Sunit Jangir

Sunit Jangir

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As a Senior Editor at Sacnilk, Sunit Jangir leads our coverage on Indian cinema, box office analytics, and global entertainment trends. Passionate about Cricket, Sunit Jangir is an avid sports lover. He finds inspiration in other people's life stories and try to absorb them. Though introvert by nature, he doesn't feel shy when the topic is cinema and sports, particularly cricket.

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'Stree 2' Tops 30 Million (3 Crore) Footfalls In India; Sells 10 Million Tickets In Book My Show
633 days ago
Bollywood

'Stree 2' Tops 30 Million (3 Crore) Footfalls In India; Sells 10 Million Tickets In Book My Show

Mumbai, September 20 - As Shraddha Kapoor and Rajkummar Rao-fronted Stree 2 is getting closer to becoming the biggest Hindi grosser of all time at the domestic box office, the horror-comedy blockbuster has topped 30 million (3 crores) footfalls in India. ## The Amar Kaushik's directorial has crossed 3 crore admissions in Indian theatres as I type this and becomes the second film of 2024 to achieve the feat after Prabhas-fronted Kalki 2898 AD. Stree 2 is the first 3 crore footfall title for the entire major cast and crew along with Maddock Film and Jio Studio.## Post the COVID-19 pandemic, Stree 2 is the 8th film to sell 30 million or more tickets at the Indian box office, after RRR, KGF: Chapter 2, Pathaan, Gadar 2, Jawan, Animal, and Kalki 2898 AD. Additionally, Stree 2 has sold 10 million tickets through the ticketing platform Book My Show, making it the second movie of 2024 after Kalki to do so. ## At the box office, the Maddock Films' production has scored approximately 564 crores net collection (673 crores gross) at the domestic box office. It will top Shah Rukh Khan's Jawan (582 crores net) in the next few days to become the biggest single-language grosser in India. ## Stay tuned...

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Box Office: 'Tumbbad' Re-Release Seventh Day (7th Day) Collection
633 days ago
Bollywood

Box Office: 'Tumbbad' Re-Release Seventh Day (7th Day) Collection

Mumbai, September 20 - Folk horror thriller Tumbbad re-release has had a very good first week at the domestic box office which saw it almost outgrossing the film's lifetime original run of approximately 13.50 crores net collection. ## Rahi Anil Barve's directorial remained over the 1 crore mark for the seventh day in a row, scoring approximately 1.25 crore net collection on Thursday. This took the total re-release collection of the movie to approximately 13.15 crores net in 7 days. ## Tumbbad is expected to witness a good jump on its second Friday due to National Cinema Day on which the ticket prices are kept at just rs. 99. It will cross its original run today (8th day) and then will look to continue the momentum for a week or more.## The total domestic collection (including original and re-release)of this critically hailed flick has now reached approximately 26.60 crores net (31.15 crores gross). Depending on how it performs going forward, the movie has a real shot at topping the 50 crores mark. ## Day-wise collection of Tumbbad (re-release) is as follows -## 1st day - 1.60 crores net approx.## 2nd day - 2.60 crores net approx.## 3rd day - 3.05 crores net approx.## 4th day - 1.70 crores net approx.## 5th day - 1.60 crores net approx.## 6th day - 1.35 crores net approx.## 7th day - 1.25 crores net approx.## Stay tuned...

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Box Office: 'Tumbbad' Re-Release Sixth Day Collection
634 days ago
Bollywood

Box Office: 'Tumbbad' Re-Release Sixth Day Collection

Mumbai, September 19 - The folk horror thriller Tumbbad remains strong and stays well over the 1 crore net mark on its 6th re-release day as it continues to perform better than expected at the box office.## The Rahi Anil Barve's directorial minted approximately 1.35 crores net collection on its sixth day/first Wednesday, dropping around 20% from Tuesday. This was the 6th straight day when the movie scored 1+ crore net as the total re-release collection is now approximately 10.75 crores.## Interestingly, the Tumbbad touched a 1 crore net collection only twice before finishing its original lifetime run with approximately 13.50 crore net. Here, the re-release collection of the movie will be very close to its original run in the first week itself. ## Tumbbad is expected to witness a big jump on its second Friday (September 20), due to the added advantage of National Cinema Day where ticket prices are kept at Rs. 99. The second weekend is expected to be bigger than the first one as the movie is looking to finish well above the expectations. ## Day-wise collection of Tumbbad (re-release) is as follows -## 1st day - 1.60 crores net approx.## 2nd day - 2.60 crores net approx.## 3rd day - 3.05 crores net approx.## 4th day - 1.70 crores net approx.## 5th day - 1.60 crores net approx.## 6th day - 1.35 crores net approx.## Stay tuned...

