Daayra box office collection Day 2: Kareena Kapoor-Prithviraj film sees 89.57% jump

Recently, veteran trade analyst Taran Adarsh tweeted about Daayra. His post read, “#Daayra benefitted from the #BOGO ticket offer on Saturday, which continues on Sunday [today] as well… The film needs a massive turnaround today, especially at multiplexes where it is performing best, to recover the shortfall before the crucial weekdays set in. #Daayra [Week 1] Fri 1.15 cr, Sat 2.18 cr. Total: ₹ 3.33 cr. Official Nett BOC | #India biz | #Boxoffice.”

While Daayra’s makers will be hoping for stronger footfalls over the weekend, the film has received a mixed response from critics. An excerpt from SCREEN’s review of the movie read, “Given the source material, and the way encounter specialists have been treated as heroes by our movies (remember Ab Tak Chappan?), I was hoping for a powerful film which would examine the troubling aspect of the upholders of law who take it into their own hands, as it goes about excavating the whys and wherefores of the crime. But this time around, the result is disappointing, the matter-of-factness in the telling coming off more as dryness: it’s one thing to examine the innards of an ‘encounter’ killing, and quite another to position yourself quite so ambiguously around its legality.”