In the week gone by, over Rs. 60 crores came at the box office between Shaitaan and Yodha. While the former was in its second week, latter had its first week in theatres. Between the two, Shaitaan contributed with over Rs. 35 crores, hence turning out to be top performer of the week. On the other hand, Yodha scored over Rs. 25 crores and would now be aiming to consolidate further in the coming weeks.
Let’s talk about Shaitaan first. After collecting Rs. 81.60 crores in the first week, the film continued to consolidate quite well in the second week as well. The second weekend started well for the film, then that Saturday jump really propelled it further in a big way, and post that the double-digit score on Sunday was an icing on the cake. Rest of the weekdays stayed in that Rs. 2.50-3 crores range and that was good enough to take the film past the Rs. 115 crores mark and close at Rs. 117.50 crores*. The film should cross Rs. 140 crores in quick time and then its journey to gather next Rs. 10 crores in order to hit Rs. 150 crores milestone would be quite interesting.
On the other hand, Yodha has seen a fair first week at the box office. The film opened on expected lines and then did jump well on Saturday. The subsequent jump on Sunday could have been bigger and same holds true for Monday as well, which saw a little less than 50% drop when compared to Friday.
Thankfully, the film continued to stay stable from Tuesday onwards with not much of a fall which allowed it to go past the Rs. 25 crores mark. Now had this been the weekend score then the film would have found itself in a much more comfortable positioning. The milestone that it would be aiming for it is a lifetime of Rs. 40 crores but for that it would all boil down to how does it hold today (with a couple of new releases arriving as well) and then the jump it manages over the weekend so that it can build further over Rs. 26 crores* that it has collected so far.
*Estimates. Final numbers awaited
Note: All collections as per production and distribution sources
