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23rd November 2004

92.39 lakhs of share in Nellore territory for 5 weeks
Chiranjeevi's Shankardada MBBS created another record by collecting a share of 92.39 lakhs in 5 weeks by releasing with 15 prints in Nellore territory. MBBS collected a share of 32.67 in Nellore twon alone. It collected a share of 9.96 lakhs, 6.64 lakhs and 4.46 lakhs in Kavali, Sullurpet and Naidupet respectively.

22nd November 2004

Share of 1.25 crores in 5 weeks in Krishna territory
Chiranjeevi's Shankardada is continuing its supremacy in Krishna territory by collecting a record share of 1.25 cores and record gross of 1.61 crores. This film collected a share of 58 lakhs in Vijayawada city alone. In Apsara (Vijaywada's main theater), MBBS collected a share of Rs. 19,21,676/- in 5 weeks.

20th November 2004

Share of 1.47 crores in 35 days in Guntur
Chiranjeevi's Shankardada MBBS has completed 35 days of run in record number of 17 direct theaters (16 centers) and collected a record share of Rs. 1,47,04,771/-. Here is the table of collections in direct theaters

Center Theater Name 35 days gross 35 days share
Guntur Srikrishnapicture Palace 18,41,992 13,96,417
Tenali Priyadeluxe 10,74,846 8,40,658
Ongole Vijayadurga 17,78,620 14,93,525
Chirala Mohan 14,66,408 12,59,938
Chilakaluripeta Ramakrishna 9,33,351 7,40,503
Narsaraopeta Ravikalamandir 14,20,329 11,66,398
Repalle Srikrishna 8,90,473 7,23,123
Piduguralla Aswani 9,39,621 7,66,131
Macherla Venkateswara 7,47,413 5,90,862
Vinukonda Kiirthi 6,11,415 4,51,687
Sattenapalli Srinivasa 8,38,290 6,71,186
Tanguturu Apsara 3,45,674 2,07,375
Addanki Srirama 5,24,128 3,58,737
Mangalagiri Annapurna 8,80,122 7,14,238
Ponnuru Murthy 7,21,175 5,56,265
Undavalli Ramakrishna 3,23,130 2,11,920

 

15th November 2004

Share of 1,33,71,491 in 28 days in Guntur
Chiranjeevi's Shankardada MBBS has completed 28 days of run in record number of 17 direct theaters (16 centers) and collected a record share of Rs. 1,33,71,491/-. The long weekend (12- Diwali, 13 - satday, 14- sunday, 15 ramzan) is helping its collection for 5th week as well.

Share of 1,10,79,227 in 28 days in Krishna
Chiranjeevi's Shankardada MBBS has completed 28 days of run and collected a record share of Rs. 1,10,79,227/. It collected a share of 15.59 lakhs in Apsara theater in Vijayawada for 28 days.

Share of 1.10 crores in East Godari for 4 weeks
Chiranjeevi's Shankardada MBBS has completed 28 days of run in East Godari and collected a record share of Rs. 1.10 crores in 28 days.

11th November 2004

Share of 1,30,57,190 in 25 days in Guntur
Chiranjeevi's Shankardada MBBS has completed 25 days of run in record number of 17 direct theaters (16 centers) and collected a record share of Rs. 1,30,57,190/-. It also created town records in Guntur (26.24 lakhs), Tenali (12.05 lakhs), Ongole (12.62 lakhs), Cheerala (11.08 lakhs), Narsaraopet (10.69 lakhs), Repalle (6.54 lakhs), Ponnur (5.76 lakhs) etc. Here are the 25 days collections of the film ...

