Fox Star Studios touted its opening of
Bollywood title Kappor & Sons with the widest debut among the Specialties this weekend.
Also opening this weekend is
Bollywood title Padmaavat via Viacom18 Motion Pictures and The Clapper with Amanda Seyfried from Momentum Pictures.
Padmaavat collected more than $ 2.55 M in its second frame, becoming the third highest - grossing
Bollywood title.
The previous wide debut record holder for
a Bollywood title on this continent was UTV drama, Dangal, which opened in 331 theaters just ahead of Christmas last year.
Not exact matches
Roadside Attractions» third weekend of «Forever My Girl» finished 12th with $ 2.6 million at 1,427 venues, leaving it in a tie with two other
titles — the Neon / 30West's «I, Tonya,» which received three Academy Awards nods, at 1,450 locations, up 490, for a $ 22.6 million total; and Viva Pictures Distribution's second weekend of
Bollywood drama «Padmaavat» at 354 screens.
While summer 2013 hasn't exactly been buoyant overall for arthouse films, it's been exceptionally weak for foreign language
titles — outside of
Bollywood, of course.
A
Bollywood film released last year telling a similar story and striving for a similar vibe was My Friend Pinto, the
title character (Prateik) also being a well - meaning naïf whose innocent clumsiness ultimately causes as much goodwill as it initially does havoc.
Fox hired
Bollywood star Ranveer Singh to voice the
title role and that might have lured many of his fans.
In the
title role of the amusing
Bollywood action - melodrama «Singham,» Ajay Devgan makes his entrance emerging slowly from a vast pool of water, showing off his buff physique — shades of Daniel Craig in «Casino Royale,» or better yet, Esther Williams in one of her Technicolor aquacades, since there is an elaborate festival surrounding him.
BOLLYWOOD By Chris Chute, Maithili Rao, Nasreen Munni Kabir, Mira Nair, Jacob Levich, and Travis Crawford In a good year, the largest film industry in the world produces nearly 800
titles, with only a handful making it to western screens.
While the main characters in most movies generally survive through the final credits, in a bit of a plot twist, Warner Brothers is intent on killing off Hari Puttar (or at least the name, if not the actual character) even before the eponymously
titled,
Bollywood - produced film opens in September.