‘Bol’ beats ‘My Name Is Khan’ record

[American Pakistani]

‘Bol’ beats ‘My Name Is Khan’ record
Updated at: 0939 PST, Friday, July 01, 2011


KARACHI: Shoaib Mansoor’s movie ‘Bol’ released under the banner of Geo Films has not only established new success records, it has even set a new business record at the box office. It has become the film earning the highest gross in the first week of release, smashing all previous records.

Shah Rukh Khan’s film “My Name Is Khan” had done business of Rs21.658 million in a week, whereas ‘Bol’ has done business of Rs22.038 million in just six days. It is expected that when record of the full week is available, this film will make a gross earning of Rs25 million setting up new business record.

It may be recalled that ‘Khuda Key Liye’ the first movie of Shoaib Mansoor too had set up new records and now his second venture is maintaining the tradition. A large number of fans are making a beeline to cinemas and multiplexes. Families are specially being attracted to the movie and they want to see it at the earliest. Since its first show on June 24, the film is continuously on the march to success. By thronging the cinemas, viewers have proved that if good and standard films are produced, they will definitely be attracted to cinema houses.

http://http://www.geo.tv/7-1-2011/83169.htm

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Always nice to see healthy competition for general public we miss the golden era of movies and dramas in our theatres

 

[Masterchief]

Khuda ke liye was a very good movie, how can i download 'bol' from internet for free?

 

[Malik Usman]

Shoaib Mansoor is the best..............First his Dramas no PTV (Sonhery Din, Alpha Bravo Charli) Then Movies (Kuda Ke Ley and BOL)

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Khuda ke liye was a very good movie, how can i download 'bol' from internet for free?

Check on the www.********.com......................If you can find free download movie

 

[Respect4Respect01]

good to hear some good news.

 

[saurav]

BOL: A review

The film opens with the president of the country in his office attending to business which shocked a few in the audience, including the lady in the next row who had some choice words about our president’s work ethics.

BOL is the story of a Hakeem Sahib in old Lahore who fathered a whopping 14 kids; of them seven daughters and a son, who is not really a son (this is an actual dialogue in the film, I did not come up with this cheesy line) survived. He is a grumpy, old man who hates everyone in his family and uses religion to control them. He is not fond of women in general and his daughters in particular, but he hates his eunuch progeny (Saifi) the most. He at least sent his daughters to school till the fifth grade but poor Saifi never leaves the house, the only people he has ever seen apart from his family, are the neighbours.

The neighbours’ have a son, played by Atif Aslam, who is sort of courting one of Hakim Sahab’s daughters on their combined rooftop with the help of their respective siblings, who for lack of any other more fulfilling activity, keep an eye and make sure that the party breaks every day before Hakim sahib makes an entrance.

The film has so many plot glitches that even when a viewer is willing to give the director a lot of room for artistic liberties, one cannot overlook them. For instance, Hakim Sahab lamented the survival of his seven daughters countless times throughout the length of the film, but the director decided to get stingy and cast just five girls to play the daughters. There is no mention if the other two girls are married or killed (because Hakim Sahab likes to kill his children when he feels like it) or have turned into ghosts because that’s what they certainly felt like.

Even though it was Atif Aslam’s character that was partly responsible for the molestation of Saifi’s character, he remained miraculously guilt free. Most medical students get a measly stipend when they start house jobs but Atif Aslam being Atif Aslam somehow hits the jackpot and buys a TV and cell phones for everyone with his first salary!

The casting was way off the mark, with exception of Humaima Malick, Manzer Sehbai and Shafqat Cheema, everyone else looked out of place. Atif Aslam is wooden and every time he says the word Baji, he sounds like a whiny, younger brother who has been banished from Baji’s room. Mrs Hakim Sahab is worth a mention too , if only to be forgiven for the numerous plastic surgeries which make her incapable of expressing any emotion at all. Hakim Sahab is dirt poor, but the girls who are cast as his daughters look stylish with their posh diction and Rs 5,000 haircuts.

Though both Hakim Sahab and Mrs Hakim Sahab are never shown to have imparted a word of wisdom to their daughters and they have no other source of getting exposure to new ideas and thoughts, their knowledge, level of awareness and confidence is mindboggling. The eldest panchvi paas daughter argues most eloquently on religion and the other panchvi paas daughter makes music, sings, dances and gets rid of her stage fright in 30 seconds straight. The rest of the panchvi paas daughters break into graceful dances the minute Hakim Sahab steps out of the house even though they have never seen anyone dancing, you know no TV and contact with outside world and all.

Shahid Afridi’s status as the national heart throb is further solidified when it was revealed that Hakim Sahab’s panchvi paas, stay-at-home daughters idolize him. The mother who remained either pregnant or lactating for most of her adult life (14 children) and used to get regularly beaten up by Hakim Sahab also suddenly evolves the minute Hakim Sahab leaves the scene. A woman who has never cooked anything other than Daal (because they couldn’t afford anything else) turns into a gourmet chef and an entrepreneur par excellence; turning the family’s fortune around. Though irrelevant to the plot, she also starts using hair dye after making it big as a restaurant owner.

What I found most refreshing was how the film was received among the audience. The film is a three-hour-long advertisement for family planning and the virtues of having a small family are repeatedly stated, yet none of the usual suspects have called it un-Islamic. One character openly asks others to take off their hijabs, leave the four walls of the home and experience life; yet the film has not attracted any major fatwa. I know it is not much but it gives me hope for a Pakistan where people are tolerant and fatwas are hard to come by.

BOL: A review | Blog | DAWN.COM

 

[Rafi]

I thought it was a good film - well acted - critics being critics will always find something to complain about -

 

[mehru]

Overall it was a good effort no matter how many loopholes the movie has. After many years, i went to cinema to watch a movie and i am sure many Pakistanis will say the same.

 

[Bond]

The link is not working. Anybody has details about these figures of earnings? Are these earnings only from Pakistan market?

My name is Khan was a internationaly hit movie; it is not wise to compare Bol earnings with MNIK's.

 

[Rafi]

The link is not working. Anybody has details about these figures of earnings? Are these earnings only from Pakistan market?

My name is Khan was a internationaly hit movie; it is not wise to compare Bol earnings with MNIK's.

This is also an international film like KKL was, KKL made some very good money overseas, and I think the earnings are for Pakistan only.

 

[Rafi]

 

[FreekiN]

I'd buy it but there is no means for me to. Where can I watch online?

 

[xataxsata]

My Name Is Khan is a flop and bull crap movie. Its surprising that in pakistan it have created records and dominated pakistan for so long.

Khuda ke liye was a good movie and that movie was broadcasted on India's national channel Doordarshan by Govt. of India.

 

[Ahmad Abdullah Ravian]

The link is not working. Anybody has details about these figures of earnings? Are these earnings only from Pakistan market?

My name is Khan was a internationaly hit movie; it is not wise to compare Bol earnings with MNIK's.

Hehe what not wise ....? seemed shocked !!!

 

[ElrondInRivenDelhi]

My Name Is Khan can't be said to have worked even in India. The lead actor looks like a pig, and the director is more suited for daily soaps. Bol is probably a better movie, though I haven't seen it. No one will say that good movies are not made in Pakistan. It's just that not a lot of movies are made in Pakistan.