Sunday, 17th May 11:55 AM IST
BOMBAY VELVET Is Epic Disaster
Bollywood films have disappointed and no film managed to cross 100 cr nett in 2015. This year films like ''Dum Laga Ke Haisha'', ''NH 10'', ''Badlapur'' and ''Piku'' had overperformed purely due to exceptional reviews and positive word of mouth. Though ''Gabbar'' and ''Baby'' did well but were short of 100 cr mark. Now easily the costliest film of the year ''Bombay Velvet'' released yesterday which has budget in excess of 100 cr so business is expected to be at least one and half times of that.
''Bombay Velvet'' is produced by Fox Star and Phantom. Film released in 2600 screens and it had opened to mixed reviews and poor occupancy. Film was in news for about a year and there is lot of negativity about it in media. There were efforts to make an artificial positive buzz around the film but as happens always, nothing changed for audience.
Filmopened to shocking numbers of 15-20% and that poorer than ''Roy'' (another Ranbir Kapoor starrer) because that film still had good music. From There film struggleD more and there was almost no chance of even an average tag. Situation was so bad that Cinemax Versova and PVR Ambience Gurgaon have less than 100 admits. Shows will be reduced sooner than later.
Film collected close to 5.20 cr nett on day one which was a horrifying number for makers. Saturday was worse with similar number and collected 5.10 cr nett. Film has total of 10.30 cr nett and now even 18 cr nett weekend looks tough. Word of mouth is so bad that from here 40 cr nett lifetime looks like a long shot. In overseas also film collected 1.05 cr and 1 cr in two days which is pathetic.
Here is the break up of overseas numbers for day one -
U.S.A - 93,232 USD [59.14 lacs] & 90,483 USD across 193 screens
U.K - 45,281 USD [28.72 lacs] across 63 screens
Canada - 15,683 USD [9.94 lacs] across 21 screens
Australia - 11,571 USD [6.97 lacs] across 16 screens
New Zealand - 4,338 USD [2.53 lacs] across 4 screens
(day two was 5% less in overseas)
Below are the collections for the film -
Domestic Collection | |
1st Week
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Friday | 05.20 cr |
Saturday | 05.10 cr |
| Total Domestic Collection | 10.30 cr |
| Total Overseas Collection | 02.10 cr |
| Total Worldwide Collection | 12.40 cr |
