Maidaan box office collection day 2: Despite holiday weekend, Ajay Devgn’s sports drama struggles to get past Rs 10 crore mark

Maidaan box office collection day 2: Ajay Devgn starrer is facing stiff competition from Akshay Kumar and Tiger Shroff starrer Bade Miyan Chote Miyan.

By: Entertainment Desk

Mumbai | April 13, 2024 09:43 AM IST

2 min read

Maidaan box office collection Day 2: Ajay Devgn starrer is facing a tough time at the box office.

Ajay Devgn’s Maidaan, released amid many positive reviews on Thursday but it looks like the good reviews are not having much impact on the film’s box office collections. After a slow start on Thursday, the film could only manage to bring in Rs 2.75 crore in the domestic market on Friday, taking its nett collections to Rs 9.85 crore, as per industry tracker Sacnilk.

Maidaan, based on the life of Syed Abdul Rahim, regarded as the architect of modern Indian football, witnessed an overall 8.8 percent occupancy in Hindi on Friday with most people catching the film’s evening shows. In Mumbai, where there were 605 shows, an occupancy of 11.33 percent was observed. In Delhi and NCR with 753 shows, the film could only manage 7.3 percent occupancy. To boost ticket sales, the makers of Maidaan have also introduced the buy one get one offer for the audience.

Maidaan has released alongside Akshay Kumar and Tiger Shroff’s Bade Miyan Chote Miyan. Presently, the Akshay-Tiger film is doing much better than Ajay’s film, however, it is yet to be seen how the two films fare over the extended weekend.

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Ajay has already had a hit in 2024 with Shaitaan, which also starred R Madhavan and Jyothika. The horror film made Rs 147.74 crore in the domestic box office, as per Bollywood Hungama. Made on a much lesser budget than Maidaan, Shaitaan is currently the second biggest grosser of 2024, after Hrithik Roshan and Deepika Padukone’s Fighter, which made Rs 199.45 crore.

This year, Ajay is looking forward to his next instalment of the Singham franchise. Directed by Rohit Shetty, Singham Again is being described as the ‘Avengers of the Rohit Shetty Copverse’. Alongside Akshay, the film will also star Deepika Padukone, Ranveer Singh, Akshay Kumar, Tiger Shroff, Arjun Kapoor, among others.

Maidaan also stars Priyamani and Gajraj Rao in pivotal roles.

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