March 2nd Week Releases: How Has Bollywood Performed At The Box Office In The Past 10 Years?

Koimoi takes a journey down memory lane, reminiscing about Bollywood films which have rocked and bombed at the box office in the second week of March.

Hope everybody had a great Holi! The festival of colours brought with it an extended weekend giving an opportunity to travel enthusiasts to escape to nearby weekend getaways and breathe some fresh air. While the rest of India enjoyed Holi with gujia, gulaal and water-colour and balloons, Bollywood celebs added the glamour factor to the celebrations in Mumbai!

On the film front, Bollywood’s Holi release Badrinath Ki Dulhania, which hit theatres on the 10th, has grossed a whopping Rs 73.66 crores in just one week! If this is the collection in the first week, we wonder what’s in store for its lifetime collection! While wishing more success to Alia, Varun and team Badrinath, we move on to recollect films released in the second week of March, which have rocked and shocked the box office in the last 10 years.

(Please rotate your screen for best viewing)

Year	Films Released In March Second Week	Release Date
2017	Badrinath Ki Dulhania	10th March
2016	Global Baba	11th March
2016	Teraa Surroor	11th March
2015	NH10	13th March
2014	Bewakoofiyaan	14th March
2014	Neighbours: They Are Vampires	14th March
2014	W	14th March
2013	Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster Returns	8th March
2013	Saare Jahaan Se Mehnga	8th March
2013	3G	8th March
2012	Kahaani	9th March
2012	Chaar Din Ki Chandni	9th March
2011	N/A
2010	Do Dilon Ke Khel Mein	12th March
2010	Hide & Seek	12th March
2010	Na Ghar Ke Na Ghaat Ke	12th March
2010	Right Yaaa Wrong	12th March
2010	Trump Card	12th March
2009	Jai Veeru	13th March
2009	Little Zizou	13th March
2009	Gulaal	13th March
2008	26th July at Barista	14th March
2007	1971	9th March
2007	Red: The Dark Side	9th March
2007	Wounded: The Bandit Queen	9th March

While March 2nd week has witnessed memorable hits like Kahaani and NH 10, it has unfortunately delivered several flop films which have faded into oblivion soon after their release. As I’ve said time and again that the box office is equally unpredictable as the human mind, some of these films bear testimony to that. Manoj Bajpayee starrer 1971 for instance bagged the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi that year but failed to leave a mark at the box office. Enough talking, let’s have a look at the numbers now!

(Please rotate your screen for best viewing)

Films	Director	Cast	Box Office Collection (In Cr)	Verdict
Badrinath Ki Dulhania	Shashank Khaitan	Varun Dhawan Alia Bhatt Gauahar Khan Mohit Marwah Aakanksha Singh	68.60	(Still Running)
Global Baba	Manoj Sidheshwari	Abhimanyu Singh Sandeepa Dhar Ravi Kishan Pankaj Tripathi Sanjay Mishra	00.10	Flop
Teraa Surroor	Shawn Arranha	Himesh Reshammiya Farah Karimaee Naseeruddin Shah Shekhar Kapur Kabir Bedi	14.15	Plus*
NH10	Navdeep Singh	Anushka Sharma Neil Bhoopalam Darshan Kumaar Deepti Naval	32.10	Hit
Bewakoofiyaan	Nupur Asthana	Ayushmann Khurrana Sonam Kapoor Rishi Kapoor	14.00	Flop
Neighbours: They Are Vampires	Shyam Ramsay	Arbaaz Ali Khan Roushika Reikhi Shakti Kapoor Gavie Chahal	00.07	Flop
W	Tarun Madan Chopra	Leeza Mangaldas Leslie Tripathy Sonal Giani Raaj Singh Arora Danish Pandor Abhey Jit Attri Meer Ali Gagan Guru	N/A
Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster Returns	Tigmanshu Dhulia	Jimmy Shergill Mahi Gill Irrfan Khan Soha Ali Khan	19.00	Plus
Saare Jahaan Se Mehnga	Anshul Sharma	Sanjay_Mishra Pragati Pandey Zakir Hussain Vishwa Mohan Badola	00.84	Flop
3G	Sheershak Anand	Neil Nitin Mukesh Sonal Chauhan Mrinalini Sharma Asheesh Kapur	05.75	Flop
Kahaani	Sujoy Ghosh	Vidya Balan Parambrata Chatterjee Nawazuddin Siddiqui Indraneil Sengupta Saswata Chatterjee Kharaj Mukherjee	59.26	Super-hit
Chaar Din Ki Chandni	Samir Karnik	Kulraj Randhawa Tusshar Kapoor Anupam Kher Om Puri Mukul Dev Johny Lever	05.06	Flop
Do Dilon Ke Khel Mein	Aakash Pandey	Rajesh Khanna Nausheen Sardar Ali Annu Kapoor Satish Kaushik Sonika Gill	00.03	Flop
Hide & Seek	Shawn Arranha	Purab Kohli Mrinalini Sharma Arjan Bajwa	N/A
Na Ghar Ke Na Ghaat Ke	Rahul Aggarwal	Rahul Aggarwal Paresh Rawal Om Puri Ravi Kishan Narayani Shastri Neena Gupta	00.82	Flop
Right Yaaa Wrong	Neeraj Pathak	Sunny Deol Irrfan Khan Konkona Sen Sharma Isha Koppikar Aryan Vaid	04.11	Flop
Trump Card	Arshad Khan	Vishwajeet Pradhan Vikram Kumar Haidar Ali Urvashi Chaudhary	00.02	Flop
Jai Veeru	Puneet Sira	Fardeen Khan Kunal Khemu Dia Mirza Anjana Sukhani	05.00	Flop
Little Zizou	Sooni Taraporevala	Boman Irani Sohrab Ardeshir Imaad Shah Shernaz Patel Zenobia Shroff Dilshad Patel John Abraham	01.17	Flop
Gulaal	Anurag Kashyap	Kay Kay Menon Deepak Dobriyal Piyush Mishra Mahi Gill	04.27	Flop
26th July at Barista	Mohan Sharma	Kabir Sawhney Simran Vaid Rohini Hatangdi Seema Pande Ashish Duggal Amita Nagia	00.09	Flop
1971	Amrit Sagar	Manoj Bajpayee Ravi Kishan Chitaranjan Giri Kumud Mishra Manav Kaul Deepak Dobriyal Piyush Mishra Vivek Mishra	00.40	Flop
Red: The Dark Side	Vikram Bhatt	Aftab Shivdasani Celina Jaitley Amrita Arora Sushant Singh	04.50	Flop
Wounded: The Bandit Queen	Krishna Mishra	Kanhaiya Seema Parihar Sushama Das Kailash Bajpai Anjali Pandey	N/A

*Plus – Film which recovers investment & yields some profit

A series of flops punctuated by a few hits— I must say that’s a disappointing performance. Shashank Khaitan’s second directorial in the Dulhania franchise, Badrinath Ki Dulhania is perhaps the biggest hit March week 2 has witnessed in the last 10 years after Sujoy Ghosh’s Kahaani. Varun Dhawan-Alia Bhatt’s jodi will perhaps make March second week a memorable time to release films! With already a whopping Rs 73.66 crores in its kitty, that too just in one week, the rom-com is on its way to create history.

Four films are releasing this week— Abbas-Mustan’s romantic thriller Machine, which marks the acting debut of filmmaker Abbas’ son Mustafa alongside Kiara Advani, Govinda’s Aa Gaya Hero, Mantra and Rajkummar Rao’s survival thriller Trapped, helmed by Vikramaditya Motwane. Let’s see how the new releases perform!