Box office: Mallika Sherawat's Dirty Politics opens poorly

Cast: Mallika Sherawat, Jackie Shroff, Atul Kulkarni, Om Puri, Naseeruddin Shah

Director: KC Bokadia

What works: Anupam Kher

What doesn't: Bad story, terrible acting, poor treatment

Number of weeks: New

BO verdict: Below average

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Badmashiyaan

Cast: Suzanna Mukherjee, Siddhant Gupta, Karan Mehra, Sharib Hashmi and Gunjan Malhotra,

Director: Amit Khanna

What works: Nothing!

What doesn't: Film has wooden actors and no plot.

Number of weeks: New

BO verdict: Flop

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Dum Laga Ke Haisha

Cast: Ayushmann Khurrana and Bhumi Pednekar

Director: Sharat Katariya

What works: A novel story, good performances and good music.

What doesn't: Interesting chemistry between the lead.

Number of weeks: 1

BO verdict: Hit.

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Ab Tak Chhappan 2

Cast: Nana Patekar, Gul Panag and Mohan Agashe

Director: Aejaz Gulab

What works: Nana Patekar.

What doesn't: Low production values, bad story.

Number of weeks: 1

BO verdict: Poor opening.

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Badlapur 

Cast: Varun Dhawan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Yami Gautam, Huma Qureshi, Radhika Apte

Director: Sriram Raghavan

What works: Gripping story, great performances.

What doesn't: The climax drags.

Number of weeks: 2

BO verdict: Fair.

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MSG: The Messenger

Cast: Saint Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Ji Insan, Daniel Kaleb, Flora Saini, Jayshree Soni

Director: Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh and Jeetu Arora

What works: Tough!

What doesn't: Loud, tacky feature-length advertisement.

Number of weeks: 3

BO verdict: Flop

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