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My Name Is Khan Makes Record $1.86 Million in USA
03 March 2010
Shah Rukh Khan starring My Name Is Khan has broken record for the largest opening weekend ever for a Hindi film in North America.
MNIK grossed an estimated $1.86 million at the box office in its first weekend in USA. Worldwide MNIK grossed $14. 2 million over the weekend, according to distributor Fox.
The movie is getting good reviews from US critics with variety.com saying “This riotously overstuffed and enormously enjoyable drama races forward with incredible drive.”
The Los Angeles Times called it “a sweeping epic in the melodramatic Bollywood manner yet emerges as a potent, engaging and timely entertainment.” MNIK “is a potent, energetic heart-tugger and Khan and Kajol, major Bollywood stars, are highly appealing and equal to the demand of their emotion-charged roles.”
“At its best My Name Is Khan, set mainly in America, is an affecting fairy tale about the perils of goodness,” said the New York Times.
“‘Khan’ is one of a handful of Hindi films (New York, “Kurbaan) about Indians living in a paranoid, post-9/11 America, and there’s something fascinating about looking at this country through a Bollywood lens, even when the story is a kind of fairy tale.”
“Skillfully directed by Karan Johar and with an evocative score by Shankar, Ehsaan & Loy, ‘Khan’ jerks tears with ease, while teaching lessons about Islam and tolerance,” the Times said.
My Name Is Khan opened on Friday with $444,000, rose 65 per cent to $734,000 on Saturday, and is estimated to dip 7 per cent to $682,000 on Sunday, Valentine’s Day.
Monday’s Presidents’ Day holiday in the US will lead to a four-day debut of more than $2 million.
MNIK also generated the highest per-theatre average of any film in the Top 20 over the weekend.
The Fox Searchlight release directed by Karan Johar averaged $15,500 from 120 theatres across the United States and Canada over Feb 12-14 weekend. The previous record was held by Shah Rukh’s musical extravaganza Om Shanti Om which grossed $1.76 million from 114 theatres when it was released over the Diwali holiday weekend in 2007.
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