This week will yet again witness multiple releases in the form of Shilpa Shukla's B.A. PASS, the Deepak Dobriyal and Priya Bhatija starrer CHOR CHOR SUPER CHOR, Rituparna Sengupta's CALAPOR and the Arshad – Riya venture RABBA MAIN KYA KAROON.
With Rohit Shetty's Shahrukh Khan starrer CHENNAI EXPRESS releasing next week, the new releases of this week will face a tough challenge.
Last Friday saw quite a predictable outcome with the Ranvir, Tusshar, Vishakha and Ravi Kissen starrer, BAJATEY RAHO, leading the pack and ended the weekend netting 4.75- 5 crore.
The remaining releases of the week, which included Prateik-Amyra's ISSAQ and the Poonam Pandey starrer NASHA, turned out to be damp squibs netting about 2.50-2.75 crore during the opening weekend.
Moving on, after a decent opening weekend Tips Films' Girish Kumar-Shruti Haasan starrer, RAMAIYA VASTAVAIYA, saw middle level numbers during the weekdays as it collected 1.85 crore from Bombay (collections from other cinemas unreceived), 1 crore from Ahmedabad, 38.15 lakhs from Surat, 21.75 lakhs from Baroda, 15 lakhs from Rajkot, 45 lakhs from Pune, 3.65 lakhs from Goa, 4 lakhs from Belgaum, 1.25 crore from Delhi city, 15 lakhs from Noida, 17 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 18 lakhs from Kanpur, 29.15 lakhs from Lucknow, 6.15 lakhs from Agra, 9 lakhs from Allahabad, 2 lakhs from Meerut, 11.65 lakhs from Gurgaon, 5.15 lakhs from Faridabad, 2.25 lakhs from Kurukshetra, 3 lakhs from Panipat, 7 lakhs from Chandigarh, 3.75 lakhs from Jalandhar, 2.55 lakhs from Amritsar, 4.15 lakhs from Ludhiana, 1.55 lakhs from Bhatinda, 1.50 lakhs from Ambala, 25 lakhs from Calcutta, 2.15 lakhs from Siliguri, 4 lakhs from Dhanbad, 4 lakhs from Bhubaneshwar, 3.50 lakhs from Guwahati, 27.50 lakhs from Nagpur, 14.15 lakhs from Jabalpur, 21.15 lakhs from Raipur, 37.50 lakhs from Indore, 5.50 lakhs from Gwalior (collections from 4 cinemas unreceived), 8.25 lakhs from Bhopal, 55 lakhs from Jaipur (collections from 6 cinemas unreceived), 9.25 lakhs from Ajmer, 5.50 lakhs from Bikaner, 13.50 lakhs from Kota, 9.75 lakhs from Udaipur, 35 lakhs from Hyderabad, 15 lakhs from Aurangabad (collections from 2 cinemas unreceived), 20 lakhs from Bangalore, 1.50 lakhs from Mangalore, 1.50 lakhs from Vijayawada, 1.50 lakhs from Visakhapatnam and 1.50 lakhs from Madras.
Netting 24 crore during the opening week, the Prabhudheva directed RAMAIYA VASTAVAIYA is heading towards an average status.
