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| Of the three films that released last week, Vikram Bhatt's 1920 was the only one which fared better than the others. The other two -- The Last Lear and Ru Ba Ru -- flopped.
Trade analyst Vinod Mirani gives the box office verdict.
Note: Films are ranked according to their release dates. The thumbs ups and downs reflect rediff's views.
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The Last Lear Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Preity Zinta, Arjun Rampal and Shefali Shah. Director: Rituparno Ghosh.  Great performance from Amitabh. Stilted use of English.
Number of weeks: New. BO Verdict: Disaster. |
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Ru Ba Ru Cast: Randeep Hooda and Sahana Goswami. Director: Arjun Chandramohan Bali. Sahana does well.Drags and how!
Number of weeks: New. BO Verdict: Flop. |
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1920 Cast: Rajneesh Duggal and Adah Sharma. Director: Vikram Bhatt. Tough!Too long, boring and unscary.
Number of weeks: New. BO Verdict: Average. |
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A Wednesday Cast: Naseeruddin Shah, Anupam Kher, Aamir Bashir and Jimmy Shergill. Director: Neeraj Pandey. Terrific performances, a great watch.Ham-handed moves and maneuvers.
Number of weeks: 1. BO Verdict: Flop. |
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Hijack Cast: Shiney Ahuja, Esha Deol and Kaveri Jha. Director: Kunal Shivdasani. Shiney Ahuja.Illogical plot with many loopholes, bad dialogues.
Number of weeks: 1. BO Verdict: Flop. |
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Tahaan Cast: Purav Bhandare, Anupam Kher, Sarika, Rahul Bose, Sana Shaikh and Ankush Dubey. Director: Santosh Sivan. Top notch performances, superb camera workTough!
Number of weeks: 1. BO Verdict: Flop. |
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Rock On!! Cast: Farhan Akhtar, Arjun Rampal, Purab Kohli, Luke Kenny, Prachi Desai, Sahana Goswami. Director: Abhishek Kapoor. Highly entertaining, well-shot, great music.Predictable, like most Bollywood movies.
Number of weeks: 3. BO Verdict: Hit. |
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Chamku Cast: Bobby Deol, Priyanka Chopra, Ritesh Deshmukh Director: Kabeer Kaushal. Tough!Tacky, boring story, terrible performances, twitchy cinematography.
Number of weeks: 3. BO Verdict: Flop. |
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C Kkompany Cast: Mithun Chakraborthy, Tusshar Kapoor, Anupam Kher, Rajpal Yadav and Raima Sen. Director: Sachin Yardi. Tough!Terrible on all counts.
Number of weeks: 3. BO Verdict: Flop. |
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Phoonk Cast: Sudeep, Amruta Khanvilkar, Ahsaas Channa, Shrey Bawa, Jyothi Subhash. Director: Ram Gopal Varma Interesting camera technique.Climax.
Number of weeks: 3. BO Verdict: Hit. |
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Trade pundit: Vinod Mirani
Last week's box office results
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