SAIYAARA has seen a huge first day of around 20-20.5 crore nett as East India sees all records of 2025 beaten with West Bengal and Bihar recording unthinkable collections especially considering the film features newcomers. This is also with a release which is much weaker than the top openers of the year like CHHAAVA, SIKANDAR and HOUSEFULL 5.

The performance of the film was generally outstanding all over. Mumbai circuit could have been better looking at the numbers of other circuits but still a 5 crore nett plus total in Mumbai is also fantastic. North and Central are also outstanding especially as these are the circuits where star value is so important but there are none in this film.

SAIYAARA has come out of the blue and could turn out to be a life saver for the industry looking at a way out of the present mess. It shows the huge importance of music and targeting the youth. Not the youth of those 4-5 metro centres but across the country and this is practically staring the industry in the face. Its upto to the industry to see and adjust if better times are to be seen at the box office. There can be all the talk in the world but eventually results like this in desperate times should bring the change.

If this is not going to get the production sector going, then nothing well and it also shows if the film is right, then theatrical itself will do the job. Its about theatrical and music and then the rest will take care of itself.

The film opened to such great numbers on Friday morning that the corresponding numbers on Saturday morning are less but this happens when a film actually opens well. It was pretty much with every other film till the last 10-15 years when the shift happened as films started working from Saturday. Although collections are less as compared to Friday morning, it will eventually make up ground through the day and maybe come up to the Friday level or even go a little higher. But it hardly makes much difference as the film has worked and is a HIT already and likely to go higher.