Amitabh Bachchan’s Shamitabh, Ranbir Kapoor’s Roy and Varun Dhawan’s Badlapur: Here’s the box office verdict of February releases!

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While January turned out to be a dull month for Bollywood, let’s take a look at how films fared in the month of February…

Quite a few big budget films released in the first month of 2015. Arjun Kapoor’s Tevar, Akshay Kumar’s action thriller Baby and Ayushmann Khurrana starrer Hawaizaada to name a few. While Tevar didn’t live up to the expectations, Hawaizaada on the other hand failed to make any sort of impact at the box office.As for Baby, well, Akki’s film was the only one which actually got cash registers jingling to an extent. However, none of the films actually created hungama at the ticket windows in January. Coming to February, the second month of 2015 kicked off with Amitabh Bachchan and Dhanush starrer Shamitabh hitting the theaters. Next big film which came out was Ranbir Kapoor, Jacqueline Fernandez and Arjun Rampal’s romantic thriller Roy alongside MSG: The Messenger. Then Varun Dhawan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui starrer Badlapur made way to the big screen and on Friday YRF’s new venture Dum Laga Ke Haisha released with Nana Patekar starrer Ab Tak Chhappan 2. But have any of the films performed exceptionally well at the BO? Read on to find out…

Film: Shamitabh

Release date: February 6

Star cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Dhanush and Akshara Haasan

Box office collection: The film started off on a good note and ended up collecting Rs 13.25 crore in the opening weekend. However, the figures went down thereafter and the film managed to rake in only Rs 21.9 crore by end of week 2.

Verdict: Below Average

Film: Roy

Release date: February 13

Star cast: Ranbir Kapoor, Jacqueline Fernandez and Arjun Rampal

Box office collection: Despite being panned by critics, Roy managed to fare decently at the box office. After collecting Rs 28.68 crore in the opening weekend, Roy made Rs 44.52 crore by the end of week 2.

Verdict: Average

Film: MSG: The messenger

Release date: February 13

Star cast: Saint Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Ji Insan

Box office collection: According to a trade portal MSG minted Rs 6 crore in the opening weekend and Rs 9.92 crore by the end of week 1.

Verdict: Flop

Film: Badlapur

Release date: February 20

Star cast: Varun Dhawan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Huma Qureshi, Yami Gautam, Radhika Apte and Divya Dutta

Box office collection: Despite an A certification from Censor board, Sriram Raghavan’s directorial venture has so far collected Rs 36.31 crore at the domestic box office.

Verdict: Good first week

Film: Dum Laga Ke Haisha

Release date: February 27

Star cast: Ayushmann Khurrana and Bhumi Pednekar

Box office collection: This romantic venture has collected Rs 1.10 crore on day 1. The film is expected to do well courtesy strong word-of-mouth

Verdict: Poor opening

Film: Ab Tak Chhapan 2

Release date: February 27

Star cast: Nana Patekar

Box office collection: According to Boxofficeindia, the film has raked in around Rs 1.50 crore nett on day 1.