IBOS Box Office: Sunday follows Halla Bol out, TZP & Welcome continue

Saturday, January 26, 2008 - BO Report

After the flopping of Halla Bol, Ajay Devgan returns to try Halla with ‘Sunday’ this weekend. But it appears that here too the audience isn’t buying.

Sunday the film opened to a 25% start on moderate screenings (more than Halla Bol but not much), improved to 40% on Saturday on account of it being the Republic Day. However much more was expected in terms of collections on this Holiday. Last year’s Salaam-E-Ishq which too had a poor showing atleast had a near 100% Republic Day collections. And ironically for the film titled Sunday, its Sunday bookings are looking bad, looking in the range of 25-30%. Weak.
Meanwhile, past December’s releases, Taare Zameen Par and Welcome are continuing on ranking the 2007 charts, with tax-exemption help in the case of Aamir Khan’s TZP. Akshay Kumar’s Welcome on the other hand has overtaken Om Shanti Om to emerge as 2007’s top grosser with collections of over 110 crores gross across the country.

Jodha Akbar, among the high profile early 2008 releases now, meanwhile has been reported to be sold to Reliance for 90 crores. However insiders say that the deal may not fall through as happened with the music, and UTV may have to bear it.