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•January 17, 2012 • Leave a CommentBheja Fry : How much top grosser make sense with changing business dynamics for every new release ?
•January 10, 2012 • 4 CommentsQ : How much top grosser make sense with changing business dynamics for every new release ?
A : Potential of market growing with every new release. With increase ticket price and bigger release size, every new release has capability to collect more. Even if we make list of top grosser of movies releases in one year time frame, they lost relative context because of huge difference in business dynamics at the time of respective release. For example when Bodyguard was released, its potential was to collect ~30 Crore a day, but when Ra.One was released, its potential was to collect ~40 Crore a day, similarly Ready had potential to collect ~25 Crore a day.
Up to late 80’s, Business dynamics of industry remained constant for period of at least say 5 years. Even at that time, top grosser, which were making some sense, were never considered to determine if movie is Hit or Flop.
Q : Which movie is biggest overseas Hit ?
A : Surprisingly this is Mard(1985), both in terms of collection and longevity. I was looking for any source since long now to check its collections, finally I found one from old magazine which was published in 1987(2.5 Years after release). Mard had great run in Egypt (2.5 years straight), Russia, France and UK. Till 1987, its overseas collection was over 4 Crore. Success of films like ‘The Great Gambler’ and ‘Mard’ changed Egypt’s perception about the Indian film industry at that time. Because no foreign movie was allowed to screen for more than 2.5 months in Egypt, Title of Mard repeatedly changed after every 2.5 months.
Q : Which movie is biggest Hit of 90’s decade ?
A : Hum Aapke Hain Kaun. Not only this was biggest hit of 90’s, but also paved the way for other movies to collect much better. HAHK forced the exhibitors to renovate their cinema to get prints of movie. Family audience, which became alienated to cinema after mid 80’s, started coming to theaters after this movie. For example Main Khiladi Tu Anari, which was released around same time, benefitted by at-least 25% more business due to this box-office revolution by HAHK.
– BollyBusiness
Komal Nahta Year End Classification (2011)
•January 9, 2012 • 9 CommentsSuper-Hit (AA): Bodyguard
Hit (A1): Ready, Singham, Murder 2, The Dirty Picture.
Semi-Hit (A): Yamla Pagla Deewana, Ragini MMS.
Overflow (BB): Tanu Weds Manu, Mere Brother Ki Dulhan, Ladies Vs Ricky Bahl.
Commission-Earner to Overflow (B1 to BB): Mission: Impossible – Gupt Vidhaan (dubbed), Harry Potter Aur Maut Ke Tohfe Part 2 (dubbed), Delhi Belly (Hinglish & dubbed), Samunder Ke Lootere: Ek Anjaan Rahasya (dubbed), Tintin – Karname Kamaal Ke (dubbed; animation), Don 2, Ra.One (losing in some circuits), Mujhse Fraaandship Karoge, Double Dhamaal.
Commission-Earner (B1): Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, Dhobi Ghat (Hindi-English & dubbed), Haunted, No One Killed Jessica, Fast & Furious 5 (dubbed), X-Men: First Class (dubbed), Pyaar Ka Punchnama, Rise Of The Apes – Vinaash Ka Aarambh (dubbed).
Coverage to Commission-Earner (B to B1): Desi Boyz, Chalo Dilli, Bheja Fry 2, Yeh Saali Zindagi, Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster, Stanley Ka Dabba, Damadamm!, Transformers: Chand Ka Andhera (dubbed).
Average (B): F.A.L.T.U., Force, Dil Toh Baccha Hai Ji.
2011: Number of Hits & Flops At A Glance
| Classification | AA | A1 | A | BB | B1 to BB | B1 | B to B1 | B | The Rest | Total |
| No. of films | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 191 | 229 |
| Percentage | 0.44 | 1.75 | 0.87 | 1.31 | 3.93 | 3.49 | 3.49 | 1.31 | 83.41 | 100 |
Satte pe satta(1982) running Houseful shows even in 1989 (Entire week full in advance)
•December 26, 2011 • 4 CommentsRajesh Khanna Movie(1966-1984) Verdicts By Trade Guide (Prakash Pange)
•December 23, 2011 • 2 CommentsOverall Summary : 3 SuperHits, 20 Hits, 10 Average, 51 Flops. (Total 84 Movies)
Bheja Fry : Based on their entire career, can you rank three khans i.e. Aamir, Salman and Sahahrukh ?
