Gumraah box office collection Day 1: Aditya Roy Kapur-Mrunal Thakur’s thriller barely makes an impression, earns Rs 1.5 cr

Gumraah is the third Hindi adaptation of a south Indian film this year. Each of these films has underperformed in theatres. Earlier, Kartik Aaryan’s Shehzada, a remake of the Telugu film Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo, failed to perform well at the box office and ended its run with a total of just Rs 32.20 cr. Akshay Kumar’s Selfiee, a remake of the Malayalam film Driving License, met the same fate and could only earn Rs 16.85 cr during its run in the theaters.

The Indian Express’ Shubhra Gupta found Gumraah to be a “drag”. She gave the film a 1.5-star rating and wrote in her review, “A remake of the Tamil-language ‘Thadam’ (2019), Gumraah again raises the question of why Hindi films are choosing to remake such recent films, especially when the originals are easily available on a streaming platform. It’s almost like there are no original ideas left in Bollywood, given that last week’s ‘Bholaa’ was also a remake of the 2019 ‘Kaithi’, also in Tamil.”