Irani.
Director: Abhinay Deo.
Short film
Old-fashioned murder mystery
Number of weeks: 5.
BO Verdict: Flop.
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F.A.L.T.U
Cast: Jackky Bhagnani, Riteish Deshmukh, Arshad Warsi, Puja Gupta.
Director: Remo D'Souza.
Good performances.
Not well defined characters.
Number of weeks: 5.
BO Verdict: Average.
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Tanu Weds Manu
Cast: R Madhavan, Kangna Ranaut, Jimmy Shergill
Director: Aanand L Rai.
R Madhavan, Kangna Ranaut.
The climax scene.
Number of weeks: 10.
BO Verdict: Average.
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Trade pundit: Vinod Mirani
Last week's box office results
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Good performances. 
Poor execution of story.
