Border 2 advance booking: Sunny Deol film sells 4 lakh tickets to beat Dhurandhar, but no match for Gadar 2

Border 2 advance booking ended for its opening day with a gross of ₹12.5 crore, higher than Dhurandhar. The film stars Sunny Deol, Varun Dhawan, Diljit Dosanjh.

Updated on: Jan 23, 2026, 07:07:32 IST

By Abhimanyu Mathur

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Border 2 advance booking: The advance booking for war drama Border 2 picked up a manic pace on Thursday, the eve of the film’s release. The Sunny Deol-starrer went from selling 4K tickets per hour on BookMyShow in the morning to around 10K tickets per hour by the evening. This helped the film cross the ₹10 crore mark in advance bookings for the opening day.

Border 2 advance booking: Sunny Deol stars in the war drama.

Border 2 advance booking final figures

The advance booking for Border 2 opened in India on Monday morning. By Friday morning, the film had sold over 4 lakh tickets according to trade sources. Trade tracker Sacnilk puts the film’s opening day gross advance booking at ₹12.5 crore. This includes just over ₹5 lakh gross from premium formats like IMAX, 4DX, and DOLBY CINE. The film doubled its advance booking gross for day 1 on Thursday itself, going from ₹6 crore to ₹12 crore within 12 hours.

How Border 2 fares against other films

By Wednesday, Border 2’s day 1 advance booking gross had already crossed the mark of Sunny Deol’s previous big release Jaat, which had collected ₹2.4 crore in advance bookings, and opened at ₹9 crore net. By the end of the pre-sales on Friday morning, the film crossed the ₹10-crore mark as well, beating Ranveer Singh’s Dhurandhar, which had collected a little over ₹9 crore for its first day in advance bookings. However, the film fell short of Sunny Deol’s all-time record of ₹17.50 crore, set by Gadar 2 three years ago.

All about Border 2

A sequel to JP Dutta’s iconic 1997 film Border, the 2026 film is a war drama directed by Anurag Singh. Border 2 stars Sunny, alongside Varun Dhawan, Diljit Dosanjh, and Ahan Shetty in lead roles. Produced by Bhushan Kumar, Krishan Kumar, J.P. Dutta, and Nidhi Dutta, the film released in theatres on January 23, ahead of the Republic Day.

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Abhimanyu Mathur
Abhimanyu Mathur is Deputy Editor, Entertainment at Hindustan Times. With almost 15 years of experience in writing about everything from films and TV shows to cricket matches and elections, he inhales and exhales pop culture and news. Currently, he watches movies and TV shows and talks to celebrities for a living, while occasionally writing about them as well. A journalism graduate of Delhi College of Arts and Commerce, Delhi University, Abhimanyu began his career with Hindustan Times at the age of 20, swapping classrooms for newsrooms at an early age. He began his journey in the early days of digital journalism, later switching to the madness of print journalism. Work has led him to far off places like Japan and Jordan, as well as to the interiors of Haryana and the Indo-Pak border. He dabbled in city reporting in places like Meerut, Gurgaon, and Delhi, covered the Olympics and Cricket World Cups, before finding his calling in entertainment and lifestyle during the pandemic. A Rotten Tomatoes Certified Film Critic, he is equally at home covering stories on ground as he is interviewing celebrities and studios, and sometimes prefers to shepherd teams in delivering traffic through the day. Even as his role has evolved from reporter to supervisor over the years, his first love remains writing (and of late, talking on camera). With a good understanding of cinema and its trends, and a keen eye for detail, he continues to spark conversations around showbiz for readers around the world.Read More

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