Manmarziyaan box office day 1: Abhishek Bachchan’s comeback opens on dull note, makes Rs 3.5 crore

Director Anurag Kashyap’s Manmarziyaan, starring Abhishek Bachchan, Taapsee Pannu and Vicky Kaushal, had a slow opening day, taking Rs 3.52 crore at the box office.

Director Anurag Kashyap’s first romantic drama, Manmarziyaan, had a dull opening at the box office. According to trade analyst Taran Adarsh, the film’s first day takings were Rs 3.5 crore.

Taapsee Pannu in a still from Manmarziyaan, also starring Abhishek Bachchan and Vicky Kaushal.

Adarsh in a tweet wrote that the film had a slow start in the morning but saw an upward trend by the end of Friday. He predicted that the film’s day-to-day numbers will show an increase on Saturday and Sunday, as the current trends suggest, but that the ‘real test’ will be how it performs during the week.

The Rs 3.52 crore opening marks director Kashyap’s best debut in years. His last film, the boxing drama Mukkabaaz, managed approximately Rs 10 crore in total during its theatrical run, while the one before that, Ugly, Raman Raghav 2.0, barely crossed the Rs 7 crore mark. By contrast, Abhishek’s last release, the 2016 comedy Housefull 3, made Rs 15 crore on its first day.

The Hindustan Times review, giving the film 2.5 stars out of 5, noted that Manmarziyaan “is a quirky film with incredibly compelling characters, but, as a love story, it eventually squanders its momentum.”

Meanwhile, Rajkummar Rao and Shraddha Kapoor’s recent horror-comedy, Stree, is on the cusp of crossing the coveted Rs 100 crore mark. Adarsh said that come Saturday, the film will become the latest member of the Rs 100 crore club. Nine films have already crossed the Rs 100 crore mark in 2018.

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