Center Theater Name 25 days gross 25 days share
Guntur Srikrishnapicture Palace 13,61,008 10,42,765
Guntur Harihar 10,06,508 7,54,558
Tenali Priyadeluxe 8,12,006 6,43,054
Ongole Vijayadurga 14,68,405 12,62,966
Chirala Mohan 12,57,340 11,08,038
Chilakaluripeta Ramakrishna 7,72,876 6,32,328
Narsaraopeta Ravikalamandir 12,08,720 10,26,089
Repalle Srikrishna 7,70,974 6,54,921
Piduguralla Aswani 8,03,273 6,82,913
Macherla Venkateswara 6,54,181 5,41,931
Vinukonda Kiirthi 5,20,618 4,02,635
Sattenapalli Srinivasa 7,29,796 6,09,052
Tanguturu Apsara 3,17,008 2,15,011
Addanki Srirama 4,61,568 3,42,477
Mangalagiri Annapurna 7,71,535 6,51,951
Ponnuru Murthy 6,04,608 4,92,990
Undavalli Ramakrishna 2,90,398 2,15,488

 

7th November 2004

Share of 1.22 crore for 3 weeks in Guntur
Chiranjeevi's Shankardada MBBS collected a share of 1.22 crores in Guntur territory for 21 days. It collected a share of 24.20 lakhs in Guntur city for 3 weeks. This film is currently running in 2 theaters in Guntur town. Checkout the table of share and grass Shankardada collected in 21 days in the theaters it is presently running now ...

Center Theater Name 21 days share 21 days gross
Guntur Srikrishnapicture Palace 9,00,075 11,67,397
Guntur Harihar 6,93,120 9,03,954
Ponnuru Murthy 4,64,870 5,59,160
Ongole Vijayadurga 11,50,936 13,24,515
Chirala Mohan 10,23,692 11,50,074
Chilakaluripeta Ramakrishna 5,81,666 7,00,144
Narsaraopeta Ravikalamandir 9,59,404 11,13,515
Repalle Srikrishna 6,27,038 7,29,568
Piduguralla Aswani 6,58,775 7,64,641
Macherla Venkateswara 5,09,069 6,03,599
Vinukonda Kiirthi 3,82,671 4,82,134
Sattenapalli Srinivasa 5,75,490 6,77,714
Tanguturu Apsara 2,15,024 3,02,501
Addanki Srirama 3,38,188 4,30,759
Mangalagiri Annapurna 6,13,887 7,14,851
Undavalli Ramakrishni 2,05,390 2,72,780

6th November 2004

Share of 1.03 crore for 3 weeks in Krishna
Chiranjeevi's Shankardada MBBS collected a share of 1.03 crores in Krishna district for 21 days. It collected a share of 28.89 lakhs in Vijayawada city for 3 weeks. In the main theater of Apsara itself, Shankar Dada MBBS collected a share of 11.89 lakhs. This is the record for 3 weeks share in Krishna territory and Vijayawada city.

3rd November 2004

5 crores share for 2 weeks in Nizam
Chiranjeevi's Shankardada MBBS created a share of 5 crores in 14 days, as per Pramod of Maruthi Movies. It is an all time record. This film collected a share of 3.26 crores in first week and 1.74 crores in the second week. Maruthi Movies has bought a Chiranjeevi's film for the first time.

3.2 crores in Ceded for 2 weeks
Chiranjeevi's Shankardada MBBS collected a share of 3.25 crores in 14 days (including Bellary). This film collected 80.6 lakhs in Ananthapur territory, 85.64 lakhs in Kurnool territory, 72.05 lakhs in Chittoor territory and 66 lakhs in Cudappah territory.

78 lakhs in 17 days in Chittoor dist
Chiranjeevi's Shankardada MBBS is being distributed by NV Prasad for Chittoor territory. This film collected a share of 78 lakhs on 10 prints in 17 centers in 17 days. In Tirupati town itself, Shankar Dada MBBS is expected to collect a share of 40 lakhs, as per NV Prasad.

1st November 2004

1 crore share in Guntur area
Shankar Dada MBBS crossed the 1 crore mark in share in 2 weeks by collecting a share of 1.05 crores, as per Omkar Film Distributors. Chiranjeevi's Tagore collected 1.04 crores in 2 weeks. This film has surpassed it. It also collected a share of 20.02 lakhs in Guntur town for 2 weeks.