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Box Office: 'Stree 2' Emerged Biggest 5th Week Grosser In Hindi
635 days ago
Bollywood

Box Office: 'Stree 2' Emerged Biggest 5th Week Grosser In Hindi

Mumbai, September 18 - Shraddha Kapoor and Rajkummar Rao's mega-blockbuster Stree 2 has once again created history was scoring the biggest 5th week at the Hindi box office. The movie had earlier scored the biggest third and fourth-week collections also. ## Directed by Amar Kaushik, Stree 2 has scored approximately 21 crores net collection in the fifth week so far (5 days) as the full week is heading towards 25 crores net. With its 5th Tuesday collection (2.50 crores net), it has beaten Vicky Kaushal's URI: The Surgical Strike (18.75 crores net) to score the biggest 5th week in Hindi. ## The total collection of Stree 2 after the 5th Tuesday (34th day) is approximately 560.50 crores net (669 crores gross) and it is now just 22 crores less to top Shah Rukh Khan's Jawan (582 crores net) to become the biggest single language grosser at the Indian box office.## The blockbuster sequel is expected to beat Jawan in the 6th weekend to become the box office king in India. The movie also has an outside chance of becoming the first 600 crores net grosser domestically which will truly be a remarkable achievement for industry. ## Meanwhile, Stree 2 has crossed 800 crores gross at the worldwide box office, becoming the second Indian and first Bollywood movie of 2024 to unlock the achievement. ## Top 5 Biggest 5th Week Grosser In Hindi (Approx. Collection) - ## 2. Stree 2 - 21 crore net (5 days)## 2. URI: The Surgical Strike - 18.75 crore## 3. Baahubali 2 - 11.75 crores## 4. Tanhaji - 10.40 crores## 5. KGF: Chapter 2 - 10.25 crores## Stay tuned...

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Box Office: 'Tumbbad' Re-Release Fifth Day (5th Day) Collection
635 days ago
Bollywood

Box Office: 'Tumbbad' Re-Release Fifth Day (5th Day) Collection

Mumbai, September 17 - After the very good opening weekend, the folk horror thriller Tumbbad re-release is showing fantastic hold during the weekdays. The first Monday collection of the movie was higher than its opening day and now there is another solid hold on Tuesday. ## The Rahi Anil Barve's directorial film, on its 5th day, scored approximately 1.60 crores net collection which is similar to the opening day figure. This first Tuesday re-release collection of the movie pushed the total to around 10.50 crores after 5 days. ## Tumbbad has been one of the most-anticipated Bollywood re-releases in recent times and the makers also promoted it accordingly which is reaping rich dividends to them. As said, it needs just 3 crores more to outgross the original run of 13.50 crores net. ## The re-release is expected to be around its original collection after the first week which is a big achievement to crack. Tumbbad is having a verdict-changing re-release run after turning a flop in its original run. ## Day-wise collection of Tumbbad (re-release) is as follows -## 1st day - 1.60 crores net approx.## 2nd day - 2.60 crores net approx.## 3rd day - 3.05 crores net approx.## 4th day - 1.70 crores net approx.## 5th day - 1.60 crores net approx.## Stay tuned...

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Box Office: 'Tumbbad' Re-Release Fourth Day Collection
636 days ago
Bollywood

Box Office: 'Tumbbad' Re-Release Fourth Day Collection

Mumbai, September 17 - The folk horror thriller Tumbbad is heading towards emerging as a big success story in its re-release run at the domestic box office after not getting much return in its original run 6 years ago despite the critical acclaim.## Upon re-release on September 13, the Rahi Anil Barve's directorial film had a very good opening weekend with approximately 7.25 crores net which is almost 225% more than the film's original run first-weekend collection of 3.25 crores net.## The superb weekend almost ensured that the film would do well during the weekdays and come the first Monday, it performed better than expected to score higher collection than the first day (Friday). On its 4th day, Tumbbad scored approximately 1.75 crores net collection, around a 40% drop from Sunday and a 10% jump from Friday. ## The movie's total collection after 4 days is approximately 9 crores net and is now just 4.50 crores away from outgrossing its lifetime original run collection of 13.50 crores net. Looking at the trend, Tumbbad re-release is expected to do around its original lifetime business in the first week. ## Tumbbad was a box office flop when it was released in 2018 but after 6 years, it is having a verdict-changing re-release run. It will be interesting to see how far it can go, as a longer run will boost the box office prospects of its sequel which was announced on Saturday (September 14).## Stay tuned...

