Yash Raj Films ugly disaster Tashan has collapsed at the U.S. box office in its second week (Please click here for Tashan opening weekend gross collection data.)

For the May 2-4 weekend, gross collections for Tashan fell nearly 81% to $58,190.

In the overall ranking at the U.S. box office, Tashan slipped to #40 for the second weekend from #24 for the opening weekend. Total gross for Tashan amounted to a measly $428,923.

Overall, Tashan has fared miserably at the U.S. box office compared to some recent Bollywood films.

In its review of Tashan, SearchIndia.com wrote:

Utterly bereft of anything worthwhile and an ugly amalgam of bad logic, rotten story, pitiful acting, ordinary photography and ear-damaging music, Tashan is a complete horror show, the likes of which have not been seen in Bollywood in a long, long time.

Take a look at how some recent Bollywood films fared in the second weekend Continue Reading…

Tashan has fared badly at the U.S. box office with one of the poorest openings for a Bollywood movie in recent months.

Starring Akshay Kumar, Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor, Tashan comes from Yash Raj Films.

For the opening weekend (April 25-27, 2008), Tashan came in at No-24 with a gross of $301,226.

Average gross per theater for Tashan, which opened in 75 theaters, was $4,016.

Tashan did better than Aaja Nachle in opening gross but worse than Continue Reading…

(Tashan Fares Miserably at U.S. Box Office) 

Even the inmates in the asylum or a tramp on the Mumbai streets would have made a better movie than this Friday’s Bollywood release Tashan.

What in the heck were the bozos at Yash Raj thinking when they unleashed a trashy movie like Tashan!

Utterly bereft of anything worthwhile and an ugly amalgam of bad logic, rotten story, pitiful acting, ordinary photography and ear-damaging music, Tashan is a complete horror show, the likes of which have not been seen in Bollywood in a long, long time.

And the architect of this monumental disaster is Vijay Krishna Acharya, who takes credit (it should really be discredit) for Tashan’s story, screenplay, dialogs and direction.

Even after making movies for over eight decades, the cavalcade of Bollywood idiots has yet to realize that story, screenplay, dialogs and direction are separate departments requiring the full-time attention of separate people. 

This clown Vijay Krishna Acharya has penned a story so bizarrely bad that it’ll surely be Continue Reading…

Bollywood film Tashan from Yash Raj Films starring Akshay Kumar, Anil Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor is set to release this week across the U.S. and Canada.

Here are some of the U.S. and Canada showtimes for Tashan:

Tashan Showtimes in USA - Read the Review

New York

New York City

The Imaginasian
239 East 59th St
New York, NY 10022

May 01 | 12:00 PM | 3:15 PM | 6:40 PM | 10:00 PM
May 02 | 12:00 PM | 3:15 PM | 6:30 PM |  9:50 PM
May 03 | 12:00 PM | 3:15 PM | 6:30 PM |  9:50 PM
May 04 | 12:00 PM | 3:15 PM | 6:30 PM |  9:50 PM
May 05 |   3:00 PM | 6:15 PM | 9:30 PM
May 06 |   3:00 PM | 6:15 PM | 9:30 PM
May 07 |   3:00 PM | 9:30 PM
May 08 |   2:30 PM | 9:45 PM

Long Island

Farmingdale Multiplex
1001 Broad Hollow Road
Farmingdale, NY 11735

May 01 | 12:15 PM| 3:40 PM| 7:05 PM| 10:20 PM
May 02 |  3:40 PM| 7:00 PM|10:15 PM
May 03 |  3:40 PM| 7:00 PM|10:15 PM
May 04 |  3:40 PM| 7:00 PM|10:15 PM
May 05 |  3:40 PM| 7:00 PM|10:15 PM
May 06 |  3:40 PM| 7:00 PM|10:15 PM
May 07 |  3:40 PM| 7:00 PM|10:15 PM
May 08 |  3:40 PM| 7:00 PM|10:15 PM

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Edison, NJ

AMC Loews New Brunswick 18
17 Route 1 Raritan Heights
New Brunswick, NJ 08902

May 01 |   1:35 PM | 5:05 PM | 9:00 PM
May 02 | 10:20 AM | 1:35 PM | 5:05 PM | 9:00 PM
May 03 | 10:20 AM | 1:35 PM | 5:05 PM | 9:00 PM
May 04 | 10:20 AM | 1:35 PM | 5:05 PM | 9:00 PM
May 05 |   1:35 PM | 5:05 PM | 9:00 PM
May 06 |   1:35 PM | 5:05 PM | 9:00 PM
May 07 |   5:05 PM | 9:00 PM
May 08 |   1:35 PM | 5:05 PM | 9:00 PM

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San Jose, Bay Area

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1694 Saratoga Avenue
San Jose, CA 95129 Continue Reading…

U Me Aur Hum, Ajay Devgan’s ugly copy of the fine Hollywood flick The Notebook, has crashed at the U.S. box office in its second week (Please click here for U Me Aur Hum opening weekend gross collection data.)

