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A shootout and a sugar free romance |
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| By Behindwoods News
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May 28, 2007 |
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Two films opened this Friday across India
and have met with a very diverse response.
No surprises though, this was the way things
were supposed to be. One was a big budget,
heavy duty multi starrer with action bordering
on bloody violence and the other was a ‘sugar
free romance’ with relatively lesser
star value.
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Shootout at Lokhandwala, the former opened to a fabulous
response at almost all release centers and why not? It
is not often that you get to see Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay
Dutt, Vivek Oberoi, Abhishek Bachchan, Arbaaz Khan, Tushaar
Kapoor and many more names in the same movie and we have
not mentioned any of the ladies in the cast. Though it
is not yet time to give a final account of the public’s
word of mouth, it seems to be safe to say that this is
the sort of movie that men are going to like. The movie,
based on a real encounter that had happened in a suburb
of Mumbai over a decade ago has almost an overdose of
action, something that may keep women and families away
from theaters. The climax has been termed as close to
gory. There seems to be a sort of catch 22 situation here
as the high octane action is proving to be the strength
as well as the drawback of the movie. The initial collections
are suggesting that the movie might recover its budget
within a week at the box office provided the overseas
audience reacts well. But there seems to be little doubt
over that, the overseas has always welcomed multistarrers
with open arms.
Looking at the other release of the week, Cheeni Kum;
an antithesis to Shootout at Lokhandwala which has everything
in strong doses. Cheeni Kum, as the name suggests is a
movie where everything is kept simple. The movie opened
to a 25-30% response in most centers. However, things
have picked up thanks to positive word of mouth and the
movie does have a very good chance of making good its
investment. This is really good news for Bollywood as
last weeks releases Raqueeb and Ek Chalis Ki last local
too carry pretty decent reports. Finally looks like the
hit drought for Bollywood is coming to an end as the monsoons
are set to start all over the country.
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