Bollywood Box Office Report Of The Week: 23rd Mar 2019
The premier Holi release, ?Akshay Kumar and Parineeti Chopra starrer, KESARI, expectedly saw a dull 20 percent start (good for Holi day), but from the afternoon shows the film picked up big and at end of the first day ?netted 22 crore ( 2019?s highest). The second day is even bigger and the film is all set for a bumper extended 4-day weekend and a success tag, despite a heavy budget (approx.
?The other release of the week, Ronnie Screwvala?s MARD KO DARD NAHI HOTA saw a very ordinary start.?
All the releases of last week, Tigmanshu Dhulia?s MILAN TALKIES , ?the ?Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra directed MERE PYAARE PRIME MINISTER, Ritesh Batra?s Nawazuddin Siddiqui starrer, PHOTOGRAPH and Krishna Abhishek?s SHARMAJI KI LAG GAYI etc, ?have failed at the box-office. Comparatively speaking the best performance came from PHOTOGRAPH followed by MILAN TALKIES.
Checking out Red Chillies and Azure Entertainment?s Amitabh-Taapsee starrer, BADLA, the film maintained superbly collecting 7.50 crore from Bombay (collections from other cinemas unrecieved), 1.50 crore from Ahmedabad, 43.25 lakhs from Surat, ?40 lakhs from Baroda, 16.25 lakhs from Rajkot, 2.25 crore from Pune, 18 lakhs from Nasik, 21 lakhs from Goa, ?4.50 lakhs from Belgaum, 3.85 crore from Delhi city, 90 lakhs from Noida, ?75 lakhs ?from Ghaziabad, ?23.50 lakhs from Kanpur, 65 lakhs from Lucknow, 11.25 lakhs from Agra, 10.50 lakhs from Allahabad, ?3.75 lakhs from Aligarh, 15.75 lakhs from Dehradun, 1.25 crore from Gurgaon, 27.50 lakhs from Faridabad, 2.75 lakhs from Kurukshetra, 4 lakhs from Panipat, ?30 lakhs from Chandigarh, 10 lakhs from Jalandhar, 6.25 lakhs from Patiala, 11 lakhs from Amritsar, 20.55 lakhs from Ludhiana, 3.75 lakhs from Bhatinda, ?2.50 lakhs from Ambala, 1.75 lakhs from Shimla, ?5.75 lakhs from Jammu, 1.85 crore ?from Calcutta, 11 lakhs from Siliguri, 15 lakhs from Patna, 4.55 lakhs from Dhanbad, 13.25 lakhs from Ranchi, 26.50 lakhs from Bhubaneshwar, 14.25 lakhs from Guwahati, 3.50 lakhs from Muzaffarpur, 30 lakhs from Nagpur, 30 lakhs from Raipur, 50 lakhs from Indore, 9 lakhs from Gwalior, 35 lakhs from Bhopal, 75 lakhs ?from Jaipur, 12.25 lakhs from Jodhpur, 4.75 lakhs from Ajmer, 2.25 lakhs from Bikaner, 10 lakhs from Kota, 11.50 lakhs from Udaipur, ?80 lakhs from Hyderabad, 15.50 lakhs from Aurangabad, ?2 crore ?from Bangalore, 8.25 lakhs from Mangalore, 8.25 lakhs from Mysore, 4.50 lakhs from Vijayawada, 9 lakhs from Visakhapatnam, 14.50 lakhs from Madras, 2.50 lakhs from Coimbatore and ?3.50 lakhs from Kochi.
