Cirkus

Bollywood star director Rohit Shetty's big Christmas release Cirkus, about two pairs of identical twins, is more a case of double disaster than twice the fun.

It’s enough to make you long for the other versions of The Comedy Of Errors in Hindi cinema —Debu Sen’s Do Dooni Chaar (Two Twos Are Four, 1968) and Gulzar’s Angoor (1982) — both witty written and winsomely acted. In Bangalore, the other Roy is under the scrutiny of the father of his girlfriend Bindu (Jacqueline Fernandez), and all hell breaks loose when he visits Ooty to buy a tea estate and is mistaken for his brother. Ooty’s verdant cover, in the brightest shade of green, seems to have been put under some odd photo filter. Circus-owning Roy’s wife Mala (Pooja Hegde) can’t conceive and is desperate to adopt, while he puts much store in bloodline and lineage. But here, and despite the presence of four credited writers (three for dialogue alone) the Bard’s ’The Comedy of Errors’ is turned into an unsalvageable hodgepodge. One set of twins owns a circus in the hill town of Ooty in South India, in which this Roy performs an eyeroll of an electric act which has a direct impact on his long-lost twin brother, living miles away in Bangalore.

Ranveer Singh can bring a great deal of natural gusto to a role. Here, too, he does pretty much the same, but the two roles that he is stuck with are ...

The performer-protagonist is endowed with a special skill; his twin in Bangalore suffers the consequences of the act that the latter performs in the circus arena. The result is a great fall for both Rohit Shetty and Ranveer Singh. The tightrope it walks is precariously weak and frayed. One duo goes to a couple in Bangalore, the other ends up in a home in Ooty. Electricity connects two twins separated at birth - one can withstand high-voltage shocks, the other is assailed by waves of electric current that he has no control over. We do laugh, but only at the sheer vacuity that is on show. Here, too, he does pretty much the same, but the two roles that he is stuck with are awfully insipid. Yunus Sajawal's screenplay runs logic to the ground in search of laughs. The lead actor tries hard - way too hard - and the effort shows. The film has one foot planted firmly in the past, which by itself is not such a bad thing. And the acting all around is consistently substandard. It is full of garbage.

Cirkus box office collection: Ranveer Singh and Rohit Shetty fail to create the same magic at the ticket counters as they did with their first outing ...

[Ranveer Singh](https://indianexpress.com/about/ranveer-singh/). [James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water](https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/avatar-the-way-of-water-india-box-office-collection-day-7-james-cameron-8339813/). [opened with low occupancy](https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/bollywood/rohit-shetty-ranveer-singhs-cirkus-fails-to-attract-audience-occupancy-as-low-as-15-8340640/) in the morning and afternoon shows, and couldn’t attract the audience in the evening. [Cirkus](https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/bollywood/cirkus-movie-review-ranveer-singh-rohit-shetty-8340379/) was being touted as the last big film of a year that hasn’t been too kind to Bollywood. Golmaal Again also got a phenomenal opening (Rs 30.14 cr) and so did Dilwale (Rs 21 cr), Singham Returns (Rs 32.09 cr), and Film trade analyst Taran Adarsh was of the view that Shetty always ‘surprises’ the audience and one [must not ‘underestimate’](https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/bollywood/cirkus-advance-booking-low-can-rohit-shetty-spring-a-surprise-8336610/) his power of pulling crowds to theatres.

Cirkus box office: Ranveer Singh-starrer Cirkus collected in the range of ₹7-7.5 crore as it released in theatrefdgd s on Friday. The Rohit Shetty film ...

The Hindustan Times review of the film called it “unfunny and outdated". According to a report on Boxofficeindia.com, Cirkus collected in the range of ₹7-7.5 crore. And mind you, this is Ranveer in a double role yet none could redeem a film this awful.” His last film Jayeshbhai Jordaar fell flat at the ticket counters. The Rohit Shetty film boasts of a massive star cast including Jacqueline Fernandez and Pooja Hedge. Director Rohit Shetty has said Cirkus is for the audience who loved his comedy films like Golmaal and All The Best.

The film underperformed in Mumbai and Gujarat belts. Agencies Cirkus' is a period comic caper based on William Shakespeare's 'Comedy of Errors'.

While [PVR](/topic/pvr)received Rs 1.47 crore, approx, the two other chains, [Inox](/topic/inox)& Cinepolis, have collected Rs 1.70 crore together. [Fernandez](/topic/fernandez)starrer at the three national chains PVR, Inox, and Cinepolis. The Divyang Thakkar movie ended up with a sub-par box-office lifetime collection -Rs 26 crore. [CBI Arrests Chanda Kochhar, Husband](/epaper/delhicapital/2022/dec/24/satet-front/cbi-arrests-chanda-kochhar-husband/articleshow/96465416.cms) [Govt to Provide Free Food to 814 m Indians Till Dec ’23](/epaper/delhicapital/2022/dec/24/satet-front/govt-to-provide-free-food-to-814-m-indians-till-dec-23/articleshow/96465397.cms) The report revealed that ‘Cirkus’ performed poorly in Mumbai, collecting just Rs 3 crore.