SHOLAY 3D held steady on Monday with collections close to the 1 crore nett mark. The film showed a very limited drop from Friday and the collections in four days are around 6-6.25 crore nett. The film should gross around 8.5-9 crore nett for the week.

The other release MR JOE B CARVALHO went down on Monday with collections around 30-35 lakhs nett. The film is likely to continue to fall and will finish the week at around 3.25 crore nett or at best 3.50 crore nett.

DHOOM 3, meanwhile, collected around 2 crore nett on its third Monday taking its third week total to around 14 crore nett. The week will finish in the 19 crore nett range so it will be either the second or third highest third week ever as YEH JAWAANI HAI DEEWANI also grossed around 19 crore nett. 3 IDIOTS leads at around 33 crore nett.

The film has had a fantastic run over the first two weeks and so it is inevitable that the collections will slow at some point and that is what has happened in week three. Still the film has emerged the biggest grosser of all time by a distance and will be the first Hindi film to do a recovery of 300 crore with nearly around 50% of this coming from domestic theatrical with a final share for the Hindi version in the 145-150 crore range. CHENNAI EXPRESS held the record before with a share of 115 crore approx.

R...RAJKUMAR, lastly, is still doing well in the CP Berar area. The film lost a lot of the single screens showing the when DHOOM 3 released but has been revived on many single screens in CP Berar over the last ten days or so.