Singh Is Kinng Creates Worldwide History
Singh Is Kinng has created history all over the world. The film has collected the highest ever first week worldwide total of 90 crore.
The first week gross figures were 22 crore overseas (third highest first week total ever) and 68 crore in India (the highest first week total ever).
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Surajit…
now SIK claims…forget who did the first one…its figures r not yet updated on BOI…
68 CR?? DAMN!! Thats more than any movie has grossed in total this whole year. It sounds like BS, but its from BOI. I think SIK payed IBOS, BOI, India FM, and all the other box office sites. 68 CR sounds unrealistic
OSO’s first week gross was 41 CR, Don.
its a gross fig bro nett fig is yet to be decided..it would be around 50 cr
The ten day gross figures of the other two big hits this year are JA-75 cr,Race-90 cr.
68 crore gross well that means it will probably be 25 crore net second week???? this is bad news for BAH and GTGH…
MR. BHARAT MAHAAN
In defense of Manoj Kumar
By Rajeev Nair
Years down the lane, one dashing young actor who would then be ruling Bollywood will produce a movie.
And to give his film that extra hype, he will look back on his predecessors, and he will find some amusing antics to mimic in one certain Shah Rukh Khan.
He will quiver his chin, contort his facial muscles, go on an ‘acting’ trip in which it would be hard to distinguish whether the man is crying or laughing, and cut a sorry sob figure, who will make our future generations laugh in absolute mirth.
The sort of laughter that Shah Rukh Khan, the Bollywood superstar of NOW, wanted us to laugh when he took on yesteryear veteran actor, director and hit maker Manoj Kumar.
That Mr Shah Rukh Khan will not be amused at such antics goes without saying. After all, he is not one to take sarcasm lightly. He is not exactly the sort that takes anything that punctures his haloed ego lightly.
But when it comes to the likes of Manoj Kumar, anyone – from Shah Rukh Khan to Johnny Lever – can have a go.
After all, Manoj Kumar doesn’t have the media clout in today’s irreverent times.
Spoofs aren’t a no-no, of course. And people have all the right under the sun to take a dig at anyone, and get away with it.
The tragedy, however, is that the people like Manoj Kumar and yesteryear stars who made us laugh, cry and rush to the theatres – thus paving the way for the current breed of Khans and Roshans and Shettys – simply do not get the respect they deserve.
That could be part of the bigger picture – the story of the Big Indian Success Saga looking down on yesteryear accomplishments and anyone from the past. Maybe we are in a rush to move forward, we can simply run down on our forerunners. We can pan them, tease them, even insult them… we only need to make this day’s hay while our good fortunes shine.
Does Manoj Kumar deserve such disrespect? He might not have been the greatest of Indian actors. But then, in the bigger scheme of things, how many of Bollywood’s current superstars qualify for that tag?
Unless they are given a tailor-made role how many of the biggest Indian stars will ever be respected for sheer histrionics?
At best, our superstars thrive on the success of formula – and if they do not realize that, God help them.
No matter how he chose to play his characters on screen, Manoj Kumar cannot be faulted at least on one count. While he stuck the formula of Bollywood as a medium for entertainment, he also tried to bring together a country that is now bursting at its seams with all sorts of fundamentalist and sectarian differences.
Manoj Kumar’s movies were for the Indians – not for NRIs, not for South Indians or North Indians… but for the one India that is fast disappearing even in the context of Bollywood.
After all, this is the man, who won the Filmfare’s (the one rag that now celebrates Shah Rukh Khan to ridiculous extremes) Best Movie, Best Director, Best Story and Best Dialogue award for ‘Upkaar’ in 1968 – Shah Rukh Khan, perhaps, wouldn’t have seen his first Bollywood film then.
None other than the Indian premier Lal Bahadur Shastri requested Manoj Kumar to make a movie on the popular slogan ‘Jai Jawan Jai Kisan’ which was the genesis of ‘Upkaar.’ Since farmers don’t matter anymore for India, surely, we can afford to forget Manoj Kumar.
We can also mock him because patriotism is now restricted to cricket and a stray gold medal at the Olympics.
Let us be honest: Can we ridicule a man who gave us ‘Roti Kapda Aur Makaan’? Can we take potshots at the man who gave us ‘Upkaar’?
And would ‘Om Shanti Om’ ever be remembered in the league of this man’s movies – the man, who suffered the pangs of partition – and created a wave of patriotism, unparalleled, with movies?
Yes, it is easy to be forgetful. But it is tougher to remember and then mock.
But then, after all, Bollywood is all about opportunism.
You fall, I laugh.
And after me, it better be deluge!
Source: India Syndicate