When you say a film is on Top of others you should have courtesy to say what the status of a film which came second? Those who are closely following the box office update might have understood what I meant. A senior Film Journalist has racked up a controversy by declaring a movie as first without disclosing the box office status of the second. The silent producers may be head ache to film lovers who always keen to know the collection status. A vocal producer is an exception to film world. The silent producers once recovers the money may opt to say his film is flop so that he can avoid additional burden of taxes. We have more of this kind and journalist are totally unaware of the real pictures down side the production and its cost.
If you ask me who is on number one of the season, without hesitation I can say How Old Are You ( HORU) by the steady performance in the second week and it�s a winner in long run too. But it does not mean Mr Fraud has failed. Fraud has advantage of big screens while the other one relatively smaller compared to each other. HORU is the rarest phenomena where in homogenous WOM across the state spring huge revenue without substantial decline in collection. We had Drishyam in recent time minting the collection weeks after weeks under same circumstances but Mohanlal element took it record level. The big test of HORU comes in third week when multi star youthful Bangalore days graces the screens. Otherwise it will be highest grosser of 2014.
How Old Are You the spectacular ride at box office is big surprise. It has gained great WOM and is gifted with more than 80% collection on all days. Collects around 6.60 crore gross in 12 days with 3,700 shows in 76 screens. As it gained enough confidence of the theater owners its chances of removal in this week is rare in majority of the centers. Need to see how it performs in this week to predict the box office future of this Manju warrior�s come back movie.�� May ��is a lucky month for Director Roshan Adrews . After Mubai Police another super hit in same month but last year. HORU is all set to reimburse the cost and get profit from theater run itself. Kunchako Boban should get good pat on his shoulder for the bold decision to act as second fiddle in the movie. After all, the super hit credit also goes in his career list. Super Hit in two weeks.
Mr Fraud defeats the social network at least in the second week. Sailing on negative attack the movie able to stay around 50% mark in many of the cities. Though its WOM has differed from region to region it survives the onslaught of Super Star Rajinikanths Kochadaiiyan to great extend. Failure of Tamil flick ultimately helps it in second week. Continued in 80 plus screens in second week is good sign for the producer. Official version: break even with rights on last weekend. Collects around 6.20 Crore (net) in Kerala alone in 12 days with 4,100 shows and collects around 75 lakhs (gross) from rest of India. A hit status, B.Uniikrishnan has saved his face by the help of Mohanlal. Interesting fact, this movie is the near the life time gross of Grand master in two weeks while in WOM not near anywhere of it.
Kochadaiiyan , Rajinikanth is the cult figure as far as stardom concerned and his mannerism can�t be restricted to animation and it will not go along with the fans. Kerala is not impressed with new attempt and failed to break any existing records. Fell sharply from day two and collection at lowest level for Super Star at around 2.20 Crore. Flop.
Ring Master sidelined by how old are you. But it is celebrating 50 days after getting the enough share .Collects around 11.40 Crore . Highly profitable with rights. A mega hit.
Gods own Country is above average earner but has good potentials at box office. The big release of May 17thplaced it on to back side otherwise would have attained status of a hit. Still collection is not that bad compared to many of the film of the recent time. Collects 3.65 Crore in 19 days.
Today�s release
Bangalore Days : Anjali menon as script writer excelled all the time and as director done exceptionally well as well. Now she directs a youthful movie under her won script with bunch of young stars. Nivin Pauly is the star of the 2014 so far, has Mega Hit and hit in his kitty. Dulquar Salman goes through rough period and this film is finest chance to get the tag of flop out of him. Fahad Fazil also appears in an important role. Opened to good report in 80 plus screens of Kerala and 105 in rest of India.
Kerala Top 5 movies �30/05/2014
1.How Old Are You� Super Hit
2. Mr Fraud � Hit
3. Mr Kochaiidayan� Above average opening
4. Ring Master � Mega hit
5. Gods own Country� Average
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