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KARACHI: If Waar was called the “unstoppable” film at the box office then Dhoom 3 will be the “invincible” one as it has achieved most of the milestones in half the time.
It started off with the highest first day collections but now Dhoom 3 has set a new record of having the biggest first-week box office collection by any film in Pakistan. In seven days, Dhoom 3 managed to gather a total of around Rs123 million. The previous record holder for first week collections was Waar with a nine-day collection of Rs95 million.
Given that another weekend is in sight and winter vacations are underway, the film is expected to earn a total of Rs250 million in Pakistan. This will make Dhoom 3 the highest-grossing film in the history of Pakistani box office, beating Waar’s total business of around Rs220 million as of December 25.
Into its 44th day in cinemas, Waar is still playing with limited number of shows at Atrium Cinema, Karachi and Centaurus Cinema, Islamabad. However, that will most likely not have a big impact on its present total collection.
Additionally, due to a petition filed in the Lahore High Court (LHC), the Central Board Film Censorship (CBFC) has been given a stay order and there are contentions about the issuance of No Objection Certificate (NOC) to smuggled Indian films. If there is a decrease in Indian films being imported into Pakistan in the imminent future, Dhoom 3 will likely stay on the screens longer. This in turn could lead Dhoom 3 to become the first film to achieve the Rs300 million milestone.
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Dhoom3 is useless movie. I think dhoom2 was better.
Doom3 without Aamir khan wouldn't have achieved such success. Script don't make any sense. Doom 3 is hit at box office because of Aamir khans fan followings.
@Umer: "Does writer even knows budget of both films?"
It is irrelevant. The author is not comparing global collections of Dhoom 3 with Waar or even comparing domestic collections of Waar with domestic collections of Dhoom 3. All Hollywood movies have a higher budget than Waar but do they have greater collections than Waar i Pakistan?
So many Hollywod movies which have had far greater budgets than Dhoom 3 have not earned even a small fraction of what Dhoom 3 did in India.
So your point about budget is only related to profitability of a movie which takes into account global collections from all sources including satellite rights, music rights, international screenings, merchandising rights and so on.
@jssidhoo: "We Indians and Pakistanis can fight over anything i hope we can agree about things like sunrise and sunset ?"
Sunrise and sunset .....may be. But, cannot agree on moon sightings. Even in Pakistan, not everyone agree on this.
We Indians and Pakistanis can fight over anything i hope we can agree about things like sunrise and sunset ?
Extremely dragged, incomprehensible action/chase scenes, weak plot, poor chemistry, no transitions between scenes, completely ungripping, and sheer waste of time is what Dhoom 3 is all about. It's such a shame that out top media group is prmoting such a nonsensical movie (just because it got the movie smuggled uinto Pakistan). Every news hour, the success of this movie is being shown like no movie has been brilliant like it... Truly shameful. Even Tom & Jerry cartoons have more logic than Dhoom 3.
Dhoom3 doesnt prove a thing +++++++++++++++++++++ Waar is a Big Victory for Pakistan.
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Katrina is Katrina yaaar.......argument Khatam
Who cares...
Express Tribune = Hollywood Reporter of Pakistan = Awesomeness
ISPR is soon going to ban tribune for honest box office coverage
I am gonna make a movie about a police on Motorcycles, cast some plastic doll girl, make here do some provocative songs, get a really intelligent mastermind villain, who uses technology ahead of it's time, then the villain is trapped by a girl, the police finds the villain.. this is the genuine plot of all the 3 Dhoom movies... Every single thing in this movie, even the title song is the same, even the video songs are the same, if any one thinks that this Dhoom movie is amazing, then he should probably hit himself with an iron rod and die.. seriously..
Dhoom3 is really superb, thats why with in a week it has collected 300 crores and still counting on the figures
For the people bashing ET to report this news, do you want this newspaper to stop posting facts? I mean it would be wrong if ET reported that Waar still made more money when it didnt.
Reporting of facts is what newspaper do, they dont work on your whims and fancies.
You people should not have watched Dhoom in such a great numbers to make it a bigger hit, why blame ET for your actions.
