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UK Film Box Office
Nov 21-Nov 23, 2003
Rank Title Country of Origin Gross Distributor % change on last week Weeks on release Number of cinemas Total to date
1 Love Actually UK/USA £6,657,479 UIP 1 477 £6,657,479
2 The Matrix Revolutions USA £1,158,971 Warner -55 3 428 £15,581,005
3 Finding Nemo USA £808,327 BVI -33 8 482 £35,994,590
4 Seabiscuit USA £334,875 BVI -41 4 327 £2,524,859
5 Kill Bill Volume One USA £256,827 BVI -39 7 245 £10,971,227
6 Intolerable Cruelty USA £247,035 UIP -53 5 284 £6,236,482
7 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre USA £185,050 Entertainment -52 4 252 £3,686,026
8 The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen USA/GER/CZECH £158,395 20th Fox -44 6 225 £7,191,439
9 In America IRE/UK £156,952 20th Fox -54 4 174 £1,608,189
10 Calendar Girls UK £111,540 BVI -44 12 189 £20,010,892
11 Mystic River USA £70,577 Warner -27 6 76 £1,630,553
12 Master and Commander USA £61,056 20th Fox 1 1 £61,056
13 Holes USA £58,432 BVI -34 7 185 £1,331,449
14 In the Cut USA £55,213 Pathe -57 4 69 £953,853
15 The Medallion HK/USA £48,293 Col/TriStar -55 2 99 £194,802
Total £10,369,022 3,513 £114,633,901
Other UK films
17 The Mother UK £37,285 Momentum -37 2 21 £132,979
19 Steal UK/FRA/CAN £23,372 Redbus 1 51 £23,372
22 Noi Albino ICE/UK/GER/DEN £14,791 Artificial Eye 7 2 5 £35,231
32 Intermission UK/IRE £7,568 BVI -32 13 7 £1,703,238
33 Bright Young Things UK £5,302 Icon -67 8 10 £1,052,200
34 Young Adam UK/FRA £4,953 Warner -17 9 12 £822,255
37 Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer UK/USA £4,294 Optimum Releasing 1 3 £4,294
43 Octane UK/LUX £2,129 BVI -79 2 8 £18,331
58 Swimming Pool FRA/UK £186 UGC Films -79 14 2 £704,982
61 Miranda UK/GER £27 Pathe -98 3 1 £8,491
62 I Capture the Castle UK £20 Momentum 0 29 1 £996,799
Other openers
18 Out of Control IND £26,201 Tip Top Entertainment 1 20 £26,201
36 Taking Sides GER/FRA £4,375 Guerilla Films 1 6 £4,375
38 Larki Punjaban PAK £4,243 Bollywood Films 1 16 £4,243
53 Taj Mahal: An Eternal Love Story IND £534 Eros 1 4 £534
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Lahore: December 02(Online): Larki Punjaban (Punjabi Girl) is the story of a Sikh girl from India's north who falls in love with a Pakistani from over the border - directly against the tradition of demonising each other's country in film.
Traditionally, Pakistanis do often turn up in Bollywood films - and Indians in Lollywood ones - but as the bad guys.
"It's a straightforward, run-of-the-mill eastern musical - with a bit of romance and drama thrown in," South Asian film expert Neehar Bushan told.
"If you were to compare it with any other film made in India or Pakistan, I don't think the storyline is any different.
"The only difference is the fact that it's a cross-border Romeo and Juliet kind of story."
Controversial project
The film is in both Urdu and Punjabi, and was shot by two directors - Shashilal Nair from India, and Syed Noor from Pakistan.
Its world premiere was in Bradford at the start of November, as the English city is the home of the production company's marketing manager, Raja Tariq Mehmood.
The film tracks the couple through 55 years of bitterness between their families
But even up to the last few days, there were question marks over whether the film - which had been completed for over a year - would escape censors in both India and Pakistan.
Bollywood films have not been officially shown in Pakistan since 1965, and vice versa.
"Especially since the 1980s, Indian films have only been big in Pakistan via the piracy route and bootleg videos," Mr Bushan said.
"In India, Pakistani films are hardly seen."
It is not the first time that Nair has been involved in a controversial project.
Only last year, his film Ek Chhotisi Love Story (A Small Love Story) attracted a number of legal challenges.
Lead actress Manisha Koirala took Nair to court in Mumbai - and lost - after she objected to scenes involving a scantily-clad body double in the film.
The body double, too, threatened to sue Nair, claiming he owed her cash for a role she had only undertaken because she needed money for her mother's cancer treatment.
"The fact that again [Nair's] back in the spotlight with this film is not surprising," Neehar Bushan says.
"It's really interesting to see how this film is shaping up, with these two directors giving their own perspective to the story."
Punjabi Girl is not, however, the first cross-border love story.
Those from across the border are traditionally the bad guys
Indeed, the last film by Bollywood legend Raj Kapoor - Henna, which was released in 1990, was also based on this theme.
Kapoor died before he was able to begin filming, so this task was performed by his son.
"This was probably the first film about a Hindu boy falling in love with a Pakistani girl, and the whole story around it," says Bushan.
"So it was an attempt to show that love can conquer all - that was the idea.
"But unfortunately, since then, in the 90s, the trend has been to make films that are not exactly love stories, but they're based more on the Kashmir issue, or the scars of partition.
"That has been the trend that has been going throughout the 90s. So this film is coming back full circle."
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LAHORE: Film director Syed Noor said on Thursday that his film Larki Punjaban would be released in India after it was successfully launched in England.
Speaking to reporters at the Lahore Press Club, Mr Noor said, “Larki Punjaban is the first production of Paragon Entertainment (PE), a film production company he set up with a British national. He said he could get the permission from the Indian Information and Culture Ministry in six months. He said the Indian producers were ready to release the film with their names and his name as a partner in India to make money.
Mr Noor said that his Eid release, Commando, earned Rs 13.5 million during the first five days. He said that Commando had boosted the sagging film industry in Pakistan.
He said that Larki Punjaban would be released in Pakistani cinemas on December 25. “Larki Punjaban is doing very well in the UK.” He said and circulated the email messages he received from the filmgoers in the UK who had watched the film.
He said the local films were usually shot in 16 but Larki Punjaban was shot in 35 mm. “We plan to release the film in the United States, Dubai and India,” he said adding that his film was doing better business than Indian movie Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham in the UK.
Film directors Mubashir Luqman and Shahzad Rafique also attended Mr Noor’s press conference.
Mr Luqman said, “Larki Punjaban has created history in the sense that it is the first Pakistani film to be first released in the international circuit. Previously, all films were released in the local circuit and than then abroad.”
In Larki Punjaban, a Sikh girl falls for a Muslim boy. The story invited some protests in the UK including from the Muslim-Sikh Federation.
Asked to comment on reports that the plot has been changed on protests from Indian Sikhs, Mr Noor said there had been no change in the film. “I took the film to England after getting it approved from the Pakistan Film Censor Board, hence there was no change
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