Baar Baar Dekho had it all. Brawn, beauty, hot abs of a beautiful heroine, a Hollywood-ish time travel story, sizzling chemistry between the lead pair and an eclectic Kala Chashma track. All this could have been enough to sail it through but then audience is not so naive anymore. You can’t just serve them anything and expect them to digest it. Baar Baar Dekho thus misfired big time. It squashed all hopes riding on it. On the other hand, the film which it clashed with at the box office managed to make money despite Trade not having much faith in it. Freaky Ali may not have received favourable reviews but it definitely got good numbers on board despite not having decent screen count.
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We have divided it into various slates to explain to you how Freaky Ali managed to go one-up on BBD despite odds stacked against it. First of all, according to reports, Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s film was made at budget of approx. 15 crore in total. That means it is a moderately budgeted film which in today’s time are a surefire formula to break even if not make profits. Baar Baar Dekho, as our Trade expert Akshaye Rathi said, was made at a budget of 45- 50 crore. With the kind of special effects used in the film, it was only obvious for it to be made on such a sum. It already got an upper hand there.
Today we got the first weekend numbers of the films which bare the truth about who has won the game here. Freaky Ali has earned 8. 50 cr whereas Baar Baar Dekho pocketed 21. 16 cr. Before the release of the film, we had spoken to our Trade experts to know what they felt about the film. Both Akshaye Rathi (Distributor-Exhibitor) and Amul Mohan (Editor, Super Cinema) predicted nearly 25 crore weekend for BBD but it earned only 21. 16 cr. For Freaky Ali, Rathi didn’t have much hope and pegged it as a 3 crore opening weekend. But it stunned trade to earn 8. 50 crore.
If it’s all being very difficult for you to understand, here’s how the clash looks right now.
It all began with the screen count and the disparity is staggering. Despite 2600 screens, BBD couldn’t cash in on it while Freaky Ali managed good numbers with just handful of them.
Expectation Vs Reality
Opening day
Opening Weekend
This proves that audience chose Freaky Ali over Baar Baar Dekho last weekend which proves you cannot make people to watch your film on the basis of abs and kala chashma. It needs to have some merit too. These figures are a clear example.
So which one did you watch between the two?