Hrithik Roshan, Deepika Padukone's 'Fighter' Opening Day Box Office Expectations

Mumbai, January 24 - Bollywood star Hrithik Roshan and Deepika Padukone's aerial action thriller Fighter, which reunites the duo with director Siddharth Anand, is all set to hit the big screens tomorrow, January 25, amid a lot of expectations.

Touted as one of its kind aerial actioner in Indian cinema, "Fighter" was censored with a 'U/A' certificate with an approved runtime of 2 hours and 43 minutes. The movie is expected to have a wide release on over 4200 screens nationwide, as per the industry buzz.



"Fighter" was expected to be a frontloaded opener at the box office and keeping that in mind, the makers opened the bookings on January 20. The movie did receive a very good response in advances in the first 24 hours but the pace got slow as the release date got nearer.

With a few hours to go for the first show to begin, the pre-sales are nearing 7 crores gross with over 214K tickets sold. The final sales are expected to be around 8 crores which is much better than Hrithik's last film "Vikram Vedha", but is still underwhelming as the scale of "Fighter" is huge, plus director Siddharth is coming after the mega-blockbuster success of "Pathaan" with superstar Shah Rukh Khan.

The pre-sales trend of "Fighter" is indicating an opening in the range of 25 crores net and if it receives positive word of mouth, there is a good chance of it going beyond this mark as January 26 is the Republic Day holiday which means evening and night shows could go houseful on the opening day.

The star power involved will drive the opening of the film that initially looked like a frontloaded one. The Republic Day weekend should work in favour of it but the overall box office prospects beyond the Holiday frame will depend on what kind of reception it gets from paying audiences in the first 4-days.

Stay tuned...