The first Saturday has seen a windfall for Akshay Kumar and Priyadarshan’s Bhooth Bangla. The film built on its decent start, registering a huge jump in collections and closing day 2 on a rather promising note.
Bhooth Bangla box office update: The Akshay Kumar-starrer had a promising time at the paid previews, earning ₹3.50 crore net in India. On its release day, buoyed by positive reviews, the film earned ₹12.25 crore net. On Saturday, Bhooth Bangla earned ₹19 crore net, seeing a strong 55% jump from day 1.
This takes the film’s domestic haul after two days to ₹35 crore net (₹42 crore gross). On its opening day, the film had extremely low footfall in the morning shows, but good word of mouth saw that number jump by the night shows. On Saturday, Bhooth Bangla made amends by registering decent occupancy across shows.
Bhooth Bangla recovered overseas, too. After a middling start in paid previews and opening day, it earned $1 million in the international territories on day 2. This takes its worldwide gross to an extremely strong ₹60 crore in two days.
The film should cross the ₹100-crore mark in the opening weekend itself. Bhooth Bangla beats Dacoit, The Kerala Story 2 With a worldwide gross of ₹60 crore, Bhooth Bangla has quickly become the 5th-highest-grossing Hindi film of the year, leapfrogging past The Kerala Story 2 (₹48 crore) and the Telugu-Hindi bilingual, Dacoit (₹50 crore).
