PUAADA has done very well in week one as it collected a little under 4 crore nett in its eight day first week and this has come from just 60 odd cinemas and it started day one with just 50. The drop was there on Thursday because of the release of BELLBOTTOM but the film has found appreciation and will continue to its rock steady run again. 

The collections in the four main cities (Chandigarh, Ludhiana, Amritsar and Jalandhar) are simply outstanding despite some cinemas being shut. The first week numbers are far higher than anything released post the pandemic and even higher than any film released in 2020 in some of the multiplexes in these cities. The key PVR property in Mohali is now coming into play from today which is the highest collecting cinema for Punjabi films. The SRS chain which went bankrupt will have its Ludhiana property started up again by another party and this reflects how the film has got the market going again in Punjab.

The nett collections of PUAADA in India are as follows.

Thursday - 51,00,000

Friday - 46,00,000

Saturday - 70,00,000

Sunday - 83,00,000

Monday - 40,00,000

Tuesday - 38,00,000

Wednesday - 36,00,000

Thursday - 25,00,000

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PUAADA put up fantastic first week numbers in Punjab and extraordinary numbers in the four big cities. The public came out pretty much as normal for the comedy entertainer though the occupancy rule and limited release held back numbers but no doubt it will make some ground over the coming weeks. 

The audience has come out in good numbers though collections may only be what the box office allows but at the end of the day the film is running strongly. PUAADA was even getting more footfalls than BELLBOTTOM on Thursday in most cities of Punjab even though it was day eight. The collections may have been less but that is down to higher ticket rates for BELLBOTTOM due to 3D. 

The four big centres did extremely well but the best performance actually came at Cinepolis Mittal in Bhatinda which collected a huge 12.03 lakh in just five and a half days as it started Saturday afternoon. There were 12 cinemas in total which crossed 10 lakhs nett which is huge for the present time.

 

The film did not get a release in many of non national chain multiplexes of the state and most of these would have shown outstanding collections. A core Punjabi film loving centre like Moga did not even see a release. The film has got the Punjab market going and now even centres in Himachal Pradesh like Solan, Kullu, Surendranagar, Hamirpur etc will start with the film this week.

The figures of PUAADA from the four biggest cities of Punjab are as follows.

PVR MBD - 14,87,635

PVR Curo - 13,34,388

Sarb - 7,09,077

PVR Silver Arc - 17,40,702

PVR Flamez - 7,39,588

PVR Pavilion - 2,75,676 (3 days)

Cinepolis Neopolis - 18,91,499

Wave Ludhiana - 11,40,496

Nirmal Palace - 1,92,398

PVR SCT - 10,81,808

Inox Amritsar - 12.90,232

Cinepolis Alpha - 13,24,693

Cinepolis Celebration - 6,70,577

PVR Elante - 16,85,241

PVR Centra - 3,17,140

PVR Manimajra - 1,66,747

Cinepolis Mohali - 14,89,455

Cinepolis Jagat - 2,15,653

Piccadilly - 6,11,518