Meanwhile, after a good opening week (53 crore) ?Maddock Films? Kriti Sanon and Katrik Aryan starrer LUKA CHUPPI saw a steady second week as it collected ?2.50 crore from Bombay (collections from other cinemas unrecieved), 50 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 17.75 lakhs from Surat, ?15 lakhs from Baroda, 9 lakhs from Rajkot, 1 crore from Pune, 8.75 lakhs from Nasik, 9 lakhs from Goa, 1.50 lakhs from Belgaum, 2.25 crore from Delhi city, 55 lakhs from Noida, 45 lakhs ?from Ghaziabad, ?25 lakhs from Kanpur, 47.50 lakhs from Lucknow, 13.75 lakhs from Agra, 10 lakhs from Allahabad, ?3.75 lakhs from Aligarh, 10 lakhs from Dehradun, 60 lakhs from Gurgaon, 16.75 lakhs from Faridabad, 1.25 lakhs from Kurukshetra, ?3.55 lakhs from Panipat, ?11 lakhs from Chandigarh, 3.50 lakhs from Jalandhar, 2 lakhs from Patiala, 4.25 lakhs from Amritsar, ?7.50 lakhs from Ludhiana, 1.75 lakhs from Bhatinda, 2.50 lakhs from Jammu, 65 lakhs ?from Calcutta, 5 lakhs from Siliguri, 7.50 lakhs from Patna, 4.75 lakhs from Dhanbad, 10 lakhs from Ranchi, 10 lakhs from Bhubaneshwar, 7 lakhs from Guwahati, 3.55 lakhs from Muzaffarpur, 25 lakhs from Nagpur, 20 lakhs from Raipur, 35.50 lakhs from Indore, 15 lakhs from Gwalior (collections from 2 cinemas unrecieved), 25 lakhs from Bhopal , 45 lakhs ?from Jaipur (collections from 2 cinemas unrecieved), ?9.75 lakhs from Jodhpur, 8.75 lakhs from Ajmer, 1.75 lakhs from Bikaner, 9 lakhs from Kota, 10 lakhs from Udaipur, 40 lakhs from Hyderabad, 9.55 lakhs from Aurangabad, 70 lakhs ?from Bangalore, 3.25 lakhs from Mangalore, 2.50 lakhs from Mysore, 3 lakhs from Visakhapatnam, 3.50 lakhs from Madras and ?1.50 lakhs from Kochi.
Moving on to Fox Star Studios and Maruti International?s TOTAL DHAMAAL, ?the Indra Kumar directed Anil, Madhuri, Ajay, Arshad, Ritesh and Javed starrer saw another good week collecting 1.50 crore from Bombay (collections from other cinemas unrecieved), 60 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 32 lakhs from Surat, 12.75 lakhs from Baroda, 17.50 lakhs from Rajkot, 55 lakhs from Pune, 8.75 lakhs from Nasik, 8 lakhs from Goa, 1.50 lakhs from Belgaum, 65 lakhs from Delhi city, 18.50 lakhs from Noida, 18.50 lakhs from Ghaziabad, ?13.50 lakhs from Kanpur, 26.25 lakhs from Lucknow, 6.75 lakhs from Agra, ?6.25 lakhs from Allahabad, 1.75 lakhs from Aligarh, 3.75 lakhs from Dehradun, 16.25 lakhs from Gurgaon, 7.25 lakhs from Faridabad, 1.25 lakhs from Kurukshetra, 2.50 lakhs from Panipat, 5 lakhs from Chandigarh, 2.25 lakhs from Jalandhar, 1 lakh from Patiala, 3.50 lakhs from Amritsar, ?4.25 lakhs from Ludhiana, 1.50 lakhs from Bhatinda, 3.50 lakhs from Jammu, 25 lakhs ?from Calcutta, 4.25 lakhs from Siliguri, 4.50 lakhs from Patna, 2.50 lakhs from Dhanbad, 5 lakhs from Ranchi, 5 lakhs from Bhubaneshwar, 4.50 lakhs from Guwahati, 1.25 lakhs from Muzaffarpur, 10 lakhs from Nagpur, ?11.50 lakhs from Raipur, 16.25 lakhs from Indore, 5 lakhs from Gwalior (collections from 2 cinemas unrecieved), 15 lakhs from Bhopal , 35 lakhs ?from Jaipur (collections from 2 cinemas unrecieved), ?4.50 lakhs from Jodhpur, 3.50 lakhs from Ajmer, 4 .50 lakhs from Kota, 7 lakhs from Udaipur, 15 lakhs from Hyderabad, 7.75 lakhs from Aurangabad, 25 lakhs ?from Bangalore, 1 lakh from Mangalore and 1 lakh from Visakhapatnam.
Concluding with Excel Entertainment?s Zoya Akhtar directed Ranveer-Alia starrer, GULLY BOY, the film added another 2.50 crore and has netted 135.50 crore in four weeks from India and is a semi-hit. The film is superb in the overseas (especially US), grossing over $6m with ?600,000 from UK and $4,700,000 from the US.
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