With more than Rs 10 crore and Rs 2 crore in its fourth and sixth week respectively, both ‘Badhaai Ho’ and ‘Andhadhun’ made the most of audiences turning away from ‘Thugs of Hindostan’
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‘Badhaai Ho’ returns to form
again, benefited due to the dismal box office performance of ‘Thugs of
Hindostan’.
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New Delhi:
The
failure of Yash Raj Films’ action adventure Thugs of Hindostan has
not spelt disaster for Bollywood business entirely. Clearly, the two Hindi
films to benefit from the Amitabh Bachchan and Aamir Khan-starrer are the older
Ayushmann Khurrana releases, Badhaai Ho and Andhadhun,
both of which sustained well even as Thugs crashed in its
first week.
With more than Rs 10 crore and Rs
2 crore in its fourth and sixth week respectively, both Badhaai Ho and Andhadhun made
the most of audiences turning away from Thugs of Hindostan. The two
films have earned lifetime collections of Rs 119.54 crore and Rs 70.36 crore
respectively, according to trade website Box Office India.
“Badhaai Ho returns
to form again, (the film) benefited due to the dismal box office performance of Thugs
of Hindostan,” tweeted trade analyst Taran Adarsh.
Meanwhile, the Vijay Krishna
Acharya directed Thugs of Hindostan had taken its box
office total to Rs 137 crore at last count with its second weekend at Rs 3
crore, an unthinkable figure before the release. From Rs 50 crore on its
opening day, the Diwali release reported Rs 1.75 crore this last Saturday. This
despite the limited interest viewers showed in the new Hindi releases- drama
thriller Pihu and satirical comedy Mohalla Assi that
made Rs 95 lakh and Rs 55 lakh respectively and Hollywood fantasy film Fantastic
Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald that earned Rs 7.15 crore.
Adarsh mentioned that the Yash
Raj Films production has also underperformed in overseas markets. The film has
only reported $7.8 million across the world in its first week including $1.76
million in the United States and Canada, 2.72 million in the UAE and GCC,
$810,000 in the United Kingdom and $2.51 million from the rest of the world.
To be sure, YRF will recover its
Rs 200 crore odd investment on Thugs from the sale of
satellite, digital and music rights, among other things. But the film has
proven to be a colossal disappointment as far as theatrical business is
concerned. As things go, it is unlikely to cross the Rs150 crore mark in lifetime
box office earnings, according to Box Office India estimates.
TOPICS: BADHAAI HO, BOX OFFICE, ANDHADHUN, BOX OFFICE, THUGS OF HINDOSTAN , BOX OFFICE BOLLYWOOD, HINDI FILMS
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