After bringing Rs. 13.04 crores in the week gone by, Maidaan is now set to have its best week on week hold this week with over Rs. 7.50 crores more expected to come in. This has been made possible by some progress that the film managed to make over the weekend when collections jumped from Rs. 0.50 crores on Friday to Rs. 2.20 crores* on Sunday, which is more than double. As a result, the weekend score read Rs. 4.80 crores*.
Now with around Rs. 60 lakhs* more coming on Monday and then stability expected in rest of the weekdays, the third week numbers should close around Rs. 7 crores mark, which would be a reasonable drop from last week collections of Rs. 13.04 crores. That would mean a drop of just a little over 35%, which would be good hold.
That said, all of this is academic since even though from percentage perspective the drop is contained, what’s required is that absolute numbers are good too and this is where Maidaan needed (and deserved) to do so much better. For a biggie like this, such kind of numbers would have seemed better had they come in the fifth week but right now we are taking about third week and that too when the start of the film was really disheartening. It’s all about picking up the best of what’s coming the way of this well-made Ajay Devgn starrer and adding on to Rs. 44.69 crores* that it has collected so far. Soon enough it will go past the Rs. 50 crores mark and then also manage to add some more.
*Estimates. Final numbers awaited
Note: All collections as per production and distribution sources