Happy New Year Saturday Box Office Update

UPDATE 1AM on Saturday: Happy New Year has collected around 36 crore including all versions on Saturday.

Happy New Year is on a historic run at the box office, as the morning shows on Saturday are only about 10-20% lower compared to yesterday at most multiplex centres that we have been tracking. Noon shows have picked up, most shows are running to capacity and the gap between Friday and Saturday business should narrow towards the end of the day.

For most films that do well at multiplexes, collections tend to peak on Saturday night, and this should be the case with Happy New Year too. The Shahrukh Khan film could record its second straight 40 crore day, but for that business has to pick up in the evening.

Happy New Year is rock-steady at single-screens too, which suggests that the word-of-mouth even with the masses is pretty good. Most films that aren’t carrying appreciation, begin to show drops at single-screens as early as Friday evening, that hasn’t been the case with Happy New Year. The film opened very well on Friday and remained steady throughout the day. Saturday too has opened on a very positive note.

Some updates from various cities across India

  • Pune: Multiplexes are steady with average occupancy of around 75-80% so far today. Advance booking is very good here, so occupancy could touch 100% for the night shows.
  • Kolkata: Huge! At some plexes the occupancy is comparable to Saturday, even though today is a working day.
  • Bangalore: Normal Saturday morning drop here, picked up in the noon. Night expected to be packed to capacity, as advance is very good.
  • Mumbai: Plenty of shows here, so the average occupancy including single-screens seems to be hovering around 50-60% today. Will pick up.
  • Mangalore: Yesterday morning the occupancy on 3 screens was a little lower than big films like Dhoom 3, but night shows were houseful. Today, the opening shows were better than yesterday!

More updates on Happy New Year right here on Indicine. Stay tuned.

 

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  • where is that guy who ws saying sumthing abt hny like its a washing machin n all.. lol. hny ne sach mea haters ko dho dala

  • @Samar, Vikram, noam, www, romance, sahir, zeeshan, aman agarwal, optimus, goutam, kingshuk:
    I advise you not to reply to these retards (you know the names.. ;) ), these guys are blabbering coz they have been deprived of their sleep for the entire year now! It’s waste of time for us to talk to these fellas. Just keep on spreading the positivity and love across all platforms, same as our King has been doing.

    Thanks for the support so far, and we have to continue this till the next big release.
    #Happiness#goodtimes#spreadlove#Ignorethehaters. I am gonna watch it soon and start celebrating. Till then, have fun here. Cheers guys!! :)

  • @www & @Noam : Happy for you guys that you got some temporart relief but dont be too excited as tradition will continue & history will repeat. PK is coming this Christmas !!!!!!!!!!! Till then enjoy 2 months happiness. About Salman, HAHK was the first movie to make ways in overseaa much before DDLJ. So we know overseas much before you. Yeah !!! Salman does not brag himselfs in front of goras & beg for publicity & awards !!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @SRKians i told u the reality. Actually NANDUU ne haters k munh main ULTI kar di ha is liay sb senseless and shameless ho gay han. Lolzzz Too Much Fun

  • @indicine r u listening?
    3.13 pm that was not my comment. delete it.
    some one using my id either legend or Tiger or dynamic.

  • Aanandi From balika vadhu- What a Review Man…After Reading your review HNY collection is going to decrease :( You are giving competition to KRK :P oh wait KRK is that you?? :/

  • I forgot to write sth. We all know that 3 fine actors with superstardom. If you are intelligent u already knew that I am nt talking about 3 Khans because I am talking about “fine actors+ super stars”. So its 2 khans and 1 non khan and you know this.

  • Some loosers are expecting it to crash on monday.. Bad news for those loosers is that monday advance booking is also good.. So haters just stay away from hny page otherwise you will be having more sleepless nights..

