‘Batla House’ Box-Office Report: John Abraham’s cop drama starrer has a decent Day 1

This year, on the occasion of 73rd Independence Day, two movies hit the screens – ‘Mission Mangal’ and ‘Batla House’. The former has an ensemble cast of Akshay Kumar, Vidya Balan, Taapsee Pannu, Sonakshi Sinha, Kirti Kulhari and Nithya Menen among others. ‘Batla House’ starred John Abraham in the lead role of a cop.

Talking about the first-day box office collection of ‘Batla House’, trade analyst Taran Adarsh took to his Twitter handle to share the Day 1 collection.

Taran tweeted, “#BatlaHouse fares well on Day 1, although the numbers are affected due to the clash.”

Read his full tweet here.

#BatlaHouse fares well on Day 1, although the numbers are affected due to the clash… Gathered momentum post noon onwards… #IndependenceDay holiday gave its biz additional push… Will need to score from Fri-Sun… Thu ₹ 14.59 cr. India biz.

— taran adarsh (@taran_adarsh) August 16, 2019

‘Batla House’ received an average review from Bollywood Bubble. Our critic calls it, “An average thriller that fails to keep things moving at a quick nip”. On John Abraham’s performance, he wrote, “John Abraham effortlessly nails the role of a cop. He is convincing and you really feel bad when the entire world is pointing fingers at him.”

For the unversed, ‘Batla House’ is based on the Batla House encounter aka Operation Batla House. It took place against the Indian Mujahideen (IM) terrorists in the Batla House locality in Jamia Nagar, Delhi on September 19, 2008.

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