YODHA fell 55% on Monday which was likely due to the weekend trajectory. The film collected 1.75 crore nett apprx taking the four day total to 18 crore nett which will lead to a first week of 22-23 crore nett. The Monday cements its fate but the issue is not really the Monday but the Friday which did not really give it much chance. The genre is a Friday one and not a Monday one.

The industry has so far seen maybe 8-9 releases this year and two films have been based around airplanes. There is another one come at the end of the month which will mean 3 airplane based films out of the dozen or so main releases in the first quarter.

It is difficult to remember a plane based HIT film. GUMNAAM (1965) comes to mind but that was an era when films based on anything were done in the commercial potboiler way and filled with the commercial elements. It is probably coincidence that these films are all coming at the same time but today films have to go raw and rustic and setting them around airplanes will hardly allow movies to have that rawness which can penetrate in the circuits.

The overseas business of YODHA was a little better than India considering the genre as it did $900k plus. If the film does $1.5 million plus, that would be respectable considering the numbers in India.

The collections of YODHA for three days are as follows.

Friday - 4,00,00,000 apprx

Saturday - 5,50,00,000 apprx

Sunday - 6,75,00,000 apprx

Monday - 1,75,00,000 apprx