83 (Hindi) has had a decent first day of around 14 crore nett. The film has scored well in Mumbai, Delhi NCR, Pune, Kolkata, Hyderabad and Bangalore. These cities have the presence of the most high end premium multiplexes which has helped. The collections in some of these cities are just 10-20% behind what Sooryavanshi did on a national holiday 

But its a totally different story in the circuits as business is pretty dull be it Punjab, UP, Rajasthan Gujarat, MP or Bihar. In fact the collections in a CP Berar are not much better than last weeks dubbed film Pushpa. Still the overall number can be called decent as its Xmas period and there is potential for huge growth on Saturday and this gives the film chance to get a good numbers over the weekend. If there was no holiday period then this number would be low for a film of this magnitude.

The film had huge hype but the trailer of the film was not too exciting and the opening is probably at the level of the trailer though you expect the hype to push a holiday release a further 10-20%. The hype has maybe worked in a few cities but the rest have come as per the worth of the film.

The business is better in the South with Southern circuits having good numbers but on the other side Central India is dull with poor numbers in Rajasthan, CP Berar and CI. Mysore has good numbers while the numbers for TNK are very good. They are three times better than Sooryavanshi in Tamil Nadu / Kerala but this circuit hardly matters for a Hindi film and actually its sometimes better if a film does not do well here as it means more important circuits not faring well.

83 (Hindi) is about the trajectory and it could see huge jumps on the national holiday for Christmas on Saturday as even on a normal Saturday these type of films for the big cities and which dont quite open well enough can go up 40-50% and here its a national holiday.

But it will depend on the growth of the biggest twenty cities after the metros as the film has to work for these for the huge growth to materailise because only metro growth will not be good enough. It remains to be seen where 83 goes over the weekend but huge growth on Saturday is a must.

83 was also released in dubbed languages in South but the collections from these will not be a lot though it was a healthy 375 cinema release down South in languages. this may add around 50 lakhs odd.