The mega weekend that Bollywood was looking forward to with part excitement and part apprehension has come and gone and Dilwale and Bajirao Mastani have begun week two. As Monday's business was totalled up, it appears that both films have passed with flying colours.
Rohit Shetty's Dilwale, starring Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, Varun Dhawan and Kriti Sanon, is still ahead of Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Bajirao Mastani - but the gap may be closing. Bajirao Mastani, with its all-star cast of Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone and Priyanka Chopra, appears to have benefitted from the good reviews it was given by most critics and word of mouth. Dilwale, unanimously panned, is still ahead by about Rs 18 crores but a day-to-day comparison shows that Monday saw a 50% dip in ticket sales.
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The Shah Rukh Khan-Kajol starrer Dilwale has had a bigger opening than Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s period biopic Bajirao Mastani, and it has continued to rake in more moolah because Shah Rukh Khan reportedly knew the trick.
The advance booking of Dilwale started from Monday of the releasing week, far ahead of Bajirao Mastani. However, the first Monday (after its Friday release) collections are always the litmus test for any film’s acceptability, and this is where it looks like Bajirao Mastani has an edge over Dilwale.
According to trade magazine Box office India (image attached below), on Monday Bajirao Mastani had the net collection of Rs 10.25 crore, whereas Dilwale ended up raking in Rs 10.09 crore.
“Bajirao has overtaken Dilwale,” says trade analyst Taran Adarsh. He further confirms that Bajirao Mastani has an upper hand now because it has had a very strong word of word of mouth working in its favour.
Trade analysts Komal Nahta seconds Taran Aadarsh, and further adds that the boycotting of screenings of the Dilwale, by right-wing groups in Mumbai have definitely affected their day one collections.
Maybe for a different reason, but Bajirao Mastani too suffered such boycott in Pune. “It was unbelievable and unprecedented; else both the films would have made huge money,” says Nahta.
Amod Mehra is sure that the collection of Bajirao Mastani would see a sharp rise whereas for Dilwale it is likely to slide down in the same proportion. “This weekend, however, will show which film is a hit and which one is a flop. At present, it looks like Bajirao Mastani will sail through and Dilwale won’t work," says Mehra.
News publications have already established that Dilwale has crossed Rs 100 crore, but the fate of the film actually depends on net collection from theatres in India. Going by those figures, Dilwale has made Rs 74.72 crores whereas Bajirao Mastani is lagging behind with Rs 52.20 crores.
Not only in India, even in the US, Bajirao Mastani's collection is higher than Dilwale, according to Komal Nahta tweets:
Amod Mehra made clear that it takes, at least, three weeks to decide whether a film is a hit or flop. Nahta is holding his verdict as well, until the end of this year. “We can’t declare any of them as a hit, not as yet," he says.
Red Chillies Entertainment didn't disclose their Monday figures, so we chose to take our figures from Box Office India Magazine:
http://remo.com/forum/user/info?uid=22140
Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh’s Bajirao Mastani, which had a slow start at the box office, has picked up pace over the weekend thanks to the strong and positive word of mouth. Bajirao Mastani’s collections have now registered a jump and is doing much better than Shah Rukh Khan-Kajol’s Dilwale.
Bajirao Mastani and Dilwale, which have been going head strong at the box office, had witnessed a growth in their collections over the weekend, but Monday (December 22) collections have come as a surprise as SRK’s undefeated ‘Dilwale’ has been overpowered by the collections of ‘Bajirao Mastani’. (Read review of Bajirao Mastani )
The collections of ‘Dilwale’ declined by 50 per cent on Monday, whereas ‘Bajirao Mastani’s collections went down by mere 10 – 15 per cent. The figures of ‘Bajirao Mastani’s collections were ahead of Dilwale for the first time on Monday as the movies earned Rs. 10.25 cr and Rs 10.09 cr respectively.
Rohit Shetty's Dilwale, starring Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, Varun Dhawan and Kriti Sanon, is still ahead of Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Bajirao Mastani - but the gap may be closing. Bajirao Mastani, with its all-star cast of Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone and Priyanka Chopra, appears to have benefitted from the good reviews it was given by most critics and word of mouth. Dilwale, unanimously panned, is still ahead by about Rs 18 crores but a day-to-day comparison shows that Monday saw a 50% dip in ticket sales.
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The Shah Rukh Khan-Kajol starrer Dilwale has had a bigger opening than Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s period biopic Bajirao Mastani, and it has continued to rake in more moolah because Shah Rukh Khan reportedly knew the trick.
The advance booking of Dilwale started from Monday of the releasing week, far ahead of Bajirao Mastani. However, the first Monday (after its Friday release) collections are always the litmus test for any film’s acceptability, and this is where it looks like Bajirao Mastani has an edge over Dilwale.
According to trade magazine Box office India (image attached below), on Monday Bajirao Mastani had the net collection of Rs 10.25 crore, whereas Dilwale ended up raking in Rs 10.09 crore.
“Bajirao has overtaken Dilwale,” says trade analyst Taran Adarsh. He further confirms that Bajirao Mastani has an upper hand now because it has had a very strong word of word of mouth working in its favour.
Trade analysts Komal Nahta seconds Taran Aadarsh, and further adds that the boycotting of screenings of the Dilwale, by right-wing groups in Mumbai have definitely affected their day one collections.
Maybe for a different reason, but Bajirao Mastani too suffered such boycott in Pune. “It was unbelievable and unprecedented; else both the films would have made huge money,” says Nahta.
Amod Mehra is sure that the collection of Bajirao Mastani would see a sharp rise whereas for Dilwale it is likely to slide down in the same proportion. “This weekend, however, will show which film is a hit and which one is a flop. At present, it looks like Bajirao Mastani will sail through and Dilwale won’t work," says Mehra.
News publications have already established that Dilwale has crossed Rs 100 crore, but the fate of the film actually depends on net collection from theatres in India. Going by those figures, Dilwale has made Rs 74.72 crores whereas Bajirao Mastani is lagging behind with Rs 52.20 crores.
Not only in India, even in the US, Bajirao Mastani's collection is higher than Dilwale, according to Komal Nahta tweets:
Amod Mehra made clear that it takes, at least, three weeks to decide whether a film is a hit or flop. Nahta is holding his verdict as well, until the end of this year. “We can’t declare any of them as a hit, not as yet," he says.
Red Chillies Entertainment didn't disclose their Monday figures, so we chose to take our figures from Box Office India Magazine:
http://remo.com/forum/user/info?uid=22140
Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh’s Bajirao Mastani, which had a slow start at the box office, has picked up pace over the weekend thanks to the strong and positive word of mouth. Bajirao Mastani’s collections have now registered a jump and is doing much better than Shah Rukh Khan-Kajol’s Dilwale.
Bajirao Mastani and Dilwale, which have been going head strong at the box office, had witnessed a growth in their collections over the weekend, but Monday (December 22) collections have come as a surprise as SRK’s undefeated ‘Dilwale’ has been overpowered by the collections of ‘Bajirao Mastani’. (Read review of Bajirao Mastani )
The collections of ‘Dilwale’ declined by 50 per cent on Monday, whereas ‘Bajirao Mastani’s collections went down by mere 10 – 15 per cent. The figures of ‘Bajirao Mastani’s collections were ahead of Dilwale for the first time on Monday as the movies earned Rs. 10.25 cr and Rs 10.09 cr respectively.
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