Grand Masti 1st Week Box-Office Collections

Grand Masti has done the unthinkable. Though it was always expected that the
film would open well, for it to sustain in
such an excellent manner right through
the weekdays has ended up surprising
one and all. Suddenly, from being a clean
Hit – actually make it Superhit – already, talks are veering towards whether it
would go on to touch the 100 crore mark and turn out to be a Blockbuster, what
with 67 crores already coming in a matter of one week!

While one waits to see if that happens (it
actually has a good chance to do that
now), the fact remains that there are
number of records that have already
been broken and would further be
broken in days to come. First and foremost it is the fastest grossing adult
film ever, what with 50 crores coming in
record time. Secondly, it has recorded the
highest first week collections ever for an
adult film. Thirdly, it is high chances to
break the lifetime record of these very adult films – The Dirty
Picture (82 crore) and Raaz 3 (76 crore) in its second week itself.
Fourthly, it could well turn out to
be THE ONLY adult film to hit a century!

The film has acted as nothing but a shot
in the arm of Vivek Oberoi who is now all
set for two 100 crore biggies, what with Krrish 3 coming soon. He can
now well leave behind the disappointments of Jayantabhai Ki Luv Story
and Kismet Love Paisa Dilli. Aftab Shivdasani, after being around for
a decade, has shown that he
is a big bet for comedies. As for Riteish
Deshmukh, he is now the second actor
after Shah Rukh Khan in the current
times to have enjoyed six clean successes
in a row. Wow!

In the process, unfortunately John Daywas completely sidelined. Grand
Masti wave hit it so hard that it didn't
really have space and time to recover
from the jolt. With just about 3 crore
coming in, the film has suffered a big
blow.

Even Horror Storysuffered in a major way over the opening weekend at least
though in days to follow, it still managed
some sort of collections. Though 5 crore coming in the first week aren't really
terrific by any means, very low costs
mean that eventually this Vikram Bhatt
film may just about manage to sail
through. Still, all said and done, one
expects better from a film with his name to it.