Midweek B.O.: 'Raajneeti' collects humungous 34 cr. , next to '3 Idiots'

Midweek B.O.: ‘Raajneeti’ collects humungous 34 cr. , next to ‘3 Idiots’

Film	Cast	Plusses	Minusses	Verdict
Raajneeti	Ajay Devgn, Ranbir Kapoor, Katrina Kaif, Arjun Rampal, Manoj Bajpayee, Sarah Thompson, Naseeruddin Shah, Nana Patekar, Dayashanker Pandey, Chetan Pandit, Darshan Jariwala, Shruti Seth, Kiran Karmarkar, Vinay Apte, Nikhila Trikha	An excellent film in all respects	Difficult to find	The film had a humungous, earth-shattering opening weekend. Released in lesser number of screens than HOUSE FULL and KITES and also lesser number of shows [due to its length], RAAJNEETI has fetched the biggest start of this year and is the second biggest start ever, after 3 IDIOTS. Point to be noted is that 3 IDIOTS was released during the Christmas weekend. The day-wise breakup of RAAJNEETI, as per early tracking, is as follows:- Friday 10.5 cr. nett, Saturday 11 cr nett and Sunday 12.5 cr. nett. The opening weekend total is approx. Rs. 34 cr. nett, which is historic
Kites	Hrithik Roshan, Barbara Mori, Kangna Ranaut, Kabir Bedi, Nicholas Brown	Hrithik Roshan	Predictable and cliche'd screenplay	Disaster
Badmaash Company	Shahid Kapoor, Anushka Sharma, Vir Das, Meiyang Chang, Anupam Kher, Kiran Juneja, Pawan Malhotra	Interesting premise, wonderful performances, tuneful music and fine direction	Penultimate 25-odd minutes	Will recover costs and make profits from theatrical and non-theatrical revenues
Housefull	Akshay Kumar, Riteish Deshmukh, Arjun Rampal, Deepika Padukone, Lara Dutta, Jiah Khan, Randhir Kapoor, Boman Irani, Chunkey Pandey, Lilette Dubey, Malaika Arora Khan	Gripping second half and skilled performances by each and every member of its cast	Inconsistent screenplay at places	Hit