THE KASHMIR FILES has scored very well on day one as it collected in the 3.25-3.50 crore nett range which is easily the best number seen for a small release post the pandemic. It has beaten the likes of CHANDIGARH KARE AASHIQUI, BADHAAI DO, BUNTY AUR BABLI 2, SATYAMEVA JAYATE 2, BELLBOTTOM and ROOHI, all of which are far bigger films with far wider releases.

This film was released on around 700 screens plus but till Thursday the release was looking even less and screens were added in the last minute and were also being added on Friday itself. The plus for the film is that it has done good business in circuits like Gujarat and for the first time post the pandemic, it is East Punjab leading the way with excellent collections and the best performing circuit. 

THE KASHMIR FILES has beaten RADHE SHYAM out of sight across North India be it Delhi NCR, Punjab and Haryana though UP is better for RADHE SHYAM as it has a far wider release there as compared to THE KASHMIR FILES. RADHE SHYAM also has more shows in NCR and East Punjab but still THE KASHMIR FILES has far better collections.

THE TASHKENT FILES had opened to 36 lakh nett on day one and this film has done almost ten times the number and is on course to becoming a HIT film. There should be solid growth over the weekend and it is possible that the weekend collections of this film may well come out higher than RADHE SHYAM.

The only thing that can curtail growth is that some multiplexes performed exceedingly well on Friday evening and there is not much room to go higher here on the same respective shows on Saturday and Sunday. But there is good spare capacity in earlier shows to get the growth.