•December 5, 2011 • 15 CommentsQ : After bumper opening of the dirty picture, can we safely assume Vidya balan among top 3 actress of bollywood ?
A : Among top 3, Yes. Just few more such women oriented blockbusters and she will be undisputed number one heroine of bollywood. In all her upcoming movies, she is central character, like Kahaani, Ishqiya-2, Great Dadu(With Amitabh) and Urmi (Santosh sivan).
Q : How many Rajesh Khanna movies got highest verdict of respective era ?
A : None. He had many Hit and Super Hits to his credit, but none able to cross magical figure of 1 Crore per territory to attain the highest verdict of that era(Like in contemporary system, all time blockbuster is highest verdict).
Q : Which movies were top grosser of 1988 ?
A : 1. Tezaab 2. Shahenshah 3. Paap Ki Duniya 4. Pyaar Ka Mandir 5. Ganga Jamuna Saraswati 6. Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak 7. Dayavan 8. Ghar Ghar Ki Kahaani 9. Hatya 10. Jeete Hain Shaan Se
Q : Based on their entire career, can you rank three khans i.e. Aamir, Salman and Sahahrukh ?
A : 90’s was clearly belonged to Salman followed by Shahrukh. Aamir gave some quality movies, but he was not big box-office force. No one alone dominated for entire 2000 decade, first four years were lead by Shahrukh khan, then next 6 years belonged to Aamir khan, Salman khan who kept very low profile throughout the decade, emerged very big only after 2010 and now again leading. But problem is that all three khans don’t do much movies, on an average they do one movie per year. With such low volume, their dominance at box-office went on toss always, specially after 2000. They are said to be ruling bollywood, because their competitors are not consistently performing at all, else total Hit/Superhit movies by three khans in around 20 years are comparable to 5 Years of Rajesh Khanna. Its like what Rajesh Khanna delivered in 5 years(~18 Hits), these khans did almost similar or little more in 20 years.
– BollyBusiness
Amitabh Movies Verdict (1969-1984) By Trade Guide(Prakash Pange)
•December 3, 2011 • 9 CommentsOverall Summary : 8 Exceptional Hits(Crossed 1 Crore per territory), 10 Superhits, 12 Hits, 22 Average, 18 Flops (Total 70 movies)
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Amitabh Bachchan – Rajesh Khanna Career Graph up to 1984 (All Verdicts are from Prakash Pange Of Trade Guide)
•December 3, 2011 • 7 CommentsThanks To Asli_Jat for these wonderful Scans.
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Bheja Fry : What are chances of The dirty picture at box-office?
•November 22, 2011 • 8 CommentsQ: What are chances of The dirty picture at box-office? Is there any chance, if Vidya Balan will become number one actress after its success?
A: Excellent!! Movie has sure shot chances of huge opening and overall great collections. To think of, seems like audience is waiting for its release and will hit theater in huge numbers on first day, if content is good, no one can stop it becoming good hit. As far as Vidya Balan is concerned, she is already on roll after playing distinct and unique roles in successful movies like Paa, Ishqiya and No one killed Jessica recently. A hit movie benefit everyone, however her chances of becoming number one is highly unlikely, because first she don’t have huge grosser and second unlike Katrina, audience don’t come to see her in normal glam roles. Dirty picture is different case where sensual appeal to her character and hit music will make audience come to theater in bulk on opening day. Ok, A trivia i want to share with you, Vidya was common actress in two movies based on Jessica murder case, Halla Bol and No one killed Jessica.
Q : Which movie is biggest Hit of 2011 ?
A : As DON-2 is yet to release, which is big contender to challenge biggest grosser of year Bodyguard. By far Ready and Singham are biggest Hit collectively in terms of Gross and ROI. However bodyguard is biggest grosser, but left with minimal profit margins for distributors. Yamla Pagla Deewana follows next with excellent gross and impressive returns on investment. From small movies, Haunted and Murder-2 investors were laughing all the way. Will publish year end report with details very soon.
