Superb first week for SHOOT OUT AT LOKHANDWALA and good box office returns for CHEENI KUM have claimed at least two causalities in the form of EK CHALIS KI LAST LOCAL and RAQEEB.
While RAQEEB failed in the first week itself with hardly any notable collections and a non-starter from day one, EK CHALIS KI LAST LOCAL had shown hopes after sustained collections over the first week after a decent weekend.
Sadly RAQEEB, in spite of being a well made film, had nowhere to go in the second week and crashed completely. EK CHALIS KI LAST LOCAL too didn't fare any better and was discontinued from most of the theaters with SOAL and CHEENI KUM occupying most of the screens.
As things stand today, neither RAQEEB nor EK CHALIS KI LAST LOCAL are in the running in the third week with three big films FOOL N FINAL, PIRATES OF THE CARRIBEAN and SHREK 3 making them virtually extinct from the theaters.
A sad state of affairs, though one hopes that they manage to make their presence felt in the DVD circuits soon.