It seems even Allah has deserted former superstar, the Pakistan loving chutiya Shahrukh Khan.
Shahrukh’s My Name is Khan has collapsed 63% in the second weekend at the U.S. box office, according to estimates put out Sunday by boxofficemojo.
Compared to his nemesis Aamir Khan’s 3 Idiots, Shahrukh Khan’s My Name is Khan has had a lousy second weekend in the U.S.
Really lousy, folks.
My Name is Khan’s total gross in the second weekend tumbled 63% to $720,000 versus a drop of a mere 9.2% to $ 1.49 million for 3 Idiots.
The average per theatre gross for My Name is Khan also came in significantly lower at $5,760 compared to $11,322 for 3 Idiots.
The below table says it all:
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Have you read this
http://www.thevigilidiot.com/2010/02/16/my-name-is-khan/
Its awesome !!!
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Just read it.
True, it deserves to be shown the middle finger. I laughed my ass out after seeing the scenes like “Indian inspires america” that’s typical KJo chamcha to SRK.
true as depicted in the cartoon in the above link.
Thank god i watched this crap for just 50rs still a waste though
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Hope the Chutiyas lose money on this shit…then these monkeys will take their job seriously and learn to make better movies.
“Hope the Chutiyas lose money on this shit…then these monkeys will take their job seriously and learn to make better movies.”
No way SI. The people who watch and worship such movies are bigger chutiyaas. And in Mera Bharaat Mahaan, we have these bigger chutiyaas by millions 🙁
I was watching on TV the interviews of many chutiyaas outside the cinema halls in India, and these schmucks would have even kissed the A** of Karan “Moron” Johar and SRK if they were over there at that time.
I have stopped watching many mainstream “big” starrers Bolly movies. Have u heard of the bolly movie “The waiting room”? Pls give some input on that one.
Thanks.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
No, haven’t seen The Waiting Room (Raja Choudhary, Radhika Apte, Sandeep Kulkarni, Pratiksha Lonkar).
Skimmed through this review of The Waiting Room.
Movie looks interesting but getting the DVD here is a pain. Have to wait for Netflix. 🙁
MNIK Being Edited for US.
SRK & Co. bent on pleasing you guys. Beware!
Anyway, who in your opinion is better, Aamir or Sharukh?
SearchIndia.com Responds:
1. You write above: MNIK Being Edited for US. ….SRK & Co. bent on pleasing you guys. Beware!
Meaning??
2. You write: Anyway, who in your opinion is better, Aamir or Sharukh?
Both need to attend acting school. Really.
Read an Article in Hindustran Times That MNIK is going to be edited to suit likes of USA Audience and same would be released shortly.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Ha ha ha.
Even if they the change the name of MNIK to Casablanca, Whites, Blacks and Hispanics ain’t gonna watch this junk.
My Name Is Khan junk has dropped in India also
30 crore – 1st weekend, 11 crore – 2nd weekend (fall over 60 %).
This means people can swallow bad food only once (3 Idiots) not twice.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Wonder how the bozo (SRK) will spin the fall in box office collection now. 😉
@SearchIndia: Just for the note, I’ve watched Inglorious Basterds, last weekend.
Oh my FSM ! I was so happy for the whole day that I watched Waltz acting. It almost got me an orgasm( ofcourse, intellectual, not physical – you stupid). Considering that he is an Austrain actor, I wondered how many great actors people of the world must have missed, just because they did not act in American movies.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
You write: Just for the note, I’ve watched Inglorious Basterds, last weekend.
Have you completely lost it.
There are such peerless masterpieces like Kedi, Leader and coming soon to a screen near you Yemayachesavae and you watch Inglourious Basterds.
Surely, the apocalypse must be nigh upon us.
We’re praying (to Allah, of course) that Walz picks up the Oscar next month.
ah! How dare you asking me to watch those movies? 😉
I would rather remove my eyes than watch those movies in a theatre.
Telugus have compltely lost it. They are the biggest producers of junk now. (Kannada, anyone? ) .
