Sonam Kapoor’s Neerja has collected Rs 4.7 crore at the box office on Friday. The film took a fairly good start in the morning, as the occupancy was around 20-25% at metro city multiplexes.
With positive reports and reviews, the occupancy doubled evening onwards as the late night shows at select centres were running at 65% plus occupancy.
The big plus for Neerja will be the word-of-mouth as films like these tend to show 30% plus growth on Saturday. The other advantage is the lack of competition. Deadpool performed well in its first week, but the Hollywood film has dropped on its 2nd Friday. Fitoor is a disaster as business crashed by more than 90% on 2nd Friday. Sanam Re is still running, but the collections are at low levels.
The second best performing release this week, Loveshhuda, was a washout as its first day business was less than Rs 1 crore.
Given the opening the film has taken, Neerja could collect somewhere around 18 crore in its first weekend, which would set it up well for a good first week at the box office.
#IndicineFBO: Not many in the trade were expecting Neerja to collect more than 3 – 3.5 crore on Friday. But we decided to go with a higher figure, simply because of the fact that the word-of-mouth comes into play a lot quicker for such films and the pre-release reports were extraordinary. That’s exactly what happened as evening shows showed huge growth in business. We expected Rs 4.3 crore as the first day collections of Neerja, the film has collected Rs 4.7 crore. The difference is 9%, making it yet another accurate prediction for 2016.
How much do you think Neerja will collect on Saturday? Tell us in the comments section below.
| Movie | Prediction | Official | |
| Wazir | 4.4 | 5.61 | + 27%, In accurate |
| Airlift | 10.9 | 12.35 | + 13%, Accurate |
| Kya Kool Hai Hum 3 | 9.3 | 8.15 | - 12%, Accurate |
| Mastizaade | 6.1 | 5.59 | - 8%, Accurate |
| Saala Khadoos | 2.2 | 2.19 | 0%, Accurate |
| Ghayal Once Again | 6.4 | 7.2 | + 12%, Accurate |
| Sanam Re | 5.5 | 5.04 | - 8%, Accurate |
| Fitoor | 5.2 | 3.61 | - 30%, Inaccurate |
| Neerja | 4.3 | 4.7 | + 8%, Accurate |
| Jai Gangajaal | 5.2 | 5.5 | + 6%, Accurate |
| Kapoor & Sons | 5.8 | 6.85 | + 18%, Inaccurate |
| Rocky Handsome | 6.3 | 5.39 | - 14%, Accurate |
| Ki and Ka | 6.3 | 7.27 | + 16%, Inaccurate |
| Fan | 21.9 | 19.2 | - 12%, Accurate |
| Baaghi | 9.4 | 11.94 | + 27%, Inaccurate |
| Azhar | 7.5 | 6.3 | - 16%, Inaccurate |
| Sarbjit | 4.2 | 3.69 | - 12%, Accurate |
| Housefull 3 | 17.4 | 15.21 | - 12%, Accurate |
| Udta Punjab | 8.9 | 10.05 | - 13%, Accurate |
| Sultan | 38.5 | 36.54 | - 5%, Accurate |
| Great Grand Masti | 5.8 | 2.5 | - 56%, Inaccurate |
| Dishoom | 9.8 | 11.02 | +12%, Accurate |
| Mohenjo Daro | 10.7 | 8.87 | - 17%, Inaccurate |
| Rustom | 12.6 | 14.11 | +12%, Accurate |
| Happy Bhaag Jayegi | 2.1 | 2.32 | +10%, Accurate |
| A Flying Jatt | 8.5 | 7.11 | - 16%, Inaccurate |
| Baar Baar Dekho | 9.1 | 6.81 | - 25%, Inaccurate |
| Freaky Ali | 2.4 | 2.5 | +4%, Accurate |
| Pink | 4.5 | 4.32 | -4%, Accurate |
| Raaz Reboot | 5.2 | 6.31 | + 21%, Inaccurate |
| MS Dhoni | 20.1 | 21.6 | +7%, Accurate |
| Mirzya | 4.0 | 2.2 | - 45%, Inaccurate |
| Shivaay | 10.7 | 10.24 | -4%, Accurate |
| ADHM | 12.4 | 13.3 | +7%, Accurate |
| Force 2 | 5.8 | 6.05 | +4%, Accurate |
| Dear Zindagi | 9.7 | 8.75 | -10%, Accurate |
| Kahaani 2 | 4.5 | 4.25 | -5%, Accurate |
| Befikre | 10.5 | 10.36 | -1%, Accurate |
| Dangal | 28.6 | 29.78 | +4%, Accurate |
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Sonam is the only actress sustaining in the film industry without any big name actor. So far she has done well with her acting skills. She is pretty and good actress
I do hope and pray that May FAN be the next most appreciated movie by all audience, b-town and critics. WISH YOU ALL THE BEST #FAN.
@Yuvarani 02:10 pm : Abe jhandu, do you have any issue in reading one’s comment or you are a plain illiterate –
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However, I feel Sonam didn’t do proper justice with her role.
But the script is so strong and script, that you will easily give Sonam’s performance a GO.
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I never ruled out Sonam’s performance completely, but I said she didn’t do proper justice to her role (perhaps other actress would have done much better) , but the storyline was so crisp, that her acting was compensated.
And coming to Gadar and Sunny Deol remark, last year we had a movie called “Bajrangi Bhaijan”. The performance of lead actor was horrible, after watching it people felt like spitting on his face, but still movie went on collecting 300+ CR , right? That proves that you need a strong story because when you have that, the horrible performance of lead actor can be compensated.
Last but not the least, I never stopped you from bashing me. In fact I get a joy when someone counters me , because that gives me an opportunity to rip that person off (like what I’m doing currently). So chill :D
At least film makers did not play expensive joke on us the public with false and added story for both airlift and Bajirao mastani. Especially airlift. Neerja was not about research and giving additional ideas to the film it is a pure Almost 100% real life incident from beginning to end unlike adulterated Airlift
@Indicine, I think for small films, the accuracy point should be less than 5% as many of your predictions for small films are off the mark but are still considered accurate…
Neerja is the best filim sonam Is is better than shahrukh khan don’t forget flopwale
I hope it does well and better than airlift which was inspired by hotel Rwanda rather than a true account
Sat.6cr sun.8.appox.
@qasim dont forget prdp also.
Good opening. Hope it grows and weekend is 20 crores plus. It is a good movie and should be a hit.