Vijay Deverakonda & Ananya Panday’s Liger collect dismal opening-day figures
Liger First Day Box office Collection
The highly anticipated Liger, which hit theatres on Thursday, doesn’t seem to be able to lure crowds. The shows’ first-day occupancy has been low, which could result in an unsettling start.
Film trade analyst Karan Taurani of Elara Capital told IANS: “The current response to Liger’ is poor. We had earlier estimated that the film will open at Rs 30-35 crore in the South, but the response to the film in Telugu markets has been below par.”
According to trends, Liger’s expected lifetime collections have also decreased from the initial projections.
“The lifetime collections of the film were expected to be Rs 170-180 crore, out of which 25 per cent was to come from the Hindi market, but looking at the current trends, the film is likely to achieve a lifetime figure of Rs 55-60 crore,” Taurani said.
“Out of these Rs 60 crore, Rs 10 crore will come from the Hindi territory. Liger may report a below-par performance across markets,” he added.
“One has to really blame the kind of content that’s coming out these days,” noted Taurani.
“It is failing on every front to pull crowd into theatres. Even for Liger, people have seen something similar in 2015 in the Akshay Kumar and Sidharth Malhotra starrer ‘Brothers’,” Taurani added, pointing that the film gets beaten on the “novelty factor”.
The trade analyst said the industry needs to do a lot of introspection and pull up its socks to up the game. “That’s the only way the industry can save itself from financial losses and the embarrassment that dawns upon it every Friday,” he said.
“Only films with good and realistic VFX and event films with exceptional content will work in the box office,” Taurani said.
He concluded by adding: “The industry needs to make radical changes in terms of content that can push footfalls back to pre-Covid levels. People have become selective about the nature of content they want to see in theatres.”
Source Quotes: KoiMoi