Vizag City record
Chiranjeevi's Shankardada MBBS created unique record in Vizag. This film was released in 8 theaters in first week and continued in 7 theaters in second week. This film is presently running in 6 theaters in Vizag in 3rd week. This film ran for housefuls in all theaters in Vizag for 2 weeks and collected a record share of Rs. 33,75,272/-, as per G Kishore of Sri Teja Films.

Steel City record
A Telugu film ran for 2 weeks continuous in 2 theaters for the first time in Gajuwaka (also known as Steel City). This film was released in Sri Kanya and Kanya theaters and collected a record-breaking gross of 11,48,952/- and a share of 7,13,944/-.

Anakapally Record
Shankar Dada continued it's record breaking spree in Anakapally as well. This film was released in Jagannadh theater of Anakapally. This film collected a record gross of 9,37,503 and a share of 8,15,263 in 16 days.

86.5 lakhs share in Krishna Dist
Chiranjeevi's Shankardada collected an amazing share of 86.5 lakhs in 2 weeks in Krishna territory, as per Vyjayanthi distributors. Checkout the share collected in individual theaters for 14 days in Krishna territory.

S No Town 14 days share
1 Vijayawada(Apsara) 7,92,838
2 Vijayawada(Urvasi) 7,26,722
3 Vijayawada(Jaihind) 4,74,235
4 Vijayawada(Navarang) 4,99,378 (12 days)
5 Vijayawada(Srinivasa) 4,49,682
6 Vijayawada(Jayaram) 54,966 (1 day)
7 Vijayawada(Ram Gopal - Gunadala) 3,25,318 (11 days)
8 Kanuru 4,92,252
9 Kankipadu 3,55,506
10 Ibrahimpatnam 2,98,270
11 Machilipatnam (Vinayak) 4,47,917
12 Machilipatnam (Mini Revathy) 2,43,095 (11 days)
13 Machilipatnam (Nataraj) 60,138 (1 day)
14 Machilipatnam (Ram Santhi) 23,075 (1 day)
15 Machilipatnam (Benifit show) 32,000 (1 show)
16 Gudiwada 9,23,952
17 Vuyyur 3,60,929
18 Jaggayyapet 3,87,547
19 Nandigama 2,04,307
20 Tiruvuru 2,96.423
21 Kanchikacherla 2,11,831
22 Nuziveedu 4,15,321
23 Vissannapet 2,11,918
24 Kaikaluru 3,62,140

27th October 2004

92.24 lakhs in 10 days in Guntur
Chiranjeevi's Shankar Dada collected the highest share of 92.24 lakhs and a gross of 1.05 crore in 10 days in Guntur territory, as per Mathi Ravi of Omkar Films. Here are the share records in Guntur territory for 10 days

S No Town 10 days share
1 Guntur 16,73,150
2 Tenali 8,36,889
3 Ongole 7,62,104 (single theater)
4 Narsaraopet 7,62,104 (single theater)
5 Repalle 4,91,071
6 Ponnur 4,54,202

Pirated VCDs found in Bellary and Bangalore
With a couple of days after the release of Shankar Dada MBBS in Karnataka a handful of pirated VCDs made with camera prints were found in Bangalore and Bellary. Chiranjeevi fans took active support in getting the pirates to the book by complaining to the cops.

In IMAX screen at Indianapolis
Shankar Dada MBBS is the first Chiranjeevi film to be screened in IMAX theater at Indianapolis in USA. This screening would take place at 9:30 pm on 30th October 2004.

26th October 2004

MBBS's record in USA
Shankar Dada MBBS is stretching the Telugu film's potential in USA. Chiranjeevi's Shankardada created an all time record among Telugu films. This has broken the USA's top centers' 1 week record with just 4 shows in Virginia center. The earlier highest for Virginia center was Tagore and approximately 1400+ people watched that film. This time the distributor Sridhar (Gemini Film Circuit) released the film on his own and promoted the film through online ticking of idlebrain.com. An amazing number of 2000+ people turned up for Shankar Dada MBBS for just 4 shows. And the icing on the cake is that more than 1300 tickets were bought through idlebrain.com's online ticketing for Virginia center alone.