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Box Office: YRF's 'Veer-Zaara' Re-Release Scores In The Opening Weekend
637 days ago
Bollywood

Box Office: YRF's 'Veer-Zaara' Re-Release Scores In The Opening Weekend

Mumbai, September 16 - As the re-release trend is picking up in Bollywood, the nostalgia factor is bringing the audience to the theatres to revisit some of the evergreen hits. Amid the success of a few re-releases, Yash Raj Film's Veer-Zaara returned to the big screen and scored well in the opening weekend. ## The 20-year-old epic romantic drama, starring Shah Rukh Khan, Preity Zinta, and Rani Mukerji, was re-released on September 13 on over 300 shows, which jumped to over 400 shows on Sunday after the positive response at the box office. ## The Yash Chopra's superhit directorial scored approximately 25 lakh gross collection on its opening day upon re-release. The movie witnessed an upward trend on the second day to score approximately 40 lakh gross, followed by another 45+ lakh on Sunday, for approximately 1.10+ crore gross (95 lakh net) opening weekend. ## Earlier in the year, Veer-Zaara had occasional re-releases on limited shows where it grossed approximately 40 lakh collection, and including the latest re-release, the movie has grossed around 1.50 crores this year (1.30 crores net). ## Veer-Zaara was a super hit at the box office in its original run with approximately 97 crores worldwide gross collection. After the re-release this year, the total collection is now around 98.50 crores. It needs to be seen how it performs going forward as it needs just 1.50 crores gross to top the 100 crore mark.## Stay tuned...

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Box Office: 'Stree 2' Scores All-Time Biggest 5th Weekend
637 days ago
Bollywood

Box Office: 'Stree 2' Scores All-Time Biggest 5th Weekend

Mumbai, September 16 - There is no stopping horror-comedy blockbuster Stree 2 which is racing towards the ultimate glory of becoming the biggest Hindi grosser of all time at the domestic box office by crossing Shah Rukh Khan's Jawan. ## The Shraddha Kapoor and Rajkummar Rao once again created history by scoring the biggest 5th weekend with approximately 15.50 crores net collection in Hindi. Previously, Vicky Kaushal's Uri: The Surgical Strike had the biggest 5th weekend with 12.50 crores net. ## Interestingly, URI's 5th-weekend collection was higher than the full 5th-week collection of the rest of the movies, including Baahubali 2 (11.78 crores net), Tanhaji (10.41 crores), and KGF 2 (10.25 crores). Stree 2 has topped them all and will also become the highest fifth-week grosser of all time in Hindi by crossing URI (18.75 crores net).## Stree 2 has become only the second film ever to cross 550 crores net collection in Hindi. At the end of the 5th weekend, the mega-blockbuster sequel is standing at approximately 555 crores net and is now just 27 crores away from topping Jawan (582 crores net) to become the biggest Hindi grosser ever. ## Directed by Amar Kaushik, Stree 2 is showing a phenomenal hold in collections all across the board and this should lead it to cross Jawan by the next week. It has an outside chance of becoming the first 600 crores net grosser in a single language in India. ## Stay tuned...

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Box Office: 'Tumbbad' Re-Release Third Day Collection
637 days ago
Bollywood

Box Office: 'Tumbbad' Re-Release Third Day Collection

Mumbai, September 15 - Director Rahi Anil Barve's folk horror thriller Tumbbad scored a fantastic first weekend at the domestic box office upon its re-release. The movie surpasses expectations to earn more than 2X of the original run opening weekend collection. ## Tumbbad scored approximately 1.60 crores net collection on its first day of re-release, followed by 2.60 crores net on the second day with a good jump of 62.50%. The movie breached the 3 crore mark on Sunday as it scored approximately 3 crore to conclude the opening weekend on a high note. ## The re-release opening weekend collection of the film is close to 7.25 crores net and is now just 6 crores away from outgrossing the lifetime collection of its original run. Tumbbad is expected to do well during the weekdays as word-of-mouth is growing. ## There haven't been many Bollywood films which performed well after getting re-released. This year, Rockstar and Laila Majnu did well and grossed over 10 crores each upon re-release. Tumbbad is setting up a new benchmark for non-original releases and is expected to end up with much more than its original collection (13.50 crores net). ## Tumbbad was a box office flop when it was released in 2018 but after 6 years, it is having a verdict-changing re-release run. It will be interesting to see how far it can go, as a longer run will boost the box office prospects of its sequel which was announced on Saturday (September 14).## Stay tuned...

