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Jaat Opening Day Box Office Early Trends: Sunny Deol starrer takes a decent start; Aims at Rs 9.00 crore
The best-performing markets for Sunny Deol’s Jaat include Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. Detailed Report
The Sunny Deol-led Jaat has taken a decent start, with excellent response in the mass belts as early trends are indicating the first-day business in the range of Rs 8.50 crore to Rs 9.50 crore. The Gopichand Malineni directorial is so-so in multiplexes, but Sunny Deol is flexing his muscle power in the smaller centres. The single screens are showing gains with every passing show, and that’s a positive sign for Jaat to consolidate the decent start into good results over the extended weekend until Monday.
The top 3 national chains – PVRInox and Cinepolis – are looking to collect around the Rs 3.50 crore mark, contributing less than 40 per cent of the total business. The best-performing markets for Jaat are Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. These three are traditional strongholds for Sunny Deol and it also helps that there is a significant Jat population in these states. Another Deol stronghold, in fact, his best, Punjab is relatively weak but that was the case with Gadar 2 as well, with real-world political factors hurting his stardom stock there.
The early response is pretty decent from the target audience, and with no competition for the film in this space, the hope is on Jaat to record a run and reach a respectable number. The trajectory over the weekend will give an idea if the film has legs to hit a century or settle around the Rs 80 crore mark, but the film is acting as a good follow-up to Gadar 2 for Sunny Deol.
The collections in B and C centres indicate a bumper start at all India levels, but since the business is driven by bigger cities, the overall number won't be of that level. The centres that seldom get patronage are seeing collections due to Sunny Deol in a well-mounted action film, and it is always great to see smaller single screens put up numbers. Jaat will see a dip in business on Friday which is a norm for the genre and there is also a slight holiday boost in play. Saturday might not see a massive increase which is normally seen with city-driven films, but an uptick should be there. It will be the Sunday when the major growth shall come as that is the day when mass centres score heavily. The start is there, leading to sampling and it’s on the audience to turn up over the extended weekend.
Stay tuned to Pinkvilla for more updates.
Note: These are estimates based on very early trends and the actuals can be higher or lower depending on the final circuit figures
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