Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Allu Arjun's Pushpa puts impressive advance booking in Andhra despite Spider Man mania

 Spider Man No way Home  has witnessed the highest advance booking of tickets for an English movie in India. Down South, Allu Arjun's Pushpa's Telugu and Tamil has managed to put a decent opening at advance counters in South. However in Hindi it has not been able to create any ripple.

 Arjun speaking in Chennai during Tamil version promotional media meet said about Fahadh Faasil-  “Fahadh Faasil is my brother from another motherland. It was a pleasure to have you play Bhanwar Singh Shekhawat in Pushpa. Looking forward to seeing you soon. I respect him a lot as an actor. I genuinely enjoyed watching him perform live. I hope you will also enjoy both our performances on screen,” 

Pushpa's advance booking for day 1 [all languages, As of 10:35 PM]:


Telugu: 3.70 Cr gross

Hindi: 18900

Tamil: 10L

Kannada

 Spider Man as per INOX- PVR- Cinepolis has nationally sold 4.75 lakh tickets when te counters opened today. Rs 16.90 crores was collected. The film releases on December 16th. By today and  tomorrow, a total of Rs 30 crores will be collected as advance booking for weekends. If this happens , it  will be the highest for any movie in Indian box office.as seats that are sold through counters put together will take it to Rs 30 cr on opening day alone. 30% of seats in multiplexes and 60% in  single screens are sold in counters.

Bollywood Hungama reports - Of the 4.75 lakh plus tickets sold in advance, nearly 2.90 lakh tickets are for the opening day i.e. Thursday, whereas the remaining are split over the weekend. Spiderman is looking at a historic opening of Rs. 30 crore net on a working Thursday, and this is an indicator that the audience is willing to step out to watch a film on the big screen, provided that the content has something that warrants a big-screen watch.

The film has surpassed all expectations in terms of advance booking and now all eyes on the opening day as it is poised to emerge as the biggest opener of 2021 in Hindi belts by surpassing Sooryavanshi.  And interestingly, this is happening with a mere restrained release on approximately 2400 screens, which yet again gives out a message that screen count has nothing to do with box office collections. Over the last few weeks, we have given reasons for certain films suffering due to 50% occupancy cap in Maharashtra, or the Covid fear, but here comes a Hollywood film to break all myths and give out a message loud and clear - make a big film and there is enough capacity even in just 2500 screens to put up an earth-shattering opening of Rs. 30 crore plus.

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