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New Delhi: With a 5 am show in Kolkata, a 6 am one in Jaipur and tickets flying off the proverbial shelf, Shah Rukh Khan\u2019s latest \u201cJawan\u201d is set to break the opening day figures of his own film \u201cPathaan\u201d with insiders pegging day one earnings at Rs 65-70 crore.<\/p>\n
Directed by Atlee, the pan-India thriller, also starring Vijay Sethupathi and Nayanthara, releases on Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople are saying that this will be an opening day of Rs 65 to 70 crore, which is bigger than \u2018Pathaan\u2019. The opening day figure for \u2018Pathaan\u2019 was Rs 55 crore. So hopefully it will be bigger than \u2018Pathaan\u2019,\u201d PVR-INOX Ltd Executive Director Sanjeev Kumar Bijli told PTI.<\/p>\n
\u201cOut of the 10 lakh capacity on opening day, we\u2019ve sold about 25 per cent of the tickets, which is like 2.5 lakh tickets sold for Thursday across PVR INOX (screens). It is a very big number and early estimates suggest that it can be bigger than \u2018Pathaan\u2019,\u201d Bijli told PTI.<\/p>\n
Online ticket booking platform BookMyShow said \u201cJawan\u201d is off to a great start with 750,000 tickets already being booked.<\/p>\n
\u201cPathaan\u201d was a blockbuster, with reported earnings of Rs 1,050 crore. \u201cJawan\u201d, described by makers as a high-octane thriller outlining \u201cthe emotional journey of a man who is set to rectify the wrongs in the society\u201d, could outdo that.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The film, releasing in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu, premieres at a time Bollywood theatrical releases \u2014 most recent being \u201cGadar 2\u201d and \u201cOMG 2\u2033 \u2014 are raking it in.<\/p>\n
Mumbai-based trade expert Komal Nahta agreed with Biji\u2019s estimate.<\/p>\n
The situation is crazy across single-screen theatres and multiplexes both. It is difficult to predict the business. It will at least do Rs 70 crore on day one (in India),\u201d Nahta told PTI.<\/p>\n
In Delhi, the film releases ahead of the G20 Summit on September 9-10 with several heads of state, including US President Joe Biden, set to attend the event. While the city will remain open during the weekend, restrictions will be imposed on a small part of the NDMC area.<\/p>\n
Bijli said he is not worried about the theatrical business taking a hit in central Delhi because of G20 restrictions. It would mean four PVR theatres \u2014 PVR Plaza, Rivoli, Odeon and ECX Chanakyapuri \u2014 shut during the summit.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are single screen theatres with a total capacity of about 2,000 seats so that really wouldn\u2019t have much of an impact because the loss for that will be compensated by the fact that Delhi has a four-day weekend,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
About 30-35 per cent of the film\u2019s business will come from the South, which again is bigger than the numbers made by \u201cPathaan\u201d, added Bijli.<\/p>\n
The buzz around \u201cJawan\u201d is also high in south India as a majority of the cast and crew hail from the region, said Chennai-based trade analyst Ramesh Bala.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe advance booking is looking good all over India, certainly so in the South as well. There are early morning shows in the south. It is a big release here for all the states combined because the cast and crew are from the South.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo the buzz is more. Looking at the advance booking response for the film, I think on day one, the film should do Rs 20 to 25 crore from the South market, and overall, it should do Rs 70 to 75 crore across India. If the movie is reasonably good, then the lifetime business of the movie will be Rs 800 to Rs 1,000 crore,\u201d Bala told PTI.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not just in the South.<\/p>\n
Theatre chain Miraj Cinema, which has 182 plus screens across India, said it has already sold 28,000 tickets.<\/p>\n
\u201cDue to overwhelming public demand, we\u2019ve broken new ground by adding a 5 am show for a Hindi film in Kolkata, a first in our cinema\u2019s history. Jaipur will experience the earliest screening at 6.05 am in Hindi, setting a record for the city,\u201d Amit Sharma, MD of Miraj Entertainment Ltd, said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Senior distributor and exhibitor Raj Bansal, said many theatres in Rajasthan will also hold early morning shows of \u201cJawan\u201d due to the unprecedented response.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter almost 30 years in Rajasthan, we are having 6 am shows for \u2018Jawan\u2019. In the past, this happened with Amitabh Bachchan\u2019s \u2018Hum\u2019,\u201d Bansal, director of Jaipur\u2019s three-screen multiplex Entertainment Paradise, told PTI.<\/p>\n
In Mumbai, Gaiety-Galaxy, a prominent single-screen theatre, about 90 per cent of its seats are sold out.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlmost 80 to 90 per cent booking is done so far; by Thursday it will be houseful. We are happy with the golden run of movies in theatres, especially in single-screen theatres. I think because of \u2018Pathaan\u2019 and \u2018Gadar 2\u2019, the business in single screen has revived. The industry has bounced back in a big way. With \u2018Jawan\u2019 things are looking positive,\u201d Manoj Desai, executive director of Gaiety, Galaxy and Maratha Mandir Cinema, told PTI.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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