Shankar Dada 1st week shares
Chiranjeevi's Shankar Dada MBBS is creating sensation all over with it's 1st week collections. Here is the consolidated list of all most all areas -

S No Area Distributor 1 week share
1 Nizam Pramod (Maruti Movies) 3.26 crores (expected to collect 5 crores in 2 weeks)
2 Ceded Hari Kumar 1.75 crores
3 Krishna Vyjayanthi 54.07 lakhs (67 lakhs in 9 days)
4 Guntur Mathi Ravi (Omkar Films) 71.22 lakhs
5 Nellore Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Sai Pictures 47 lakhs
6 East Godari Gemini Films 56.08 lakhs
7 Vizag Teja Films 80 lakhs

MBBS released in Karnataka
Chiranjeevi's Shankardada MBBS was released in Karnataka with 18 prints in 30 theaters on 22nd of this month on the eve of Dussera festival. The openings at Karnataka are fabulous. This film is released in Tribhuvan as main theater in Majestic area in Bangalore.

25th October 2004

Chiranjeevi's share record in Krishna
Chiranjeevi's Shankar Dada MBBS created another sensational record in Krishna area by collecting a share of 54.07 lakhs in 7 days by surpassing the earlier highest of 52.37 lakhs by Tagore film. Here are the top 6 films in Krishna territory in terms of 1st week share -

S No Film's name Krishna territory 1st week share
1 Shankardada MBBS 54. 07 lakhs
2 Tagore 52.37 lakhs
3 Anji 51.92 lakhs
4 Gudumba Shankar 47.60 lakhs
5 Samba 46.73 lakhs
6 Simhadri 46.17 lakhs

Guntur territory share 71.22 lakhs
Chiranjeevi's Shankardada MBBS created a unique record in Guntur territory by collecting an amazing share of 71.22 lakhs in 7 days with 17 prints in 16 centers, as per Mathi Ravi Babu of Omkar Film Distributors. Chiranjeevi's Tagore holds the highest 1st week share record so far by collecting 67.66 lakhs in 1st week. Now Chiranjeevi's Shankar Dada MBBS has broken it.

Guntur town share record for 13 lakhs
Chiranjeevi's Shankar Dada MBBS crossed the earlier record of 10 lakhs share in Guntur town by a margin of 3 lakhs by collecting a share of 13.22 lakhs in 7 days in 5 theaters. It collected a share of 3.13 in Krishna Picture Palace, 3.03 lakhs in side theater Harihar Mahal, 1.76 lakhs in Little Krishna, 2.80 lakhs share (fixed hire) in Liberty and 2.5 lakhs (fixed hire) share in Saraswati.

Record shows in Guntur town
Shankar Dada created another record in Guntur town by getting screened 140 times in just 7 days across 5 theaters with just 2 prints. Earlier record was held by Gundumba Shankar for 120 shows last month. Pawan Kalyan's brother Chiranjeevi crossed the record set with in a month.

Tenali Town record - 6.51 lakhs of share
SD MBBS created a town record in Tenali town by collecting a share of Rs 6,51,184/- in 7 days by exhibiting in 4 theaters for 110 shows. Chiranjeevi's Tagore holds the earlier highest Tenali share (5,88,353). It collected a share of 2.23, 0.86, 2.28 and 1.12 in Priya (33 shows), Sri Priya (33 shows), Veda (31 shows) and Asha (13 shows) respectively.

Ongole single theater record
Chiranjeevi's Shankar Dada MBBS created single theater share record by collecting a share of Rs. 5,78,547/- in Vijaya Durga theater in 7 days. Earlier highest single theater record share in Ongole was Rs. 5,63,416/-.

Narsaraopet share record
Chiranjeevi's Tagore collected a share of 5.11 lakhs and it was the highest record in Narsaraopet so far. Chiranjeevi crossed the record set by his previous blockbuster Tagore with Shankardada MBBS and it collected a share of 5.60 lakhs in 7 days.

