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Box Office: Baywatch, Death in Gunj, Dear Maya fail

By Vinod Mirani
June 05, 2017

The hits and misses of the week.

Baywatch gets average opening rest all the films that released last Friday like Dear Maya, A Death in the Gunj, and Dobaara: See your Evil all flopped.

Trade analyst Vinod Mirani gives us his weekly verdict:

 

Baywatch

Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Zac Efron, Priyanka Chopra, Alexandra Daddario, David Hasselhoff
Director: Seth Gordon
What works: The smoking hot cast
What doesn't: Stale Jokes, illogical crime drama
Number of weeks: New
Box Office verdict: Average opening.

 

A Death in the Gunj

Cast: Vikrant Massey, Tillotama Shome, Gulshan Devaiah, Om Puri, Kalki Koechlin, Ranvir Shorey, Tanuja, Jim Sarbh
Director: Konkona Sen Sharma
What works: Cast and the story
What doesn't: Slow pace
Number of weeks: New
Box Office verdict: Flop.

 

Dear Maya

Cast: Manisha Koirala, Madiha Imam, Shreya Chaudhary
Director: Sunaina Bhatnagar
What works: Manisha Koirala
What doesn't: Slow first half
Number of weeks: New
Box Office verdict: Flop.

 

Dobaara: See Your Evil

Cast: Huma Qureshi, Saqib Saleem, Lisa Ray, Adil Hussain, Madalina Bellariu Ion, Rhea Chakraborty
Director: Prawaal Raman
What works: Huma Qureshi, Saqib Saleem, Adil Hussain
What doesn't: Poor copy of Oculus
Number of weeks: New
Box Office verdict: Flop.

 

 

Sachin: A Billion Dreams

Cast: Sachin Tendulkar
Director: James Erskine
What works: Sachin Tendulkar
What doesn't: No new information on Sachin
Number of weeks: 1
Box Office verdict: Average opening.

 

Half Girlfriend

Cast: Arjun Kapoor, Shraddha Kapoor, Rhea Chakraborty
Director: Mohit Suri
What works: Arjun Kapoor
What doesn't: Bad story and script
Number of weeks: 2
Box Office verdict: Flop.

 

Hindi Medium

Cast: Irrfan Khan Saba Qamar, Deepak Dobriyal
Director: Saket Chaudhary
What works: Saket's direction, good performances
What doesn't: The second half of the film
Number of weeks: 2
Box Office verdict: Hit.

 

Meri Pyaari Bindu

Cast: Ayushmann Khurrana, Parineeti Chopra
Director: Akshay Roy
What works: Good performances
What doesn't: Bad script, screenplay and dialogue
Number of weeks: 3
Box Office verdict: Average.

 

Sarkar 3

Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Amit Sadh, Yami Gautam
Director: Ram Gopal Varma
What works: Amitabh Bachchan
What doesn't: Poor direction
Number of weeks: 3
Box Office verdict: Flop.

 

Baahubali: The Conclusion

Cast: Prabhas, Anushka Shetty, Rana Daggubati, Tamannaah, Ramya Krishnan, Sathyaraj, Nassar
Director: S S Rajamouli
What works: Brilliant VFX, epic scale, good thrills, fantastic action
What doesn't: The film's length
Number of weeks: 5
Box Office verdict: BLOCKBUSTER.

 

Noor

Cast: Sonakshi Sinha, Kanan Gill, Shibani Dandekar, Purab Kohli
Director: Sunhil Sippy
What works: Good performances
What doesn't: Shallow activism, flimsy drama
Number of weeks: 6
Box Office verdict: Poor opening.

 

Maatr

Cast: Raveena Tandon, Alisha Khan, Madhur Mittal
Director: Ashtar Sayed
What works: Raveena Tandon
What doesn't: Glaring loopholes, weak script
Number of weeks: 6
Box Office verdict: Poor opening.

 

Begum Jaan

Cast: Vidya Balan, Ila Arun, Naseeruddin Shah, Rajit Kapoor, Ashish Vidyarthi, Vivek Mushran, Chunky Pandey, Gauahar Khan, Pallavi Sharda
Director: Srijit Mukherji
What works: Vidya Balan
What doesn't: Loud, melodramatic, shallow
Number of weeks: 7
Box Office verdict: Flop.

 

Vinod Mirani

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