War created history as it collected the highest first day in history of around 50 crore nett. The film beat the numbers of Thugs Of Hindostan by around 2 crore nett despite being released on far lesser screens. War was released on around 3800 plus screens in Hindi. The 50 crore nett apprx apprx are for the Hindi version and the regional versions would have added a little more. The film could have done 55 crore nett if there was no competition from other releases. Its a huge start from the film across the country though collections were hit in South by Syeraa Narasimha Reddy and Gujarat has Navratri. Joker did average on day one while Syeraa Narasimha Reddy was poor in Hindi. The apprx first day collections of the three films are as follows.

War - 50,00,00,000

Joker - 5,75,00,000

Syeraa Narasimha Reddy (hindi) - 1,50,00,000