For Saturday and Sunday, Cine Plaza had 13 shows of the film, starting at 1130 hrs - a new show every hour. Gautam Shah of Cine Plaza dedicated all his 13 screens to Yaadein.
Two years ago, Eros Entertainment released Ghai's Taal on 44 screens.Īt $ 13,438, Taal's per screen average record in North America has yet to be broken.Įarlier this weekend, the two large desi multiplexes in the US: Cine Plaza in North Bergen, New Jersey, and Naz 8 in Freemont, California, were all geared up for the crowds that were expected to show up for Yaadein. HSSH's per screen average was slightly lower - $ 11,044. Tips Music Films released Yaadein on 56 screens across North America, giving it a per screen average of $ 11,529. Hum Saath Saath Hain, which earned $ 655,000 over the 1999 Diwali weekend. The honour for the top Hindi film belongs to another family drama, director Sooraj Barjatya's Two weeks ago, Ghai made a 48-hour visit to New York, thereby reiterating that the North American market has become as important as any individual film distribution territory in India.įor the record, Yaadein's box office gross is the second highest opening for a Hindi film in North America. The success of Yaadein once again emphasises the fact that the desi audience tastes in the West are often different from those in India. Last year, director Aditya Chopra's Mohabbatein earned $ 352,000 in its first weekend. Yaadein now has the second highest opening for a Hindi film in UK. Yaadein also had a very strong opening in UK, where it earned $ 190,000 on just about 18 screens and landed the number seven spot among films showing in that country. The film earned approximately $ 50,000 more than Ghai's 1999 hit, Taal. With an opening weekend gross of $ 646,000, Ghai's much hyped family drama, Yaadein became his biggest hit overseas. , Movies: Yaadein: Ghai's biggest overseas money-spinnerĭespite less than enthusiastic reviews and threat of pirated DVDs and videos, Subhash Ghai, the showman, scored a big one in North America and Britain.