For the April 18-20 weekend, gross collections for U Me Aur Hum fell 73.3% to $171,503.

Besides starring in U Me Aur Hum, Ajay Devgan also directed and produced this mediocre movie.

In the overall ranking at the U.S. box office, U Me Aur Hum slipped to #29 for the second weekend from #19 for the opening weekend. Total gross for U Me Aur Hum amounted to $903,680.

Overall, U Me Aur Hum has not fared well at the U.S. box office compared to some recent Bollywood films. Neither has Krazzy 4, which has done much worse.

Eros was the distributor for both U Me Aur Hum and Krazzy 4 in the U.S.

Take a look at how some recent Bollywood films fared in the second weekend at the U.S. box office:

Movie                    2nd Weekend Gross   Down From Opening Weekend

Om Shanti Om                  $756,342                   - 57.1%
Jodhaa Akbar                   $702,120                   - 46%
Race                              $241,938                   - 69.8%
U Me Aur Hum                  $171,503                   - 73.3%
Saawariya                       $150,208                   - 72.3%
Krazzy 4                          $68,248                     - 78.8%

(U Me Aur Hum Crashes in U.S. - Down 73.3%) 

Compared to other high profile recent Bollywood movies, U Me Aur Hum, Ajay Devgan’s crude lift of Hollywood movie The Notebook, has fared badly at the U.S. box office.

In its opening weekend (April 11-13),  U Me Aur Hum grossed a mere $642,923.

Jodhaa Akbar (Hrithik Roshan-Aishwarya Rai), Om Shanti Om (Shahrukh Khan-Deepika Padukone) and even Race (starring a bunch of B-Grade Bollywood actors) did much better than U Me Aur Hum.

Let’s compare U Me Aur Hum with a few recent Bollywood movies like Race, Jodhaa Akbar and Om Shanti Om.

In their opening weekends, Jodhaa Akbar grossed $1.3 million, Om Shanti Om grossed $1.76 million while Race grossed $802,254.

In the opening weekend at the U.S. box office, Om Shanti Om debuted at No-11, Jodhaa Akbar at No-19, Race was No-18 while U Me Aur Hum came in at No-19.

Released in 89 theaters in the U.S., U Me Aur Hum Continue Reading…

Movie City on Oak Tree Road, Edison (New Jersey), which screens Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada movies, is one of the worst theaters we’ve been too in the U.S.

The AC doesn’t work, picture quality is bad (scenes are horizontally split on screen sometimes), the toilets are in very, very bad shape, the Samosas they sell in the concession stand are pathetic and inedible, and overall Movie City is a disgustingly lousy movie hall.

It’s sheer agony to watch a movie at Movie City.

The theater’s management ought to be ashamed of itself.

Edison Township must inspect this awful theater and revoke its license.

We’ve heard that Ad Labs has taken over this theater. Let’s hope they fix Movie City soon before the crowds completely disappear.

In case you are wondering, the only reason we visit Movie City is because Tamil movies are usually not screened in mainstream American theaters like Regal or AMC, which screen Hindi movies routinely.

(U Me Aur Hum Fares Badly at U.S. Box Office)

When the definitive history of Bollywood is written, Ajay Devgan will easily be counted among the biggest thieves and liars the Mumbai film industry has produced.

Why do we say this? 

Because we almost fell off our seats when we saw Ajay Devgan claiming credit for a story that is not clearly his as the credits flashed on the screen before U Me Aur Hum started at Regal Cinemas in Burlington (New Jersey).

This fella, Ajay Devgan, sure has some cojones - first he brazenly steals, then he shamelessly claims what he stole is his!

Say what you will but we don’t have a shred of doubt that U Me Aur Hum is a crude lift of that fine Hollywood romance The Notebook based on the novel of the same name by Nicholas Sparks. We recently borrowed The Notebook (2004) from Netflix, watched it and loved it.

