Bollywood yearns for a mega hit in 6 months: 3 big films are coming in July; others had no strength and expectations from Sarfira
Bollywood is yearning for big hit films this year. 6 months of the year have passed. So far more than 30 films have been released, but except Fighter, no film has been able to earn more than 300 crores. However, 7 films are going to be released in July including Ajay Devgan’s Aur Mein Kahan Dum Tha (5 July) and Akshay Kumar’s Sarfira (12 July). The audience is also waiting for Kamal Haasan’s Indian 2, which is releasing on 12 July. Kill, Wild Wild Punjab, Bad News and Ryan will also release in July. After this, the makers of Stree 2, Veda, Singham Again and Baby John are also expecting a lot of money. There will also be a South tadka for the audience in the coming months. Apart from Devara, Pushpa 2, Rajinikanth’s action packed Vettaiyan is also going to release. However, Shahrukh, Salman, Ranbir Kapoor and Ranveer Singh, who have given big hits, are not releasing any film this year. Kalki earned 298 crores in two days Prabhas, Deepika Padukone, Amitabh Bachchan starrer ‘Kalki 2898 AD’ has earned Rs 298.5 crore worldwide in the first two days. The film did a business of 95 crores in the country on the opening day. It earned 37.75 crores on the second day. The first 6 months were in the name of ‘sleeper’ hits Film analyst Taran Adarsh says, we did not get films earning 500 crores, but 2024 is better than the past years. A new trend of ‘sleeper’ hits has started with films of different genres like Article 370, Shaitan, Missing Ladies and Munjya. Kalki became the third highest grossing film on the opening day. With this, the film has become the third highest grossing film worldwide on the opening day, leaving behind films like ‘Pathan’, ‘Adipurush’ and ‘KGF 2’. There are only two films ahead of this, ‘RRR’ and ‘Bahubali 2’. Prabhas also has a unique record ‘Kalki 2898 AD’ is Prabhas’ fourth film in the list of highest-grossing Indian films on opening day. This list already has Prabhas’ films like ‘Bahubali 2’, ‘Saaho’ and ‘Adipurush’. Films with the highest collections in India on opening day Tremendous earnings even after non-holiday and mid-week release The overall Telugu occupancy of this film was 85.15% on the opening day. Despite being released on a non-holiday, mid-week and on the day of India’s World Cup semi-final match, Kalki has earned such a tremendous amount. The budget of this film is 600 crores The budget of ‘Kalki 2898 AD’, directed by Nag Ashwin, is said to be around 600 crores. The film has received positive word of mouth publicity on the first day. Amitabh Bachchan’s acting has been appreciated the most. He is seen in the role of Ashwatthama in this film.