Dhurandhar: The Revenge opens advance bookings for its paid previews in India today at 11am IST. By 8 pm, only nine hours after sales began, over one lakh tickets for the film had been sold. National chains, PVRINOX and Cinepolis have contributed around 75,000 tickets so far. In terms of earnings, the film has already reached close to Rs. crore. 5 crore nett mark, and by the time you read this, it will probably have crossed it.
For reference, Stree 2 holds the record for the highest paid preview for a Bollywood film. 8.75 crore nett. At the current pace, Dhurandhar: The Revenge may cross that figure by tomorrow morning, within the first 24 hours of ticket sales, i.e. more than ten days before its release. There was a lot of hope that Ranveer Singh starrer would make this record, but perhaps no one had any idea of this.
The film has already created huge potential for the first day. Multiplexes with two to four screens are playing the film exclusively for the last two shows of the day. Large multiplexes with six to ten screens are leaving only one or two screens for other titles. Upon release, he may also shift to Dhurandhar. As of now, around 6000 shows are on sale; This number is likely to exceed 8000 and may reach 10,000. The daily capacity is already around Rs. 45 crore nett, and the final number increases to Rs. 60-70 crores nett. This is not far from what some big films earn in a normal day.
At this stage the film can cross the Rs crore mark. 30 crore nett mark just for the preview, maybe Rs. Too. 40 crores nett. Since the film is of extremely long duration of around 4 hours, a movie will last around 4:30-5 hours. As a result, the second show will start around and after 10 pm. It may be difficult to fill all the seats in some places late in the day, although metros will be fine and the first show will be practically full. Pre-sales for it are already taking shape as the film will gross Rs. 10 crore nett figure tomorrow, and then there are still ten days left.
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