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'Laila Majnu' Re-Release 38 Days Box Office Collection
637 days ago
Bollywood

'Laila Majnu' Re-Release 38 Days Box Office Collection

Mumbai, September 15 - Amid the superb response to the Tumbbad re-release, Tripti Dimri and Avinash Tiwary's romantic drama Laila Majnu, which was re-released more than a month ago, is still doing a decent business.## Directed by Sajid Ali, the heartbreaking romance drama makes a successful return to the big screen after 6 years. While it largely went unnoticed in its original run back in 2018, the re-release has already earned more than 3X of its original collection of 3.25 crores gross (2.70 crores net).## Laila Majnu is currently in the 6th week of its re-release run and in 38 days so far, it has grossed approximately 10.50 crores. It is the second Bollywood re-release to cross 10 crores gross collection domestically this year. ## The movie was re-released on September 9, ahead of the Independence Day biggies and scored approximately 4.75 crores gross collection (4.10 crores net) in the first week. Due to the intense competition, the collection of the movie got a hit as it scored approximately 1.35 crores (1.15 crores net) in the second week. ## As the new releases, except for Stree 2, failed to seize the opportunity during the holiday period, Laila Majnu, maintained a steady hold and crossed 10 crores gross mark which can be called a big achievement, especially the kind of response it got during its original run. ## Here is the week-wise net collection of Laila Majnu's re-release (approx.) - ## 1st week - 4.10 crores## 2nd week - 1.15 crores## 3rd week - 1.10 crores## 4th week - 1.00 crores## 5th week - 1.20 crores## 6th weekend - 30 lakh## Total - 8.85 crores net (10.35 crores gross)## Including original collection - 11.55 crores (13.50 crores)## Stay tuned...

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Box Office: 'Tumbbad' Re-Release Second Day Collection
638 days ago
Bollywood

Box Office: 'Tumbbad' Re-Release Second Day Collection

Mumbai, September 14 - Critically acclaimed Folk horror thriller Tumbbad is up for a fantastic re-release run at the domestic box office and is set to outgross its lifetime original run collection within two weeks. ## The movie was re-released on September 13 amid much anticipation and it didn't disappoint with superb 1.60 crores net opening, which is almost 2.5X of its original run opening day collection of 65 lakh. As word of mouth grows, it scored a deserving jump of +50% on Saturday. ## On its second day, Tumbbad earned approximately 2.60 crores net collection (3+ crores gross), pushing the total re-release collection to approx. 4.20 crores net in 2 days. Interestingly, in its original run, the movie never scored 2 crores or more collection in a single day. ## The film had scored approximately 3.25 crores net in its original run opening weekend which has been crossed in just 2 days with a good margin upon its re-release. The re-release opening weekend is heading towards 7+ crores net and it is likely to outscore its final original collection of approximately 13.50 crores net during the second weekend. ## Tumbbad was a box office flop when it was released in 2018 but after 6 years, the film is having a verdict-changing re-release run. It will be interesting to see how far it can go as a longer run will boost the box office prospects of its sequel which was announced on Saturday (September 14). ## Stay tuned...

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Box Office: 'Tumbbad' Re-Release Scores A Good Opening Day
639 days ago
Bollywood

Box Office: 'Tumbbad' Re-Release Scores A Good Opening Day

Mumbai, September 14 - One of the most critically acclaimed folk horror Indian films ever, Tumbbad got re-released on September 13 amid much anticipation and it delivered what was expected from it regarding the box office collection. ## Over the last few months, Bollywood has been following the re-release trend of some classic films that are also doing well at the box office. Sensing the big opportunity and obelizing the public demand, producer Sohum Shah and the team announced the re-release of Tumbbad and they also put efforts into promoting the movie. ## Per estimates, the film scored approximately 1.60 crores net (1.80+ crores gross) collection on its opening day which is more than 2.5X of its original release's first-day collection (65 lakh). Interestingly, the Tumbbad re-release collection beat the opening day numbers of Kareena Kapoor's new Hindi release The Buckingham Murders which managed to score in the range of 1.25 crores net. ## The response to Tumbbad is hardly surprising as it has easily been the most-anticipated Bollywood re-release in recent times. The anticipation for the movie among its target audience led to good pre-sales, followed by a good start at the box office.## Directed by Rahi Anil Barve, Tumbbad scored approximately 13.50 crores net (17.25 crores gross) in its original lifetime run at the domestic box office back in 2018, and this collection is expected to be outgrossed by the re-release's second-weekend collection. ## Stay tuned...

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