Box-office: Daawat-e-Ishq vs Khoobsurat
Box Office India Trade Network

DAAWAT-E-ISHQ and KHOOBSURAT managed to show solid growth on Saturday. The growth for KHOOBSURAT was good as it is doing its best business at theatres which do best business on Saturday. The trend may be the opposite on Sunday when DAAWAT-E-ISHQ shows more growth. The two day business of both films is as follows.
Daawat E Ishq
Friday - 3,60,00,000
Saturday - 4,30,00,000
TOTAL - 7,90,00,000

Khoobsurat
Friday - 2,35,00,000
Saturday - 3,25,00,000
TOTAL - 5,60,00,000
The growth is good to decent for both films but problem is low starting point. But still if one or both can sustain on Monday they have two weeks until BANG BANG and HAIDER to have a decent box office run.
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KHOOBSURAT grossed 10-10.25 crore nett its it first weekend which is a low figure but the trend was good with good growth on Saturday followed with a similar trend on Sunday.

The film should have had better opening day but with competition from DAAWAT-E-ISHQ which was also a film aimed at the youth, it gave the target audience a choice which means less footfalls than they would have got if they were solo. The growth on Saturday and Sunday gives it a chance but Monday has to hold very well and be near the Friday collection.

The business of the film was best in Delhi NCR area with Delhi/UP grossing around 2.75 crore nett and East Punjab at around 1.25 crore nett.
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DAAWAT-E-ISHQ grossed 13.50-13.75 crore nett its it first weekend which again like KHOOBSURAT is a low weekend number but there was solid growth on Saturday and Sunday which means the film is depending on Monday holding up well..

There is no major competition this week and that is why if it can hold on the weekdays it has chances for a respectable total. If there was a release on Friday then it would have been tough even if collections sustained well on Monday.

It was the metro multiplexes which held the film back and where KHOOBSURAT did better business. Outside the metros it had better figures than KHOOBSURAT. Delhi/UP was best with around 3.50 crore nett over the first weekend.
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DAAWAT-E-ISHQ held up pretty well on Monday though collections were low for both. DAAWAT-E-ISHQ grossed around 2 crore nett while KHOOBSURAT was around 1.50 crore nett. The business in four days is 15.50 crore nett for DAAWAT-E-ISHQ and KHOOBSURAT is 11.75 crore nett .

KHOOBSURAT trended the better of the two on Monday as it dropped around 35% while the drop for DAAWAT-E-ISHQ was 45%. Despite decent Monday figures both films have low overall figures due to the poor initials. The clash has hurt both films; if they were solo releases, they would have surely had better opening day figures. The business of KHOOBSURAT could catch up with DAAWAT-E-ISHQ by the end of the week or beginning of week two.

Now it just remains to be seen which film comes out on top in lifetime figures. Going by the trend the business of KHOOBSURAT will catch up with DAAWAT-E-ISHQ but it may be too late as the latter will have a 4-4.50 crore nett advantage in week one and it will be hard for KHOOBSURAT to make up all the shortfall in week two and thereafter.