Hooray. Hooray.
Uncork the champagne.
Light the fireworks.
Blow the conch.
Beat the drums.
Let the party begin. Hippy hippy ya ya.
Akshay Kumar’s Housefull has fared badly at the box office, the U.S. box office that is.
Moviegoers have yet again buggered Akshay Kumar.
Pleased as Punch
God, we are pleased as punch. 🙂
Why?
You see, Akshay Kumar has been a shameless beneficiary of theft (remember HeyyBabyy), and the scumbag deserves to fail.
The chutiya richly deserves it because he thinks morals and laws are only for lesser mortals.
Shahid Kapoor is Bigger than Akshay Kumar
Folks, Housefull has fared worse than Akshay Kumar’s previous films like Kambhakkht Ishq, Singh is Kinng and only slightly above Chandni Chowk.
For the April 30-May 2, 2010 opening weekend at the U.S. box office, Housefull had a total gross of $642,146 and an average gross of $7,831.
Heck, even that kid Shahid Kapoor’s Kaminey did better at the box office than Akshay Kumar’s Housefull (please see chart below).
What a f*cking shame!
At this rate, even Abhishek Bachchan will be overtaking Akshay Kumar. 😉
Well, we guess Akshay Kumar is no longer a big star let alone a superstar these days.
Here’s how Housefull fared at the U.S. box office compared to a few prominent Bollywood films:
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at this rate Akshay Kumar is going to become another kiss of death ie. Salman Khan for Bollywood.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Akshay Kumar – The New Salman Khan. 😉
Nice headline, eh? 😉
What is bigger shame for Akshay should be his worst film Kambakht Ishq had better opening than Housefull.
Clearly that is law of karma.
I hope this should be happen to another superstar Aamir Khan who has also benefitted from stolen shit Ghajini.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
You write: I hope this should be happen to another superstar Aamir Khan who has also benefitted from stolen shit Ghajini.
Inshallah, it will. 😉
At this rate, even Abhishek Bachchan will be overtaking Akshay Kumar.
what the hell ?
Abhishek Bachchan solo film Guru has better opening weekend than Housefull.
(760,000 $ in 71 cinemas at average of 10,704).
Akshay Kumar is coming to level of flop superstar Salman Khan.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
You are right. Guru indeed grossed $760,000 in the opening weekend and $523,000 in the second weekend.
Guru grossed that much coz our many “indian chutes” went to see their superior specimen (in terms of looks) called Aishwariya Rai!!!
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Ash is a budiya now, over the hill.
abhishek is a much better actor and his movies are quite decent compared to Akshay’s which is more like Vijay’s movie …..standard masala ….with no story to speak off
SearchIndia.com Responds:
If Raavan the movie fails, Abhishek’s fate will be no different from the ultimate fate of Raavan the demon.
But the numbers in india tells a different stories.
Has fetched one of the biggest starts ever and the biggest opening of this year to date. Fetched approx. Rs. 10 crores nett on Friday and approx. Rs. 11.8 crores nett on Saturday [figures confirmed by Eros]. The two-day total adds up to approx. Rs. 21.8 crores nett. Sunday was humungous too, although the figures aren’t compiled yet. But the opening weekend should easily be between Rs. 30-Rs. 32 crores nett. Fabulous!
Source: http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/trade/top5/index.html
Recently during the Movie’s promotional Interview director Sajid khan says this,”I don’t give a damn about critics.”
So the success of this movie means ,”we are doomed, this nonsense is not gonna stop!!!!”
SearchIndia.com Responds:
1. You write above: So the success of this movie means ,”we are doomed, this nonsense is not gonna stop!!!!”
True, in Incredible India, nonsense never takes a break.
2. You write: Recently during the Movie’s promotional Interview director Sajid khan says this,”I don’t give a damn about critics.”
Criminals say all kinds of things.
Sajid Khan is a thief.
His Heyy Babyy was plain theft. Stolen from Three Men and a Baby, the Hollywood remake of Trois hommes et un couffin.
