Midweek: 'OMG - Oh My God!' & 'English Vinglish' lead, new releases fail

Midweek: ‘OMG – Oh My God!’ & ‘English Vinglish’ lead, new releases fail

Film	Cast	Plusses	Minusses	Verdict
OMG - Oh My God!	Akshay Kumar, Paresh Rawal, Mithun Chakraborty, Om Puri, Mahesh Manjrekar, Govind Namdev, Nikhil Ratnaparkhi, Murli Sharma, Poonam Jhawar, Sonakshi Sinha [sp. app.] and Prabhu Dheva [sp. app.]	Hi-concept film with a strong message. Plus, top notch performances by Paresh Rawal and Mithun Chakraborty	Execution of the film could've been better	Collected approx Rs 8.5 cr nett in Weekend 3, taking the 17-day total to approx Rs 68.5 cr nett. Super Hit
English Vinglish	Sridevi, Priya Anand, Adil Hussain, Sujata Kumar, Mehdi Nebbou, Navika Kotia, Shivansh Kotia, Sulbha Deshpande, Amitabh Bachchan [sp. app.]	A brilliant film in all respects with a towering performance by Sridevi	Difficult to find	Maintained very well at multiplexes of major centres. Collected approx Rs 8 cr nett in Weekend 2, taking the 10-day total to approx Rs 29 cr nett
Aiyyaa!	Rani Mukerji, Prithviraj, Subodh Bhave, Nirmiti Sawant, Jyoti Subhash, Anita Date, Ameya Wagh, Satish Alekar, Kishori Ballal and Pakada Pandi	Rani Mukerji all the way. Plus, Amit Trivedi's music and Vaibhavi Merchant's choreography	Screenplay has loose ends. Also, the narrative is stretched	Faces outright rejection. Collected approx Rs 4.75 cr to Rs 5 cr nett in its opening weekend
Bhoot Returns	Manisha Koirala, Chakravarthy, Madhu Shalini, Baby Alayna	Difficult to find	Amongst RGV's weakest films	Is extremely poor too. Collected approx Rs 3.5 to Rs 3.75 cr nett in its opening weekend
Makkhi	Sudeep, Nani, Samantha Prabhu	A brilliant film in all respects	Difficult to find	Showed an upward trend over the weekend, but the overall biz is poor. Collected approx Rs 2.06 cr nett in its opening weekend.