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No cheer for Photograph, Milan Talkies, Mere Pyare Prime Minister in opening weekend

There were a handful of low-budget films that released on 15 March, but none of them has made an impression at the box office. Photograph, starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Sanya Malhotra, director Tigmanshu Dhulia’s love story Milan Talkies, and Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s Mere Pyare Prime Minister couldn’t fetch Rs1 crore each in their opening weekend, …

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Photograph, Mere Pyare Prime Minister, Milan Talkies have disastrous opening

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All the three new releases this week — Mere Pyare Prime Minister, Milan Talkies and Photograph — have opened to dismal numbers at the box office. Of the three, director Ritesh Batra’s Photograph had the highest opening with a collection of Rs25 lakh nett, as per figures shared by BoxOfficeIndia.com. When the film with the …

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Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Sanya Malhotra strike an unlikely bond

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After the Irrfan Khan and Nimrat Kaur-starrer The Lunchbox (2013), filmmaker Ritesh Batra once again writes and directs an unlikely love story set in Mumbai. Mumbai has been used as the backdrop in countless films (most recently this year’s Gully Boy), but director Batra, as seen in his earlier film too, loves to explore the …

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