Set in the American south, The Notebook is a gorgeous romantic tale featuring Continue Reading…

Language: Hindi
Actors: Arshad Warsi, Irrfan Khan, Rajpal Yadav, Suresh Menon, Dia Mirza, Juhi Chawla
Director: Jaideep Sen
Producer: Rakesh Roshan
Written by: Ashwani Dhir
Music: Rajesh Roshan 

One of the more tolerable comedies emerging out of the Bollywood cesspool, Krazzy 4 is the story of four mental patients Raja (Arshad Warsi), Dr.Mukerji (Irrfan Khan), Gangadhar (Rajpal Yadav) and Dabhoo (Suresh Menon) and their pretty doctor Sonali (Juhi Chawla) on a day out in Mumbai.

Arshad Warsi has serious anger management issues, Irrfan Khan has an obsessive compulsive personality disorder, Rajpal Yadav is a schizophrenic who lives in his mind in pre-independence India while Suresh Menon is an autistic youngster, who (almost) never speaks.

While we wouldn’t go as far as to describe Krazzy 4 as a wildly entertaining comedy, it did not leave us utterly bored or disgusted like most Bollywood movies.

As is usual with Bollywood films, not much attention is paid to crafting a well-layered story, Continue Reading…

No kidding. 

Bollywood DVDs from Eros Entertainment will soon be available at Wal-Mart stores in Canada.

Bollywood movie distributor and producer Eros Entertainment has entered into a tie up with Wal-Mart Canada to peddle its collection of Indian movies.

Initially, Eros’ Bollywood DVDs will be available in 27 Wal-Mart stores and subsequently the entire Canadian Wal-Mart network.

Eros plans to make a large number of titles Continue Reading…

Compared to Jodhaa Akbar (Hrithik Roshan-Aishwarya Rai) and Om Shanti Om (Shahrukh Khan-Deepika Padukone), Race has not done that well in the opening March 21-23, 2008 weekend at the U.S. box office.

According to the March 21-23 weekend box office numbers, Race grossed $802,254 and came in at No-18 at the U.S. box office.

In their opening weekends, Jodhaa Akbar grossed $1.3 million while Om Shanti Om grossed $1.76 million. Om Shanti Om debuted at No-11 and Jodhaa Akbar at No-19.

Released in 96 theaters in the U.S., Race had an average gross per theater of $8,356, which again was much lower than Jodhaa Akbar and Om Shanti Om.

Jodhaa Akbar released in 100 theaters and Continue Reading…

Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Akshaye Khanna, Bipasha Basu, Anil Kapoor, Katrina Kaif, Sameera Reddy
Director: Abbas-Mustan
Story & Screenplay: Shiraz Ahmed
Music: Pritam

When you have too many meaningless twists in a story, the end result is an ugly twisted movie called Race.

Even Saif Ali Khan’s sterling performance cannot save Race from the garbage heap of trashy Bollywood movies.

Akshaye Khanna, a fairly decent actor by Bollywood’s lowly standards, seems hopelessly lost when cast in the unusual role of a scheming, forever boozing younger step-brother. Or was Akshaye petrified about being cast alongside actor extraordinaire Saif Ali Khan, who is getting better with each movie just as most of his Bollywood peers are sinking with each new film, that he just lost it?

With the exception of Saif Ali Khan’s intense performance, Race is a dud in every department - story, screenplay, music and action.

The Race story is hardly unique. A wastrel of a young man Rajiv Singh (Akshaye Khanna) wants to bump off his elder brother Ranvir Singh (Saif Ali Khan) to lay his hands on a big pot of insurance money. To carry out his nefarious plot, he enlists the assistance of a fashion model Sonia (Bipasha Basu) with an ugly past.

The movie is set in South Africa, where you see Ranvir as the passionate owner of a struggling horse racing business. His personal assistant is Sophia (Katrina Kaif), whose only job for the better part of the movie seems to be handing papers to her boss to sign. And she’s also supposed to be secretly in love with her boss, who blithely ignores her. Hey, we’d do the same if she were our underling!

Hell-o, is this a story?

As for Bipasha Basu and Katrina Kaif, don’t get us started on these two horror shows masquerading as actresses. The cruel water torture of watching Bipasha Basu on the big screen is a punishment that has no parallel.

Is there such a paucity of talent in a country of 1.2 billion people that we, the suffering Bollywood fans around the world have to endlessly endure the pain of hideously horrible vampires Continue Reading…