Merry Christmas box office collection day 5: Sriram Raghavan’s slow burning thriller earns Rs 12.53 crore in five days, performs better in South India

On Tuesday, the film witnessed a 10.25% Hindi occupancy. In Mumbai it has 342 shows running in cinemas with 10.75 percent occupancy, whereas in Delhi and NCR region there were 479 shows with 9.50 percent occupancy. The Vijay Sethupathi starrer is performing well in South Indian states. The film witnessed 26.04 percent Tamil occupancy even when very few shows of the film are running in cinemas. Chennai had only 61 shows running with 34.25 percent occupancy, Bangaluru with 14  shows had 15.75 occupancy and Kochi with the least number of shows (11) had an occupancy of 37.00 percent.

With no other major Hindi films running in cinemas, Merry Christmas will enjoy a free run in theatres until Pankaj Tripathi’s Main Atal Hoon releases on January 19 and Deepika Padukone and Hrithik Roshan’s Fighter, directed by Pathaan director Siddharth Anand will release on January 25. However, in South Indian states the film is facing a steep competition from films like HanuMan, which is performing extremely well in cinemas with it already earning Rs 100 crore internationally. Other films performing well in the south are Dhanush’s Captain Miller, Sivakarthikeyan’s Ayalaan, Mahesh Babu’s Guntur Kaaram, Venkatesh Daggubati’s Saindhav and Nagarjuna’s Naa Saami Ranga.