Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2

While Aamir Khan’s ‘Laal Singh Chaddha’ and ‘Raksha Bandhan’, which released last week, sank without a trace, a small Telugu movie – ‘Karthikeya 2’ – is making waves in Hindi circuits. Nikhil Siddhartha, the main lead of the movie, is fairly popular in Telugu-speaking regions but is not a known name for the Hindi audience. […]

BENGALURU: Since April, barring ‘Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2’, a spate of Bollywood films have tumbled disastrously at ticket windows. Almost all these movies, which featured A-list stars, didn’t even fetch decent initials and sank without a whimper. This is perhaps one of the worst phases Bollywood has seen in a long time. However, producers of some […]

BENGALURU: Akshay Kumar’s mega-budget movie ‘Samrat Prithviraj’ took an exceedingly insipid start at the ticket windows on Friday in almost all circuits. As the day progressed, the collections picked up at a few places such as Rajasthan, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh but the numbers in big cities of other states remained on the lower side. […]

BENGALURU: Is the box office back to pre-pandemic levels? Have the cinematic choices of people changed? Why is the INOX on the expansion spree when the obituaries of the exhibition sector are being written? What are the challenges exhibitors and owners of cinema halls are facing in India? In an exclusive interview with The New […]