Awarapan 2 Box Office Collection Day 1: Emraan Hashmi film has collected more than three times as much as Sunny Deol-Preity Zinta’s Batwara 1947.

Awarapan 2 Box Office Collection Day 1 Live Updates: Emraan Hashmi’s latest romantic-action drama Awarapan 2 and Sunny Deol starrer Batwara 1947 hit theatres on August 14. After opening to positive to mixed reviews from the critics and audience, Awarapan 2 has emerged as the winner in the theatrical clash.

According to trade tracker Sacnilk, the film managed to earn Rs 21 crore net in India on Friday, running across 9,033 shows. The worldwide gross collection stands at Rs 27.20 crore.

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On day 1, Awarapan 2 saw an overall theatre occupancy of 45.73%, with morning shows at 22.62%, afternoon shows recorded at 35.46%, evening shows standing at 46%, and night show at 74.31%. In Delhi NCR region, the total occupancy was 58.5% across 858 shows and Mumbai had 687 shows with 39.5% occupancy.

Awarapan 2 has collected more than three times as much as Sunny Deol and Preity Zinta’s Partition drama Batwara 1947, which was strategically released around Independence Day. The movie minted only Rs 8.34 crore worldwide on its first day. Moreover, Awarapan 2 is also ahead of its predecessor, Awarapan, also starring Emraan Hashmi. The 2007 movie earned around Rs 7.76 crore net in India and Rs 12 crore worldwide during its entire theatrical run, becoming a huge commercial failure, before later achieving cult status.

The film’s strong opening, however, has not translated into uniformly positive reviews. An excerpt from SCREEN’s review of Awarapan 2 read, “Hashmi keeps it all humming, and till Awarapan sails along coasting on some eye-catching, snazzy sequences, we enjoy this outing with our brave anti-hero, jiska dard se puraana rishta hai. It’s a pity that the film falls into a repetitive dull third act, which makes us nearly forget the competent genre beats of the rest.”

Apart from Emraan Hashmi reprising his role as Shivam Pandit, Awarapan 2 also features Disha Patani, Puran Gabbi, Aniruddh Rawal, Shabana Azmi, Suvinder Vicky, Vijayant Kohli, and Atul Kumar. Directed by Nitin Kakkar, the film has been produced by Vishesh Bhatt and Mukesh Bhatt under the banner of Vishesh Films.

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