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Thursday, October 15, 2009
COLLECTIONS
BOX-OFFICE COLLECTIONS 2
Weekend: June 20 - 22, 2008.
* Mere Baap Pehle Aap [last weekend: No. 13, this weekend: No. 18]: In its second weekend, the film has collected £ 53,295 on 30 screens, with the per screen average working out to £ 1,777. Total: £ 2,06,272 [approx. Rs. 1.74 crores].
The breakdown:- Friday: £ 12,684; Saturday: £ 23,987; Sunday: £ 16,624.
* Dasavatharam [Tamil film; last weekend: No. 12, this weekend: No. 19]: In its second weekend, the film has collected £ 44,703 on 19 screens, with the per screen average working out to £ 2,353. Total: £ 2,16,031 [approx. Rs. 1.82 crores].
The breakdown:- Friday: £ 9,777; Saturday: £ 18,325; Sunday: £ 16,601.
* Sarkar Raj [last weekend: No. 15, this weekend: No. 23]: In its third weekend, the film has collected £ 15,715 on 26 screens, with the per screen average working out to £ 604. Total: £ 3,70,729 [approx. Rs. 3.12 crores].
The breakdown:- Friday: £ 3,038; Saturday: £ 6,610; Sunday: £ 6,067.
* De Taali has debuted at No. 25 position. In its opening weekend, the film has collected £ 10,264 [approx. Rs. 8.64 lacs] on 7 screens, with the per screen average working out to £ 1,466.
The breakdown:- Friday: £ 2,674; Saturday: £ 4,247; Sunday: £ 3,343.
THIS WEEKEND IN U.K.
[Based on screen averages]
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The performance of Dasavatharam is very impressive not only in the domestic market but also in the overseas segment. As per the Malaysian Box office collections report for the period June 12 to 15, the films stands in second position having grossed $601,307, being screened at 58 theatres. At the first position is ‘The Incredible Hulk’. |
In the United Kingdom, where generally Bollywood films rule the roost, Dasavatharam stands at 11th position having piped Ram Gopal Verma’s Sarkar Raj to 16th place in the period June13th to June 15th. The film has grossed $ 246,677. Though the film is being screened at a few theatres, it is reported to be doing well in terms of percentage collections.
This is a historic moment for all of us from South India to be very proud of. As Dasavatharam has placed 7th in the overseas weekend box office for the week ending June 13-15. This data is taken from a well known authentic infact one of the leading box office reporting sites in the world called Boxofficemojo.com. Dasavatharam is the First Time a Tamil Movie has ever been placed in the top 10 at the International Box Office chart being published in this website with a total collection of $4,632,719 (US Figures). The collection equals to approximately 19.7 Crores for 3 days.
In UK Box Office Dasavatharam on it’s 2nd weekend (June 20- 22) is in the 19th position with a collection of $88,311 (US Figures) or Rs.37.63 Lakhs. The drop of 64.2 % is the norm for all Tamil Movies being released there. It will without a doubt become the 2nd Highest Grossing Tamil Movie ever there by next weekend behind Sivaji and this will be the only “overseas” market where it has no chance of catching up to Sivaji’s gross. Dasavatharam is clearly way ahead in terms of “overall” collection in all other territories combined.
