The hits and misses of the week.

Budhia Singh: Born To Run make be a National award-winning, critically good film. Unfortunately, it did not fare well at the box office.
The other releases -- The Legend Of Michael Mishra and Fever -- also bombed.

Budhia Singh: Born To Run

Cast: Manoj Bajpayee, Tillotama Shome and Mayur Patole
Director: Soumendra Padhi.
What works: Good performances, well-told story.
What doesn't: The story is well-documented, and known.
Number of weeks: New.
BO verdict: Flop.

Fever

Cast: Rajeev Khandelwal, Gauahar Khan, Gemma Atkinson and Caterina Murino.
Director: Rajeev Jhaveri.
What works: The beautiful locales of Switzerland.
What doesn't: Convoluted storytelling, loud background score.
Number of weeks: New.
BO verdict: Flop.

The Legend Of Michael Mishra

Cast:  Arshad Warsi, Aditi Rao Hydari, Boman Irani and Kayoze Irani
Director: Manish Jha.
What works: Nothing!
What doesn't: Arshad Warsi looks disinterested, film doesn't make sense.
Number of weeks: New.
BO verdict: Flop.

Dishoom

Cast:  John Abraham, Varun Dhawan, Jacqueline Fernandez, Akshaye Khanna.
Director: Rohit Dhawan.
What works: Varun Dhawan and his charm!
What doesn't: John Abraham.
Number of weeks: 1.
BO verdict: Semi hit.

Kabali (Hindi dubbed version)

Cast: Rajinikanth, Radhika Apte
Director: Pa Ranjith
What works: Rajinikanth, of course!
What doesn't: Film has nothing new to offer or say, even Rajinikanth's popular gimmicks are missing.
Number of weeks: 2.
BO verdict: Flop.


Madaari

Cast: Irrfan, Jimmy Sheirgill, Vishesh Bansal
Director: Nishikanth Kamat
What works: Irrfan.
What doesn't: Weak script and editing.
Number of weeks: 2.
BO verdict: Flop.


Great Grand Masti

Cast:  Vivek Oberoi, Riteish Deshmukh, Aftab Shivdasani, Urvashi Rautela.

Director: Indra Kumar.
What works: A few comic gags.
What doesn't: Over-the-top performances, sloppy script.
Number of weeks: 3.
BO verdict: Flop.

Sultan

Cast: Salman Khan, Anushka Sharma, Randeep Hooda, Amit Sadh

Director: Ali Abbas Zafar.
What works: Salman Khan.
What doesn't: Predictable climax, film is too long at nearly three hours running time.
Number of weeks: 4.
BO verdict: Superhit.

Shorgul

Cast: Ashutosh Rana, Jimmy Sheirgill, Sanjay Suri, Ejaz Khan, Hiten Tejwani, Anirudh Dhave, Suha Gezen.

Director: Jitendra Tiwari.
What works: Great performances by Ashutosh Rana, Jimmy Sheirgill.
What doesn't: Bad direction and poor execution.
Number of weeks: 5.
BO verdict: Flop.

Raman Raghav 2.0

Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Vicky Kaushal, Sobhita Dhulipala.

Director: Anurag Kashyap.
What works: Great performances by Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Vicky Kaushal.
What doesn't: Anurag Kashyap's films are getting too similar.
Number of weeks: 6.
BO verdict: Flop.