Dear Karan,

most people here comment about BOI report but i think this report and predection about 12cr is because of the morning show .Other sources said secend day earliy estimate is 16-18cr and this come from

http://boxofficereport.net/agneepath-friday-collections-early-estimate/

and this is another report from another BO site said the weekend will be 75cr and today number will be between 15-18cr

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After taking a spectacular start, Agneepath has been crowned the highest opener of all time. The film not only left audiences across the country spellbound, it also took the ticket window by storm.

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I saw the film today, it was entertaining, action was good and after akki, its hrithik who can atleast do some stunts and fight very well realistically. I was impressed with his action scenes, but his acting wasn’t as spectacular as Amitabh Bachchan. He had good expression, but if you look at BigB’s acting, its miles below from it being an iconic performance BigB was naturlly very style, manly with his different voice, his dialogue delivery was out of the world, his expression was ruthless as the angry vengful hero. Hrithik lacks in the dialogue delivery and parts where he had to show extreme anger, but other than those flaaws, he was good in emotional parts. Hrithik played the role like a boy but his height and muscles make up for it. 

However the star of the movie is Sanjay Dutt, he was extremely scary and looked more tougher than Hrithik, and somewhat overshadowed hrithik as I saw no flaws in his performance as Kaancha, he deserves plaudits for his performance and should be the contender for best villain and best actor award. Agneepath at the BO will be a major hit but the difference with the original movie is that BigB did the movie at a time where he wasn’t in his peak years and was very old, otherwise this would of been a blockbuster. Now action genre is leading this decade, it has gone in favour for the remake.

Friday 27th January 2012 23.00 IST

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Agneepath after a record breaking first day has seen a huge drop in collections at the box office. The drop was expected as it is normal after a major holiday but the drops with Agneepath are pretty alarming even when considering the holiday factor.

A 25-30% drop would have been fair result but early indications suggest a larger drop especially looking at the collections coming from mass pockets like CP Berar and CI which were amongst the strongest performers on its record breaking first day.

A centre like Nagpur in Maharashtra which was an outperforming centre on day one with a collections of 25 lakhs has collected 13 lakhs on Friday. The drops are similar in UP, CI and Rajasthan

North India was an under performer on the first day compared to rest of India has also seen a huge drop and going the early trending for day two it seems like a 12 crore nett Friday for Agneepath

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One has heard of mass hysteria. But what one saw in the case of Karan Johar’s Agneepath on the opening day – Thursday, January 26 – was mass and class hysteria. The public, belonging to any and every social strata, seemed to have gone mad over the remake of Agneepath of 1990. In spite of multiplexes screening the new Agneepath in upto 15 and 20 shows a day, it recorded full houses throughout the day or almost so! The opening day record held by Bodyguard so far was broken, that too, by a fair margin. As against the first day’s collection of Rs. 21.5 crore in the case of Salman Khan’s Bodyguard, Agneepath collected Rs. 23 crore nett from all-India!

With this, it is a foregone conclusion that Hrithik Roshan will become the fifth hero to join the Rs. 100-crore club because it shouldn’t be long before Agneepath touches the magical figure of Rs. 100 crore. So far, Aamir Khan, Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan and Ajay Devgan are the only heroes whose films have crossed the century mark. Aamir has two 100-crore films to his credit – Ghajini and the all-time blockbuster, 3 Idiots. Salman made it to the club with Dabangg and fortified his position with two more 100-crore films last year, viz. Ready and his and last year’s biggest, Bodyguard. Shah Rukh gained entry into the club with Ra.One and quickly followed it up with Don 2. Ajay Devgan’s solo blockbuster, Singham, made it to the 100-crore club last year but before that, his multi-starrer, Golmaal 3, had also crossed the coveted figure.

