As expected, Mumbai Can Dance Saala and Take It Easy turned out to be disasters at the box office. This pretty much continues the trend of movies performing badly around the time of New Year’s Eve. There wasn’t anything going for these two films anyway; they arrived without any promotion whatsoever and didn’t have any notable names attached to them, hence a result like that was somewhat expected. As a matter of fact, it was rather surprising that they actually managed to get some kind of release because usually, small movies like these get lost in a crowd of five-six films that arrive together over a weekend.
Meanwhile, it was PK that continued to mint moolah with around 25 crore coming in over the weekend, which resulted in the movie crossing 300 crore. This is historic due to the fact that Aamir Khan is the founding member of the 100 crore (Ghajini) and the 200 crore (3 Idiots) clubs as well. Meanwhile, Rajkumar Hirani has reaffirmed his place as the Numero Uno filmmaker today when it comes to reputation as well as box-office success. As for Vidhu Vinod Chopra, he is truly one of the only surviving filmmakers from the ’80s to see such dazzling heights in his career at this age.
The film carries good potential to surpass the 320 crore mark and it should take a Salman Khan to go anywhere close to that (or cross that) with Bajrangi Bhaijaan and Prem Ratan Dhan Payo this year.