March is a month of colours! It is that time of the year when we forget everything else and splash ourselves with red, blue, green, purple, yellow, pink, orange and a variety of hues! Yes, March is the season of Holi! Bollywood’s connection to Holi dates back to its beginning with countless films featuring the festival of colours and an ocean of songs being penned on it— Holi Ke Din (Sholay), Rang Barse (Silsila), Aaj Na Chhodenge (Kati Patang), Balam Pichkari (Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani), Soni Soni (Mohabbatein) to name a few. But how has Bollywood performed at the box office in March?
What kind of films have released in this month in the past few years? Koimoi takes a journey down memory lane, reminiscing about Bollywood films which have rocked and bombed at the box office in the first week of March in the last 10 years.
Year
Films Released In March 1st Week
Release Date
2017
Commando 2
3rd March
2017
Jeena Isi Ka Naam Hai
3rd March
2016
Zubaan
4th March
2016
Jai Gangaajal
4th March
2015
Badmashiyaan – Fun Never Ends
6th March
2015
Coffee Bloom
6th March
2015
Dirty Politics
6th March
2015
Hey Bro
6th March
2014
Gulaab Gang
7th March
2014
Queen
7th March
2014
Total Siyapaa
7th March
2013
I, Me, aur Main
1st March
2013
Bloody Isshq
1st March
2013
The Attacks of 26/11
1st March
2012
London Paris New York
2nd March
2012
Paan Singh Tomar
2nd March
2012
Will You Marry Me?
2nd March
2011
Yeh Faasley
4th March
2010
Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge?
5th March
2010
Hello Zindagi
5th March
2010
Road Movie
5th March
2010
Rokkk
5th March
2010
Thanks Maa
5th March
2009
13B: Fear Has a New Address
6th March
2009
Dhoondte Reh Jaaoge
6th March
2009
Karma Aur Holi
6th March
2008
Black and White
7th March
2007
Nehlle Pe Dehlla
2nd March
2007
Nishabd
2nd March
That’s quite a variety. Right from action to crime to thriller to comedy and romance— March first week has had every possible variety on its palette! Now let’s have a look at where these movies stand. Were these films successful commercially? Did they receive critical acclaim? And most importantly, did the audience like it?
Films
Director
Cast
Box Office collection
Verdict
Commando 2
Deven Bhojani
Vidyut Jammwal, Adah Sharma
23.00 Cr* (till date)
-
Jeena Isi Ka Naam Hai
Keshhav Panneriy
Arbaaz Khan, Himansh Kohli, Ashutosh Rana, Manjiri Fadnis, Prem Chopra, Supriya Pathak
00.50 Cr
Flop
Jai Gangaajal
Prakash Jha
Priyanka Chopra, Prakash Jha, Manav Kaul
38.00 Cr
Plus
Zubaan
Mozez Singh
Vicky Kaushal, Manish Chaudhary, Sarah Jane Dias, Raghav Chanana, Meghna Malik
00.46 Cr
Flop
Badmashiyaan – Fun Never Ends
Amit Khanna
Suzanna Mukherjee,
Sidhant Gupta,
Sharib Hashmi, Karan Mehra, Gunjan Malhotra
00.69 Cr
Flop
Coffee Bloom
Manu Warrier
Arjun Mathur, Sugandha Garg, Mohan Kapoor, Nandini Sen, Ishwari Bose-Bhattacharya
00.03 Cr
Flop
Dirty Politics
K.C. Bokadia
Naseeruddin Shah, Mallika Sherawat, Jackie Shroff, Ashutosh Rana, Anupam Kher, Om Puri
07.00 Cr
Flop
Hey Bro
Ajay Chandhok
Ganesh Acharya, Maninder, Nupur Sharma
01.26 Cr
Flop
Gulaab Gang
Soumik Sen
Madhuri Dixit, Juhi Chawla
14.30 Cr
Flop
Queen
Vikas Bahl
Kangana Ranaut, Lisa Haydon, Rajkummar Rao
61.00 Cr
Super-hit
Total Siyapaa
Eeshwar Nivas
Ali Zafar, Yami Gautam, Anupam Kher, Kirron Kher, Sara Khan
06.00 Cr
Flop
Bloody Isshq
Arup Dutta
Akash, Shilpa Anand, Tripta Parashar
0.07 Cr
Flop
The Attacks of 26/11
Ram Gopal Varma
Nana Patekar, Sanjeev Jaiswal, Atul Kulkarni
11.50 Cr
Flop
I, Me, aur Main
Kapil Sharma
John Abraham, Chitrangada Singh, Prachi Desai, Zarina Wahab, Mini Mathur, Raima Sen
09.00 Cr
Flop
Paan Singh Tomar
Tigmanshu Dhulia
Irrfan Khan, Mahi Gill, Vipin Sharma, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Brijendra Kala
15.09 Cr
Hit
London Paris New York
Anu Menon
Ali Zafar, Aditi Rao Hydari
07.02 Cr
Flop
Will You Marry Me?
