Kaminey is one of the biggest releases this year even though it doesn’t have any superstars. Upcoming star Shahid Kapoor is acting in a dual role for the first time and Priyanka Chopra is the female lead. Talented Vishal baradwaj helms the director’s chair. The movie, due to its superb music and captivating trailers, became an event film and everyone was ready with their wallets open to see this movie. Kaminey is expecting an earth shattering numbers from the single and the multiplex arena in its first weekend and especially in the Maharashtra turf. And the date of release was perfect too, with the Independence Day and Krishnaashtami falling on the weekend it was the perfect weekend one can think off.

But now it seems to be a bad decision to release the movie this weekend. The looming threat of the swine flu in Mumbai and other parts of the state has ensured a complete shut down of all the schools, colleges for the next seven days and the theatres for at least three days. Now if that is so, all the theatres will be closed on Friday biting into the exceptional start which was expected by Kaminey. Even after that, people are requested not to go to malls or heavily crowded place so Kaminey is definitely going to be affected. And the trend nowadays is the exceptional opening weekend of big movies and the word of mouth and reviews will decide its sustainability in the theatres. So, Kaminey needs to be an amazing piece of work for it to get out of this troubled times. The opening weekend of Kaminey was expected to reach a Rs. 33 crore net but by the looks of it, 20-23 can be expected from this movie in its first weekend if the theatres are closed this Friday. Let’s just hope that the movie surpasses all the expectations and becomes the second blockbuster this year after Love Aaj Kal.