Box Office: Cirkus First Day Early Estimates

Mumbai, December 23 - The last big release of the year for the Hindi film industry, "Cirkus" has been released today at the box office. The film was much anticipated as it stars Ranveer Singh and it is directed by Rohit Shetty who is probably the most successful director of the last 15 years. The film has been made on a huge scale and also the first film of this actor-director combo Simmba became a blockbuster at the box office so it was carrying tremendous expectations.

Cirkus opened to lukewarm response in the morning shows all over the country which was expected from the advance booking of the film as the advances were the lowest of all the major releases of 2022. But generally, Rohit Shetty's films open well at the box office, especially in Mumbai and Gujarat circuits as his films give the local Maharashtrian vibes but this time even Mumbai and Gujarat have seen dull occupancies throughout the day which is nothing but a shocker for the Industry.



As per the early estimates, "Cirkus" has scored around 7.00 crores net which is average collections but when you bring the scale and budget of the film into consideration then the opening is poor. No circuit in India collected well barring Mumbai but even Mumbai is not collected as it should have been for this Rohit Shetty comic caper. Rest all the circuits have seen a disaster turnout.

There is a huge Saturday and Sunday to follow for Cirkus and the film should show big gains in the next two days to record healthy first-weekend collections. The big plus for Circus is that there is a huge holiday week lined up from 25 Dec to 1 January and with no other film being released this makes Circus the only film in the theater other than Avatar2 so it will get an advantage but the content has to be there to satisfy the audience.

Stay tuned...