Shamshera saw a low opening day of around 10 crore nett in Hindi and could not make any momentum through the day as collections looked to be heading to roughly this mark in the morning. The number is dissapointing as its a big film and it becomes a very tough road ahead with an initial like this.

There are mass pockets where the film has done better but it hardly makes a difference if some areas have managed average occupancy as a film like this needs good occupancy all over. It is another film which has not collected well in Mumbai circuit as there will not be much difference in the Mumbai and Delhi / UP numbers when they come in the morning.

Delhi / UP will come out comparatively the best performing circuit but that again is comparatively and the circuit will not be good as only some centres have done average business. The opening day numbers of this film will reverberate around the industry tomorrow and its going to bring down expecations of the releases due for a release over the next few months.

The film is the second widest release post pandemic after KGF 2 with over 4000 screens in Hindi and an opening was a must as upside over the weekend is limited with such a release. The film needed to reach 20 crore nett plus on Sunday but that will be pretty much impossible from here.