KGF 2 Box Office: Collects Rs. 16 crore for opening day in advance booking; likely to cross opening day of RRR

Bollywood Hungama has been constantly reporting about the historic advance booking trend of KGF: Chapter 2 at the box office in the Hindi belts. The movie has become a rage across the nation as according to some initial data we have received, KGF: Chapter 2 has already collected Rs. 16 crore nett for the opening day with merely the advance booking sale. To put things into perspective, by the end of Wednesday, the advance booking of KGF 2 would have crossed the opening day of RRR (Rs. 19 crore), which is the biggest opener of 2022 in Hindi belts.

The advance booking of KGF 2 has already gone past the full day business of films like Antim, Bell Bottom, Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui, Gangubai, 83, Satyameva Jayate 2, Pushpa and Tadap to name some. Of the Rs. 16 crore, Rs 7.25 crore approx. has come from the three national chains, PVR, Inox and Cinepolis – whereas the remaining figure has come from non national chains and single screens. Even the places which are usually dependent on spot bookings are selling tickets like hot pancakes in advance.

KGF 2 is competing with films like War and Prem Ratan Dhan Payo, which had created an all time record in the advance booking in Hindi belts. The two films had sold 4.05 lakh and 3.40 lakh tickets respectively in the national chains, and the trends suggest that KGF 2 will end up somewhere in between the two record openers or may be marginally above War.

The advance of KGF 2 in Hindi circuits will be second biggest of all time for an Indian film after the giant, Baahubali 2, in terms of ticket sales, and probably the highest ever for an Indian film if we take total collections into account. We shall have a clearer picture on this by Wednesday night. While Jersey would have acted as an opponent stopping KGF 2 from reaching its true potential on opening day, the Yash film now has an open ground to explode on April 14.

Bollywood Hungama predicts the film to open in the Rs. 40 crore range on Thursday and truly feel that it also has a chance of hitting the Rs. 50 crore number. This is nothing but a historic feat, more of a repeat telecast from April 2017, when Baahubali 2 was released.

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