The hits and misses of the week.
It has not been a very good weekend for Bollywood at the box office. Sunny Leone's One Night Stand did not seduce the audience. Manoj Bajpayee's Traffic was rejected by movie-goers. Sharman Joshi's 1920 London salvaged matters somewhat by getting a fair opening.
Trade analyst Vinod Mirani gives us the weekly box office verdict.
One Night Stand
Cast: Sunny Leone, Tanuj Virwani, Nyra Banerjee
Director: Jasmine D'souza
What works: The story idea behind the film.
What doesn't: Clunky writing, bad performances.
Number of weeks: New
BO verdict: Poor opening
Traffic
Cast: Manoj Bajpayee, Jimmy Shergill, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Parambrata Chatterjee, Sachin Khedekar, Amol Parashar, Vishal Singh, Divya Dutta
Director: (The late) Rajesh Pillai
What works: Kitu Gidwani and Divya Dutta's performances.
What doesn't: Monotonous acting and hackneyed characterisations.
Number of weeks: New
BO verdict: Flop
1920 London
Cast: Sharman Joshi, Meera Chopra, Vishal Karwal
Director: Tinu Suresh Desai
What works: The music.
What doesn't: The story is predictable and the film is not scary.
Number of weeks: New
BO verdict: Fair opening
Cast: Tiger Shroff, Shraddha Kapoor, Sudheer Babu, Sunil Grover, Sanjay Mishra
Director: Sabbir Khan
What works: Tiger Shroff and Sudheer Babu's performances.
What doesn't: Poor dialogues and the love scenes are boring.
Number of weeks: 1
BO verdict: Excellent opening
Nil Battey Sannata
Cast: Swara Bhaskar, Ratna Pathak Shah, Sanjay Suri
Director: Ashwini Iyer Tiwari
What works: Performances and engaging narrative.
What doesn't: Second half drags.
Number of weeks: 2
BO verdict: Flop
Laal Rang
Cast: Randeep Hooda, Piaa Bajpai, Akshay Oberoi, Rajniesh Duggall, Meenakshi Dixit
Director: Syed Ahmad Afzal
What works: Randeep Hooda's performance.
What doesn't: Unnecessary melodrama.
Number of weeks: 2
BO verdict: Flop
Fan
Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Waluscha De Sousa, Sayani Gupta, Shriya Pilgaonkar
Director: Maneesh Sharma
What works: Shah Rukh Khan.
What doesn't: Lazy writing, plot has too many loopholes.
Number of weeks: 3
BO verdict: Flop
Read the review here: Raja Sen / Sukanya Verma
Love Games
Cast: Patralekha, Tara Alisha Berry, Gaurav Arora
Director: Vikram Bhatt
What works: Patralekha and Gaurav Arora.
What doesn't: Predictable story, unnecessary skin show.
Number of weeks: 4
BO verdict: Poor
The Jungle Book (Hindi version)
Cast: Neel Sethi, Priyanka Chopra, Nana Patekar, Om Puri, Irrfan, Shefali Shah
Director: Jon Favreau
What works: Amazing animation and 3D.
What doesn't: Could be a tad scary for kids.
Number of weeks: 4
BO verdict: Hit
Read the review here: Raja Sen / Sukanya Verma / Aseem Chhabra
Ki & Ka
Cast: Kareena Kapoor, Arjun Kapoor, Swaroop Sampat, Rajit Kapur
Director: R Balki
What works: Good performances.
What doesn't: Poor writing, caricaturish characters.
Number of weeks: 5
BO verdict: Hit
Read the review here: Raja Sen / Sukanya Verma
