Sky Force box office collection day 11: Akshay Kumar-Veer Pahariya’s film hits lowest single-day figures amid block-booking allegations

Sky Force is now facing stiff competition from Shahid Kapoor’s Deva. While Deva’s box office performance has been disappointing, it is still cutting into the profits of Sky Force. Deva earned Rs 2.5 crore on Monday and had accumulated Rs 21.65 crore within four days of its release. The competition is set to intensify further with the upcoming release of Junaid Khan and Khushi Kapoor’s Loveyapa and Himesh Reshammiya’s Badass Ravikumar, both hitting theatres this Friday.

Maddock Films, the production house behind Sky Force, announced on Instagram that the film had grossed Rs 153 crore globally within 10 days of its release. However, this post came amid criticism over alleged inflation of box office figures. Earlier, industry tracker Komal Nahta called out the makers for exaggerating the numbers, claiming the film actually earned Rs 40.5 crore in the first week of its release and not the reported Rs 80 crore. Nahta argued that the Rs 80 crore figure included revenue from block-booked seats that the makers themselves paid for during the first week.

He shared, “The total for 1st week was Rs 40.5 crore. Of course, the records will show total collections of Rs 80 crore but that’s because heavy block booking of the unsold tickets was done on each single day of the first week to give the impression that the film was performing extraordinarily at the ticket counters. This was, perhaps, the maximum block bookings anyone had ever done in the history of Bollywood. Proof of this lay in the fact that a housefull or near-housefull scenario on BookMyShow.com coincided with near-empty cinema halls because there was no public to fill the seats which were block-booked.”