Alpha is looking at a good first day as the collections look set to finish around the 9 crore nett mark. Gangubai Kathiawadi opened to 9.50 crore nett and that will probably be a stretch but there is an outside chance it can also reach there. The film has seen good momentum through the day and will end the day with a good result.

It is a good result for the stardom of Alia Bhatt as again shows that she is one of the very few heroines wiith some sort of pull at the box office. Its not mass pull or anything but with the big city multiplex audience she is a box office draw as well as Overseas. Her films tended to outperform in centres like Mumbai and Pune before the pandemic and it remains to be seen if it still stands that way as these markest have changed. Gangubai Kathiawadi cant really be counted as that was Maharashtra heavy and a film for these centres.

As for the film itself there is a lot of work to do and the opening day is just a platform. The film is not as costly as a Gangubai Kathiawadi but being an action film it will be much more front loaded even though its female action. It would have been a completely different scenario had War 2 not been rejected so badly. If this film can pick up 9 crore nett after War 2 where the franchise gets hurt so badly then the scenario could have been very good if War 2 had worked, But this is the risk of franchise films being made almost simultaneously as one will come before and if results go the wrong way then the other film will get hurt. This is what basically has happened to Alpha.

The film needs to grow well on Saturday but action films do have their limitations for growth even if reports are positive and here they are mixed.