Despite strike, six films release today

Joginder Tuteja, Bollywood Trade News Network

Majority of producers may have called a strike with multiplexes and refrained from releasing their films beginning today. However, a few producers have defied the ban and decided to bring their films to theaters today. Though it's a different matter that majority of these films are arriving at 1-2-3 shows per multiplexes, hence carrying little or no chances of survival beyond even a single fortnight.
These films are TERA MERA KI RISHTA, EK SE BURE DO, COFFEE HOUSE, PAL PAL DIL KE SAATH, SCHOOL DAYS and ROYAL UTSAV. The biggest of them all is the TERA MERA KI RISHTA which is a Punjabi film starring Jimmy Sheirgill. However, since the film has a regional appeal, it has released only in Punjab and select theaters in the North belt along with overseas.

EK SE BURE DO is an Arshad Warsi-Rajpal Yadav starrer that has been brought to life from cold storage. A 5 year old project, it too has seen a patchy release with zero promotion to back it up.

When Mahie Gill would have signed PAL PAL DIL KE SAATH, she wouldn't have realized in her wildest dreams that her debut film with Ajay Jadeja in lead would actually released six years after shooting for it. Worse, it comes at the time when she has made her presence felt in the industry with two Anurag Kashyap films - DEV D and GULAAL. The film is arriving unannounced.

Amongst the Hindi films, COFFEE HOUSE gets better show timings though. An Ashutosh Rana-Sakshi Tanwar starrer, it appears to be an art house cinema in the offering and is releasing out of nowhere. Ditto for SCHOOL DAYS which is a film about teenage children. Now where did this one come from? Frankly, outside the cast and crew of the film, no one is even aware about its existence.

Last of the lot is ROYAL UTSAV, the kind with which morning shows were filled with in good old single screen days. A film which gives an impression of being soft-porn in the offering, it features Vikram Kumar and Monalisa in lead roles.

With no mainstream film in the offering, dare to take your pick from the list above!