Ajay Devgan and Konkana Sen in Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge
Trade analysts say that Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge is pulling good crowd at the box office.
Ajay Devgn’s calculations have proved right. As the Bollywood actor had anticipated, his latest release at the box office Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge is pulling good crowd to the theatres across the country.
Before the release of the film, Ajay had said that the feel good film, which reminded of comedies made by Hrishikesh Mukherjee and Basu Chatterjee in 1970 and 80, should be different and refreshing enough for the Bollywood audiences and should be able to pull audiences to the cinema halls.
In fact the cinema hall owners are very happy with the crowd the film has pulled. Analyst point out that the film is doing so well because the middle class audiences are able to identify with the real-life characters of the film, which feature Ajay Devgn, Konkana Sen Sharma and Paresh Rawal in the lead role.
Though the overall collections of the film have been average with only 57% of total tickets being sold, its main reason is that contrary to some of the bigger films, Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge hasn’t had the kind of publicity some other big films get before their release. The film collected around Rs. 8 Cr in its first weekend. Yet with collections picking up with each passing day (it was 35% on first day), this is the second film off-late after Ishqiya, about which information is spreading by the word of mouth and people have come out to cinema halls to see the film.
You may recall that even Ishqiya had a slow start but manage to secure a hit tag by the end of the first week. Trade analysts expect the same from Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge.
Though, Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge is pulling huge crowd yet, out of all the releases this week, it’s the off-beat film Thanks Maa featuring Alok Nath, Raghuveer Yadav, Barry John, Sanjay Mishra and Ranvir Shorey, which is drawing maximum crowd with collections up to 75%.
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