This year saw a mixed bag of releases. We take a look at how a few of them fared at the box office....

Sequel duds and wins: Like every year, 2011 too saw numerous sequels flooding the theatres. Almost all of them had one thing in common the hype. However, very few managed to deliver the box office numbers as well as impress critics. The ones who accomplished this feat were


Rachel Weisz in The Whistleblower

X-Men: First Class, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, Fast and Furious: Fast Five and Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows: Part 2. Those who found themselves left out in the cold were Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Hangover II, Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn and Transformers: Dark of the Moon.