As you can see the collection figures of Sivaji was $3,705,252 (US Figures) or Rs. 15.8 Crore. Whereas the Box Office figures for Dasavatharam after the same time period from the same amount of territories is Rs.49.67 Crore. Therefore it can easily be proclaimed as the Highest Grossing Movie in the History of Tamil Cinema
Bad Reviews, Mixed Reviews or Excellent Reviews never decides the fate of a movie at the box office. It can certainly help or hurt it a little bit but it’s ultimately the paying public who are the judges when it comes to which movies becomes a BLOCKBUSTER or a Flop. In the case of DASAVATHARAM the public has given it two BIG thumbs up and welcomed it with open arms despite a continuous effort from a lot of people from different sectors to downplay it’s success at the Box Office….the actual numbers however tell an entirely different story altogether which cannot be ignored.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
AWARDS
National Film Awards
- 1960 — National Film Award for Best Child Artist for Kalathur Kannamma- President's gold medal- First film
- 1982 — Best Actor Award for Moondram Pirai
- 1987 — Best Actor Award for Nayagan
- 1996 — Best Actor Award for Indian
INDIAN PANORAMA
- NAYAGAN, PESUM PADAM, HEY RAM, ANBE SIVAM, SAAGARA SANGAMAM
ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL
- SAAGARA SANGAMAM. SWATHI MUTHYAM AND NAYAGAN- BEST FILM
Hindi
- 1986 — Best Actor Award for Saagar
- 1998 — Best Story Award for Virasat
Kannada
- 1988 — Best Actor Award for Pushpak
Malayalam
- 1974 — Best Actor Award for Kanyakumari
- 1978 — Best Actor Award for Yaetta
Tamil
- 1975 — Best Actor Award for Apoorva Raagangal
- 1976 — Best Actor Award for Oru Oodhappu Kan Simittugiradhu
- 1977 — Best Actor Award for 16 Vayadhinile
- 1978 — Best Actor Award for Sigappu Rojakal
- 1981 — Best Actor Award for Raja Paarvai
- 1991 — Best Actor Award for Guna
- 1992 — Best Actor Award for Thevar Magan
- 1995 — Best Actor Award for Kuruthipunal
- 1996 — Best Actor Award for Indian
- 2000 — Best Actor Award for Hey Ram
Telugu
- 1981 — Best Actor Award for Aakali Rajyam
- 1983 — Best Actor Award for Sagara Sangamam
- 1989 — Best Actor Award for Indrudu Chandrudu
Tamil Nadu State Film Awards
- 1991 — Special Award for Guna
- 1992 — Best Actor Award for Devar Magan
- 1996 — Best Actor Award for Indian
- 2006 — Best Actor Award for Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu
- 2008 — Best Actor Award for Dasavathaaram
Nandi Awards
- 1983 — Best Actor Award for Saagara Sangamam
- 1986 — Best Actor Award for Swathi Muthyam
- 1989 — Best Actor Award for Indrudu Chandrudu
CANNES INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
- 2004- ANBE SIVAM- BEST FILM
LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL - SWISS, HONULULU FILM FESTIVAL.SAN FRANSISCO FILM FESTIVAL
- HEY RAM- BEST SCRIPT
MAURITIUS FILM FESTIVAL
- VARUMAYIN NIRAM SIVAPPU- BEST FILM- TAMIL Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival
- 2004 — Best Film Award for Virumaandi
Star Vijay TV Awards
- 2007 - Sivaji Ganesan Award for Lifetime Achievement in Tamil Cinema
- 2008 - Best Villain Award for Dasavatharam
- 2008 - Best Comedian Award for Dasavatharam
- 2008 - Best Story-Screenplay Writer Award for Dasavatharam
- 2008 - Most Popular Hero Of The Year Award for Dasavatharam
BEST FORIEGN FILM CATEGORY(OSCAR AWARDS)
SWATHI MUTHYAM, SAAGAR, INDIAN, HEY RAM, NAYAGAN, DEVAR MAGAN.KURUDHI PUNAL
TIME MAGAZINE: NAYAGAN-best 100 films of all time by the Time Magazine- A terrific gangster epic in the Godfather style. Special honours
- 1990 — Padma Shri
- 2004 All the awards presented to him were for his artistic talent. He got the first Abraham Kovoor National Award for his Humanist Activities and Secular Life in 2004.
