LATEST POSITION | 22 October, 2022
‘KANTARA’ SCORES OVER ‘DOCTOR G’

This week’s BLACK ADAM (English and Hindi dubbed) opened to fair houses on an odd day (Thursday) this week. The dull business prospects of pre-Diwali film releases seem to have not affected the Hollywood film which netted Rs. 6.74 crore on the first day. The second day’s collections (Rs. 4.80 crore) were also quite good. Total for 2 days: Rs. 11.54 crore.

Doctor G did average business in the first week. It took an ordinary start, netting Rs. 3.87 crore on the opening day. Collections on Saturday jumped to Rs. 5.22 crore, and further to Rs. 5.94 crore on Sunday. After a weekend total of Rs. 15.03 crore in the first weekend, collections for the weekdays were as follows: Monday – Rs. 1.88 crore, Tuesday – Rs. 1.76 crore, Wednesday – Rs. 1.68 crore, Thursday – Rs. 1.60 crore. Therefore, the total for the weekdays was Rs. 6.92 crore. Total for 1st week: Rs. 21.95 crore.

Code Name Tiranga bombed miserably in the first week. It managed such poor collections that it has proven to be a washout.

Modi Ji Ki Beti proves to be a debacle in the first week.

Despite appreciation, Aye Zindagi failed to bring in the footfalls and, therefore, numbers in the first week mainly because it was a depressing fare.

Love You Loktantra proved a damp squib in 1st week.

Jaggu Ki Lalten did not burn for even a day, so horrific were the collections in the first week.

Kahani Rubber Band Ki turned out to be a non-starter in the first week.

Mid-Day Meeal fared poorly in the first week all over.

Kantara (dubbed) did well in the first week after a slow start. Although it could not replicate the success of the original Kannada version, it did well all through the first week. The Hindi dubbed version and the original Kannada version together netted Rs. 1.27 crore on the first day in North India. Collections on Saturday more than doubled to Rs. 2.75 crore. There was another big jump in collections on Sunday which closed at Rs. 3.50 crore. After a first weekend of Rs. 7.52 crore (which was almost six times the first day’s collections), collections for the weekdays were: Monday – Rs. 1.75 crore, Tuesday – Rs. 1.88 crore, Wednesday – Rs. 1.95 crore, Thursday – Rs. 1.90 crore. Point to be noted is that the film collected more than the first day on each of the weekdays. The total for the weekdays was, therefore, Rs. 7.48 crore. Total for 1st week: Rs. 15 crore. The second weekend started off on a phenomenal note with a net total of Rs. 2.05 crore on Friday.

Goodbye recorded extremely dull collections all through the second week. The second weekend started with a take of Rs. 8.75 lakh only. Collections on Saturday and Sunday were Rs. 17.80 lakh and Rs. 22.25 lakh respectively. After a dismal second weekend of Rs. 48.80 lakh, collections on the weekdays were: Monday – Rs. 5.10 lakh, Tuesday – Rs. 5.40 lakh, Wednesday – Rs. 5.20 lakh, Thursday – Rs. 3.80 lakh. In this way, the total for the weekdays was a poor Rs. 19.50 lakh. Therefore, the total for the second week was Rs. 68.30 lakh or, in other words, Rs. 0.68 crore only. Grand total for 2 weeks: Rs. 6.24 crore.

Godfather (dubbed) could not do much in the second week. It netted Rs. 0.68 crore in the weekend, and Rs. 0.43 crore during the weekdays. In other words, the second week closed at Rs. 1.11 crore. Total for 2 weeks: Rs. 10.14 crore.

Vikram Vedha started and closed the third week with dismal collections.

Ponniyin Selvan – I (dubbed) started the third weekend with a nett collection total of Rs. 34.30 lakh on Friday. The totals for Saturday and Sunday were Rs. 62.50 lakh and Rs. 79.50 lakh respectively. In this way, the total for the third weekend was Rs. 1.76 crore. Collections for the weekdays were as follows: Monday – Rs. 20.85 lakh, Tuesday – Rs. 20.60 lakh, Wednesday – Rs. 20.10 lakh, Thursday – Rs. 13.15 lakh. Therefore, the total for the weekdays was Rs. 74.70 lakh. In this way, the third week closed at Rs. 2.51 crore. Grand total for 3 weeks: Rs. 22.38 crore.

Hari Om (Marathi) failed all over Maharashtra in the first week.

Tu Fakt Ho Mhan (Marathi) fared badly in the first week in Maharashtra.

Kata Kirrr (Marathi) under-performed all through the first week in Maharashtra. It opened to poor houses on Saturday, and things hardly improved thereafter.