Bhatts are
carrying on the legacy. If Mahesh Bhatt’s protégés have been making waves
for years now, even Vikram Bhatt is turning out to be a mentor worth
acknowledging. Earlier he extended an opportunity to Bhushan Patel and the
director delivered with 1920 – Evil Returns. Later, he got further
commercial success with Ragini MMS 2. Now Vishal Pandya, another
Vikram Bhatt protégé, has made good use of the second opportunity meted out to
him after Three – Love, Lies, Betrayal by
delivering a bonafide success in Hate Story 2.
Now that’s a
good trend for the industry where seniors are pushing forward the case of the
new entrants.
Coming to Hate
Story 2, the film was all set to be on a safe path after a good
first day and by the time first weekend came to a close, it was stepping into a
zone where profits were waiting to be made. This is indeed happening now, what
with 25.60 crore coming in after the first week. The
film stayed well on course right through the weekdays too and though there
won’t be much to add on from this point on due to Kick onslaught,
it has spelled good news for the industry which has added one more success to
its tally. Moreover, another good perform in the form of Surveen Chawla has
also made her presence felt.
Amit Sahni Ki List and Pizza 3D continued to find their
share of audience, but on the lower side, what with a little over 4
crore each coming
in. Though both had seen some good escalation over the weekend, it was purely
on relative terms since cumulative collections were sill not the kind which
immediately bring a film in the safety zone.
Pizza 3D in
particular is a costlier product and such low numbers don’t help the cause. Amit
Sahni Ki List has low costs though and now with word of mouth
being good, it has chances of finding some good moolah coming from ancillary
rights, which should help it enter the green zone.