Sabarmati Report starring Vikrant Massey, Raashi Khanna and Riddhi Dogra in the lead roles took a slow start in theatres. The film, directed by Dheeraj Sarna, struggled for good collections on the first day.
Sabarmati Report earns Rs 1.25 crore on first day; got mixed reaction from the audience
Financed by Ekta Kapoor under Balaji Motion Pictures, Sabarmati Report took a slow start at the box office, earning between Rs 1.25 crore and Rs 1.30 crore on its first day. Although it is not an encouraging start, such films depend more on weekday grip and longer runtimes.
However, the film received mixed to average word-of-mouth, which must be worrying the creators now. Had it received a great response from the audience, it would have had every chance of becoming successful in the long run, following the path of 12th Fail. But, considering the average response on its opening day, the Vikrant Massey starrer is expected to end with an unfavorable outcome.
There is no major counter to Sabarmati report for two weeks.
The good thing is that Vikrant Massey starrer this film has no major competition at the box office for two weeks. Although Tamil film Kanguva and Hollywood biggie Gladiator 2 also released this weekend, all three can coexist as each of them caters to different sections of the audience.
For those unaware, the Sabarmati Report revolves around the real incident of Godhra train burning (2002). There were delays and internal fights also. A large part of the film has been re-shot so that it can get clearance from the censor without facing major problems. It will be interesting to see how it performs in the coming days.
Box Office Collection of Sabarmati Report at Indian Box Office:
| Day | net india box office |
| 1 | Rs 1.25 crore (estimated) |
| Total | Nett in India Rs 1.25 crore |
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About Sabarmati Report
Samar Kumar (Vikrant Massey) is a small-time Hindi film reporter. Shloka (Barkha Singh) is his girlfriend. Samar gets the opportunity of a lifetime to work as a cameraman for a big television company, EBT News, and get close to a very famous news presenter, Manika Rajpurohit (Ridhi Dogra). Manika and Samar go to Godhra, Gujarat to cover the 2002 Sabarmati Express train fire.
Samar is surprised at how Manika changed the entire story around the Godhra incident. Samar’s independent Hindi report, which he made on the spot, highlighting the horror of the people injured in the Godhra incident, has been rejected by the news company as it was not a good service for them. Summer secretly asks the video archivist to keep her report safe and give it to an EBT News reporter who really wants to uncover the truth.
Samar is fired from her job and no media company hires her due to her bad reputation. To survive he has to do small dubbing work. His respect for journalism is at an all-time low.
Five years after the Godhra carnage, up-and-coming journalist Amrita Gill (Raashi Khanna) of EBT News gets a chance to revisit the report on Sabarmati. Samar’s report is also presented in front of her, seeing which she is really surprised. She reaches Samar. With a hatred for journalism yet a desire to uncover the truth, Samar finds herself in a very awkward situation. He doesn’t even know whether Amrita is really on his side or whether he still likes Manika, his inspiration for getting into journalism.
Does the truth of Godhra incident come out, or is EBT News so powerful that it cannot bring this news out?
Watch Sabarmati report to know.
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