BOLLYWOOD COMING WITH A DOZEN OF SUPER HITS
Bollywood is in dire need of a number of super hits during the current year. The current year so far has had a good number of small and big films, but unfortunately most of them have miserably failed to hit the box office. In fact, big films have proved disasters so far. Only last month (July) a Salman-Govinda partnership movie of David Dhawan titled ‘Partner’ did hit the screen and attracted a large crowd but didn’t fare too well at the box office. The similar fate met with Maniratnam’s ‘Guru’, Vipul Shah’s ‘Namastey London’ and ‘Apne’ (starring the Deo family). Though these movies belonged to big banners and had cast big stars, they didn’t mark the marquee. The list includes ‘Eklavya - The Royal Guard’, ‘Salam-E-Ishq’, ‘Shaka Laka Boom Boom’ and even much-hyped ‘Jhoom Baabar Jhoom’. Films like ‘Bheja Fry’, ‘Cheeni Kum’ and ‘Metro’ did a good business but couldn’t reach all corners of the country. These movies remained confined to multiplexes and big cities.
Disappointed with the current year’s results so far, the mega movies by big banners casting big stars are planning to enter the marquee with their best ones during the remaining five months of the year. These movies will include Raj Kumar Santoshi’s ‘Halla Bol’ (starring Ajay Devgan ), Sajid Khan directed ‘Hey Baby’ (with Akshay Kumar) ,Ram Gopal Verma’s Aag’, a multi starrer and Zaid Khan starring ‘Speed’ plus Sanjay Gupta’s ‘Dus Kahaniyan’. All these will be screened this month (August).
Next month of September will hit theaters with ‘Bhool Bhulaiya’, Priyadarshan’s ‘Dhol’, Subhash Ghai’s Anil Kapoor starrer ‘Black and White’, Ram Gopal Verma’s ‘Darling’ starring no less than Fardeen Khan and Esha Deol. Come October, and the viewers will be presented with ‘Hello’ followed by Ashutosh Gowalikar’s ‘Jodha Akbar’ (starring Hrithik Roshan and Aaishwarya Rai ). Significantly, Yash Chopra’s ‘Laaga Chunri Mein Daag’ starring Rani Mukherjee is also expected to hit the box office.
The last two months of 2007 will not remain behind in presenting equally strong movies . While Sanjay Bhansali’s ‘Saanwariya’ casting Salman Khan and Rani Mukherjee , Yash Chopra’s ‘Aaja Nach Le’ with the return of dhak dhak girl Madhuri Dixit to Bollywood and Shah Rukh Khan’s ‘Om Shanti Om’ will follow, the year will close with mega movies like Bipasha Basu and John Abraham starrer ‘Goal’, Ram Gopal Verma’s ‘Sarkar 2′ with Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. Priyanka Chopra starrer ‘Love Story 2050′ produced by Harry Baweja is likely to close the year. Industry pundits hope that most of the films coming in the period from August to December will certainly boost the industry’s morale by succeeding at the box office.