Q : What is exact box-office status of RA.One ?
A : RA.One is average at box-office. To attain hit status, movie needs to recover all its investment (Distribution price) from theatrical collections (Distribution share) and also need to fetch good profits. In case of RA.One collections are recovered for 60%(5 territories) of distributors and rest(4 territories) are in minor losses. Except Nizam, none of distributors made any profits. Overall this is recovery movie at best.
– BollyBusiness
Box-Office Operation : RA.One(Hindi, 2011)
•November 19, 2011 • 15 Comments
Ra.One(Hindi) is a 2011 Indian science fictionsuperhero film written and directed by Anubhav Sinha. The film features Shahrukh Khan in dual roles, and also stars Kareena Kapoor, Aman Verma and Arjun Rampal in the lead.
| Week | All India Nett Business(Crore) | % Drop |
% Occupancy |
|
1 |
98.00 |
~ 65% |
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2 |
15.50 |
-84.18% |
~ 20% |
|
3 |
1.75 |
-88.71% |
~ 15% |
|
Rest(Expected) |
1.00 |
||
| Total |
116.25 |
| Name | RA.One |
| Opening | 65% (Good) |
| WOM | Mixed(Liked by kids and certain section of audience including critics) |
| Trending | Hold very well for first seven days, witnessed severe crash afterwards. |
| Distribution Right | 75 Crore all India Distribution cost. |
| ROI | 13% (Loss), Loss of around 10 Crore to distributors. |
| Recovery | ~ 65 Crore (D.S.). |
| Relative performance | Good, Done very well if compared to biggest Hit of year like Ready, Bodyguard and Singham. Though fell short of recovery given cost and tremendous hype. |
| Recall value | Likely to be poor. |
| BollyBusiness Note | First five days collections saved this movie to place in flop category, there was tremendous hype around movie and huge money was spent by brand tie ups for promotion. This movie was publicized as most expensive movie of its time, though distribution price was fair enough with 75 Crore, but still movie fell short of 10 Crore for recovery. We will rate it Average(despite –ve ROI), due to excellent initial. |
| Verdict | Average. |
– BollyBusiness
Boxoffice Operation : Toofan (1989)
•November 19, 2011 • 8 Comments
Toofan is a 1989 science fiction fantasy Bollywood movie directed by Ketan Desai and starring Amitabh Bachchan in a double role as twin brothers. One is the title character Toofan, a superhero who uses his crossbrow as a weapon and the other is a magician named Shyam. Ketan Desai’s father Manmohan Desai produced the film.
| Week | All India Nett Business(Crore) | % Drop | % Occupancy |
| 1 | 1.7 | ~ 100% | |
| 2 | 1.38 | 18.82% | ~ 95% |
| 3 | 0.9 | 34.78% | ~ 50% |
| 4 | 0.5 | 44.44% | |
| Rest | 0.75 | ||
| Total | 5.23 |
| Name | Toofan |
| Opening | 100% (Excellent) |
| WOM | Average(Liked by kids, Disappointment for rest) |
| Trending | First two weeks were almost 90-100%, Crashed after two weeks. |
| ROI | Almost break even, minor losses to some. |
| Distribution Right | Around 1.25 Crore for Bombay Territory, 1 Crore for Delhi/UP. Around ~4 Crore all India Cost(Courtesy film information, August, 1989) |
| Recovery | ~4 Crore all India distribution share (~5.23 Crore Nett). |
| Relative performance | Average compare to biggest Hit of year like Maine Pyaar Kiya and Tridev, Fared better than some other Hits of year like Elan-E-Jung and Chalbaaz and Bhrastachar, mainly due to huge opening. |
| Recall value | Poor. |
| BollyBusiness Note | Due to excellent opening, it recovered money for most of distributors. Around 5.25 Crore business was Hit business theatrically at that time, but expectations were to do much more from Amitabh movies. Contrary to popular perception of it being Flop, business wise(ROI) it was average movie. |
| Verdict | Average. |
– BollyBusiness
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