  • @hrithik. So u know overseas before me. Wow. U tho r super cool. Wah kya baath kahi.
    When lallu comes with his film u jump on to his side and when tingu comes u jump to his bandwagon. Cool man.
    Either compare lallu with king or tingu with king. But king is always king.
    Guess how many times we need to remind u what happened to the fate of lallu when he had been abroad with some mental tour and what happened next was histor

  • Still zero chance of crossing 200 crore, it will crash badly from Monday onwards. WOM is that is as worse as Himmatwala. Monday- 10 crore
    Lifetime-180-190 crore.

  • Still zero chance of crossing 200 crore, it will crash badly from Monday onwards. WOM is that is as worse as Himmatwala. Monday- 10 crore
    Lifetime-180-190 crore..

  • There was a lull post the Bachchan era. It was the late 80’s and early 90’s. Anil Kapoor was laying claim to the throne. Sunny and Sanjay also were in race. Salman though had delivered an ATBB but by his own admission (1995 interview) the credit of it went by and large to Bhagyashree and Salman remained jobless for next 6 months. Anil was on a song but the debacle of Roop Ki Rani Choron Ka Raja put an abrupt end to his stupendous run. Sanjay sadly went inside bars post the Bombay blasts. The platform had gone awfully vacant waiting for a fresh face,a man filled with immense kinetic energy.

    And then suddenly one day a guy with normal looks ,unruly hair,driving a sports bike on streets of bombay curving it across the roads hopped on that empty platform. He went by the name SRK. Little did the world know that this guy will one day rise to the stature of having his name taken in same breath as Dilip Saab and Amitabh. That he will rise like a falcon whose flight shall amaze the audiences. That his smirk and smile shall twist the hearts of young girls and middle aged woman and a grandmother alike. That he shall have generations adoring him.

    I still vividly remember how there were long queue for Baazigar. The scene where SRK throws Shilpa down the building,the heinous act it was,still the audience rooted for him. Such was the maturity in his acting back then that he could convince you regarding the essence of his revenge. Even today he does. Each time Sunny punched SRK and SRK smiled and laughed and viciously smirked, the audience clapped more for him. Sunny,the huge star was not cheered for at all. When you can do that to Sunny being just 2-films old, the world knows you going to rise way too high to be even comprehended. Mind it just 4 years later Salman was still playing a second fiddle to Sunny in Jeet.

    Now I am not here to iterate the journey SRK has had since his inception. But I am here to tell you that there was a moment around 2000. A new bright star had struck Bollywood. Kaho Na Pyar Hai was a monstrous hit. The trade predicted SRK is over. Was the awesome run of SRK just for 8 years. Was he destined to be wiped off the screen now? I was reading India Today then and it seemed media had taken to avenge the tiff they had with him during PBDHH. They were backing Hritnhik. SRK-Now what next up your sleeve?-Read the headlines. And the man gave a fitting reply. He survived the media onslaught in style. And then he famously said-I am the KING. And he was! He still is!

    Naysayers comment on his number of ATBB status. But you forget that this man has a graph that is so constantly parallel to Y-Axis if we plot a graph between hits and years. Salman has crests,agreed! But his troughs are too distressing for any superstar. SRK has too many crests. Less troughs. No definite poor period at BO. He is the only contemporary star who has enticed all generations equally. He is possibly the only contemporary star who commands family audiences to theater. You can always see a kid of 5 years to a grandfather of 85 years reaching out to the theater. Even his badly panned Ra.One received a great response on TV and still continues to be a top favourite amongst kids!

    Call him gay to irritate him. Yes you have freedom of speech,mu honourable Salman fans! You are respected cinema enthusiasts. The best you can do when all logic fail is to call him gay! The fact that inspite of knowing how he is ridiculed for his gay jokes and acts on stage and how it gives support to the theory of him being gay, he still is comfortable with all such acts and jokes shows how much of a secure star he is. He knows his foundations are solid. Nothing of this sort can shake him. So my honourable Salman fans and friends,you are welcome to make same jokes everyday. You do have the right to freedom of speech. Yes you do!

    SRK is over. SRK conquered. Salman is the new KING. SRK is having midlife crisis.