- 2005 — Honorary Doctorate
- 2009 — FICCI Living Legend
Hindi
- 1986 — Best Actor Award for Saagar
- 1998 — Best Story Award for Virasat
Kannada
- 1988 — Best Actor Award for Pushpak
Malayalam
- 1974 — Best Actor Award for Kanyakumari
- 1978 — Best Actor Award for Yaetta
Tamil
- 1975 — Best Actor Award for Apoorva Raagangal
- 1976 — Best Actor Award for Oru Oodhappu Kan Simittugiradhu
- 1977 — Best Actor Award for 16 Vayadhinile
- 1978 — Best Actor Award for Sigappu Rojakal
- 1981 — Best Actor Award for Raja Paarvai
- 1991 — Best Actor Award for Guna
- 1992 — Best Actor Award for Thevar Magan
- 1995 — Best Actor Award for Kuruthipunal
- 1996 — Best Actor Award for Indian
- 2000 — Best Actor Award for Hey Ram
Telugu
- 1981 — Best Actor Award for Aakali Rajyam
- 1983 — Best Actor Award for Sagara Sangamam
- 1989 — Best Actor Award for Indrudu Chandrudu
Tamil Nadu State Film Awards
- 1991 — Special Award for Guna
- 1992 — Best Actor Award for Devar Magan
- 1996 — Best Actor Award for Indian
- 2006 — Best Actor Award for Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu
- 2008 — Best Actor Award for Dasavathaaram
Nandi Awards
- 1983 — Best Actor Award for Saagara Sangamam
- 1986 — Best Actor Award for Swathi Muthyam
- 1989 — Best Actor Award for Indrudu Chandrudu
Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival
- 2004 — Best Film Award for Virumaandi
Star Vijay TV Awards
- 2007 - Sivaji Ganesan Award for Lifetime Achievement in Tamil Cinema
- 2008 - Best Villain Award for Dasavatharam
- 2008 - Best Comedian Award for Dasavatharam
- 2008 - Best Story-Screenplay Writer Award for Dasavatharam
- 2008 - Most Popular Hero Of The Year Award for Dasavatharam
Special honours
- 1990 — Padma Shri
- 2004 All the awards presented to him were for his artistic talent. He got the first Abraham Kovoor National Award for his Humanist Activities and Secular Life in 2004.
- 2005 — Honorary Doctorate
- 2009 — FICCI Living Legend
FILM PROFILE
Early career: 1960s – early 1970s
Kamal Haasan made his film debut as a 6-year-old child artiste, in the film Kalathur Kannamma, which was released in 1960, directed by A. Bhimsingh. He was cast along with the Tamil actor Gemini Ganesan in the film. He acted as a child actor in five other Tamil films in the subsequent few years co-starring with Sivaji Ganesan and M. G. Ramachandran.
Following a nine year hiatus from films, to concentrate on his education,Haasan returned with a series of low budget films in 1972, in all of which he played supporting roles. These films included roles in Arangetram and Sollathaan Ninaikkiren, both co-starring Sivakumar. His final supporting role before establishing himself as a lead actor was in Naan Avanillai. In the interim, he starred in numerous Malayalam films (41) and considers the Malayalam film industry as his Alma Mater. He admires the Malayalam film industry for nurturing thespians such as Satyan, Kottarakkara Sreedharan Nair, P.J.Antony, Aravindan, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, M.T.Vasudevan, Bharathan, Padmarajan, Lohithadas, Mohanlal, and Mammootty. It is here that he won his first acting award as an adult - Filmfare award for the best actor in Kanyakumari. He later won his second Filmfare best actor award in Malayalam for the I.V.Sasi film Eetta.
Late 1970s – 1980s
Kamal Haasan first received a regional Filmfare Award for acting for his role in the Malayalam film Kanyakumari (1974).
In the next four years, he won six regional Best Actor Filmfare Awards,including four consecutive Best Tamil Actor Awards. He acted in director K. Balachander's Apoorva Raagangal, an exploration of age-gap relationships. The late 1970s was a period that saw Kamal Haasan's frequent collaboration with K. Balachander, who also cast him in many of his socially-themed films such as Avargal (1977). The film won Haasan his first Filmfare Best Tamil Actor Award. In 1976, Haasan appeared in the drama Moondru Mudichu with Rajinikanth and Sridevi, another K. Balachander film, Manmadha Leelai, and Oru Oodhappu Kan Simittugiradhu, which won him his second consecutive Best Actor Award. 16 Vayathinile won him his third consecutive award, where he appeared as an mentally ill villager, once again alongside Rajinikanth and Sridevi. The fourth consecutive award came with Sigappu Rojakal in which he appeared as an anti-hero who is a psychopathic sexual killer. In the late seventies, Haasan appeared in other films such as the comedy Ninaithale Inikkum and the horror film, Neeya.
Till 1985, Haasan began to appear in more Hindi language films , including Saagar, for which he was awarded both the Filmfare Best Actor Award and the Best Supporting Actor Award, making him the first actor to win both awards for a single film.Saagar portrayed him alongisde Rishi Kapoor both of whom were pinning for a woman, but Haasan ultimately loses out. Haasan also appeared in Geraftaar. He featured in Tamil cinema's first sequel Japanil Kalyanaraman, which followed up his previous, Kalyanaraman as well as acting in Uruvangal Maralam co-starring Sivaji Ganesan and Rajinikanth.
