Barfi! 1st Monday Box Office Collections

Barfi! made 6.50 Crores as per early estimates on it’s 1st Monday at the domestic box office. The movie seems to be doing exceptionally well even though it released majorly in the multiplexes. Barfi!‘s 4 day box office total now stands at 41.10 Crores.

The movie seems to have had audiences glued to their seats even on a Monday. Quite frankly it’s Monday business exceeds expectations. Barfi!‘s 1st weekend was 34.6 Crores which is a great number in itself. The movie will look for closing the week at 55 plus crores. If the Ranbir Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra starrer maintains it’s steady pace, we must admit it will be no difficulty at all.

A major chunk of the earnings of this multiplex flick came from urban centers like Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Kolkata, Surat, Indore, and Gurgaon. This week sees the release of another UTV production, i.e. Heroine. The Kareena Kapoor and Arjun Rampal starrer is a highly awaited Madhur Bhandarkar flick and is sure to get a mammoth footfall. Barfi! might suffer soon after the release of Heroine. However, it should not matter as Barfi! has already exceeded expectations by its performance so far.

Salman Khan or Shah Rukh Khan who Wins the 5 Day Weekend Box Office Race?

Whether Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan are the best of buddies or rivals I neither know nor care? However, it seems there has always been a comparison for supremacy between the two. Rumors come and go but numbers speak the bare facts and so we restrict ourselves to just numbers here.

The comparison here is clearly between Ra.One, the last movie of Shahrukh Khan to have created a hype at the Box Office and Ek Tha Tiger which has been storming the box office for the last 5 days.



Salman Khan And Katrina Kaif In Ek Tha Tiger Movie Stills
For starters Ra.One grossed an opening day collection of 18 Crores nett whereas Ek Tha Tiger broke all records by amassing a huge 32.92 Crores at the domestic box office. The clear reason for this being, Ek Tha Tiger releasing on the 15th of August, i.e. Indian Independence Day when people had a public holiday and thus visited theaters. On the other hand Ra.One release on Diwali when most of the Hindu households stayed back at home for the traditional ceremonies. One cannot however, deny that besides the release date, the movie in itself, its publicity, etc made Ek Tha Tiger a record breaking grosser at the Indian Box Office.

Come 2nd day and Ra.One took a huge leap coz of the holiday which followed. The movie made a fantastic 25.1 Crores on day 2 in India. However, Ek Tha Tiger saw a noticeable drop on it’s 2nd day when it made just 14.55 Crores. Now we must keep in mind that Day 2 was a working day in the case of Ek Tha Tiger.

Ek Tha Tiger fell further on it’s 3rd day grossing merely 12.8 Crores whereas Ra.One dropped to a 16 Crore low on it’s 3rd day. Thanks to the the opening day collections of Ek Tha Tiger it’s 3 Day total, i.e. 60.27 Crores is still greater than that of Ra.One, i.e. 59.10 Crores. The difference though small is still a notable number.

Ra.One held back to it’s 16 Crores even on Day 4 whereas Ek Tha Tiger rose to 16.78 Crores.



Ek Tha Tiger gave the final stinger on it’s 1st Sunday (Day 5) grossing a mammoth 23 Crores at the domestic box office. Ra.One had grossed 16 Crores on it’s 5th Day. Thus the 5 days total for Ra.One was 91.10 Crores. On the other hand the 5 days total for Ek Tha Tiger is 100.05 Crores. The movie has created history in being the fastest to join the 100 Crore Club.

It’s quite clear that Salman’s Ek Tha Tiger has beaten SRK’s Ra.One by a huge margin of about 9 Crores. Now which was a better movie is tough to say as both got mixed reviews. However, it seems the audiences loved Ek Tha Tiger more. Also we have a tabulated chart for Bodyguard vs Ra.One vs Ek Tha Tiger:

Numbers make it clear that Salman is ahead of SRK in the 5 Day Weekend Box Office Race. While Ek Tha Tiger is on the way to create more records, we will see what the YRF Romance flick starring Shahrukh Khan, Katrina Kaif and Anushka Sharma has in store for us.

'Ragini MMS 2' to start by year end: Sunny

Mumbai: After Jism 2, it's Ragini MMS 2 for Indo-Canadian porn star Sunny Leone and she reveals that the shooting of the horror-thriller sequel will start in a few months.

"I love India. I am so happy I am here, I'll be staying here for a while. I have a lot of different projects coming up. Ragini MMS 2 is something we are going to start shooting by the end of this year," the 31-year-old said here on Sunday.

Taking about the preparations for Ragini MMS 2 and other projects, she said: "I'll be doing workshops here in India, I'll be doing them before Ragini MMS 2. I'll be taking dance classes, Hindi lessons, watching Hindi movies. It's like going back to school for me."

Ragini MMS 2 is a sequel to Ekta Kapoor's 2011-film Ragini MMS which starred Kainaz Motivala and Raj Kumar Yadav.

Meanwhile, Sunny does not feel any heat from established Bollywood actresses.

"I don't like the word. Competition is something, unless it's in sports, it's kind of like a negative word, at least in my book. These women (actresses) work so hard. I know what goes into making a movie now," Sunny said.

"I know all these different appearances and other things that we do, it's a business and on top of that you have a lot of fun. But competition, everyone is in their own league and in their own space," she added.

Dhoom 3: Aamir rents a home in Chicago

Fatherhood for the third time has turned Aamir Khan into quite a home-bird. He wants to stay as close to wife Kiran and newly-born son Azaad as possible. Opting for a departure from his habitual way of working, Aamir has taken wife and son to Chicago to be with him for the 3-month schedule.

And now we hear from a friend of Aamir that the star, while shooting for Dhoom 3, has opted to stay in a rented apartment in Chicago with his family rather than a hotel.

Says the close friend of Kiran and Aamir, "Though Yashraj wanted to hire a suite in one of the best hotels in Chicago for Aamir, Kiran and Azaad but Aamir declined the offer. He preferred a rented apartment.

In this way, he cut down Yashraj's accommodation budget in Chicago for Aamir by nearly 60 percent. But the main reason why Aamir opted to stay in a rented place is the ghar ka mahaul. The homely environment is what turns Aamir on these days."

Aamir apparently told his friends that nothing gives him greater joy nowadays than to return home to see Kiran and Azaad waiting for him.

Says the friend, "The thought of staying in a posh intimidating hotel for three months upset Aamir. He loves ghar ka khana. In the apartment, where they're staying, Kiran is constantly cooking up interesting dishes."

In fact, so inspiring is Aamir's home-away-from-home system of working in Chicago, that we now hear that the film's other leading man Abhishek Bachchan has invited his entire family to join him in Chicago and stay together in a rented apartment.

Says a source, "Abhishek's wife Aishwarya and daughter Aaradhya are joining him soon in Chicago. Big B and Jayaji will follow soon after. They want to get some time together away from home and prying eyes."

With two of the principal actors of Dhoom 3 blissfully bonding with their respective families in America, it looks like Dhoom 3 will turn out to be one happy affair!