The predictions failed for 'Joker'

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The predictions failed for 'Joker'

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Bollywood suffers four flops over the weekend.

03 September,2012 07:56 pm

It was expected that despite all the murmurs and speculations around the film, its director and the cast, audience wont be impacted to a very huge degree and give at least a fair start to Joker.At the bare minimum, at least a 50% opening was expected. Guess that was expecting a lot since the audience seemed to have made up their mind not to even step into theatres.Leave aside the word of mouthing spreading out - whether negative or positive - there were hardly any footfalls that resulted in the film being labelled as a box office failure by the time Friday came to close.With an opening of merely 20% (which didnt really show much improvement over the weekend either), Joker continued to be poor all through. After the weekend collections in the range of 15-16 crores, the film doesnt carry many hopes in the rest of the week either.Despite the fact that it managed a solo release for itself and Ek Tha Tiger wasnt a huge competition any more,Joker has proved to be a downer at the box office.Though it is obvious that the film would suffer losses, the only silver lining is that the losses wont be of disastrous proportions since the film hasnt been sold at a very fancy price.Meanwhile Akshay Kumar has moved on and is already eyeing OMG - Oh My God as his next money-spinner. Sonakshi Sinha has seen a break in her century run but has Son of Sardaar and Dabangg 2 lined up to bring her back in the reckoning rather soon. On the other hand Shirish Kunder could well be taking a short break before announcing his next.