Meanwhile the second release of the same week, Nikhil Advani's D DAY saw a decent first week collecting 2 crore from Bombay (collections from other cinemas unreceived), 75 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 12.55 lakhs from Surat, 12.55 lakhs from Baroda, 7.15 lakhs from Rajkot, 35 lakhs from Pune, 4 lakhs from Goa, 1.25 lakhs from Belgaum, 1.50 crore from Delhi city, 26.55 lakhs from Noida, 16.15 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 10.75 lakhs from Kanpur, 25 lakhs from Lucknow, 2.65 lakhs from Agra, 4.15 lakhs from Allahabad, 1 lakh from Meerut, 21.75 lakhs from Gurgaon, 4.50 lakhs from Faridabad, 1.55 lakhs from Kurukshetra, 2 lakhs from Panipat, 10.50 lakhs from Chandigarh, 3.50 lakhs from Jalandhar, 2.20 lakhs from Amritsar, 3.35 lakhs from Ludhiana, 2 lakhs from Bhatinda, 1.10 lakhs from Ambala, 30 lakhs from Calcutta, 1.55 lakhs from Siliguri, 2 lakhs from Dhanbad, 3.50 lakhs from Bhubaneshwar, 3 lakhs from Guwahati, 15 lakhs from Nagpur, 4.50 lakhs from Jabalpur, 10 lakhs from Raipur, 21 lakhs from Indore (collections from 2 cinemas unreceived), 3.50 lakhs from Gwalior (collections from 3 cinemas unreceived), 6 lakhs from Bhopal, 25.50 lakhs from Jaipur (collections from 4 cinemas unreceived), 3 lakhs from Ajmer, 1.55 lakhs from Bikaner, 5.15 lakhs from Kota, 6 lakhs from Udaipur, 30.50 lakhs from Hyderabad, 2.50 lakhs from Aurangabad (collections from 2 cinemas unreceived), 30 lakhs from Bangalore, 1.75 lakhs from Mangalore, 1.55 lakhs from Madras and 1.75 lakhs from Kochi.
Netting 18 crore during the opening week D-DAY is a below average fare.
Concluding with Viacom 18's Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra directed, BHAAG MILKHA BHAAG, the film is rock steady in the second week as it collected 3.75 crore from Bombay (collections from other cinemas unreceived), 85 lakhs from Ahmedabad, 18.25 lakhs from Surat, 23 lakhs from Baroda, 10 lakhs from Rajkot, 1.15 crore from Pune, 9.15 lakhs from Goa, 4.65 lakhs from Belgaum, 4 crore from Delhi city, 45 lakhs from Noida, 31.25 lakhs from Ghaziabad, 15.85 lakhs from Kanpur, 28.75 lakhs from Lucknow, 5.35 lakhs from Agra, 6 lakhs from Allahabad, 3 lakhs from Meerut, 50 lakhs from Gurgaon, 11.50 lakhs from Faridabad, 5.50 lakhs from Kurukshetra, 7 lakhs from Panipat, 37.50 lakhs from Chandigarh, 22 lakhs from Jalandhar, 13 lakhs from Amritsar, 16.10 lakhs from Ludhiana, 7.15 lakhs from Bhatinda, 5 lakhs from Ambala, 60 lakhs from Calcutta, 3.15 lakhs from Siliguri, 3.50 lakhs from Dhanbad, 7.50 lakhs from Bhubaneshwar, 6.25 lakhs from Guwahati, 32.25 lakhs from Nagpur, 27 lakhs from Jabalpur, 14 lakhs from Raipur, 32.50 lakhs from Indore, 6.75 lakhs from Gwalior (collections from 2 cinemas unreceived), 15.55 lakhs from Bhopal, 55 lakhs from Jaipur (collections from 2 cinemas unreceived), 6.55 lakhs from Ajmer, 3.55 lakhs from Bikaner, 10 lakhs from Kota, 12.75 lakhs from Udaipur, 31.55 lakhs from Hyderabad, 10 lakhs from Aurangabad, 1.25 crore from Bangalore, 2.75 lakhs from Mangalore, 2.25 lakhs from Vijayawada, 4.15 lakhs from Visakhapatnam, 4.25 lakhs from Madras, 1 lakh from Coimbatore and 7 lakhs from Kochi. With another 27 crore BHAAG MILKHA BHAAG has netted 80 crore in two weeks from India.
The Farhan Akhtar starrer is a super hit. BHAAG MILKHA BHAAG is impressive in the overseas (especially US) grossing ?231,000 from UK and $1,425,000 from the US till the third weekend (26-28 July).
