The best performing release of last week, SALAAM VENKY, emerged a disaster as it collected only 1.25 crore nett in its first week. The less said about the collections of the other two films, MAARRICH and VASH, the better as they were struggling for 50 lakhs at the end of the week also.

The holdover release, AN ACTION HERO, saw a near 75% drop in the second week and this came with weak competition. The film has now collected over 10 crore nett and there will be a few lakhs to come which will mean a finish of around 10.75 crore nett for the film.

The collections of AN ACTION HERO till date are as follows.

Week One - 8,17,00,000

Week Two - 2,25,00,000

BHEDIYA dropped around 55% in its third week which is a better trend than week two but as the collections are low, it hardly makes a difference to the overall picture for the film. Also the competition this week was weaker than last week which probably aided the film.

Week One - 37,65,00,000

Week Two - 12,71,00,000

Week Three - 6,00,00,000 apprx

The new releases (MAARRICH, SALAAM VENKY, VADH)) fared very poorly as SALAAM VENKY was the best of the lot but its collections still remained short of 1 crore nett for the weekend. The film collected around 85 lakhs nett while the other two releases were well short of 50 lakhs nett.

AN ACTION HERO saw a huge drop in collections in the second weekend as it collected only 1.50 crore nett. This was pretty much expected and the collections would have been even worse if the film had stronger competition in terms of better new releases. The film is still short of 10 crore nett but should get there at the end of its second week.

The collections of AN ACTION HERO till date are as follows.

Friday - 30,00,000

Saturday - 55,00,000

Sunday - 65,00,000

Second Weekend - 1,50,00,000

Bhediya also had a low third weekend of 4 crore nett but because of the huge growth on Saturday the weekend business of this film is the best outside the films which have been successful. It is far better than the likes of Vikram Vedha, Samraat Prithviraj and Laal Singh Chaddha.

The film now stands at 54 crore nett plus and should be 56-57 crore nett by the time Avatar 2 releases on Friday.

The collections of Bhediya (hindi) till date are as follows.

Friday - 75,00,000 apprx

Saurday - 1,50,00,000 apprx

Sunday - 1,75,00,000 apprx

Third Weekend - 4,00,00,000 apprx

There were many new Hindi releases this week with three films (MAARRICH, SALAAM VENKY, VADH) getting reasonable number of screens but neither could collect much at the box office. SALAAM VENKY was the best of the lot as it collected around 20 lakhs nett. This film had Kajol who is a recognizable face while other two films featured lesser known faces and character artistes.

The next best was VADH which collected around 10 lakhs nett while MAARRICH was probably in the 5-6 lakh nett range. These sort of collections do not leave these films much chances although that was probably known before release.

The holdover film AN ACTION HERO which has done very poorly is still doing better than these new releases as it picked up around 25 lakhs nett on its second Friday though this is a very low collection. The film has collected 8.50 crore nett in eight days. The lifetime business of the film will just about get over the 10 crore nett mark.

BHEDIYA collected around 75 lakhs nett on its third Friday and is basically trending with 65% weekly drops though that will change when the competition comes next week. The film saw huge growth on Saturday last week and it should be the same this week.

The film has now collections over the 51 crore nett mark and lifetime is looking to cross the 55 crore nett mark though 60 crore nett will be hard due to the release of AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER and CIRKUS over the next two weeks.