Action Jackson Box Office Opening

Action Jackson has opened to below-average response at the box office on Friday. Considering the budget, director and star-cast of the film, the opening at multiplexes in big cities was very poor. At mass centres, the morning shows were decent, but much lower than trade expectations.

The costs of the Ajay Devgn – Sonakshi Sinha starrer are on the higher side – the film was produced and marketed at around Rs 95-100 crore, making it the costliest non-holiday release of 2014 after Salman Khan’s Jai Ho.

The film had to collect around Rs 14-15 crore on its opening for it to have any chance of recovering costs with mixed to good word-of-mouth, but looking at the occupancy in the morning and noon, recovery will prove to be extremely difficult unless the film picks up tremendously in the night and over the weekend.

Update 7PM: Noon shows have picked up slightly at multiplexes, but the overall occupancy at most big centres that we tracked, continued to be poor at 25-30%. Anything less than 10 crore on Friday could well seal its fate on Day 1 itself.

Watched Action Jackson? Tell us what you think of the film in the comments section below.

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50 Comments

  • I think 15cr good opening
    and action jackson will be 100cr ajay devgan is best actor after.

    1Aamir khan
    2hrithik roshan
    3ajay devgan
    4salman khan
    5sidhart malhotra

  • A very much deserving Disaster(unlike the unlucky HAPPY ENDING) on the cards! Makers and actors need to realize that its the end of Masala films era.. audience doesn’t want the same recycled garbage again… We’ve had some great masala flicks in Wanted, Dabangg, CE n Rowdy Rathore… Bt its time to move on now… N Sonakshi needs to retire if shez gonna do the same annoying stuff again n again!

  • Top worst movies of 2014 – 2 states,fanny, humshakals,entertainment,humpty, happy ending,kill dill,gunday,hate story2,happy new year,rn, aj, htp.

  • This movie is a lot of fun. Great humor and action sequences, especially the sword fight.
    I’m not sure which movie the haters went to see. The story was surprisingly good, there were competent plot surprises. It just worked. It was entertaining, and well worth seeing. I will be seeing again on Sunday.

  • @Ïndicine, stop spreading fake news. neither director nor producers said the budget was 90-100.
    there were strong rumors saying that the budget is 60 cr.

  • Don’t listen Critics especially @Indicine, they wanna mislead you. they just hate Ajay, that is it.
    please go and watch the movie then you can judge the if its good or bad.
    Frankly, I feel that many critics are being too harsh. The movie was filled with comedy,action, shooting and humor. As a Ajay fan, I enjoyed every single moment of the film. the film was pretty good, I’m glad to see this beautiful movie. the team did a fantastic job.

  • @Ajay Rocks……. even Komal has confirmed that budget is 100 cr… why are you always blaming indicine? if they say Ajay is nothing without Rohit Shetty you have a prob… even BOI has said opening is worse than Rajkumar.. doesn’t it prove that indicine is right?

    You should just shut up and let the bo collections do the talking.. whether indicine is right or wrong we will know on Monday!!!!

  • @Indicine, yesterday you were saying Action Jackson is a remake and now today you are saying its 900-100 budget.
    Please stop, If you have prove then publish, otherwise don’t spread false news.
    That is enough.

  • @akshay kumar is god
    u r right bro .. But u can’t forget how badly it was thrashed. I m honest akki fan. We should be proud that inspite of it being worst, it reached 70cr n ncame hit.

  • Its sad to see How @Ajay rocks is unable to cope up with the disaster… Even Indicine’s best commenter (Mr.Youngistaan) will be in a similar state after the debacle of Tevar.

  • @Purohit, I don’t blame @Indicine, with out a reason. there is something fishy about them.
    n who the hell is komal???? its just a critic like indicine, not the producer of the film so its still a rumor that 100 budget.
    if they are telling the truth,then y don’t they give a statement or a quote about producers saying that AJ is 100 cr.
    btw most of the sources are saying AJ will collect good numbers but its too early to predict the first day collection. lets wait till tomorrow morning.

  • The film is entertaining in parts.
    Atleast it doesnt deserve so much bad reviews.
    Many bad films worked better than this in past.
    So atleast give this film a chance.

  • I’m hugely surprised by Indicine’s review, therefore, I will not watch AJ.

    This is what happens when non directors like Prabhu Deva starts to make movies. I had huge respect for him for his choreography, still have, but he’s just ruining his own legacy as a choreographer by directing movies.

    Rowdy Rathod and Wanted worked because they were scene-to-scene remakes, he didn’t need to do anything new in them. Rajkumar was hit by its music itself. His Tamil films which have worked are remake of successful Telugu films. He has ZERO creativity when it comes to direction. A choreographer can’t have a director’s mind.

    I think it’s high time makers should take break from masala films, or at least make them in a decent way like Dabangg 1, Rowdy Rathod, Singham etc (action scenes excluded). It’s kind of shame Hollywood are making movies like “Interstellar”, and we are yet to move ahead of mindless masala films.

  • @armaan rofl at ur cmnt.entertainment is a hit!!!
    ha ha ha
    buhahaha

    if entertainment is a hit then kill dil,fanny,dei,lootera all r hits bit I m nt an idiot like u to pass mindless cmnts.
    ha ha ha
    still cant stop laughing.
    entertainment hit!!!
    ha ha ha
    oh my gd!my stomach is hurting.superb joke armaan.keep it up

  • After such a negativity and bad reviews still AJ able to collects 15cr on day one looking good. @indicine i know you r srk fan so i understan your mind status towards ajay.

  • Ajay Devgan is one of my favorite actors, highly underrated, but he needs to start doing good films again like OUATIM and Singham. It’s been years since we last saw a good film from him that could justify his talent.

    Action Jackson HAD potential to be good, he could have been presented much better in dark shades. First of all, film’s name itself contains the word “action”, and all the actions shown in trailers were senseless like typical south Indian stylish. They could have done much better with action scenes at least. I wanted to see it, but the moment I saw action scenes in trailer and Sonakshi in her ever same character with poor music and dialogues, all of my excitement died. You can not know if content will be liked or not, it’s not in your hand, but at least you can choreograph better action sequences which keep many people engaged despite of average story. This is the biggest reason why “Jai Ho” surprisingly didn’t collect much (poor production value), even in 1st weekend unlike “Kick” which showed some sleek action in trailer. Multiplex audience will simply give it a miss.

    Let’s hope Ajay recovers his investment. “Shivay” seems intriguing, looking forward to it.

  • All other sites saying aj takes not huge but good start at the boxoffice. Only indicine saying start is bellow average. After ajays statement against srks 8 packs abs ..a true srk fan indicine gone mad . Zero review .. What the hell is this..? If the movie is poor in considerable aspects then you have consider less nubers as 1 or 2.

  • Many times I said that Ajay is not a big star. Sorry to ajay fans but truth to be spoken. SOS mainly worked because of issue with yashraj otherwise it would received similar fate of himmatwala and action Jackson. Even r rajkumar which released one year back with less no of screen opened far better, this says everything about AD s stardom. Movies fate depend on Monday onward but being as a star he should have given atleast hamshakals kind of opening But I loved his acting in outim, gangajal, hdcs, akrosh, apharan etc.

  • If Your Actor’s Film is not working Then Blame SRK And Ajay Fans doing it very well now They are saying Indicine is fan of SRK :D

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