Baby vs Gabbar Is Back: Box Office Comparison

Two Akshay Kumar films have released so far this year and both belonged to different genres. Neeraj Pandey’s Baby was targeted mainly at the multiplex audience, while ‘Gabbar Is Back’ was a massy film with a message to the society.

Both films also had plenty of holidays in their respective weekends. ‘Baby’ released during the Republic Day weekend, giving the film an extended 4-day weekend at the box office.

‘Gabbar Is Back’ released on a holiday, but had to compete against a massive Marathi film like ‘Time Pass 2’ and Kamal Haasan’s ‘Uttama Villain’. If not for competition, ‘Gabbar Is Back’ could have probably collected around 10-15% more.

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The difference between the first week business of the two films is the holiday (Republic Day) on Monday for ‘Baby’.

Moving on to the lifetime business of the two films, ‘Baby’ remained steady for 2-3 weeks because the word-of-mouth was very positive. On the other hand, ‘Gabbar Is Back’ has failed to attract audience at premium multiplexes and has performed well mainly at smaller centres.

Can ‘Gabbar Is Back’ beat the lifetime business of ‘Baby’? Looks unlikely at this stage, because in 11 days, ‘Baby’ collected Rs 78.67 crore and ‘Gabbar Is Back’ has collected Rs 74.18 crore.

Gabbar is Back vs Baby

Gabbar is Back vs Baby

Also, the extraordinary response to ‘Piku’ and a big film like ‘Bombay Velvet’ competing for screens and shows at multiplexes, ‘Gabbar Is Back’ will be left with limited shows at multiplexes.

Detailed day-wise comparison between the two films below. Check it out!

Gabbar CollectionsBaby Collections
Day 1 (Friday)13.059.3
Day 2 (Saturday)11.3511.17
Day 3 (Sunday)15.0515.6
Day 4 (Monday)7.114.9
Day 5 (Tuesday)5.35.1
Day 6 (Wednesday)4.784.25
Day 7 (Thursday)4.253.5
First Week Collections60.88 crore63.82 crore
Day 8 (Friday)2.802.85
Day 9 (Saturday)4.203.99
Day 10 (Sunday)4.505.81
Day 11 (Monday)1.82.2
Day 12 (Tuesday)-1.92
Day 13 (Wednesday)-1.94
Day 14 (Thursday)-1.87
Second Week Collections-20.85 crore
Lifetime Collections74.18 crore (11 days)96.91 crore

 

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42 Comments

  • Nothing like liking any of the film.? Both are boxoffice suckers in any case..there are no messages in both the films..big b has done inquilab many years ago with lot more drama..
    Wasteful films

  • Bombay velvet makers have paid the critics handsomely in Goa..

    Bv will affect gabbar…

    Also BV makers r going all out…
    Ranbir also have resorted to his 3rd class funda of affair news and link-up rumour with Katrina wedding to get in news and promote film… Hope he fails..

    Piku was a bad film.. And it will tank after 1st week…

    Baby was only good film this year.. And now gabbar.

  • He is a good actor..I agree that..But when he does another boss,entertainment,k786 he does crap films..after all that craps he done baby,holiday,sp26..So audience finds difficulty to watch his movies or not..
    And also he doesn’t bring that superstar attitude..
    So if he do 1 movie on any festive season i doubt he can’t make it blockbuster..because he lacks at stardom,script and audience doesn’t trust him like aamir..

  • Indicine will have the last laugh!! We all criticised them when they predicted 89crs lifetime for Gabbar but now it will settle around the same mark..

    Yes,a little disappointed with the collections but considering the fact that it never had a free run bcoz of Avengers,big regional releases and then Piku..the collections are not bad.

    Now,waiting for Brothers!!

  • Both are 95cr. Good collection.
    Nobody achived this figure in whole 130 days.

    Now top 5
    1-amir
    2-salman
    3-srk
    4-hartik
    5-akki

  • As expected multiplex audience rejectd gobar. Some idiots were saying 150cr,120cr,100cr sure etc but I was sure that its going to work and lifetime wil b below 90 becoz trailer of gabbar is bad

  • piku has murdered the chance of gabbar,it can’t overtake baby.overall a below average performance at the box office

  • @ Indicine :
    GABBAR 2nd Sunday : 4.5 cr BABY 2nd Sunday : 5.8 cr
    GABBAR 2nd Monday : 1.8 cr BABY 2nd Monday : 2.2 cr
    = 60 % drop = 61 % drop
    GABBAR 7 days:11 days ratio = 82:100 BABY 7 days:11 days ratio = 81:100
    So in my opinion , both are trending at the same level . But the main problem for GABBAR , is PIKU and BOMBAY VELVET .

  • its 2015 and Akki still struggling to deliver a 100 cr movie despite his last two movies got a rave reviews and plenty holidays…This shows that Akki has lost his stardom.

  • It would’ve been nice if BABY and GABBAR collection 100 crores.
    Akshay seems to have similar Box Office trends.

    BABY was underwhelming. GABBAR was below average.

  • Gabbar lifetime will be 85 cr…
    little bit disappointed with these collection but movie will get hit verdict…. We’re baby get semi hit verdict Despite high collection….

  • any ways both are failures bcoz baby was loss for producers and gabbar will be loss for distributors DESPITE HOLIDAY ADVANTAGES

  • Both film underperformed for me, the reason was that both film got positive word of mouth and they had good timing to release, though GIB had holiday but competition with each week stops its run.
    Baby – 81cr
    Gabbar-90cr +
    Bollywood is still waiting for first 100cr grosser this year.

  • I am really confused here.
    In the same year 2015, Indicine says Baby made 96 crore Lifetime at the box office while Box Office India said Baby made 81 crore Lifetime.
    Now, Box Office India is saying Gabbar is Back is on its way to beat Baby’s lifetime collection at the box office while Indicine is saying it won’t break Baby’s collection (i.e. going further 96 crore)
    I don’t trust either two of the site’s report. I just wish there was a real authentic Box Office Tracking system in India.

  • No. . Gabbar wouldn’t beat Baby!
    Two week collections of Gabbar will be around 80 crores! After BV release, Gabbar will do around 9-12 crores. So lifetime should be around 90-92 crores!
    Verdict: above average

  • For the 1st time in my life, I am seeing, boxofficeindia.com figure is mora than others. Strange!!!! 2nd week is 14.25 cr where as indicine saying 13.3. Although, the difference is very less….Indicine can u tell me where from boxofficeindia collects figures, because generally they show very less figure in comparison to urs?? for e.g. Baby has around 14 cr difference which is huge. and now Gabbar, its going neck to neck with urs….

    But anyways, I loved the movie, hope it collects 90cr and become a hit. Akshay is going strong this yr. Brothers has the potential to collect more than 150+cr. n after brothers if SIB trailer n songs will b gud den SIB will take huge opening because of akki’s consistency dis yr.

  • @rocky yess i wish the same..though i follow both
    @indicine on the other hand is better…india should provide transparency in business

  • The opening itself was disappointing..anything below 15 crore was not at all acceptable and it failed to do so..also,there wasn’t huge growth on Sunday either of compared to first day and neither it had a strong hold over the weekdays..the trend is good but not great hence 100 crore can be easily ruled out.. Disappointing

  • The big achievement for akshay and his fans that both films have worked commercially and critically as well. So we can call 2015 is best year for akki so far. Now Waite for brother.

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