Bala scored a very good weekend of 42 crore nett with a solid weekend trend. The film started with pretty good collections and made very good gains on Saturday and Sunday especially on the former. The obvious comparison is Dream Girl and the collections are a little lower than that film but the real race between these two films is from Monday onward.. 

Bala has scored better numbers than Dream Girl at most of the bigger multiplexes but collections in mass centres and single screens were better for Dream Girl. That is not to say that Dream Girl did well in mass and singles, just it was a little better than Bala though in Gujarat the business of Bala was better. The main difference between Bala and Dream Girl is the business in North and Rajasthan where Dream Girl was better, the rest sees Bala a little ahead or both in the same range. Dream Girl collected 7.20 crore nett on monday and that is probably the target for Bala.  The collections of Bala for the first weekend are as follows.

Friday - 9,50,00,000 apprx

Saturday - 15,00,00,000 apprx

Sunday - 17,50,00,000 apprx

TOTAL - 42,00,00,000 apprx