Kareena Kapoor, the sizzling hot babe of bollywood who featured in a hot love making scene with Saif in just released Karan Johar’s flick ‘Kurbaan’, failed to attract viewers at the box office and ended at making collections worth 40 percent on the weekend.
The trade analysts are disappointed at the poor opening response to Karan Johar’s flick which ranged from a meager thirty percent on Friday at Fun chain of cinemas to around forty percent at Cinemax chain from across the country. Even, Saturday was not better and could enhance only up to five percentage point at these big chain of multiplexes.
The industry watchers are especially surprised at the response of multiplexes as Karan Johar’s flicks have traditionally been patronized at these places in big metros. The movie was produced by Karan Johar’s Dharma Productions and directed by Resnsil D’ Silva of ‘Rang De Basanti’ fame.
The dismal performance of ‘Kurbaan’ has been more shocking for the bollywood as the flick featured the hottest couple of tinsel town –Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor. Their on screen love- making sequences had already become a rage with the junta and so this abysmally low response at the box office in the first weekend has shocked the industry.
However, there is another school of thought who claims to have foreseen the failure of ‘Kurbaan’ at the box office. The advocates of this view say that ‘Kurbaan’ lacked all masala elements, which attract the audiences towards theatres, and till now have so closely been associated with a Karan Johar’s flick.
They point out that on the contrary, ‘Kurbaan’ was a very serious film made on a very serious topic. The audiences, who primarily go to theatres to get entertained, especially at single screen theatres and small towns, preferred to stay away from the flick and that resulted in its dismal performance.
The bombing of ‘Kurbaan’ also proves that only big publicity of a film is no guarantee at the box office and it must entertain the audiences. The makers of ‘Kurbaan’ had bombarded the audience with its trivia etc but nothing seems to have worked in its favor as it lacked the ingredient to entertain like ‘Wake Up Sid’ and ‘Ajab Prem Ki Ghajab Kahani’ had done and succeeded at the box office.
Another theory blames the bombing of ‘Kurbaan’ at the box office to ‘Saif Ali Khan-Kareena Kapoor’ jodi. They point out that (for some superstitious reasons, of couse) this jodi may be hit in personal life, but never on celluloid (remember the fate of Yashraj Films’ ‘Tashan’).
Whatever, but the bombing of ‘Kurbaan’ at the box office must have forced Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor to reconsider their pairing in Saif Ali’s upcoming home production ‘Agent Vinod,’ for which Saif has been trying to build a six pack to enact the role realistically.
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