Repalle record
Chiranjeevi's Anji created a record in Repalle by collecting 3.76 lakhs in 7 days. Shankar Dada MBBS broke that record by collecting a share of 3.88 lakhs in 7 days.

Chiru's hat trick 60+ lakhs shares in Guntur
Chiranjeevi obtained the unique distinction of having 3 continuous films that collected a share of more than 60 lakhs in the 1st week. Here are the details

S No Film's name No of centers Guntur territory 1st week share
1 Tagore 16 67.66 lakhs
2 Anji 14 60.11 lakhs
3 Shankardada MBBS 16 71.22 lakhs

19th October 2004

Shows started in Bellary
Bellary and Hosepet are the first two centers where Shankardada MBBS was released in Karnataka. The first show at Bellary started at 4 am in Raghavendra theater on 19th October. The theaters (Raghavendra, Nataraj & Ganga) played Shankar Dada MBBS today. This film would release in other centers in Karnataka very soon.

18th October 2004

Chiru's nephew Vishnav in MBBS
Chiranjeevi's nephew Vaishnav (son of eldest of his younger sisters) acted as subject aka Ramachandra Murthy in the film Shankar Dada MBBS. An old per person acted in Hindi version. It was Chiranjeevi's idea to replace that person by a kid so that it would appeal more to the ladies and kids. Chiranjeevi wanted a guy with big eyes for that role and he could immediately spot his nephew who has done a marvelous job.

Chiru conceptualized bewarse walk
It was Chiranjeevi who conceptualized and made the most exciting moment of the entire film - Bewarse Walking. Chiranjeevi wanted to break the plain narration of Shankardada entering the college and sit in the class room. He wanted to do some thing that gives better entertainment. That's how the bewarse walk was conceptualized.

Producer's name absent
It is Akkineni Ravi Shankar Prasad who produced 'Shankar Dada MBBS' on Gemini Film Circuit banner. But due to some unknown reasons, his name is missing in poster publicity as well as in the film's title cards. The industrywallas speculate that it is some thing to do with the legal issue.

27 shows record in Eluru
Speaking to idlebrain.com, the west godari distributor Kondeti Suresh said that he screened Shankar Dada MBBS for 27 shows in 7 theaters in Eluru town. This is an all town Eluru record. All most of all prime theaters are being occupied by Shankardada MBBS on 15th October 2004.

1000's of weekendcrowds in USA
Shankar Dada MBBS attracted one of its biggest crowds drawing for the release of Chiranjeevi's latest blockbuster Shankarada MBBS. As per the weekend statistics all six centers (New Jersey, San Jose, Detroit, Dallas, Atlanta & Chicago) attracted crowds more than at least 1000 each, which show the stamina of this film.

17th October - 8:10 pm

Chiru's treat to technicians
Chiranjeevi always knows how to pamper his team members. On the eve of success of his latest film Shankardada MBBS, Chiranjeevi is throwing a party to the technicians who worked for the film Shankardada MBBS at Taj Krishna in Hyderabad. The party was started at 7:30 pm on 17th October 2004.

17th October - 5:30 pm

MBBS collects 27 lakhs in Guntur Territory on day 1
Chiranjeevi's latest blockbuster Shankardada MBBS collected Rs. 27 lakhs on day 1 by releasing in 16 centers with 17 prints in 29 theaters in Guntur territory, as per the distributor Omkar Films. Click here for the total collections list.

Pawan Kalyan watching preview
Pawan Kalyan is currently (5:30 pm on 17th October) watching the special show of 'Shankar Dada MBBS' at the preview theater of Prasad Labs. Pawan Kalyan did a 7-second friendly appearance in this film which has got sensational response. Another show is also been planned for press in Prasad Labs today.

Stay order on Moratorium
The producers of Gemi Film Circuit approached the high court of Karnataka seeking the abolishment of 7-week moratorium on non-Kannada film releases in Karnataka. The High Court of Karnataka passed a stay order on 15th October regarding the moratorium. This stay order has cleared the decks for the release of Chiranjeevi's latest film 'Shankardada MBBS'.

