Midweek B.O.: New releases bite the dust

Film	Cast	Plusses	Minusses	Verdict
Lafangey Parindey	Neil Nitin Mukesh, Deepika Padukone, Piyush Mishra, Kay Kay Menon, Namit Das	Deepika Padukone and skating sequences	Neil Nitin Mukesh and cliched plotline	Fell sharply in Weekend 2. However, the moderate costs will ensure decent profits for Yash Raj. The returns from Satellite Rights have been a saviour
Aashayein	John Abraham, Anaitha Nair, Sonal Sehgal, Girish Karnad, Farida Jalal, Prateeksha Lonkar, Ashwin Chitale, Vikram Inamdar, Sonali Sachdev, Shreyas Talpade [sp. app.]	Sparkling performances	Weak screenplay	Extremely poor opening weekend
Hello Darling	Gul Panag, Celina Jaitly, Eesha Koppikhar, Jaaved Jaffrey, Divya Dutta, Chunky Pandey, Seema Biswas, Asawari Joshi, Mukesh Tiwari, Vrajesh Hirjee, Sunny Deol [sp. app.]	Nothing	A shoddy attempt at making you laugh	Extremely poor opening weekend
PEEPLI [Live]	Omkar Das Manikpuri, Raghubir Yadav, Malaika Shenoy, Shalini Vatsa, Farrukh Jaffer, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Vishal Sharma, Naseeruddin Shah	An outstanding satire	Difficult to find	Super Hit [theatrical business]; Blockbuster [returns over investment]
Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai	Ajay Devgn, Emraan Hashmi, Kangna Ranaut, Prachi Desai, Randeep Hooda, Avtar Gill, Naved Aslam, Mehul Bhojak, Ravi Khanwilkar, Gauhar Khan	A fantastic film in all respects	Slow pacing in its second hour	Hit