Baby John box office collection day 4: Varun Dhawan’s film struggles amid Pushpa 2’s storm; earns Rs 23.90 crore

Varun Dhawan’s previous theatrical release, 2022’s Bhediya, performed notably better than Baby John. In its first four days, Bhediya had earned Rs 32.4 crore, surpassing Baby John’s current total of Rs 23.90 crore. Directed by Kalees, Baby John is a remake of Atlee’s 2016 Tamil film Theri. The film features Varun Dhawan in the titular role, alongside Keerthy Suresh, Wamiqa Gabbi, Zara Zyanna, and Jackie Shroff.

In addition to its lackluster box office performance, Baby John has also received an underwhelming response from critics. Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express gave the film one star, writing, “After sitting through this bloated, cacophonous, derivative, incoherent mess, you feel like telling lead actor Varun Dhawan, who is all wrong for this kind of film — cameras can help him do the slo-mo swagger thing, but his delivery is fit only for low-fi comedies — that he needn’t have bothered. Baby John bids fair to claim the title of the worst film of 2024, a year when big, starry Bollywood tanked well and truly.”