    Those who said this in 2010,must be crying buckets today. Ladies and Gentleman,the man survived. He again rose. Showed the world that had he not tried varied genres and stuck to his formula of entertainment,today no Salman or Aamir would be even in contention. He has slapped and slapped hard. And then he is still sitting on the throne. Actually he is the throne himself. Every next aspiring star wishes to become SRK,the metaphor of that throne. He is the man who never said I am lost.Even when many of his fans changed sides,when many deserted him..he stood alone facing the winds.Today he stands tall. He stands colossal. He stands great.

    Today when HNY has broken the record by a margin,is certain to break many other records,I as a SRK fan with a heart of 6 year old in 1992,am proud that I stood by him throughout. I am literally emotional to see this man survive so many odds to emerge and sustain as the “GREATEST CONTEMPORARY SUPERSTAR”

    KUDOS SRK..TAKE A BOW!

  • now it is sure that weekend record will be broken. so next target is week record then life time record in India and at last worldwide gross.

  • To all haters from SRKIANS with LOVE

    Problem kya hai bhai…itna rota q hao . . .
    pehle HNY flop hoegi bolke ro rahe the…
    ab jab hit ho gayi toh 250cr nh karegi bolke ro rahe the….
    ab jab sure hai ki wo 250+ karegi toh wapis ro rahe ho…
    ab SALMAN, amir se compare karke ro raha hai, kal kisi aur se compare karke roge…..
    chill be rotlu….tention mat le…Pk ya Prtp HNY ka record todenge tab dekha jaega.
    For Now King Khan is ruling.
    let SRK n we(SRK fans) both njoy HNY success.
    bar bar BOKWAAS comment karke bore mat kar.

  • bodyguard was successful bcoz of kareena,ett bcoz of kabir and katrina,kick bcoz of Jacqueline and jai was flop bcoz of no good actress

  • I am a huge srk fan, and this collections report really doubled my diwali celebration. I am very happy now but pls srkians stop bashing other actors instead of celebrating hny success.
    Those who bashed SRK in every article were already stay silent now.

  • @being monkyman I think you born after happy new year Strom come yesterday. That’s why you comment here 1st time and like KRK. I think KRK is your godfather. According to you sallu play all the supporting role in his movie along side man lead. Like .he play nawazuddins role, Jacklins role, randip huddas role and manymore .

  • The fan’s clash is very ugly. Every one have their day. It was HR, Salman & Aamir who mostly used to break all records in last 10 years which i remember. Now SRK does it. But no big deal in it. Tomorrow same HR, Salman & Aamir will break all these records and it will continue vice versa.

    Though i am not SRK fan, i always predicted record opening for HNY as it was supposed to be. Releasing in 5000 screens alone in India is no joke. Kick had 4100 screens, Bang Bang had 3300 screens, Singham had 3600 screens so on…Had Bang Bang got 5000 screens it would have also done 40 + crore business for first day.

    I still didn’t understand why there was so much negativity for Bang Bang…but surprisingly all positivity for HNY. Even Indicine gives a lot of biased support to SRK movies than others… Reviews of low ratings of HNY still not posted in Indicine critics page of HNY. Reviews of Gulf news, Deccan Chronicle, Hindu, Koimoi, Kamal Khan, Filmi Beat etc has not been posted yet as they all gave very low rating for HNY. Indicine is the only other website except DNA which gave a 4 star rating. God knows why Indicine is doing this….

  • calm down SRKians, HNY will crush, super Nani is releasing this friday next week shauekeens and because of negative to mixed WOM no chance to gross 200 cr all he has is this weekend. cheers

  • look 8 bhootiya srk fans they attacking on shaggy just like what i should say please publish this- sher akela aata hai aur suar jhund mein. tiger and his fans are always tiger. and a crying actor and his fans are always will be same. welldone shaggy u r alone is enough for all srk- the crying man’s fans.

  • So after 3 failed attempts (Ra.one, Don 2 and JTHJ), Srk beats Ready fro the second time.
    Congrats to SRK fans, but still HNY wont beat Kick.

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