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Baaghi Day 3 (Sunday) Box Office Collections

Baaghi has shown growth of around 25% on Day 3 at the box office, which should take the Sunday collections of the film to around the 14 crore mark. The film continued to perform well at mass centres and multiplex business too has shown an upward trend on Sunday.

With a film like Baaghi performing well, it once again proves that the masala' genre of films will always have an audience in a country like India, especially at smaller centres where the biggest films of the year so far, haven't performed upto expectations.

In fact, at quite a few B and C centres across the country, the Sunday of Baaghi has been the biggest day of 2016 - both in terms of footfalls and collections - bettering the first day of a big film like Shah Rukh Khan's FAN. Of course, FAN had limited appeal at single-screens, but Baaghi is a much smaller film that has been made on less than half the budget.

The first weekend business of Baaghi is around the 37 - 38 crore mark (official figures for Sunday will be out in the noon). The total is at around the same range as the first week (7 days) business of Ajay Devgn's Himmatwala and higher than the first weekend business of Akshay Kumar's Khiladi 786 (32.21 crore), Boss (26.62 crore). It's also around 10-15% lower than the lifetime business of Arjun Kapoor's Tevar, which released in theatres last weekend and collected 41 crore at the box office.

In 2015, Akshay's Gabbar Is Back collected Rs 39.45 crore in its first weekend, with the added advantage of May 1 holiday in several states. Bigger films (both in terms of star cast and costs) like Tamasha, Dil Dhadakne Do and Baby were around the 36-38 crore mark - which falls in the same range as Baaghi.

It's difficult to pin-point one reason as to why the film has performed so well - especially when it didn't have a popular music album. The young and fresh pairing of Tiger Shroff and Shraddha Kapoor has worked big time. With Heropanti and now Baaghi, Sabbir Khan has quickly emerged as a director to watch out for in the future and his films with Tiger will now have a following at mass centres.

The other factor that has worked in favour of the film is the timing of release. There hasn't been an out-and-out mass youth film in the last couple of years - we'd have to go back to Tevar (more rural and less stylish) last year and Bang Bang (lead pair don't exactly fall in the young' category) in 2013. Too many city-centric films were being made and the audience at smaller centres were being left out. They have come back to theatres in a big way and have made their presence felt with Baaghi.

Overall, Baaghi is a winner at the box office. Monday will decide how big a grosser the film can go on to be.

Baaghi Box Office Collections

• Friday - 11.94 crore
• Saturday - 11.13 crore
• Sunday - 14 crore (early estimate)
• Weekend Total - 37.07 crore

Originally posted by: rimi2983

Wow 37 cr weekend 👏
Tiger Shroff has arrived and how !!
Jaggu dada's son is doing wonders . This is one star kid who I do not mind.

Originally posted by: rimi2983

Wow 37 cr weekend 👏
Tiger Shroff has arrived and how !!
Jaggu dada's son is doing wonders . This is one star kid who I do not mind.

Originally posted by: rimi2983

Wow 37 cr weekend 👏
Tiger Shroff has arrived and how !!
Jaggu dada's son is doing wonders . This is one star kid who I do not mind.