Puaada: The Release Date Of Ammy Virk And Sonam Bajwa Starrer Much-Awaited Film Is Here

Box Office India Trade Network

PUAADA recorded good weekend business of 2.50 crore nett with most of this coming from East Punjab. It was a limited release in East Punjab with the release being mainly in the multiplexes of the big four cities (Chandigarh, Ludhiana, Amritsar and Jalandhar). The four cities contributed around 60% of the East Punjab business and all four saw excellent occupancy. 

The release of the film has held back the numbers but this coupled with good occupancy over the weekend should mean good holds over the weekdays. But its obvious a film cannot match the business it can potentially do in 175 theatres on 50 odd theatres. The theatre count did go up from 50 on day one to 59 on day four but that is still well short of normal.

The huge plus is the business from overseas which will come in close to $600K with United Kingdom doing phenomenally well as it collects almost £85k from just 26 theatres. The lifetime numbers in UK should cross £200k which were blockbuster numbers for a Punjabi film before the pandemic. The UK is doing well as far as Coronavirus goes but the theatrical collections have not been too good. PUAADA will be the first film released in the UK be it from any industry to do business how films used to do before the pandemic.

The nett collections of PUAADA in India are as follows.

Thursday
East Punjab - 39,00,000
Delhi/UP - 9,00,000
Rest - 3,00,000
TOTAL - 51,00,000

Friday
East Punjab - 36,00,000
Delhi/UP - 7,50,000
Rest - 2,50,000
TOTAL - 46,00,000 

Saturday
East Punjab - 55,00,000
Delhi / UP - 12,00,000
Rest - 3,00,000
TOTAL - 70,00,000

Sunday
East Punjab - 66,00,000
Delhi / UP - 14,00,000
Rest - 3,00,000
TOTAL - 83,00,000

GRAND TOTAL - 2,50,00,000
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PUAADA has done excellent business in Overseas and if the film did not have restrictions in Canada and Australia had been norma,l it would have easily been the biggest opening for an Ammy Virk starrer. This is huge, considering its the first release post the pandemic.

The film is a record opener for Ammy Virk in the United Kingdom and New Zealand. In the United Kingdom it is the fifth highest opening Punjabi film ever with £84k. Going by the New Zealand numbers you can take Australia fair value to be around at least $175k but it only did $62k due to the country being hit by Covid-19. There were restrictions in Canada and it probably lost $75k there but still managed a huge $275k.

Puaada has grossed $575k across all international markets and this would have been around $750-800k if all was normal. But what Puaada proves is that the audience will return if the content is there as far as the international markets goes, though depending on the Covid-19 situation. If your film is catering mainly to the Australian market and releases now then obviously it will suffer. The film grossed over 7 crore worldwide with over 4 crore coming from Overseas.

Below are the top openers of Ammy Virk in overseas. PUAADA did have four days but if we take three days and assume a normal Australia and Canada release, it would still be the top Ammy Virk opener beating NIKKA ZAILDAAR 2. 

1. Nikka Zaildaar 2 (Sep 17) - $675,000
2. Puaada (Aug 21)  - $575,000
3. Muklawa (May 19) - $555,000
4. Nikka Zaildaar 3 (Sep 19) - $535,000
5. Sufna (Feb 20) - $450,000
6. Kismat (Sep 18) - $425,000