Saiyaara advance booking shatters records; Ahaan Panday-Aneet Padda film beats Aamir, Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar releases

Saiyaara advance booking numbers broke several records, raising expectations of a bumper opening day for the YRF film.

Updated on: Jul 18, 2025, 09:38:44 IST

By Abhimanyu Mathur

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Mohit Suri's romantic drama Saiyaara is releasing in theatres today (July 18). The Yash Raj Films-backed release stars two newcomers - Ahaan Panday and Aneet Padda. Yet, despite being led by debutants, the film has seen immense buzz before its release. If the advance booking is any indication of its box office performance, Saiyaara is set to shatter many records.

Saiyaara stars newcomers Ahaan Panday and Aneet Padda in the lead roles.

Saiyaara advance booking collections

According to Sacnilk, Saiyaara's final advance booking collections for opening day was ₹9.39 crore, with 3.8 lakh tickets being sold just in pre-sales alone. That is an astonishing number for a mid-budget film with newcomers. To put that in context, the advance booking collection alone is more than the total day 1 box office collections of other debutant-led films like Dhadak ( ₹8.76 crore) and Student of the Year ( ₹3.75 crore). Saiyaara is no longer competing with these films. It is, instead, looking to match the opening day figures of some of the big-budget films of veteran superstars.

How Saiyaara beat big-budget films of Bollywood superstars

Saiyaara's ₹9.39 crore advance booking figure beats most Bollywood films released this year. Akshay Kumar's Sky Force was at ₹3.78 crore, while Kesari Chapter 2 fared even worse at ₹1.84 crore. Ajay Devgn's Raid 2 also lags behind at ₹6.52 crore. Aamir Khan's Sitaare Zameen Par was also way behind at ₹3.32 crore. Only Salman Khan's Sikandar managed to pip Saiyaara, but only just about. The action drama had advance booking sales of over ₹10 crore. But even here, Saiyaara managed to outdo the Salman-starrer on two counts. The Mohit Suri film has sold more tickets - 3.8 lakh to Sikandar's 3.3 lakh. And also, in national cinema chains (multiplexes), Saiyaara has sold almost twice as many tickets as the Salman film. It is the mass belts where Sikandar had fared better.

With these strong advance booking numbers, Saiyaara is now looking at a ₹20+ crore opening day, which would be the fourth-best for any Hindi film this year, behind only Chhaava, Sikandar, and Housefull 5. In fact, if Saiyaara sustains good momentum through Friday, it may just pip even Housefull 5 and cross ₹25 crore, trade experts believe.

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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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