DOCTOR G has done reasonably well on day one with collections going to 3.50 crore nett on day one. This is far better than the other releases of Ayushmann Khurana post the pandemic. ANEK was a nothing film so that is a pointless comparison but the film has done around 15-20% better than CHANDIGARH KARE AASHIQUI which was in a similar zone to DOCTOR G.

Obviously 3.50 crore is not a good number but in the context of what is happening at the box office and especially for these type of films where it is a struggle to bring the audience in on this first day number cannot be called bad.  Also there was a push in the evening as in the morning, a 3 crore nett number looked maximum.

Also this number shows that maybe things are slowly improving at the box office. It is not much but a film in the Ayushmann Khurana zone which is only for the A centres has pushed to 3.50 crore nett now and maybe slowly they can go to over 4 crore nett when they have some doses of humour as things improve. The eight week window is here now and its not going to have a huge impact straight away but slowly it should start bringing back some of the audience that these type of films have lost to the streaming habit.

The makers avoided concessional rates and its come out a correct choice as its unlikely this film would have got these sort of numbers on lower rates which can easily be seen by the numbers of films which have gone on lower rates this weekend.

The bigger task post pandemic is that Saturday growth which is how these films used to work before the pandemic. The collections will go up on Saturday but it remains to be seen to what level they go to.