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Pink had a low start on day one grossing around 4 crore nett. The film did pick up in the evening but mainly at high end multiplexes while the other multiplexes and its limited single screens did not improve much. The film can improve well on Saturday as these high end cinemas generally show the best growth on Saturday and the film has a big ratio of business coming from these cinemas. Neerja earliwr this year had grossed around 4.75 crore nett on day one and this film at high end multiplexes be it in Delhi, Punjab, Bangalore or Mumbai has very similar collections to that film. But in the rest where Neerja could not do well, Pink is even lower than that film.
Despite the media going crazy about the film, this support is unlikely to be reciprocated in most centres of India but the costs of the film are low enough that good appreciation at high end multiplexes of metros will see it through. There are many quite a few films which have got to 60-70 crore with mainly scoring at high end multiplexes and Pink does not need to that much business to cover. The film will get a good jump on Saturday and then it will be about that Monday being high enough to pull it through.
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Raaz Reboot Is Also Low On First Day
Saturday 17 September 2016 11.30 IST
Box Office India Trade Network
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Raaz Reboot like Pink also had a low first day grossing around 4.75 crore nett and though the collections are higher than Pink the gap is closer than it should be as the film did open better but collections in the evening did not rise as much as Pink. The film has done well in parts of North, Rajasthan and Nizam / Andhra but the collections at multiplexes were generally dull and was driven by single screen business which was actually good in some parts of the country. Still the collections are more than 50% lower than the last part of Raaz which means this film has gone wrong somewhere as the franchise is much bigger but here the theatrical did not play to the strengths of the franchise.
The film has been taken at 20 crore for its Indian theatrical rights and so day one needed to be a bit higher unless the growth comes but that won't be easy. Basically the difference between Pink and Raaz Reboot in terms of trend will be is that the former has done its best business where collections jump big on Saturday while Raaz Reboot has done its best business where collectioins don't really improve on the initial. The film also has some business at major multiplexes but the ratio against all India is three times lower than Pink.
Both Raaz Reboot and Pink need around 40 crore nett plus for recovery (20 share for Raaz and 17 for Pink) and Pink probably has better chance due to the likely growth on Saturday but it will be Monday which will decide. If Raaz Reboot can grow 20-25% on Saturday it will have a fighting chance.
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