As the beautiful Shosanna burns the screen in Basterds, I would take my revenge by burning all the screens that show Telugu movies for all the tortures the movie makers( or killers?) exercised on us.
OTOH, as I see last decade as a whole was a failure for South Indian movies. You should see how Mallu movies have been transformed from what-a-class to what-a-junk movies.
Hindi movies have changed from dil, dewaana, ishq, pyaar, mohabbat,NRI to some sensible movies , thanks to multiplexes.
what about Aithe?. When are you planning to watch it? . It’s a decent movie with all the new actors.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Aithe, in the next seven days (hopefully).
Netflix still has “Ingrourious Basterds” at “very long wait”.. I don’t know if it treats the single-dvd plan differently the multiple-dvd plan.. but this is getting ridiculous.. I have had it at #1 ever since release date..
@twig – Kamal Hassan is one… 😉
SearchIndia.com Responds:
1. You write: Netflix still has “Ingrourious Basterds” at “very long wait”..I don’t know if it treats the single-dvd plan differently the multiple-dvd plan.. but this is getting ridiculous..
Your paranoid mind gets some fodder here.
Yes, Netflix does seem to treat the single-dvd plan differently.
To test it, we just added Inglourious Basterds to our Netflix queue and it showed us a ‘short wait.’ Please see this screen-shot of our Netflix queue.
We have a two-DVD plan now. Perhaps, if we had a 3-DVD plan, they’d have shipped it tomorrow.
2. What about RedBox? Don’t they have a ‘reserve online’ feature?
@Mud Haliar: Well, I have grown away from Kamal. Had he been in Hollywood, I can atleast say he will make his mark and does not vanish in no time. He does over act sometimes and it is very difficult to separate Kamal from his characters in most of the movies. But there are exceptional movies like Mahanadi, Pushpak, Saagara Sangamam and Drohi (Kuruthipunal) where he is just the character. Not Kamal.
These days, I’m completely attracted to Mohan Lal.
@SearchIndia: Have you seen any Mohan Lal movies? Iruvar ( a Tamil movie) is a nice start.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
You write: Have you seen any Mohan Lal movies?
Yes, we’ve seen Unnaipol Oru Madayan oops Oruvan.
Redbox charges 1$.. can’t afford it..
Last night I watched “Adam”, about a guy with Asperger’s.. it was alright.. the retard* got to put his hand into Rose Byrne’s blouse 🙁
*Einstein, Mozart, Edison are all supposed to have had Assburger’s.. so not really a retarded syndrome.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
You write: Last night I watched “Adam”, about a guy with Asperger’s.. it was alright.. the retard* got to put his hand into Rose Byrne’s blouse
Please let us know only if you see a movie where some ‘harami’ puts his paws into the blouse of Jessica Alba/Biel, Tabu, Vimala Raman, Bhavana, Gowri Pandit and Mouna Bhat.
As for the other starlets, anyone can put their hand in the blouse or ….. 😉
Last year you gave SI-Cutie-pie-OTY to Ms. Byrne. Assburger’s poi Alzheimer’s vanthuchu dum dum dum dum.
http://www.google.com/search?q=rose+byrne+site%3Asearchindia.com
SearchIndia.com Responds:
For the life of us, we can’t remember how or in what context we ‘discovered’ Rose Byrne last year.
awesome!!! this movie was such a joke.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
SRK likely watched Rainman and Forrest Gump a gazillion times and yet this junk was all he could offer.
As mentioned above, mnik has dropped by a almost similar percentage in India also.
But the irony of indian box office is, if we leave aside monetary aspect of movie and jusr takes into account the number of people who have watched the movie, veer outscores mnik.
Yes, more people in India have watched veer than mnik (veer did a business of 33 cr in first week compared to 45 cr of mnik but 70% of veer’s collection came from single screens where the ticket rates are 1/3 to 1/6 of premium multiplexes).
