Despite all the hype, the oohs and aahs from the uncultured bozos, a wide release (100-screens) and the July 4 weekend, Lootera has not done well at the U.S. box office. For the opening five-day July 3-July 7 weekend, Lootera could manage only a measly $375,422 at the U.S. box office. That’s not an impressive […]
Vidya Balan and Siddharth Roy Kapur have taken a big hit with Ghanchakkar! Vidya Balan was the heroine of Ghanchakkar, which was produced by her husband Siddharth Roy Kapur of UTV. Disaster Angry Indian-American moviegoers showed their collective middle fingers to Vidya Balan’s Ghanchakkar. As for her co-star Emraan Hashmi, all I’ll say is Emraan […]
Tamil star Dhanush’s Bollywood debut Raanjhanaa failed to get a big opening in the U.S. Despite all the hype and nonstop blabbering by Dhanush’s co-star Sonam Kapoor prior to the film’s release, Raanjhanaa grossed a mere $414,211 in its opening June 21-23, 2013 weekend at the U.S. box office. The movie released on 102 screens […]
Bad as the Indian audience is in their routine patronage of crappy movies, once in a rare while they do behave sensibly. Indian-Americans have shown the middle finger to Yamla Pagla Deewana 2 (Dharmendra, Sunny Deol, Bobby Deol), which has been pilloried by critics. In its opening weekend at the U.S. box office, Yamla Pagla […]
At last, a Hindu hero is rocking the Muslim citadel in Bollywood. For decades, Muslim stars like Salman Khan, Shahrukh Khan, Aamir Khan, Saif Ali Khan etc have lorded over Bollywood and the box office collections. Hindu stars in Bollywood like Akshay Kumar, Hrithik Roshan and Ajay Devgan have just not been able to match […]
The box office zombies made mincemeat out of the Saif Ali Khan production Go Goa Gone. The film, touted as India’s first with a zombies theme, did miserably at the U.S. box office. Go Goa Gone notched up a mere $170,044 in its opening weekend (May 10-13, 2013). Reports from India suggest the film did […]