Aditya Datt
Shreyas Talpade, Rajeev Khandelwal, Tripta Parashar, Mugdha Godse,Celina Jaitley, Muzamil Ibrahim
00.32 Cr
Flop
Yeh Faasley
Yogesh Mittal
Anupam Kher, Pawan Malhotra, Tena Desae
00.22 Cr
Flop
Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge?
Ashwni Dhir
Ajay Devgn, Paresh Rawal, Konkona Sen Sharma
41.12 Cr
Hit
Hello Zindagi
Raja Unnithan
Mrunmayee Lagoo, Kittu Gidwani
00.01 Cr
Flop
Road, Movie
Dev Benegal
Abhay Deol, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Satish Kaushik
02.23 Cr
Flop
Rokkk
Rajesh Ranshinge
Suraj Shukla, Tanushree Dutta, Udita Goswami, Sachin Khedekar
00.93 Cr
Flop
Thanks Maa
Irfan Kamal
Master Shams Patel, Master Salman, Master Fayaaz, Baby Almas, Master Jaffer, Baby Sakshi, Barry John
00.11 Cr
Flop
13B: Fear Has a New Address
Vikram K Kumar
Madhavan, Neetu Chandra, Sachin Khedekar, Murli Sharma, Deepak Dobriyal, Poonam Dhillon
07.36 Cr
Flop
Dhoondte Reh Jaaoge
Jaaoge, Umesh Shukla
Sonu Sood, Soha Ali Khan, Kunal Khemu, Paresh Rawal
06.29 Cr
Flop
Karma Aur Holi
Manish Gupta
Randeep Hooda, Sushmita Sen, Naomi Campbell
00.17 Cr
Flop
Black and White
Subhash Ghai
Anil Kapoor, Anurag Sinha, Shefali Shah, Aditi Sharma
05.30 Cr
Flop
Nehlle Pe Dehlla
Ajay Chandok
Saif Ali Khan, Sanjay Dutt, Bipasha Basu, Kim Sharma
06.00 Cr
Flop
Nishabd
Ram Gopal Varma
Amitabh Bachchan, Jiah Khan
07.50 Cr
Flop
Not many films released in March first week have tasted success, but those which have, have turned out to be super-hits like Kangana Ranaut’s Queen, which assigned her the title of Bollywood’s queen or entertainers like Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge, which won people’s hearts with its comic timing. While brainstorming for reasons behind this, I felt perhaps IPL might be a cause. The Indian Premier League has been immensely popular ever since its inception in 2008. The IPL, which happens around this time of the year, attracts not just cricket fans but a lot of youngsters to the stadium, who seem to love cricket in its new format. Also, March is the season of exams. Not just board exams but annual exams in schools across the country also start from February end, which perhaps is a reason why the crowd at theatres gets thinner during this time. Whatever be the reason, a good film never fails to attract movie enthusiasts. As we just saw, a majority of the films listed above were bashed by critics on various grounds.
2017 seems to be lucky for Bollywood as out of the two releases in the first week of March, Deven Bhojani’s action flick Commando 2 has opened to a great response from viewers. Despite casting a two film old action star Vidyut Jammwal and south film actress Adah Sharma (who is also relatively new to Bollywood) in the lead, the film has collected nearly Rs 25 crores till date. Varun Dhawan-Alia Bhatt starrer rom-com Badrinath Ki Dulhania has hit theatres this week. Let’s wait to see what’s in store for this one!
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