Maidaan box office collection day 6: Ajay Devgn-starrer gets red card from cinemas despite slashed ticket prices, hits Rs 2 crore

Maidaan, the sports biography based on the true story of Indian football coach Syed Abdul Rahim, has been playing in cinemas for almost a week now. The film’s  box office performance on day six (Tuesday) remained poor, continuing its disappointing run. According to early estimates shared by Sacnilk, the Ajay Devgn-starrer earned around Rs 1.65 crore on Tuesday. The film’s total nett collection till date stands at Rs 25.15 crore. Maidaan is helmed by filmmaker Amit Sharma, best known for Badhaai Ho.

Despite positive reviews, the film opened poorly on Eid as it raked in Rs 2.6 crore on its first day. However, Maidaan showed some improvement over the weekend, recording revenue of Rs 5.75 crore on Saturday and Rs 6.4 crore on Sunday. But it failed the crucial Monday test, as its collections crashed to a mere Rs 1.5 crore. Maidaan was produced on a reported budget of Rs 250 crore, and was marked by lengthy delays because of the pandemic and post-production work.

To push the film’s ticket sales, the makers of the film announced that the ticket prices will be slashed to Rs 150 in select cinema halls. However, the offer doesn’t seem to have aided the film’s performance at all.

 

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Maidaan witnessed an overall occupancy of 11.47 percent on day six. In Mumbai, where the film had 444 shows, the occupancy stood at 16.60 percent, In the Delhi-NCR region, with 589 shows, the occupancy was 11.25 percent. In Kolkata, where the film is set, the occupancy was 12.75 percent with 179 shows.

Maidaan clashed at the box office against Akshay Kumar and Tiger Shroff’s Bade Miyan Chote Miyan. While one would have expected both films to give stiff competition to each other, they’ve emerged as two of the biggest bombs of the year. While Maidaan received positive word of mouth, the Ali Abbas Zafar’s actioner opened to poor reviews.