Box Office India Trade Network

EK PAHELI LEELA had a poor weekend of around 11.50 crore nett approx. The film had a fair start at single screens on Friday morning but the writing was on the wall as the second show at single screens showed a noticeable drop.

The multiplex business was a total letdown as the film did not open and it had to show solid growth on Saturday but it did not happen. Infact DHARAM SANKAT MEIN had better collections at most of the premium properties across India over the weekend.

The film has reasonable costs but still needed a 15 crore nett approx weekend to succeed but it is well short. It now needs to hold very well on weekdays but the trend over the weekend suggest that is a difficult task.
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DHARAM SANKAT MEIN had very low weekend of 5 crore nett but the trend was decent as there was 30% growth on Saturday. Obviously the film had to grow more due to the poor start but still it could have a 3-4 week run depending on the hold on Monday. If the weekend had got to 6 crore it would have made a big difference and the film would have been sure to have a good run.

The film did best at multiplexes and on Saturday and Sunday it's business was better than EK PAHELI LEELA at premium multiplexes.

The film will do well if it can cross the 1 crore nett mark on Monday but although the weekend trend is pretty good it probably is not good enough to give it that sort of figure on Monday.
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BROKEN HORSES has emerged as an epic disaster with collections of 60 lakhs nett approx over the weekend. The film is supposedly made for Hollywood and is being reported as an $11 million film by the American Press thought the budget will probably be less

The film is supposedly on the lines of the 1989 film PARINDA which itself was a flop though did a bit better in Mumbai city. The film will have to score big in North America to reduce the huge losses but when the content of PARINDA failed in India, its hardly likely to appeal in the US.

BROKEN HORSES managed to get 3-4 shows at most multiplexes and with occupancies of 0-5% over the weekend its pretty certain that the film will be out of cinemas very fast. To put into perspective how disastrous the collections are is that the domestic lifetime figures will be half of PARINDA where the story comes from and that film itself was a flop and a non grosser. Also there is 25 year plus gap in both releases and BROKEN HORSES released on three times more screens.