BALA had good collections in the first week collecting around 69.25 crore nett. The film did have a drop on Wednesday but consolidated well on Thursday as North India showed good growth while the rest collected similar collections to Wednesday

The film has done good to decent business across all multiplexes of India. The single screens are low as the film has nothing for them. The first week collections are around 1 crore nett lower than the last Ayushmann Khurana film DREAM GIRL but the race between the films actually starts on the second Friday and the target is to do better post the first week as that is the path to a higher lifetime total. BALA will emerge a HIT unless there is a huge fall on the second Friday and if it can really sustain it may emerge a SUPER HIT like a CHHICHHORE or DREAM GIRL.

The collections of BALA till date are as follows.
Friday - 9,50,00,000 apprx
Saturday - 15,00,00,000 apprx
Sunday - 17,75,00,000 apprx
Monday - 8,00,00,000 apprx
Tuesday - 9,25,00,000 apprx
Wednesday - 4,75,00,000 apprx
Thursday - 5,00,00,000 apprx

TOTAL - 69,25,00,000 apprx

BALA got the benefit of Guru Nanak Jayanti on Tuesday and showed a 15% jump in collections from Monday. The film collected around 9.25 crore nett which is in the same range as the first day. The five day collections for the film are 59.50 crore nett.

The best jump was in Punjab and Delhi but as the territories also include places like UP, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh, the overall territory jumps were just 20-25%. BALA should easily beat the 70 crore nett figure of DREAM GIRL but it will depend on where the film settles today as there will be a drop in collections. The new release this week MARJAAVAAN is in a different space from BALA so that will not affect much. MARJAAVAAN is for mass centres mainly and BALA is not doing that great there anyway.

The collections of BALA till date are as follows.
Friday - 9,50,00,000 apprx
Saturday - 15,00,00,000 apprx
Sunday - 17,75,00,000 apprx
Monday - 8,00,00,000 apprx
Tuesday - 9,25,00,000 apprx
TOTAL - 59,50,00,000 apprx

BALA held up very well on Monday as it collected around 8 crore nett which is a 15% drop only compared to Friday. The film did get a boost in Delhi and Punjab in the evening due to the holiday today (Tuesday) as collections in both places hardly dropped compared to Friday.

The Monday figure is better than DREAM GIRL which collected around 7.20 crore nett and with a holiday in North on Tuesday it should catch up with DREAM GIRL as its North where the business was less over the weekend. The Monday trend for the film is similar to DREAM GIRL and CHHICHHORE and both these films emerged SUPER HIT films and BALA looks like going the same. The first week should be better than both films due to Guru Nanak Jayanti on Tuesday and then it will be about the crucial second Friday which will tell where the film will go.

The collections of BALA till date are as follows.
Friday - 9,50,00,000 apprx
Saturday - 15,00,00,000 apprx
Sunday - 17,75,00,000 apprx
Monday - 8,00,00,000 apprx
TOTAL - 50,25,00,000 apprx

BALA scored a very good weekend of 42 crore nett with a solid weekend trend. The film started with pretty good collections and made very good gains on Saturday and Sunday especially on the former. The obvious comparison is DREAM GIRL and the collections are a little lower than that film but the real race between these two films is from Monday onward.

BALA has scored better numbers than DREAM GIRL at most of the bigger multiplexes but collections in mass centres and single screens were better for DREAM GIRL. That is not to say that DREAM GIRL did well in mass and single screen, just that it was a little better than BALA though in Gujarat the business of BALA is better. The main difference between BALA and DREAM GIRL is the business in North and Rajasthan where DREAM GIRL was better, the rest sees BALA a little ahead or both in the same range. DREAM GIRL collected 7.20 crore nett on Monday and that is probably the target for BALA.

The collections of BALA for the first weekend are as follows.
Friday - 9,50,00,000 apprx
Saturday - 15,00,00,000 apprx
Sunday - 17,50,00,000 apprx
TOTAL - 42,00,00,000 apprx

BALA had excellent collections of 15 crore nett on day two with growth of nearly 60%. The collections are a little lower than earlier estimates as some cities were closed in UP, Rajasthan and MP due to the Ayodhya decision. It took the biggest hit in Bhopal which was practically all shut on Saturday.

Still the growth is very good and it has 24.50 crore nett total in two days and should emerge a HIT as long as Monday holds. The collections are a little lower than DREAM GIRL but its really about what happens from Monday onwards when comparing the two films. The best growth for the film came in Bangalore and Pune where collections almost doubled while the film could have probably done better in East and East Punjab especially the latter as its a multiplex circuit.

The collections of BALA for the first two days are as follows.
Friday - 9,50,00,000 apprx
Saturday - 15,00,00,000 apprx
TOTAL - 24,50,00,000 apprx