Bipasha Basu's Alone box office collections start slow, day 1 collections at Rs 3.5 crore

Mumbai: It certainly seems like the weeks post the release of Aamir Khan-starrer 'PK' have been running slow with the newer releases not being able to pick up pace with their box office collections. While last week's Arjun Kapoor-Sonakshi Sinha film 'Tevar', proved to be a letdown, this week we see the release of four films ‘Alone’ (featuring Bipasha Basu and Karan Singh Grover), I, Crazy Cukkad Family (CCF) and Sharafat Gayi Tel Lene (SGTL).

Though expectations for all four of the new releases have been rather low, initial reports suggested that ‘Alone’ had opened on a good note as compared to the others, but later belied hopes. On the other hand ‘I’, that is inspired by ‘Beauty and the Beast’ opened slightly lower than ‘Alone’, while CCF and SGTL do not feature morning shows.

Bipasha Basu-starrer ‘Alone’ collected Rs 3.5 crore on the opening day whereas both ‘Crazy Cukkad Family’ and ‘Sharafat Gayi Tel Lene’ collected Rs 0.18 crore.

While ‘Alone’ caters to the growing horrex (horror-sex) genre, ‘I’ rests firmly in the action romance zone. The other two, CCF and SGTL cater to the comedy- satire genres. With each film being equally different from the other the audiences have multiple choices depending on their preference.