Gully Boy Box Office & Reviews #1. - Page 48

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Gully Boy is competing with the biggest openers in Mumbai city and Pune. The final collection in both these cities could come out to be one of the top days in history. A Thugs of Hindostan collected 3.75 crore nett in Mumbai city (not including Thane) and 1.95 crore nett in Pune while both Bahubali - The Conclusion and Prem Ratan Dhan Payo were a little over 3.50 crore nett in Mumbai city and 1.85-1.90 crore nett in Pune.

The other big ones were Sanju and Singham Returns which did 3.20 crore nett and 3.40 crore nett in Mumbai city on day one respectively. But outside these five films no film has even collected 3 crore nett in Mumbai city. Gully Boys has a shot at 3 crore nett, it does depend on the evening shows as advances were strong in Mumbai city so many key multiplexes will already have sold out tickets leaving less for the late shows.

Basically the film has opened like a all India 30 crore nett opener in Mumbai city and Pune, obviously the all India number will not be that high here as other places are not as strong. Even if the film does 2.50-2.75 crore nett in Mumbai city it will still be competing with like of Tiger Zinda Hai and Happy New Year. Valentines Day has helped but possible less in Mumbai and Pune as there was a craze among the youth for this film in these parts.

Gully Boy took a good opening of around 40-45% overall while cities like Mumbai and Pune took a blockbuster opening which can compare with the biggest of films. The opening of this film was far bigger than Padmaavat and Simmba in Mumbai / Thane and Pune. This is probably due to the local feel of the film.

The film had a Thursday release because of Valentines Day. It is not an official holiday but collections do get a boost. The last two years have seen the release of films like Jolly LLB 2 and Pad Man and they got a boost of 25-30% despite not having much for the youth. Gully Boy should get a bigger boost as its a film for the youth with youth stars but it will be the collections tomorrow which will tell how much the boost was.

The film is econically safe as most of the cost to make it and release it will be recovered from digital, satellite and music but that is the case with most major films but the theatrical run is most important for the people involved to benefit.

The film is going to be about the five big metros especially Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore with the big multiplexes giving a huge ratio of the collections. The Hindi circuits like Rajasthan and CI have had a fair start and even here Valentines Day will help to give it good to decent figures but these places will be about growth if we take the real value first day collections.

The can do well without the support of the mass circuits if the metro crowd really likes it. There have been a few films before which have done big numbers mainly on the support of the five big metros with the biggest being Barfi! which did 105 crore nett plus in 2012.

It is a also after a long time that a cast film there is a film has such a lopsided opening with metro multiplexes being so huge while mass markets are low. The last one which comes to mind is Jab harry Met Sejal but the difference even there was not as much as that film did not have metro multiplex collections opening as strong as this film.