New Delhi: Tiger Shroff and Shraddha Kapoor starrer ‘Baaghi’ is off to a good start at the box office. By earning Rs 11.87 crores, on the first day, it has become the third highest opener of the year 2016.
The other two biggest openers of this year were superstar Shah Rukh Khan starrer Fan (Rs 19.20 crores) and Akshay Kumar’s Airlift (Rs 12.25 crores).
Here is what trade analyst Taran Adarsh tweeted:
Taran Adarsh also broke down the economics of the film. In one of his tweets, he explained that the satellite rights of the film have been sold at Rs 20 crores, music for Rs 5 crores. It has to recover 22 crores now.
On the opening day, the film performed exceptionally well at places like Rajasthan, Bihar, Assam and Odisha. The earnings are expected to take jump in metros on Saturday. Going by the general trend of such films over the years, collections will drop by around 10-15 per cent on Saturday at the mass circuits, but it would be interesting to see if metro collections help it stay steady at the same level.
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‘Baaghi’ opened to 2750 screens nationwide and 344 screens overseas, and saw around 30 percent in the morning shows. It has witnessed spectacular openings in the Gulf as it earned Rs 1.54 crore. In UAE-GCC, ‘Baaghi’ has become bigger than ‘2 States’, ‘ABCD 2’ and three times that of Tiger’s debut ‘Heropanti’.
However, critics were not too happy with the movie. Many labelled the movie as plastic as Tiger’s body and said that Shraddha is a disappointment
