Ranbir Kapoor and Anushka Sharma’s Bombay Velvet movie released on Friday and though its box office collections predictions were mostly on the positive side, some even voicing the Rs 100 crore sum, what came to transpire in theatres was quite the opposite – the takings have been suitably modified downwards especially as the movie even suffered the ignominy of cancelled shows. Ultimately, the day 1 figure was just Rs 5.20 crore.
The start of the weekend (Saturday, day 2) brought no cheer for Ranbir Kapoor as the movie box office collections added a mere Rs 5.10 crore. Bombay Velvet’s Sunday, day 3, box office collections were Rs 5.80 crore and Monday, day 4, take added up to a sum of just Rs 2.10 crore. The total in the domestic market is Rs 18.20 crore.
The foreign market has not been kind to Bombay Velvet either, managing to barely move the overall take to Rs 26.74 crore.
The negative signs were visible early on Friday. Bombay Velvet opened to a 45-50% occupancy rate across the country while last week’s release Amitabh Bachchan starrer Piku, which has turned into a Rs 50 crore movie, still continues to hold its ground.
This looks to be in line with the trend Ranbir Kapoor movies have been caught in – the actor’s last 2 movies have failed to enthuse the audiences and suffered being box office collections failures.
The same fate may or may not haunt his latest release Bombay Velvet, but the current news is not very encouraging, despite the presence of Anushka Sharma and Karan Johar.
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The news is going to hit the industry hard as the budget of Bombay Velvet was as much as Rs 100 crore and expectations was that it would earn much, much more. But now, getting the investment back will be a big achievement.
Keep watching this space for updates.
Bad start for BombayVelvet. 1st show at FunGwalior cancelled due to lack of audience. Velocity, two Inoxes in Indore report poor collections
— Komal Nahta (@KomalNahta) May 15, 2015
Bombay Velvet box office collections: Can Ranbir Kapoor fire-up this movie?
Since every Friday can make or break careers, on line this time, is Ranbir Kapoor starrer Bombay Velvet, whose box office collections are expected to make it the No. 1 movie of 2015 so far. This is a period film (the last such film that hit the silver screen was Detective Byomkesh Bakshi, which met with mixed reactions at the box-office). So, will Bombay Velvet, which also stars Anushka Sharma, have a ‘smooth run at the box-office, even become a Rs 100-crore movie, or will its collections prediction turn out to be a letdown? Find out here:
The film, that’s set in 1949, welcomes the audiences with a track by Raveena Tandon Thadani (special appearance). On the other hand, while a young Balraj (Ranbir Kapoor) is busy taking his baby steps in this man-eat-man world, he also spends his time in the red light district nursing frustrations of seeing his mother getting slapped and abused.
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His frustrations end up leading him into free-for-all situations to earn some ready cash. In this scenario, he comes across Chiman (Satyadeep Misra), who does not just become his partner in crime. As they march ahead in life, they, end up turning into the henchmen of Kaizad Khambata (Karan Johar), editor of the tabloid ‘Torrent’ and also a top wheeler-dealer. Impressed with his dare devil attitude, Kaizad appoints Balraj to manage his club named ‘Bombay Velvet’. In addition to this, Kaizad also entrusts him with the task of wiping out the ‘Communist’ opposition to ‘Capitalist’ plans. But he meets with a roadblock called Jimmy Mistry (Manish Chaudhury), editor of pro-labour class tabloid ‘Glitz’. It is then, that the beautiful jazz singer Rosie (Anushka Sharma) is sent as a honey trap to lure Balraj by Jimmy. That’s when the drama turns bloody.
Kaizad, unwilling to see his grand plans being compromised, tries to adopt the policy of divide and rule between Balraj and Chiman. Does Rosie become successful in her role of a honey trap, does Kaizad become successful in separating the Balraj-Chiman duo and what ultimately happens to ‘Bombay Velvet’, is what forms the rest of the story.
With inputs from Bollywood Hungama