After taking a very good start of Rs. 8.03 crores at the box office, The Kerala Story had further jump in numbers on Sunday as Rs. 11.22 crores more came in. This is simply phenomenal because even big budget films have struggled to get into a double digit score in the last 20 odd months and here comes a film with a budget of less than Rs. 20 crores achieving that feat and that too in a seamless manner.
This is the second such miracle that's happening after The Kashmir Files, which was released exactly 14 months back in March 2022. That film too had a similar theme, tonality, execution and budget, and now The Kerala Story is repeating that tale with even higher numbers. That said, it isn’t as if the film will end up surpassing it on a day by day basis since the Vivek Agnihotri directed genocide drama was released on a small scale and its showcasing was gradually increased whereas the Vipul Shah produced conversion drama has started on a front foot.
No wonder, the film has netted Rs. 19.25 crores already, which means it has already recovered its cost of theatrical release, and now whatever comes in would be added bonus. The good deal is that when the bonus element is typically 10%-20% of the expected numbers for a regular Bollywood big budget film, here whatever comes in would be infinitely higher since the game has just started for the Adah Sharma enacted film and the collections are only going to be exponential.
Note: All collections as per production and distribution sources