But in Incredible India, all sorts of criminals and those who benefit from theft (scumbags like Akshay Kumar) are held up in high esteem. 🙁 That’s why we frequently say the benighted land has no hope.
Your review says this film as decent movie but now you are happy that film didn’t do that well in USA, a little bit confusing.
Anyways, film is doing great business back home, heading for the 3rd biggest first week collection.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
We’re happy the movie hasn’t done well because director Sajid Khan (Heyy Babyy) is a thief and Akshay Kumar has no qualms about profiting from theft by others.
While Sajid Khan’s Heyy Baby was a straight lift, he seems to have done it slightly cleverly this time. Raja Sen of rediff.com writes:
“You may wonder if this film’s a ripoff of any particular Hollywood DVD, but Sajid would probably say its his homage to Ben Stiller’s worst films, picking plotpoints from Along Came Polly, The Heartbreak Kid and Meet The Parents.”
In any case, Sajid Khan’s sense of humour is usually a bit over the top.
Regarding Akshay Kumar going the way of flop king Salman Khan, it may happen later rather than sooner. Reason: Akshay Kumar knows his onions (and age), doesnt insist on playing college going action hero, and generally sticks to (mostly) nonsensical humour which seems to work for him maybe 50 % of times. Salman Khan still wants to show off his body, and his paap-ko-jalakar-raakh-kar-doonga type of violent action movies dont work at all.
And acting wise, Khan is mostly pathetic.
I stumbled upon another incident of theft recently.
In 2007, a Hindi movie called Life In a Metro was made by one Anurag Basu (of Murder, Gangster fame). The movie did fairly well. It had multiple interconnected stories, with Dharmendra, Irfan Khan, K.K.Menon and Konkana Sen in the cast.
One story was a proper ripoff of Billy Wilder’s The Apartment (where an office clerk rents out his NY apartment to his office superiors for them to carry out their extra marital affairs, while they in turn, promote him).
BTW, The Apartment is a good watch by itself.
What is the buzz about Iron Man 2 ? Looks a bit too complicated and heavy-on-gadgets to me. Downey Jr may yet save it.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
1. Iron Man 2 should open well.
A lot of theaters in the U.S. are having midnight shows, which they do only for the big buzz movies.
2. You write: BTW, The Apartment is a good watch by itself.
We’ll watch The Apartment soon.
We like Billy Wilder.
We’ve seen his Sunset Blvd, Sabrina, Double Indemnity and Love in the Afternoon.
//One story was a proper ripoff of Billy Wilder’s The Apartment//
There was also another movie,which turned out to be a copy of Apartment,it’s SRK’s Yes!Boss(1997)
//We’ve seen his Sunset Blvd, Sabrina and Double Indemnity.//
You forgot that even Sabrina and Love in Afternoon were directed by him? 😛
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Sabrina is mentioned.
???
ok.
“It isn’t as if I’ve anything against critics. It’s just a mannat I took during release. You see, I had actually satirized all the critics through a song I had composed naming them on stage at an award function. There and then, I decided I have no right to read reviews for my films,” Sajid Khan, Housefull Director told IANS.
So staunch is he about the vow that he wouldn’t allow any member of the Housefull cast to even read out passages of the reviews.
Kya Decision Hai!
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Sajid Khan is a thief (Heyy Babyy) and we ought not to waste bandwidth on such creatures.
While The Apartment is a decent comedy, I suggest that you also watch Billy Wilder’s Witness for the Prosecution, which is a legal drama. Also, dont look into Wiki or any summary, it may have plot spoilers. In any case, more than the ending, the whole movie itself is engrossing. The movie is supposed to be based on Agatha Christie’s novel.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Added Witness for the Prosecution (1957) to our Netflix queue.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVfKfsP3U9I
Read also what Zoom TV’s anchor says:
Before the release there were rumours that Heyy Babyy is a remake of the Hollywood flick, Three Men And A Baby. Now that the rumours have been proved baseless,
As if one liar(Sajid Khan) was not enough.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Heyy Babyy is pure theft of Three Men and a Baby, the Hollywood remake of Trois hommes et un couffin.
To spend any more time on the subject would be a total waste of time.