Amitabh Bachchan is True MUQADAR KA SIKANDAR . Last week's Cheeni Kum has fared very well despite opening against SOAL, in many places its faring better than the multistarrer action potboiler. It has fared specially well in Bengal and southern metros like Bangalore and Chennai, and even in some 2nd tier centers like Indore, Madhya Pradesh. Though in light of Nishabd, its distributor only released the film in a restricted number of prints (37 in Mumbai vs 77 for SOAL for example); the Amitabh Bachchan-Tabu starrer has proven to break out at the box office on its own. CK has already recovered its 10 crore budget and is poised to return 200% its cost going forward.
On the other hand, despite it too highlighting Amitabh Bachchan along with a more numerous multi-starcast, large number of prints and extraordinary publicity blitz, Shootout at Lokhandwala failed to rake in extra-ordinary collections per say. The collections are good but well short of the top openings recorded this year (Guru, TRPP). In balance however, the film hasn't crashed out either. It is drawing reasonably well in Mumbai and Delhi in its 2nd weekend. It shall do about 25-27 crores net in India making it a recovery film if not a big hit. Cheeni Kum 2 Rs. 5,10,50,833 Rs. 13,21,29,788 Rs. 7,15,51,461 Rs. 18,42,93,555 $592,703 £308,861 Hit This Year Amitabh Bachchan Three hit in a row Cheeni kum , SOL AND Jhoom barabar jhoom ...enjoy
