Vishal Bhardwaj’s Rangoon performed poorly at the box office on Friday, collecting Rs 6.07 crore as per official figures from the producers of the film. Even though the ‘actuals’ are a lot lower (in 5 crore range), the collections are disastrous for a film that has landing costs of more than 60 crore.
Friday was a holiday for Maha Shivaratri, which usually tends to give a boost of around 25% to film business. So the ‘real value’ is actually a lot lower and this means the film will struggle to show big growth on Saturday – as the reports are extremely mixed.
Given the level of business on Friday, Rangoon has to show growth of 30% or more to have any chance at the box office.
The poor opening of Rangoon once again raises the point of the big disconnect that exists between some of our actors / filmmakers and the audience in general. Films are being made to please the critics or the select few intellectuals and not the massive audience all across the country. Inspite of the film boasting of three talented stars, an acclaimed director – who share multiple national awards between them – the audience simply weren’t interested.
At a few theatres, the 1st Friday business of Rangoon was lower than the 2nd Friday collections of a film like ‘XXX: Return Of the Xander’. Several shows were cancelled and many were running at less than 5% occupancy.
The Hindi Film Industry is a business. The economics is failing the film even before its release. You can’t make films like Rangoon with actors who expect a big paycheque, but cannot bring the audience to theatres on the first day. Even the likes of Nawazuddin Siddiqui, who gets less than 20% of the acting fee as compared to some of our so called stars, adds more value to a commercial film.
On Saturday (Day 2), the occupancy in the morning is lower than Friday and unless there is a huge turnaround from here, Rangoon will be the biggest disaster of the year. A film that could, officially, fall well under the 30 crore mark – which also means it’ll struggle to recover even the acting fee of the ‘stars’ or the money that was spent on marketing it.
Here in PVR elante chandigarh jolly 2 is still have 70% + occupancy. And crowd for rangoon is dull only couples are going there and taking corner seats for romance. I think it will replace rangoon’s screen very soon.
Hahaha stop living in the fool’s world Shahid…! Idiots call you a ‘star’ .
‘Stars’ are Shahrukh and Salman – who makes films for the ‘people’ of the nation. And that too for over 25 years…!
@Indicine… stop down playing a film right from the second day of release mentioning it’s business… If you really want to prove a point discuss a film’s content…
Shahid Kapoor should immediately cut down his fees to around 1-2 Lacs per film (though paying a single rupee on this piece of shit is a waste for me) and start doing all the shitty art films that he keeps on doing…!
not interested. will watch ghazi attack this weekend.
LMAO…. overrated Queens film bombed ! Lol what happened to this queen ?! why this film bombed! and they (actresses) want equal payment for female as much as male!!!!!
@ClemK
WTF are you talking about? Who the hell watche movies for getting educated? Don’t you have schools, colleges, books or even internet for that? And what subject Vishal Bhardwaj is teaching in Rangoon? Certainly not astrophysics or rocket science or something like that. May be some history of India’s struggle of Independence. So tell what you learnt from it? If nothing then please STFU.
More than 20 percent higher than BOI figure Look like she is still in love with HR
@indicine can u make a list of actors who have officially retired and those that are waiting 4 a comeback..??
And has Imran khan retired..??
@FAN, it depends on the offers. He hasn’t got any offers.
Aamir-Salman the biggest superstars of bollywood once together gave a big flop – Andaz Apna Apna……a movie which is one of many’s all time favourite.
So, lets chill…..If Rangoon flops, tumhara kya jayega…….jisne paise lagaye hain unka jayega……..if it is a good film, it will be appreciate later too……………..Shahid and Saif are not crowd pullers, but let us not berate them, and appreciate that they had the balls to test the waters by working on an experimental movie……..nothing to say about Kangana……she doesn’t need nobody to prove what a beautiful talent she is…..!
Let us not judge every movie with collections……and flops……a guy like Salman was giving flops after flops and is now the biggest crowd puller…….while another guy Aamir completely changed his image and become the most trusted actor of all time……..the most consistent actor is becoming inconsistent, while the most inconsistent is becoming consistent.
Highs and lows are part of life……if you like movie, it is good….if not, don’t call names……finally, they are all here to entertain us………..if they are fooling people with fake reviews and fake collection, then they deserve to be questioned……but neither Saif, nor Shahid, nor Kangana…..and not makers of this movie will do that……!!!!
@2:48pm The Phenomenal Idiot
Wrong again- Indian stars are Salmir who make patriotic pro Hindustan movies n not a washed up has been paki star who makes crappy biopics on some lowlife paki Baadshah rice smuggler like last monts maha crapfest Raeesa Bhabhi…!
INDIAN AUDIENCE Still Not Ready for #VB Classics…and Both Male Lead Lacks Fan Following in MASSES .thats the reason the Appeal could not Reach Tier2 and Tier3 .Due to Feb End even Youth not ready to go to theatres until one has the Crediblity of giving Hatke Films like Akshay Kumar or Aamir Khan .
@Dadaji 5:13 pm
Who supported Yakub Memon by the way…?
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Bollywood only made for salman and aamir khan only,,,,,,,,,,,,
@Indicine you never reply to my questions even in ask indicine also in comments why this partiality why this kolaveri kolaveri di post post post post post
@Ugly Boy yeah thats why we got disasters like marigold, main aur mrs khanna, jai ho aka flop ho, yuvraaj, god tussi great ho and list goes on fron such a crowd puller. And yeah who can forget the last year’s disaster fan which didnt even open good. Low opening and less than 100 cr collections. Rather we should call such actirs as eid and diwali made stars. Diwali and eid are the reasons for crowd pull not srk and salman. Let so called crowd pullers do niche movies like talaash and we will see thir aukaat. Only aamir is true crowd puller and true megastar.
@JC if salman is biggest crows puller of india than can u tell us why has he been struggling to give ATHG since 1994 on his own? HAHK was madhuri’s show and it didnt take huge opening. It went on to do great life time due to extremely loved story and star of the movie was madhuri and that puppy. Most audience loved HAHK for madhuri and other family members. And aamir has given 5 ATHG in last 10 years only and one of them came at a time when there was demonitization a huge issue, no big director, no well known costars, and lack of enough holidays and is now the most watched movie of the decade in theaters with highest foot falls and ATHG. So aamir is biggest crowd puller of the country. Period. When he comes with commercial movie like dhoom 3 and ghajini then even on non holiday he shatters each and every record on opening day. Keep that also in mind.
To all chameleons
Either be a Salman fan or Aamir fan, SALMIR kehke baat mat ghuma.
First big flop of 2017.