Ajay Devgn returns to the festive Diwali season with Indra Kumar’s Thank God co-starring Sidharth Malhotra and Rakul Preet Singh. As of Monday early morning, the film has document low advance reserving with ticket gross sales round 27,000 throughout the nation. The all-India gross whole of Thank God with this sale is round Rs. 70 lakhs and that is very low for a post-Diwali launch.
Of the whole 27,000 tickets, round 12,000 tickets have been bought within the three nationwide chains – PVR, Inox, and Cinepolis – and this result’s decrease than this 12 months’s large star underperformers like Raksha Bandhan, Prithviraj, and Shamshera. Thank God will closely rely upon spot bookings to place up a good day one within the north of double-digit quantity. If the spots are poor, a single-digit begin is perhaps on playing cards for Thank God.
The excellent news for Thank God lies in the truth that it is a comedy releasing within the Diwali interval and the viewers who steps out to observe movies throughout this pageant would at all times choose a comedy over the rest. This offers it an edge to attain nicely by a walk-in viewers and make up for the shortfall of enterprise on a gap day.
A begin of about Rs. 12 to 13 crore might be thought of a good consequence, however a sub Rs. 10 crore opening would have issues powerful for the movie within the days to come back. Thank God must have good motion on Monday and carry it ahead on the day of launch to attain good numbers.
It is all not over but as Diwali releases (barring Prem Ratan Dhan Payo, Glad New 12 months, and Thugs of Hindostan) have at all times been low prematurely and excessive on spot. Barring the three Khans, not many have the power to excite the viewers to purchase tickets prematurely and the hope is on Thank God to get some viewers on the day of launch because of the vacation issue as additionally the comedy style.