No doubt, Sanjay Dutt would also have to be given credit for Agneepath reaching the 100-crore mark in the days to come, but the fact remains that he plays a villain in it and the film is, after all, a solo-hero film and so, cheers to Hrithik Roshan for that! While on Dutt, it must be mentioned that his get-up and performance are winning the highest praise for him from classes and masses alike. Probably, Sanjay Dutt mustn’t have got so much adulation for his villainy even in Khal-nayak, another landmark film in which he played the evil man for the first time.

http://www.koimoi.com/box-office/hrithik-roshan-enters-100-crore-club-after-salman-khan-shah-rukh-khan-aamir/

Amitabh Bachchan, who won a National Award for his performance in the earlier film, defined Vijay Dinanath Chauhan with a stylized performance, including a hoarse voice and a swagger. But it’s Hrithik Roshan who redefines this Agneepath. He plays the character without the flourish that Bachchan brought, turning him into a ruthless machine for revenge, yet shouldering layers of hurt, pain and rage that make you match step with him on his journey. He commands the camera once again and delivers a riveting, sincere performance.

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Having performed at many major venues abroad, music maestro AR Rahman rues that India lacks state of the art concert halls and auditoriums where world class performers can entertain audiences.
Citing two of his personal experiences in India where the venue was not equipped enough to accommodate the audiences as well as performers, the Oscar-winning composer said that lack of good halls mean many performers from abroad do not come here.
“Many world class orchestral acts and classical performers don’t come to India because we don’t have such venues in many cities. So, our amazing music lovers who have never travelled abroad are denied this experience of listening to the organic sound of a symphony orchestra,” Rahman wrote in a note on facebook today.
He cited two examples where he faced problems while performing with the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg.
“Yesterday, we performed in Chennai, at the Lady Andal school auditorium with the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg. It had 1200 odd seats. 4500 people wanted to see the concert but we couldn’t accommodate everyone.
“When we performed in Delhi last Sunday, at the Siri Fort auditorium, the venue could not hold almost 10 musicians in the 100-piece orchestra, and it was claustrophobic and risky to sit on the stage. Hence, some of them couldn’t play.”
The 46-year-old called upon industrialists to build better facilities and other composers to take Indian acoustic sound to world standards.
“Shouldn’t Indian composers think beyond film music?… Shouldn’t modern India build this in every major city? Wouldn’t this be an investment for intellectual musical awakening? Or is it an expense?
“This is a pukaar(call) to individuals and corporates, who are shining bright… who are interested to take the lead and change the way we live and cherish our arts,” he said.

http://www.screenindia.com/news/rahman-rues-lack-of-world-class-concert-halls-in-india/904610/

With remakes being the flavour of the reason, lets name the films which u would like to be remade and with whom…try to name the cast which would suit the characters, dont just add your favs for the sake of it:D

Here are some which i want to be remade…

Amar Akbar Anthony

Director Sajid khan

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January 27th, 2012 by Komal Nahta

That Agneepath is a money-spinner is now a foregone conclusion after the earth-shattering start it took on its opening day (26th January, Thursday). The trade may have gone into overdrive on Friday (27th) saying that collections had crashed at places but let the trade rest assured that this won’t change the hit status of the film. The economics of Agneepath is reasonably clear.

The total investment including cost of production, promotion and release is approximately Rs. 75 crore.

Karan Johar had pre-sold the satellite rights for about Rs. 35 crore, audio rights for around Rs. 9 crore, and Overseas and home video rights for nearly Rs. 12 crore. That means, the producer had already recovered roughly in the region of Rs. 56 crore. With only about Rs.19 crore remaining to be recovered to cover the total investment, it was anybody’s guess that Agneepath would break even at the end of the first 4-day weekend itself. But given the Rs. 23 crore opening day collection, it is certain that the break-even point will be reached on January 28 itself, that is, if it hasn’t already been reached on January 27.

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Meet JOKER’s ‘Majnu Tangewala’!

JOKER, as is known, hits the screens this August and may be the only major release as Karan Johar has clarified that his STUDENT OF THE YEAR (which was earlier supposed to release alongside JOKER) will not release on the same day as JOKER.

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AGNEEPATH smashes records- left, right & centre!

