Hits '93 & Flops '93 [MOVIES]

[THE KING (SANDEEP CHOWDHURY)]

This posting was on last week and request the folks who had questions regarding
it to write back again. In my system, the article only remains for 3 days and
causes a disadvantage.

HITS 1993:-
1. Ankhen - Business over Rs. 2 crore + ["This movie is reported to have done
a box -office business of over Rs. 2 crore in each of the major distribution territories" --taken directly from the newspaper]

2. KhalNayak

3. Tirangaa

4. Hum Hain Rahi Pyaar Ke
5. Rang
6. Anari
7. Lootera
8. Baazigar
9. Damini - mainly b'cos of the music
10. Gumrah
11. Dalaal
12. Muqabla
13. Waqt humara hai
14. Aashik Aawara
15. Gardish
16. Gurudev.
17. Aadmi

MAJOR FLOPS OF 1993:-
1. Roop Ki Rani Choron Ka Raja
2. Sahibaan
3. Chandramukhi
4. Dil Tera Aashiq
5. Phool
6. Antim nyay
7. Geetanjali
8. Aadmi Khilona Hai
9. Santaan
10. Yugantaar
11. Anmol
12. Izzat Ki Roti
13. Shriman Aashiq
14. Parampara
15. Pehchaan
16. Janaam
17. Dhanwan

OFFBEAT HITS OF 1993:-
1. Roja
2. Maya Memsaheb
3. Sir
4. Rudaali
5. Aaina

OFFBEAT FLOPS OF 1993:- Dharavi

" In the last few years, the Indian film audience has matured into an extremely
independent entity. Filmmakers can no longer take it for granted, or hope to
sell their films simply on the star-cast or tried and tested formulae. The
year 1993 reinforces the audience's independence. "

This has been taken from " The Hindustan Times" dated:- December 19, 1993.

Sandeep Chowdhury
Trinity College Dublin

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[Surender Mohan]

In article <schwdhry....@unix1.tcd.ie> schw...@unix1.tcd.ie (THE KING (SANDEEP CHOWDHURY)) writes:
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>OFFBEAT HITS OF 1993:-
>1. Roja
>2. Maya Memsaheb
>3. Sir
>4. Rudaali
>5. Aaina

I am not making any comments on ratings etc. But I can not quite
understand the criterion for classifying movies as "OFFBEAT". In
this list I am in agreement with "OFFBEAT"ness of three movies,
however in my opinion "Sir" and "Aaina"(at least the new one, I am
not talking about the old one with - Rajesh Khanna & Mumtaz) should
not be classified as "OFFBEAT" movies when we have movies like -
"Damini" & "Gardish" (is not really offbeat, but..) among the
commercial movies.

What do other netters think ?

-Surender Mohan

Disclaimer : These are just my personal opinions. Others might disagree.

[Madhu Athreya]

You are right about Sir & Aaina not being OFFBEAT, guess you
could add ROJA to the list, unless of course the criterion
for OFFBEATness is the language.

[Anish K. Desai]

Madhu Athreya (ath...@birch.ee.vt.edu) wrote:
: You are right about Sir & Aaina not being OFFBEAT, guess you

: could add ROJA to the list, unless of course the criterion
: for OFFBEATness is the language.

I guess the word OFFBEAT was to have meant "critically acclaimed". So that
would qualify the above-mentioned two movies along with the truly offbeat
ones. Then again one could also add "Damini" to the list.

-anish desai