LIGER had an average opening day in Hindi as it collected 4.50 crore nett on Friday adding to the 1.25 crore nett it had collected on paid previews on Thursday. The collections on paid previews were pretty good in terms of occupancy. But if it was not held, the film could have had a better first day as reports spill out to the first day.

Still the first day is pretty good for a film with no face value but the film came with a lot of heavy promotion and hype created in the Hindi circuits by Dharma Productions. That is probably the main reason the film has got some fair numbers and a genre like this allows this to happen. The film would have had much lower numbers were it not for the hype created.

The film has done better in Maharashtra, CP Berar, Bihar and Odisha but North India in parts is also pretty reasonable despite no face value. The film could have done much better in Gujarat and the Gujarat numbers have kept the Mumbai circuit down. Gujarat/Saurashtra is only 30 lakhs nett for the film which is less than East Punjab when it should be much higher.

The film is sitting with around 5.75 crore nett in two days which is a pretty good number but the film will struggle for trajectory. Then there is the big India v Pakistan match on Sunday which will dent growth on Sunday when the film could have put another decent number.