Now, this nri superstar is exactly not that big in his home country.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
You write: But the irony of indian box office is, if we leave aside monetary aspect of movie and jusr takes into account the number of people who have watched the movie, veer outscores mnik.
Going by box office numbers, we think Salman Khan is a spent force. He is stupid. He selects stupid films. He has a bad image with the public. The idiot is pitiful when it comes to marketing/promoting his films.
Unlike Salman, Aamir and even SRK to some extent have life in them.
Check this link
http://www.boxofficeindia.com/npages.php?page=shownews&articleid=1541&nCat=news
Although you are absolutely correct to say that salman is a spent force, but this holds more for overseas. In India, he still has a huge fan following for unknown reasons. There were more than seven cases of police lathicharge and light stampede to control his fans who gathered in huge numbers just to see him. The latest being the marathon held in jaipur wher he appeared but could not participate because of uncontrollable crowd.
Between, I completely agree with your statement that his film selection is really bad and he do not bother promoting his films.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
1. Read the piece in your link. Interesting.
2. You write: There were more than seven cases of police lathicharge and light stampede to control his fans who gathered in huge numbers just to see him.
In India, if a policeman’s crotch is itching he’ll probably resort to a lathi-charge to vent his fury. 😉
Sure the numbers dropped but still this movie made more money in its second week than most (~70%) of the indian movies make in their first week. The producers and distributors have made a neat profit given that this movie probably had a low production cost.
The real morons are the media who peddled the sh!t sold by SRK and KJ over the IPL brouhaha. Shouldn’t the producers share their profits with the news and media channels for “promoting” the movie for free?
SearchIndia.com Responds:
You write: Sure the numbers dropped but still this movie made more money in its second week than most (~70%) of the indian movies make in their first week. The producers and distributors have made a neat profit given that this movie probably had a low production cost.
Sure, it grossed more money than most Indian movies.
But is it profitable? On this, the verdict is not in yet.
If by low production cost you mean it was co-produced by SRK’s firm, then your logic is flawed. Methodologically speaking, the correct way to measure its cost would be to add Rs 20 crore or Rs 30 crore or whatever SRK usually charges for a film.
Yeah it did better than likes of Kambakkht Ishq,De Dana Dan and Veer which are failures to begin with.
But compared to likes of recent hits in India like Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani, Love Aaj Kal or Wanted it is far behind them.
A SRK,Aamir or Akshay Kumar film needs to do 70-80 crores In India to be succesful as their films are highly priced and for MNIK it needs to do 90-95 crores.
Sadly 16 crore estimated gross in week 2 will not help this film.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
You write above: Sadly 16 crore estimated gross in week 2 will not help this film.
Let the sucker sink.
Come its KJ’s film, given SRK and KJ’s relationship its like SRK’s own production ;). Does one charge one’s home production when you can rake in the money from the selling the distribution rights?
Bollywood’s numbers are not believable because the shady accounting practices would make the people at Enron and Lehman Brothers bow down in respect.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
You write above: Bollywood’s numbers are not believable because the shady accounting practices would make the people at Enron and Lehman Brothers bow down in respect.
Heard of D Company?
opinion please :
” A film critic is a legless man who teaches running”– Frank Capra
SearchIndia.com Responds:
A film critic is the last bulwark between the audience’s feet and the yellow pile on the ground.
IBOS must really hate SRK: http://www.ibosnetwork.com/newsmanager/templates/template1.aspx?a=22057&z=4
SearchIndia.com Responds:
We’d be inclined to agree because SRK has a small role in Dulha Mil Gaya.
That said, MNIK does seem to have had a lukewarm reception in India because other links posted by SI readers earlier quote theatre/multiplex executives speaking of a less than enthusiastic response.
haha mnik sinking faster than titanic.
people expected it to defeat 3 Idiots but it will not able to cross 4 million $.
http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=daily&id=mynameiskhan.htm
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Finito.
But for its anti-American theme and its obvious draw among the Muslims here, this shit wouldn’t have done even this much.