@aditya: Cool bro,I'm an Indian and I still find D3 total crap and in fact most of the movies released this year was crap.... The only exceptions being Lunchbox,Ship of Thesus and Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
@Raj-USA I'm sorry I misread your comment....I've not seen any promos for Waar yet and I doubt it might release as the Pakistani population in USA is less than UK ...Maybe they might be screened in Houston
@ 1984 I don't know why Raj USA wasted time to verify your 'facts'. . Your name (1984) is aptly chosen as you are as bad at lying as despotic communist propaganda machine in novel 1984.
We are expected more with Ammir khan movies but this was a average movie.
Its a average movie.we are expected more with ammir khan.
Movie is breaking earning records and its media coverage is breaking my head.....
@Joe: yea i can understand u didnt understand waar taking your poor english in account!!
@1984: I am in Los Angeles. I watched Dhoom 3 last week in Regal but did not see Waar screened there. I just checked AMC, Regal and Big Cinemas and do not see Waar showtimes. I Checked IMDb also and it does not show any release date for Waar in USA. Do not know if I missed it last week and it is out of the screens now.
Good or bad, I would still like to see it. I see almost all Indian movies and any Pakistani movie that is screened.
If you can find any theater in the Los Angeles/Orange County area, please let me know. I would greatly appreciate it.
Many thank to you in advance.
@1984: pakistanis u people dont have slightest of guts to accept dat d3 is far better than crappy war and the evidence is ur owm people fools. may allah/bhagwan have mercy on u people
Waar was an English movie which was released on lesser screen than this bollycrap.
@Lala Gee: Waar is a most worst cinema and it might be the best according to pakistani standard.
Good movie to watch......
Fantastic movie of Aamir khan,simply superb stunts,a must watch.
@Lala Gee: Doom-3 running successfully only because Pakistanis wanted to see for themself how trash the movie is!
Shahid Afridi was right...Pakistanis do have big heart.... They are ready to spend 100 ruppees to see trash in theatres
C'mon Pakistanis.... Be brave to accept that u like to watch the same crap we Indians watch...
U call Bollywood as crap every time a news item comes and say how Waar was better but still a Bollywood movie beat ur Magnum Opus Waar in Pakistan itself.....
U r like a man who loudly states that the current TV programmes are full of vulgarity and then go home and watch porn....
'Incredible India' wins on Pakistan home turf yet again.
@Raj - USA: Which part of USA are u living ??? It was released in many AMC,Regal and Big Cinemas last week itself and I saw it on the first day...
Worst 3 hrs of my life :(
@naeem khan: and UK!! oh! and USA too..
@Muhammad Zubair: imran Khan LOL ,I think you are so obsessed with pti.
Doom-3 running successfully only because Pakistanis wanted to see for themself how trash the movie is! Waar-2 will beat Doom-3...wait and watch!
only people in India and Pakistan has the stomach to bear trash like Dhoom 3
This is sad. Really sad.
I was expecting much more from Aamir Khan in Dhoom 3 and am disappointed. Average type of movie. Waar was supposed to be released in USA, UK and UAE on Dec. 11. Though they released in in UAE on Dec. 11, it has not yet been released in USA and there is no news on this. This is my another disappointment. Still waiting to see Waar.
@junoon: compare dhoom-3 with Dark Night or The Avengers....and then say k baap baap hota hai....
@junoon: Waar is way better than crappy movie like Dhoom-3...and being a Paki we are proud on that achievement....u can go and watch useless dhoom-3 funded by underworld
Lollywood rocks! . Being compared with mega budget Bollywood is a proof that we are not midgets!
Dhoom 3, just you wait for Waar 2. :D Btw, this film is one big plothole, you can't compare it with Waar in any sense.
If this is journalism, it is abysmal.
shame on tribune. This sort of reporting will only make resolve of people like me even stronger.
The comparison is really dumb, I don't know what the writer is trying to prove. Waar was a record-breaking movie for Pakistani standards, and it only gets better from here. i don't know what the writer wants to say by bringing in Indian movies for comparison.