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- ↑ Single-print film to 'reel' in audience.
- ↑ Bodyguard opens with 100 per cent occupancy Archived 12 November 2011 at the Wayback Machine .
- ↑ RA.One to open in a record 5000 screens Archived 4 November 2011 at the Wayback Machine .
- ↑ Box office: Complete washout.
- ↑ Rohit Shetty strikes hat-trick with `Golmaal 3` this Diwali.
- ↑ Bollywood's Full Monty.
- ↑ Anil Kapoor, Jennifer Hudson, Yojiro Takita.
