Border 2, which released on Republic Day this year, completed its opening week at the box office. Here’s a look at the box office comparison between Border 2 and other recent Republic Day releases, Pathan and Fighter.
‘Border 2’ starring Sunny Deol in the lead role registered a good opening of Rs crore. 28.50 crores at the box office. However, it beat Fighter’s Day 1’s Rs. Even after earning Rs 23 crores, the film lagged far behind the huge earnings of ‘Pathan’. 55.70 crore nett. The opening weekend of Border 2 is around Rs. 112.50 crore, which is about 35 percent more than the first three days of Fighter (Rs 82.50 crore) and 30 percent less than the first three days of Pathan (Rs 160.50 crore).
One should note that on Border 2 the fourth day was a Republic Day holiday, while on the other two it was a national holiday on the second day. This could be a major reason why Pathan achieved a huge lead in its opening weekend. Since ‘Pathan’ released on Wednesday and ‘Fighter’ released on Thursday, both of them had the upper hand in terms of number of days in the opening week.
Border 2, which was a regular Friday release, collected around Rs. 5,000 in its opening week. grossed ₹206.25 crore at the Indian box office, which is 35 percent more than Hrithik Roshan’s film and almost 55 percent less than the Shah Rukh Khan starrer spy action drama in just the first seven days.
Border 2 Thursday is about 1.8x of Fighter and 70% of Pathan. Pathan added Rs. It grossed Rs 165 crore after an extended first week of 9 days, while Fighter earned Rs. 64 crore nett. If Border 2 maintains the same ratio with respect to both these films, it will earn an additional Rs. Will join. 115 crore net, which would mean approximately Rs. Earning Rs 320 crore at the Indian box office.
The day-wise box office comparison between Border 2, Pathan and Fighter is as follows:
| Day | border 2 | Pathan | Warrior |
| Wednesday | Rupee. 55.75 crores. | ||
| Thursday | Rupee. 67.75 crores. | Rupee. 20.50 crores. | |
| Friday | Rupee. 28.50 crores. | Rupee. 37.00 crores. | Rupee. 36.00 crores. |
| Saturday | Rupee. 35.00 crores. | Rupee. 52.00 crores. | Rupee. 26.00 crores. |
| sunday | Rupee. 49.00 crores. | Rupee. 59.00 crores. | Rupee. 26.50 crores. |
| monday | Rupee. 53.00 crores. | Rupee. 24.50 crores. | Rupee. 7.50 crores. |
| Tuesday | Rupee. 18.50 crores. | Rupee. 21.00 crores. | Rupee. 7.00 crores. |
| Wednesday | Rupee. 12.00 crores. | Rupee. 17.00 crores. | Rupee. 6.50 crores. |
| Thursday | Rupee. 10.25 crores. | Rupee. 14.75 crores. | Rupee. 5.75 crores. |
| Total | Rupee. 206.25 crores. | Rupee. 348.75 crores. | Rupee. 135.75 crores. |
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Disclaimer: Box office numbers are compiled from various sources and our research. The numbers may be approximate, and Pinkvilla makes no claims about the authenticity of the data. However, they are adequate indicators of the box-office performance of the respective films.
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