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By Abid ©2004 Bollyvista.com |
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Veer-Zaara |
Critics and fancy reviews don’t make movies succeed at the box-office, otherwise 'Meenaxi', 'Chameli', Satta', 'Yuva' and many others would have been blockbusters. On the flip side, bad mouthing by so called trade experts or deliberately written bad reviews cannot stop a movie from succeeding. It's the paying audience who decide the fate of a movie. ‘Murder’ and more recently ’Mujhse Shaadi Karogi’ demonstrated this.
Among the four Diwali releases, 'Veer-Zaara', which released with about 450 to 500 prints in India and nearly 700 prints worldwide, has emerged as the clear winner and is on its way to grand success from Muzaffarpur in the East to Mumbai in the West and from Chandigarh in the North to Chennai in the South. The next best, 'Aitraaz', which has been released with about 375-425 prints in India is picking up by the day and the court scenes involving Kareena in the second half, draw loud applauses. Still, the gap between 'Aitraaz' and 'Veer-Zaara'is quite pronounced. From Saturday onwards and especially Sunday, the collections have really picked up and are expected to increase even more today (Monday), due to Eid.
'Mughal-E-Azam' is a milestone movie; a tutorial on filmmaking and to put it into the hit and flop category is blasphemy. Still it was always expected to appeal to certain sections and with a limited 100 to 125 print release, that’s what it has done.
Ram Gopal Varma's 'Naach' was never expected to achieve anything, as it was too abstract. Given the competition, its chances were reduced further and as a result the movie is not even a flop, it’s a washout. Even a good review by Khalid Mohammed, a person who directed two box-office duds, 'Fiza' and 'Tehzeeb', did not help 'Naach'.
For the confirmation of what we have just said above, please wait for Saturday when the collections will be out and the truth will be there in black and white for everyone to see. |
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