Looking at the overwhelming response, an elated Priyanka Chopra said, ”AGNEEPATH has redefined the power of Indian box office for all of us. It’s heartening to see the strength of the Indian cinema audiences growing like this. We all were very confident of the film but for this kind of success and unprecedented number that it has posted on day one we must thank our audience.”

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Agneepath had a record first day as it collected around 21.75 crore nett. The film set new circuit records in Mumbai, CP Berar, Nizam and Mysore. The first day territorial breakdown is as follows.

Mumbai – 8.13 crore (RECORD)

Delhi/UP – 4.11 crore

East Punjab – 1.58 crore

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After interacting with a few fans of Aamir on this forum, I’ve reached to the conclusion that this must be the more-or-less step-by-step procedure how Aamir’s film is made and released:

1. Aamir accepts a script. He reads it thoroughly, pondering over each sentence and each word, making notes and writing what it should actually be. He summons the writer(s) and director and gives them his feedbacks right from the story to the screenplay to the dialogues. These feedbacks are taken without any further discussions and are incorporated by the writer(s) under direct day to day supervision of Aamir.

2. Once the writing part is frozen, Aamir gets into the treatment, location selection, cinematography, music and background score. He begins by having a meeting with the director, the producer, the cinematographer and the art director where he explains to them in great detail the way the story should be paced and shot, what kind of film should be used and of which brand and production lot, which city, street, lane or building should it be shot in, what are the modifications that need to be done at these places for the film, what should be the wall colours of a particular room, how should the curtains and other props (right upto their design, colour, size and make) look. For better understanding of all, he shows them the references for each of these sets and props, all collected or designed by him.

3. Then the music director is called and Aamir tells him the exact ragaa and the instruments that should be used for each song. He also gives the lines right upto exact words to the lyricist to ‘write’. Then he picks the musicians, singer, and chorus singers, and personally supervises the recording of the songs. He then gets into mixing where he instructs which sound should be masked, which should be enhanced, what should be the decibel count of each of the instruments and the vocals, etc.

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 This Image is just to Avoid the post occupying the entire main page of NG. The Review is Inside the Post

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#Agneepath Saturday & Sunday, like Thursday, should be Humungous. Expect 20 cr + on each day, as per trends.

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#Agneepath 4-day weekend, as per *current trending*, should be 75 cr + nett. Monstrous Hit, in view of its economics.

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#Agneepath Friday trends: It’s a working day, not a holiday. So am expecting the Fri figure to be in 15 cr to 18 cr range.

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Hrithik Roshan is going Aamir’s way. Nobody expected AP to break First day record and the highest prediction was about 16-18 cr. This is a huge achievement for Hrithik Roshan as it exceeded the expectations. With low promotions and low publicity (1/3rd of Ra One’s promotion) if his movie can open to such an amazing figure then imagine what his next movie opening figure would be with right marketing, promotion (Rakesh Roshan’s expertise) and PR work just like the Khans do. Now there is a huge threat to Khan’s 2.5 Decades of Rule and there is every chance of him to lead over other khan’s in next 1 or 2 years as compared to others who were betting these 3 to rule for another 5 years – which i doubt now (2 yrs max).

There are currently Four Superstars – HR, Salman, Aamir and Srk and i give credit to HR as he is competing and even close with 3 Khans when all of them are doing excellent or at peak of their career.

Ranbir had every chance to make it big but i believe it won’t unless he do some Action flicks (and i believe he will excel in Action and Masala Department too).

Akshay and Ajay are aged now and will remain second to the top 4 superstars unless Ranbir does something extraordinary and surpass these two Stars.

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(Read only if you are the one who have watched the movie or you are the one who don’t mind if someone spoils your party. )

If say, somehow I did not happen to know that this AGNEEPATH movie is actually a remake of old movie of 1980s, I would have guessed it perfectly right after the end of climax fight sequence. Such are the scenes in this movie that follow exact same path of old 1980s movies.

Movie starts in a village ‘Mandawa’ showing Vijay’s (Hrithik Roshan) childhood life and his relation with his father and how main villain Kaancha (Sanjay Dutt) murders his father. This part is actually well executed and builds the platform for revenge perfectly.

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