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Author Topic: Anyone Running "Main Hoon Naa" Joseph Pandolfi Expert Film Handler Posts: 213 From: Milford, CT. Registered: Nov 1999 posted 05-07-2004 10:18 PM                     We are running this now in our theatre. I guess it is the latest Bollywood (Eros Entertainment) release which came in on two burlap boxes each containing five cores of film. As usual with Bollywood there are no end of reel cue marks and there are Bollywood ads at the beginning of the feature and at reel 6 when the intermission starts.  |  IP: Logged Jason Whyte Expert Film Handler Posts: 132 From: Victoria, BC, Canada Registered: Sep 2002 posted 05-07-2004 11:06 PM                        This is still playing in a couple of theaters in Vancouver, one downtown and two in Surrey, where there is a heavy Indian population. I haven't handled a print, but I have seen two Bollywood films before, "Asoka" and "Devdas", both of which were overly grainy, dirty, no changeover cues and an incredibly noisy, overcranked soundtrack. Jason  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-08-2004 09:39 AM                     "noisey soundtrack" hmm odd most are loud but that is all dirty most nowdays are in good shape compared to the 1970's till they waited for it playout in India and then ship one of the prints that had done the rounds over here We are playing it here at cinesphere still  |  IP: Logged Trevor Bailey Expert Film Handler Posts: 113 From: Woonsocket, RI Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-08-2004 03:11 PM                        It's been playing at the Flagship in Quincy, MA for the past week and ends tomorrow (yes, Sunday). This was a sort of test but reports from the theater are that it had good attendance. It also helps that the theater it right next to an Indian restaurant.  |  IP: Logged Thomas Procyk Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1842 From: Royal Palm Beach, FL, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 05-10-2004 07:47 AM                     We're playing it. Then again, we play almost all Bollywood features that hit the US. I haven't been there to see attendance, but I think it's only scheduled for 3 days. I believe it played a full set at the first-run, though. (We still charge full price for Bollywood at the sub-run, which undoubtedly pisses people off.) Eros is generally the better of the distributors. Their movies almost always come on cores, and not just "film in a box" like the others. But yeah, they're usually used prints. We've gotten several new ones, but the used ones are pretty bad. Very splicey, too. I wonder if it's due to some post-printing censor editing. Sound on all of them is cranked loud as hell, too. We keep the fader at 4 and it's comfortable. http://www.dattanientertainment.com =TMP=  |  IP: Logged Joseph Pandolfi Expert Film Handler Posts: 213 From: Milford, CT. Registered: Nov 1999 posted 05-11-2004 03:13 PM                     I ran the 8:30 show on Saturday night and we had about 60 people there. Yes, I thought the soundtrack was overcranked. Our fader was down to 5-1/2 and we played it in SRD. We ran Devdas about a year and half ago. No one picked the print up for about 9 months after we played it here for two weeks.  |  IP: Logged Ron Lacheur Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 650 From: British Columbia, Canada Registered: Feb 2002 posted 05-11-2004 04:09 PM                     Jason, It's not surprising that the Grande is showing this. It's probably doing pretty good. Devdas played for 3-4 weeks in their big house ( Cinema 12 ), opening against Road to Perdition, Reign of Fire and The Croc Hunter film.  |  IP: Logged

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