'Malamaal Weekly' rocks the BOX OFFICE !

Malamaal Weekly stands head and shoulders above the rest in a month where film companies are trying to offload as much trash on us as possible.

Story:

The people in a small town lives in constant poverty.

One resident makes a little money by selling Malamaal Weekly Lottery Tickets.

One day whilst watching TV he learns that the winner of the grand prize is from his little village.

However, no-one else has a TV in the village so he decides to go through all the people he has sold a lottery ticket to.

Unsurprisingly, he finds the ticket in the hand of village drunk - Anthony.

The only problem is Anthony is now dead.

Money can make people do the stupidest things and things get a little crazy when one by one the truth slowly seeps out.

Starring: Ritesh Deshmukh, Om Puri, Paresh Rawal, Shakti Kapoor,Reema Sen.
Directed by: Priyadarshan.

MALAMAAL WEEKLY continues to lead in both U.K. and U.S.A. markets.

The combined total in 10 days has crossed Rs. 2 crores from these two markets, which is quite an achievement for a film that does not star top names.

Looking at the box office outcome of Malamaal Weekly over last 10 days, it appears to be quite reminiscent to what one witnessed a few years back with Priyadarshan's first comic hit 'Hera Pheri'.

When 'Hera Pheri' was released, it had opened to average reviews and lukewarm response but only gained from strength to strength as the days progressed.

In fact it was one of those rare movies that kept stepping up on the charts after every week and touched peak in its 4th week .

On similar lines, 'Malamaal Weekly' too opened to average to below average reviews, though the opening was much better.

Now more than 10 days after the movie's release, word of mouth has spread like fire with beelines in front of theatres screening the film.

After having recovered its investment already, the movie seems to be on way to be yet another big success for Priyadarshan.