Batti Gul Meter Chalu Box Office collection Day 1: Shahid Kapoor starrer has a great opening

Shahid Kapoor starrer Batti Gul Meter Chalu is doing really great at the box office. Read on to know more about the BO collection.

By Nikita Roy

Updated on Sep 23, 2018 | 10:01 PM IST | 466.6K

Batti Gul Meter Chalu, one of the highly anticipated movies of the year got released this Friday i..e September 21 and the same is doing really well at the box office. Yes, the movie is entertaining the moviegoers all over with the dose of social drama. For the uninitiated, the movie is based on the electricity issues in India, especially in rural India. As per reports, the first-day box office collection is Rs 6.76 crores and expected to grow more on weekend. Trade analyst Taran Adarsh had shared the box office collection of the movie on micro-blogging site Twitter. He tweeted, “#BattiGulMeterChalu has a low Day 1, despite partial holiday… Biz will have to multiply two-fold or three-fold on Day 2 and Day 3 for a respectable weekend total… Fri ₹ 6.76 cr. India biz. #BGMC.”

Apart from Shahid Kapoor, the movie also stars Shraddha Kapoor, Divyendu Sharma and Yami Gautam in key roles. The movie is directed by Shree Narayan Singh of Toilet: Ek Prem Katha fame. This is Shahid's first movie after the super successful Padmavaat which was released during the start of the year. Shraddha Kapoor is currently riding high on the success of Stree. Yes, till now Stree has made Rs 114 crore. Another movie which is at loggerheads with BGMC is Manto. For the unversed, the movie is a biopic on famous and controversial Pakistani writer Saadat Hasan Manto.

The movie is the second directorial of Nandita Das. Have you watched the movie? Are you planning to watch? Let us know your views in the comments below.