Bade Miyan Chote Miyan collected 15 crore nett apprx on day one which is a poor collection considering the national holiday. If this number had come on a normal day it would have respectable though even there it would not be enough for the budget. This sort of opening day number on a national holiday leaves the film in limbo.

The clash hardly dented also as Maidaan did not collect and the screens are not an issue as Eid bought out a limited audience as it is anyway. There was an issue with many single screens and multiplexes which opened late due to the fight for shows but that would mean hardly a loss of 1 crore nett.

The reasons for this opening will be many from the heroes not having the best of times to the poor units and to the way the film was promoted and communicated to the audience but at the end this type of cinema is not mass cinema anymore so the reach is not like it used to be say ten years ago. If we take out Muslim pockets then the under performance is all in mass circuits and this is a huge action film.

Akshay Kumar and Tiger Shroff at a better time with better marketing and promotion with the same content may have got the film a better initial but at its costs this sort of cinema would eventually have the same fate as today the masses dont want the Hollywood clones. The Hindi circuits are rejecting the Hollywood films in the same zone.

Pathaan is the one in this zone to perform well post the pandemic backed up by two blockbuster songs but still even at that time there was underperformance in mass and post that its been a downward slide with Tiger 3, Fighter and now this.

The film will see a heavy fall on day two as fair value collections on day one are lower and it will fall from the fair value number and once the film is in single digits in the Eid period itself there is no coming back