Overview

• Industry tracker Sacnilk estimates day‑one collections at about Rs 12.5 crore net, with a modest start that strengthened through evening and night shows.
• Overall Hindi occupancy on opening day was roughly 22.4%, rising from about 10% in the morning to nearly 39% at night, with Chennai and Delhi‑NCR among the stronger markets.
• Advance booking for day two jumped around 76% to roughly Rs 5.7 crore gross, and exhibitors added over 1,000 shows to take the count to about 11,430, according to Koimoi.
• The opening trails Jolly LLB 2 and Akshay Kumar’s Housefull 5 but outperformed recent Kumar titles Sky Force and Kesari: Chapter 2, as well as Aamir Khan’s Sitaare Zameen Par.
• Early audience reaction is broadly positive—especially for Saurabh Shukla’s Judge Tripathi—after pre‑release bookings briefly paused due to a VPF dispute with PVR‑Inox that was settled before release.