John Abraham’s much delayed project ‘Parmanu – The Story Of Pokhran’ has opened to a slow start at the box-office. According to Box Office India, the film initially had an ordinary first day of 4.75 crore nett apprx. Things slowly improved in the evening.
Looking at the past collections of John Abraham starrer’s, then the collections of Parmanu are much better and probably has a better chance to grow over the weekend than those films. (Also Read: ‘Parmanu’ Movie Review: John Abraham starrer will fill your heart with pride)
The first day collections of recent John Abraham films as solo lead are as follows: ‘Rocky Handsome’ – 5,19,00,000, ‘Force 2’ – 5,62,00,000 and ‘Parmanu’ – 4,75,00,000 apprx
In Mumbai and Pune the film has scored better than Madhuri Dixit’s debut Marathi film ‘Bucket List’. As the theme of the movie is patriotic it will grow slowly in Mumbai and Pune. But Delhi / UP are better options to show growth over the weekend.
Let us wait and watch how the film fares over the weekend and will positive word of mouth help it.