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Box office frowns at Holiday and Mixed Doubles |
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Though Pooja Bhatt's new film Holiday is a romantic entertainer with mushy music, its box-office opening was well below expectations.
Rajat Kapoor's Mixed Doubles remained largely a media favourite, with moviegoers not really taking to it.
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Holiday Cast: Dino Morea, Onjolee Nair. Director: Pooja Bhatt.  Great dancing, pleasant music, nice locales. Straight copy of Dirty Dancing, overacting, flawed characterisations.Number of weeks: New. BO Verdict: Poor. |
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Mixed Doubles Cast: Konkona Sen Sharma, Ranbir Shourie, Koel Puri, Rajat Kapoor. Director: Rajat Kapoor. Good performances, well-directed film.Second half of the film is a letdown.Number of weeks: New. BO Verdict: Poor. |
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Aksar Cast: Emraan Hashmi, Udita Goswami, Tara Sharma. Director: Anant Mahadevan. Hard to find.Bizarre plot, overdone sleazy scenes.Number of weeks: 1. BO Verdict: Success. |
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Mere Jeevan Sathi Cast: Akshay Kumar, Karisma Kapoor, Amisha Patel. Director: Suneel Darshan. Karisma looks fabulous.Awful script; hackneyed plot; bad direction.Number of weeks: 1. BO Verdict: Flop. |
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Rang De Basanti Cast: Aamir Khan, Madhavan, Atul Kulkarni, Siddharth, Sharman Joshi, Kunal Kapoor, Soha Ali Khan. Director: Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra. Brilliant performances, great music, poetic direction.Too long; too simplistic.Number of weeks: 2. BO Verdict: Hit. |
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Zinda Cast: Sanjay Dutt, John Abraham, Lara Dutta. Director: Sanjay Gupta. Sanjay Dutt, great soundtrack.Too gory, straight copy of the Korean film Oldboy.Number of weeks: 3. BO Verdict: Flop. |
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Family Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, Bhoomika Chawla. Director: Raj Kumar Santoshi. Hard to find!Badly directed, acted and written film.Number of weeks: 3. BO Verdict: Flop. |
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15 Park Avenue Cast: Shabana Azmi, Konkona Sensharma, Waheeda Rahman, Rahul Bose. Director: Aparna Sen. Excellent performances, very well directed film.Too dark, repetitive dialogues at times.Number of weeks: 4. BO Verdict: Flop. |
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Jawani Diwani Cast: Emraan Hashmi, Celina Jaitley, Hrishita Bhatt. Director: Manish Sharma. Good locales.Stereotypical storyline, miserable performances.Number of weeks: 4. BO Verdict: Flop. |
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Shikhar Cast: Ajay Devgan, Bipasha Basu, Shahid Kapir, Amrita Rao. Director: John Mathew Matthan. Good performances, beautiful locales.Poor climax, gets too preachy.Number of weeks: 5. BO Verdict: Flop. |
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Trade pundit: Vinod Mirani | Design: Uday Kuckian
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