‘Kanguva’ gets a lukewarm response, fails to meet box office expectations

Bad reviews sank ‘Kanguva’, Surya-Bobby Deol’s film got half the opening expected

South star Surya and Bobby Deol’s film ‘Kanguva’ released in theatres on Thursday amid huge hype. The trailers and promotional material of this latest pan India film from the Tamil industry looked very powerful.

People were excited for Surya who was coming with such a big Hindi film for the first time. But no one had guessed the way the film performed on the very first day.

People were expecting a great visual experience from ‘Kangwa’, but the film disappointed a lot in this regard. After the first show of the film, people’s word of mouth started becoming negative for the film and the shortcomings of the film were also pointed out in the reviews. This has had a direct impact on the box office and ‘Kangwa’ did not get even half the opening expected. The film did have a solid opening in the Hindi version, but there is a twist in the story.

The fire of ‘Kanguva’ cooled down on the first day itself

The advance booking for Surya’s film started very strongly. The booking which started late got such a response from the very beginning that the expectations of the film business started increasing from ‘Kanguva’. It was being estimated that this film will collect in the range of Rs 60 crore in India on the first day.

However, the film has not even collected half of the estimated collection on the first day. Trade reports show that the negative atmosphere of ‘Kanguva’ has had such an impact that the opening of the film is not even half of the estimated. The opening collection of ‘Kanguva’ has been less than Rs 30 crore and it is possible that it may be limited to Rs 25 crore by the time the final figures are revealed.

Hindi record broken, but there is a twist in the story

Trade estimates also say that ‘Kanguva’ has collected more than 3 crores on the first day in Hindi. According to the figures, Surya’s film has got a bigger opening in Hindi than Tamil stars Thalapathi Vijay’s ‘Leo’, Kamal Haasan’s ‘Vikram’ and Rajinikanth’s ‘Jailer’. In fact, this is the biggest opening of any Tamil film in Hindi after Rajinikanth’s film ‘2.0’ released in 2018. But there is a twist in the story here.

‘Kanguva’ is a bigger release than the Tamil pan India films being released in Hindi for some time. Many big Tamil films were not getting a big release in Hindi due to not accepting the condition of keeping a gap of at least 8 weeks between the theatrical release and OTT release of the films. But ‘Kanguva’ accepted this condition and it has also got a big release in the national multiplex chain theatres of North India.

Reports suggest that the number of screens that ‘Kangua’ got in Hindi is very close to 3000. Whereas the screen count of the film at India level is close to 6000. According to this screen count, the opening of Kanguva is very dull. The film needs to do something big in the weekend to earn a lot.