Talk English like Shankar Dada
Shankar Dada's indigenous translation of Telugu proverbs into butler English has become hit very well with Telugu film lovers. To create more fun over this process of indigenous translation, Gemini TV is going to come up with a program titled 'Talk English like Shankar Dada'. Chiranjeevi would select the best 10 proverbs among the entries.

14th October - 11:30 pm

Chiru watching the preview now
Chiranjeevi & Allu Arvind along with their family members and unit members are currently watching the preview of Shankar Dada MBBS now at Prasad Labs. The preview started at 9:30 pm and interval is over by now. The talk of the show is not yet leaked to anybody.

9:30 pm show postponed in Hyd
The Telugu film lovers had a major disappointment tonight when the scheduled 9:30 pm charity show of Shankardada MBBS at Hitech Theater on 14th October was rescheduled to 6 pm on 15th October 2004 due to some unknown reasons. The fans of Chiranjeevi were biting their nails anticipating a repeat of Indra premier show that happened at 9 pm a day before its scheduled release date. But, the disappointment came in the form of postponement. This show's tickets were sold at a rate of Rs. 150/-.

7 shows in Ongole on day 1
Ongole town is going to have 7 continuous shows in single theater (Vijaya Durga) on 15th of October. Tickets for all these shows are priced at a flat rate of Rs. 50/- each. Each show generates a gross of 40k which totals to the 1st day gross of 2.8 lakhs. The exhibitor of Vijaya Durga made sure that this film is releasing in his theater only in the entire town to cash on the craze Chiranjeevi has.

Bellari release on 19th Oct
The exhibitors of Bellari, which is one of the most profitable centers in Karnataka, have taken a courageous decision of releasing a Telugu film simultaneously. This is against the 7-week moratorium on Telugu films. The local leaders and police officers got the exhibitors and Kannada film industry officials for truce and made an agreement that Shankar Dada MBBS could be released on 19th of this month.

100 Rs flat rate in Mangalagiri
The tickets at Mangalagiri center are going to be issued after the print arrives in Mangalagiri town. The tickets are priced at a flat rate of Rs. 100/- each. Shankar DadaMBBS would be releasing in 2 theaters (Annapurna & Gopala Krishna) on 15th October and 3rd theater (Venkateswara) would be added on 16th October.

14th October

Hyd show to start at 6 am
The heat is on! The craze is so humongous that all tickets are sold out for all most all 33 theaters in Hyderabad this weekend for the biggest release of Telugu film ever - Shankardada MBBS. The first show in Hyderabad for Shankar Dada MBBS is going to be exhibited at 6 am on 15th October 2004 at Mallikharjuna theater in Kukatpally. There is also a fan show that is going to held at 8 am in Odeon 70mm.

Prasad's ticket hiked to 80
For the first time in the history of Prasads, a Telugu film is releasing in two screens simultaneously for the whole week (screen 2 and screen 4). The management of Prasads has decided to the milk it the most by increasing the admission rate from Rs. 60/- to Rs. 80/- for the entire week. And all the weekend tickets were sold like hot cakes in hours of opening the advance booking counter. This ticket hike is exclusive for Shankardada MBBS, where as tickets for all other films are being sold at the normal tariff of Rs. 60/-.

One day advance in Guntur
The Superintendent of Police of Guntur held a joint meeting with fans of Chiranjeevi and the theater management that is releasing Shankardada MBBS today. The SP has given clear directives not to sell tickets in black. Adequate police force is being dispatched to the theaters playing Shankar Dada MBBS to make sure that there is no black market for Shankar Dada MBBS film. And the theaters would be selling tickets just a day in advance for any show. I. E. Friday tickets would be sold on Thursday and Saturday tickets would be sold on Friday.

Rush for tickets in USA
There is a mad rush for Shankar Dada MBBS tickets in USA in all six centers it is been releasing. As per the San Jose distributor, the 8 pm show on 15th October is already sold out. This film is releasing with 6 prints in USA, which is an all time record.

 

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