The week gone by saw Simran clash with Lucknow Central and its a similar story this week as Bhoomi takes on Haseena Parkar. The latter is another underworld film and the industry fascination for this theme continues despite never yielding any results outside Mumbai circuit and to a lesser extent South India. Daddy an underworld film was released a couple weeks back and to say the business outside Maharashtra was a disaster is an understatement and on top even Maharashtra could not be called average. Haseena Parkar will be no different as it finds no takers outside Maharashtra and for a Hindi film to pull itself through on one circuit is a huge ask even if its is biggest circuit. Daddy pulled in around 70% of its business in Mumbai circuit, lets see if this one can be less lopsided.

Bhoomi is the better bet if compared to Haseena Parkar but that is not saying much. The film is the comeback for Sanjay Dutt who has face value but with an older actor it is the families which to drive and this film Bhoomi just looks too heavy and violent for families as per the promos. The emotions of the film do look strong but with the feel of a violent film it may keep the audience away. Initially its hard anyway but the violence may keep the audience even after the opening day.

There is also Newton releasing but that offers little hope as looks a film that you would give a miss even if was released straight to television. There is Kingsman - The Golden Circle from Hollywood and this could fight the main Hindi releases Bhoomi and Haseena Parkar.