Sonakshi Sinha's Akira Mints Over Rs 16 crore
Box Office India Trade Network

AKIRA had a better Sunday as its a holiday today in Maharashtra so the film got the benefit in the evening collections in cities of Maharashtra like Mumbai and Pune. The film grossed around 6.50 crore nett on Sunday taking its weekend total to a little over 16 crore nett. Its unlikely to alter the fate of the film as the growth on which came on Sunday had to come on Saturday. Its a bit like last week"s A FLYING JATT which managed good growth on both Saturday and Sunday but it was not really going anywhere as key centres not performimg. The Sunday trend is decent but looking at the figures in key centres it has just not performed at multiplexes and without them this type of film can't really do much. The single screens have also not done much but a wide release has added to collections a little. Below is first weekend business of AKIRA.
Friday - 4,75,00,000
Saturday - 5,00,00,000
Sunday - 6,25,00,000 apprx
TOTAL - 16,00,00,000

There is a holiday in Maharashtra for Ganesh Chaturthi which may help a little on Monday but eventually the film has not really found appreciation with its target audience and that will tell in the collections.
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AKIRA had a fair hold on Monday as it fell around 40-45% from day one and grossed around 2.75 crore nett.. There was a holiday in Maharashtra which helped collections on Monday and due to the last two days the Mumbai circuit is faring best for the film. The film is following the same path of another heroine orientated film earlier this year JAI GANGAAJAL. Not only are both films heroine orientated and almost ditto at the box office for the first four days but they both had directors (Prakash Kha and Anurag Kashyap) as the other main actors after the heroines. They also have similar costs. JAI GANGAAJAL did final business of 32.50 crore nett apprx. Below is first weekend business of AKIRA.
Friday - 4,75,00,000
Saturday - 5,00,00,000
Sunday - 6,25,00,000
Monday - 2,75,00,000 apprx
TOTAL - 18,75,00,000 

The first week business of the film should be in the 25 crore nett region. The Overseas business of the film is so so and in US/Canada the film had to be released under a different name NAAM HAI AKIRA probably due to copyright issues. The film grossed $165,000 there over a four day weekend.