'I know this movie will be a superhit -- not because it's a Rs 600 crore budget or because we worked hard for more than three years on it.' 'It's because some movies have magic and some don't.' 'This one has that magic.'
Trade analyst Vinod Mirani gives us the weekly box office verdict.
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The theatres will start functioning from Friday with the ticket prices set to go up from the present maximum of Rs 120 with the addition of 28 per cent of Goods and Services Tax.
'When 15 percent of the population in the state can't afford to buy milk, this senseless wasting of thousands of litres of milk should not be tolerated.' 'Roughly between 50,000 to 75,000 litres of milk is wasted every time the movie of a popular hero releases.'
The channel has begun forensic investigations into the leak of the next episode, which was put up on Reddit three days before the official release.
He also expressed his disappointment over the 'wrong system' which needs to be changed.
'Madaari is a very strong film for the younger generation. If they understand this film correctly, it would be great fun. It is serious cinema and our youth want to see that too; they don't just want entertainment.' Madaari director Nishikant Kamat discusses his new film.
Rajinikanth is yet to identify a filmi platform to be able to launch his political career from the celluloid platform as only MGR had done, successfully and in the pre-IT era, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
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And the reason has everything to do with box office collections, says Vanita Kohli-Khandekar.
'Knee jerk reactions are the worst in this kind of conflict situation.' 'The responses have to be thought through for strategic advantage rather than tactical satisfaction and ego,' says Lieutenant General Syed Ata Hasnain (retd), former commander of the Uri-based Kalapahar Brigade.
If Team Rajini expected Kaala to carry the superstar's political message off-screen, it may have proved counter-productive. If the not-so-infrequent presence of Muslim residents of Dharavi, including that of Kaala's ex-love Zarina, in many scenes is expected to convey a political message, it is a no-brainer, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
Calculated or otherwise, if Azhagiri's firing of the first salvo after Karunanidhi's death does not create some space for him to politico-electorally exploit at a later date, there may not be any space left for him at all, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
'As far as I know Burhan Wani did not kill anyone.'
'For me, he was a bridge to lifelong friendships in a land where I had none.' 'He helped break barriers of language and suspicion.' Maharaj Damodardas salutes the one and only Rajinikanth!
'It's an experience of a lifetime. It's the first time I acted in a South Indian film where I was treated as an equal by an actor.'
Director-actor Samuthirakani gets candid about his journey in the film industry.
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