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Box Office: Punjabi Film Mastaney emerges a Blockbuster; Collects Rs 6.30 crore in 2 days in India
The devotional period drama, Mastaney grossed Rs. 3.50 crores on Saturday, taking its two-day total to Rs. 6.30 crores.
Punjabi film Mastaney has emerged Blockbuster recording a surge in collections on the second day after a very strong opening. When there is a strong opening, there is always a chance of some drop on the second day but when you have growth on the second day and to the level that Mastaney had, it's safe to assume it will be a Blockbuster. The devotional period drama grossed Rs. 3.50 crores on Saturday, 25 per cent higher than Friday, taking its two-day total to Rs. 6.30 crores. There will be another growth in business today, for a three-day weekend of Rs. 10 crores plus.
These numbers could have been even better with a solo release as most of the centres in Punjab state are capacity-constrained due to screen sharing with the new release Dream Girl 2 and Gadar 2 and OMG 2 from holdovers. The problem is more prominent in the bigger centres like Chandigarh and Ludhiana where Hindi films have more showcasing. Here the film is short of Carry on Jatta 3 but in smaller centres where Hindi films had smaller showcasing, the film was scoring closer to Carry on Jatta 3.
Since Mastaney is a Sikh history-based story, it is getting a lot of non-regular cinema-going audiences and when such things happen the film can go anywhere. A few years back there was Chaar Sahibzade, which went on to become the highest-grossing Punjabi film ever from a very low start. Here even the start is bumper, so the potential exists for something even bigger.
The film is a huge Blockbuster overseas too, setting new highs in some of the markets. In Australia, the film grossed AUD 325K on Saturday, destroying the single-day record for Punjabi films. No other Punjabi film had even crossed AUD 200K in a day and here the film has gone over AUD 300K. The weekend in Australia will be AUD 800K+, well over the AUD 511K weekend record by Carry on Jatta 3 just two months back. Similarly, New Zealand grossed NZD 57K on Friday and then NZD 88K on Saturday, well ahead of Carry on Jatta 3's NZD 50K on Saturday. The Sunday number will probably clear NZD 100K. The overall overseas weekend of the film will be USD 1.75-1.80 million range.
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