HINDI: Diwali Movies

The diwali season is turning out to be the festival of darkness at the bollywood box-office also. One of the highly hyped film of the year Don is getting mixed response all over India. The film netted a 90% opening, but collections dropped heavily to about 60% after a week. The film is doing well in cities and will recover its costs soon. It is certainly not a blockbuster. The movie is good to watch as Farhan has amended the story to suite the modern audience. But srk is nowhere near AB in all dimensions especially in that 'paan banaras' song.

Meanwhile, the other big release of the season, Jaan-e-Mann had a very disappointing opening at about 45%. The film later picked up to close the week at about 55%. The film won't recover distributor' s share in some territories and the verdict is average. It will take quite a long time till the film recover its costs.

The 3rd biggie of the season, Umrao Jaan will be released in a few days.

TAMIL: diwali movies

It was heavy competition out there in kollywood and the results are not embarassing. There's not a single big hit in the season. The collections were heavily divided by the large number of releases. As expected 'thala' Ajith scorse ahead of all with his varalaru aka godfather getting about 75% collections all through the week.

Simbu's vallavan is 2nd as the movie didn't live upto the hypes. The film lacks through story but is technically brilliant.

Jeeva's E is getting average response and its collections are picking up due to good mouth-publicity.

Arya's vattaram is also average and no improvement is expected for the movie as the film is average as well.

The biggest disappointment was Sarath kumar's directorial debut plus his 100th film talaimagan. The film is a flop and better he never try his hand in direction ever.

Vijayakanth' s dharmapuri is nothing more than a movie-promotion of his party DMDK & will be watched by his party members which won't be larger than a few hundreds in number! just joking, but this is also a flop.

MALAYALAM: diwali eid movies

Its payback time. This has been the break mammootty fans have been looking for all through this year. While eid is turning out to be the best time to release a mammootty film, double-roles are proving to be catastrophic for mohanlal. Mammooty's last eid release turned out to be greatest hit of the year and lal's last double-adventure udayon had collapsed.

This time also lal is facing double-trouble as photographer is facing a lacklustre opening and the chances of improving in collections are very less. Audiences have dumped the story of nature photographer Dijo John & his brother 'some other' John and photographer is lal's first flop of the year after the dream-run he had all through the year till now. Writer-director Ranjan Pramod stands guilty of making a film with no logic at all.

Meanwhile, mammootty's pothen vava scores much ahead of photographer simply bacause it has a little logic. And there is absolutely no magic. I watched pothen vava and its just nothing more than an ordinary entertainer. Joshy don't have anything special to offer. Mammooty handles vava with ease. And yes, he dances again in this film & I feel pity for him. Why are his directors forcing him to dance again and again while his body in no way is flexible!. But he handles comedy scenes so easily. Usha uthup's mom character, with a scent of the 'anappara achammma' in godfather is also well-etched. There are some good comedy scenes and the movie is watchable. After the moderately successful turuppugulan & balram vs taradas and disasters prajapathy & BCMK, mammoos is back from the ashes just like a pheonix bird. Producer Lal will recover his costs while photographer' s producer Howly Pottoor will suffer holes in his purse. Suresh Gopi's Bada Dosth is just released and its fate is not decided. The trailer looks promising & the downfall of photographer will surely help the film.