The new releases Phobia, Veerapan and Waiting were all disasters at the box office. The apprx first weekend collections of the new releases were as follows.
Veerapan - 4.50 crore
Phobia - 1.50 crore
Waiting - 1.25 crore
Three three films between them actually managed to cover 2000 screens but played to practically empty houses. Veerapan had a flat weekend and the other two managed growth on Saturday but it was multifold growth of 300-400% which was needed,
