Sitaare Zameen Par made good ground post the late afternoon shows to get into double digits as it picked up around 10.50 crore nett which is a decent number. The number could have been called good if would not have been an Aamir Khan starrer. The film is also a sequel to the 2007 film Taare Zameen Par but that film will hardly hold much value to today as can be seen with the initial results of this film as only 10 crore nett has come for an Aamir Khan film and that with a strong pick up.   

The number is a solid number for the content as it gives a chance for success and the potential to grow over the weekend which it will no doubt. The biggest plus is the film has very limited expectations today as a similar type of film Laal Singh Chaddha made on a larger scale but in the same zone did not work at all. If this had released three years back instead of Laal Singh Chaddha then expectations would have been much higher and this 10 crore nett plus number would have been seen as very poor. Now the industry has generally settled with lower expectations when a film is not likely to reach the mass audience.

The comparables for the film are probably OMG 2 and Kesari 2 as post pandemic they have a similar audience profile generally catering to the gentry audience. Not only that those two films are also franchise films but also had a star like Akshay Kumar whereas here its Aamir Khan. The difference being that Akshay Kumar so many releases in a year while Aamir Khan has come after many years. It shows the struggle that the stars have when content has limited reach as pre pandemic these films would be opening much better.

Sitaare Zameen Par has set itself up for a good Saturday and Sunday which should ensure a good weekend for the film but it will be about the collections of the film post the weekend and what it can do in the weekdays and after. The film has fared best in the NCR region as the film probably has that region flavour. 

The film collected around $750k in Overseas which could have been better as in Overseas Aamir Khan has huge value and being a gentry film it should not be hit as hard as India but a market like USA has come out with surprising low collections. It should pick up in Overseas as well but there the Aamir Khan name shoudl have worked better.