Saturday, 2nd May 11:55 AM IST
GABBAR IS BACK Had Fairly Good Day One
Bollywood films have disappointed and no big films made impact in last 6 months except 'PK'. This year not a single mainstream masala Bollywood film worked and to make situation worse Hollywood biggies 'Fast & Furious 7' and 'Avengers Age Of Ultron' over-performed. Now flow of big Bollywood release starts today with Akshay Kumar starrer 'Gabbar Is Back'.
'Gabbar Is Back' has opened in 3000 screens and this kind of release coupled with holiday on Friday means that film should cross 10 cr nett mark bare minimum. Ideally collection target of the film was 15 cr nett mark which would had brought confidence back to trade. Film will be aided by again on Monday due to bank holiday.
Film should see jump from evening onwards though that will depend mainly on reviews and word of mouth. Film collected 13.05 cr nett on day one but anything below 14 on holiday was just good. Marathi film 'Timepass 2' again took away at least 1-1.50 cr nett from 'Gabbar Is Back'. No film has to score Saturday similar to Friday in order to reach 38 cr nett weekend.
