Gangs Of Wasseypur made no headway at the box office on Saturday after a poor start on Friday. The film had very limited growth of 10-15% on Saturday.
The film collected around 2.75 crore nett on Friday on 1000 screens which gave meant it had huge potential for growth as occupancies were low but it seems the word of mouth is not too good. The collections on Saturday were in the 3-3.25 crore nett range giving it a two day total of 5.75-6 crore nett. The weekend of the film will probably stay below 10 crore nett which is poor.
The film showed growth of around 20% in the big cities like Mumbai, Kolkata and Delhi but other places were similar or down. The could not even grow in UP or Bihar from a dull start even though it has local content.
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Coming back from GOW. First I went for today morning show, but got little late when reached theater, so get back home thinking will see night show. Went again for 10:00 PM show, Multiplex where I went first was surprisingly house full. I was cursing myself for paying car parking fee without checking availability of ticket. That area has 3-4 multiplexes around and show timings for GOW everywhere was at 5-10 minutes difference, so I went immediate next multiplex, there was again long queue and when I was in middle of row, I got shocking news that GOW is houseful and only TMK is available. However I know manager of multiplex, but I didn’t want to use relations just for fucking 2 tickets. I was about to back home, someone came from behind and asked me if I need some tickets, he had few tickets and due to cancellation of his plan, he wanted to sell them. I bought two from him and it was sigh of relief.
Show began at 10:40 PM, no need to say it was Houseful. Claps and whistle started on Logo of “Phantom” and “Smoking warning” sings itself. Kashyap gave signal even before movie start that this one is going to be fun filled ride. Yes, despite violence and crude language in its core and Revenge as its theme, movie is complete fun, thoroughly engaging and exciting. Story wise there is nothing new, it’s a simple revenge drama over generations. But treatment of subject is innovative, screen play is crispy and background score and songs take the movie to another level. Without action and non sense comedy, there was throughout claps and whistles on Dialogues and wit humor. Crude and abusive language is slowly getting accepted, otherwise I strongly believe movie could have done without it with equal overall effect. I am not going on details of story, overall I can say movie is innovative and brilliant in every department and biggest plus is masses are loving it. I can see audience enthusiastic over second part already, I would not be surprise if this movie turned out one of major grosser over coming weeks. I am expecting nothing less than 40 Crore for this one, the way I saw massive crowd and audience enthusiasm in my city, I am ready to take much bigger gross. And yes, movie has tremendous appeal for second watch. I am definitely going once more.
This was incredible how decades were symbolized by bollywood movies and stars. There were constant references of respective era by posters, songs and dominant star of that time. 70’s and 80’s was represented by Amitabh through out. There is clip from Trishul, dialogues from Deewar and full fledge song “Salaam-Ishq” in movie. There were huge claps when Bachchan entry scene from Trishul shown. Movie finish on end of 80’s era and in last, poster from Maine Pyaar Kiya was shown. Promo of GOW-2 begin with Khans era .. with name of movies like HAHK, DDLJ and Karan arjun and also second promo displays the combined dominance of Shahrukh and Salman in 90’s. Incredible !!
good to know that yakuja
BOI is bullshitting, Growth at NCR area yesterday was tremendous in multiplexes with average occupancy of 70% at least, witnessing houseful shows in night. I am expecting minimum 12 Crore weekend and very good trending further.
yakuza – thing is BOI and other trade do not support anything thats not masala.shanghai has far more ROI than fks but see how biased BOI commentary and verdict is.
Yakuza,
I am toh deffo seeing GOW this week.
Btw, Where will u place dis one among other Kashyap Movies?
Baba,
Shanghai’s Nett is like ~23cr and Budget is 20cr+.
Then where is ROI?
Even GOW has a Brighter Chance den Shanghai it seems…Hw can Shanghai be Successful?
If TMK Slides down further, GOW has Golden Chance but then has Tough Competetion frm RR,TASM & finally Bol Bachchan.
FKS Costing was Wrong(Only VVC made Money-Loads!) or else it cud hv been a HIT.
FKS was sold for 60 cr and it will make same around shanghai and the cost of shanghai is 40 cr lower!but boi has higher verdict for fks.
I liked most of Anurag Kashyap work .. Black Friday and Udaan were awesome, Dev D was good. I would rate GOW second best after Black Friday.
BOI gives verdict on only one basis- DS per print…and even there they make big blunders sometimes. ZNMD just a hit and Peepli Live just a semi hit? And at the same time Murder2 blcokbuster? There verdicts and comments (sometimes) are very silly.
Well, GOW will have a good jump today. But the treatment of this film will not be connected by few class audience as well. And upon that, the length is a major flaw. In my show, few audience went out 10-15 minutes before it got ended. Some of my friends enjoyed the jokes, but they were exhausted in last 30 minutes and were cracking stupid comments.
GOW’s part two will find a good start definitely, but they should release the film very soon, before the part 1 is wiped off from audience’s mind. The promo of part2 is good.
Yakuza- It was FANTOM and not PHANTOM. 😀 People were speculating different words when only “F” was displayed. When it was FANTOM, everybod had a huge laugh. Hahaha.
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Also the opening scene with the Saas Bahu teaser song was hilarious.
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It was Phantom .. its a film production company .. 🙂
Revisited yesterday, found some loop holes and screenplay faults. Movie was mainly driven by background songs and witty dialogues. Remove the songs and this movie will be unbearable. But anyways, we can’t see whole product as assembly of distinct objects, whatever may be, Anurag able to engage the viewer even with deadly slow pace narrative. However complicated screenplay could have been simpler and shorter in duration. However all in all still an extra ordinary movie, first watch will most probably will spell bound you and revisiting the movie may take you home some more details with more visible faults.