Vikram Vedha starring Hrithik Roshan and Saif Ali Khan released today. Film has considerable amount of pre release buzz and good reviews have helped the film to multiply the noise.
Film released in 4000 plus screens in India and 1600 plus screens overseas. It’s massive release for a film of this genre and it is because of huge cast. Film is expected to created some ripples at box office.
On Friday film opened to strictly average numbers with opening ranging from 20% at best places and lower at most places. Film was expected to grow from evening onwards but then growth didn’t come across the board. This was the story all weekend and as film grew only marginally 15% on Saturday and Sunday.
Film collected below par 10.58 cr nett , 12.51 cr nett and 13.85 cr nett on Friday, Saturday and Sunday respectively. Film had disappointing weekend of 36.94 cr nett and this was shocking considering rather good reviews and decent word of mouth.
Film collected 1 million $, 950 k $ and 713 k $ over the weekend in overseas with total of 2.67 million $ (21.74 cr). Overseas total is fair considering numbers in India and post pandemic times.
On Monday film was expected to hold but again film disappointed with rather below average hold. Film suffers due to festivities for sure but still numbers should have been better. Film was expected to score at least 7-8 cr nett number on Monday with 30% or so drop but that didn’t happen. Film dropped by 48% on day 4 which meant figure of 5.39 cr nett.
Today film was expected to grow due to festivities and it grew by 20% and collected 5.80-6.10 cr nett. Tomorrow is Dussera and holiday should push film towards 7.5-8 cr nett if not more.
Film has 5 – day total of 48.43 cr nett and now jump on tomorrow can take it to 58-60 cr nett week one.
Following are the collection breakdown:
Domestic:
Day 1 : 10.58 cr nett
Day 2: 12.51 cr nett (18% growth)
Day 3: 13.85 cr nett (11 % growth)
Day 4: 5.39 cr nett (50 % drop from Friday)
Day 5: 6.10 cr nett (13% jump)
Total : 48.43 cr nett
Overseas breakdown (including paid previews):
Day 1
US + Canada: $ 362,161
UK: $ 50,622
UAE: $ 252,224
GCC: $ 165,856
Australia: $ 74,730
NewZealand + #Fiji: $ 13,260
Singapore: $ 11,875
ROW: $ 71,942
Total Day 1: $ 1.003 mn (8.19 cr)
Day 2
US + #Canada: $ 356,699
UK: $ 50,548
UAE: $ 262,885
GCC: $ 125,912
Australia: $ 62,001
NZ + #Fiji: $ 15,067
Singapore: $ 12,587
Day 2: $ 950k (7.75 cr)
Day 3
US + Canada – $ 265,175
UK – $ 48,085
UAE – $ 204,793
GCC – $ 29,999
Australia – $ 57,832
New Zealand & Fiji – $ 14,042
Singapore – $ 7,737
Day 3: $713k (7.75 cr)
Day 1 : $ 1.003mn
Day 2 : $ 950K
Day 3 : $ 713K
Day 4: $ 308K
Total : $ 2.97 million [Rs. 24.24 cr]
India Gross : 58.50
Total Worldwide gross : 83 cr