In the mid-1980s, Haasan appeared in two Telugu language films, Sagara Sangamam and Swathi Muthyam with director, Kasinadhuni Viswanath. The latter film was India's representative for the Academy Award for the Best Foreign Language Film in 1986.Whilst, the former film portrayed Haasan as a drunkard classical dancer, Swathi Muthyam portrays him as an autistic person attempting to change society. Following Punnagai Mannan, in which he portrays dual roles including a satire of Charlie Chaplin and Vetri Vizha as an amnesiac, Haasan appeared in Mani Rathnam's 1987 film Nayagan. Nayagan portrays the life of an underworld don in Bombay. The story revolves around the life of a real-life underworld don called Varadarajan Mudaliar, whilst sympathetically depicting the struggle of South Indians living in Mumbai. Haasan received a Indian National Award for his performance and Nayagan was nominated by India as its entry for the Best Foreign Language Film for the Academy Awards in 1987 as well as being included in the Time top 100 movies list. In 1988, Haasan appeared in his only silent film to date; appearing in the black comedy, Pushpak. In 1989, Haasan played a triple role in Apoorva Sagodharargal. The commercial film portrayed him in a role as a dwarf. He then attempted dual roles in Indru Chandru and its Tamil remake, winning the regional Best Actor Award for his performance.
The 1990s
Michael Madhana Kamarajan in 1991 saw Haasan go one step further, acting in four different roles as quadruplets, the film started an ongoing collabaration for comedy films between Haasan and Crazy Mohan, a dialogue writer. Haasan won successive best actor awards for his portrayal of the protagonist in Guna and in Thevar Magan, where he played the son of actor, Sivaji Ganesan. After films such as Singaravelan, Maharasan and Kalaignan; Haasan began to appear in comedies such as Sathi Leelavathi, based on the English film She-Devil, as well as renewing his collobaration with Kasinadhuni Viswanath in Telugu language film, Subha Sankalpam. In 1996, Haasan starred in the police story, Kuruthipunal. His success in Kuruthipunal, was followed by his third National Film Award for Best Actor in Indian. Playing dual roles of a freedom fighter and his untrustful son, the film also won Haasan regional awards and plaudits for his portrayal.
Haasan appeared as a woman in Avvai Shanmughi. In 1997, Haasan began his first directorial venture, the biopic of Mohammed Yusuf Khan, Marudhanayagam which failed to complete its schedules with only half an hour and a trailer being recorded during its shoot Haasan soon made his debut as director with a remake of Avvai Shanmughi in Hindi titled Chachi 420.
2000s: Hey Ram and onwards
Following a two-year hiatus in Indian cinema, Haasan opted against reviving his magnum opus, Marudhanayagam, and filmed his second directorial venture, Hey Ram, a period drama told in flashback with a semi-fictional plot centering around India's Partition and the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. Haasan also took on roles as the writer, the lyricist and the choreographer as well as producing the film under his home banner. His following film was Aalavandhan, where he portrayed two distinct roles, for one of which he had his head tonsured and gained ten kilograms.
Following a series of comedies in Thenali, Panchathantiram and Pammal K. Sambandam and a couple of guest appearances, Haasan directed his third feature film in Virumaandi, a film about the death penalty. Haasan also appeared in Anbe Sivam alongside Madhavan. Priyadarshan, who started the film, departed allowing commercial director Sundar C to complete the film. Anbe Sivam told the story of Nallasivam, enacted by Haasan as an idealist, social activist and communist. Kamal Haasan's performance was highly lauded by critics with The Hindu stating that Haasan "has once again done Tamil cinema proud".
Haasan appeared in the remake film Vasool Raja alongside Sneha. In 2006, Haasan's long delayed project, Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu emerged. Gautham Menon's Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu was Haasan's first cop film since Kuruthipunal. In 2008, Haasan delivered Dasavathaaram playing ten roles. Pairing opposite Asin Thottumkal, Haasan reprises ten roles in the film. Currently, prior to Marmayogi, Haasan is producing and starring in a quick venture, titled Unnaipol Oruvan, co-starring him with Mohanlal in Tamil and Venkatesh in Telugu which is said to mark Haasan's fiftieth year of acting. Kamal Haasan's daughter Shruthi Haasan is the music composer of Unnaipol Oruvan. The movie got released in both the languages on September 18 2009 and received hit talk. The movie got good response from all the released centers.