FAST & FURIOUS 9 had a decent four day weekend of 8 crore nett. The film was let down by business in the bigger cities like Delhi, Bangalore, Kolkata and Hyderabad but in many other cities it has managed to do better than SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS especially the B centres. The problem is that piracy has hit the English version while dubbed versions have performed better. 

On Sunday, the film comfortably beat SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS in Gujarat with a 70+ lakh total as against the 50+ lakh of SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS. The film had a bigger Mumbai circuit total than Delhi/UP on Sunday despite Maharashtra not being in play. The film also collected better than SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS in many cities of Punjab on Sunday though the final circuit total may finish a little lower due to the huge gap in Gurgaon.

Basically the film has performed in pockets be it smaller centres in South and pockets of the Hindi belt. The metros have not collected well which is where Hollywood normally scores. Dubbed versions have scored over the English version. If this film released in early August it would have scored a higher weekend than SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS in India.

The first weekend numbers of FAST & FURIOUS 9 are as follows.

Thursday - 2,00,00,000 apprx

Friday - 1,50,00,000 apprx

Saturday - 1,75,00,000 apprx

Sunday - 2,75,00,000 apprx

SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS could not grow much on Saturday as it collected around 3.50 crore nett. The growth should have been more but its not a huge surprise as 50% of the business is coming from South markets compared to the normal 30% and markets like Nizam/Andhra and Tamil Nadu where it opened best do not grow much.

Yet, the collections in South still remain good while Delhi NCR is also pretty good and showed good growth. Overall the film has done well over the first two days. The core Hindi circuits like Rajasthan, CP Berar, CI and Bihar have limited collections but this is the norm for Hollywood barring some of the event blockbusters. On top of that, these markets are struggling at the moment. The two day numbers are 6.50 crore nett and hopefully it will show better growth on Sunday.

Friday - 3,00,00,000 apprx

Saturday - 3,50,00,000 apprx

FAST & FURIOUS 9 is doing decent business despite a pirated copy being readily available. The film showed decent growth to go to 1.75 crore nett plus on Saturday. The film is doing better business than SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS in some circuits like Gujarat, CP, CI, Rajastan and Bihar. But the contributions from these places is minimal so it does not make much difference to overall picture.

The three day numbers of FAST & FURIOUS 9 are as follows.

Thursday - 2,00,00,000 apprx

Friday - 1,50,00,000 apprx

Saturday - 1,75,00,000 apprx

FAST & FURIOUS 9 has had a decent first day in the range of 2 crore nett. This is not bad considering the film is available on the net with a HD version for weeks now. The film has released without Maharashtra and it may have been better to release the film in early August when piracy would have been less. Its pretty certain the film may have been able to better business especially over the week due to a larger audience which had not seen the film.

SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS has opened very well and at the moment is heading for the best opening day since cinemas reopened in late July. The film has been released on 900 plus sites which is just a little less than BELLBOTTOM. The collections of FAST & FURIOUS 9 was advance driven and on the slower side on the day and here SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS has a far bigger advance and it is on the day audience which can keep the collections lower than BELLBOTTOM.

On a normal scenario this film would be flying past BELLBOTTOM and going towards the 5 crore nett but post the pandemic the big Hollywood releases seem to have a trend that much of the initial audience buys tickets in advance. Wherever the film lands its going to be a very good collection and that too with Mumbai and Pune not there and also South not firing like it could.

There was a Hindi release FAACTORY but that will not do much as does not have much of release with only Gujarat showing some showcasing. The film has released on around just over 100 screens with half of them in Gujarat. 

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FAST & FURIOUS 9 saw a drop in collections on day two probably because of the release of SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS. Still considering the film has released on digital across the world and India has a pirated version the collections are pretty healthy for this present scenario and exhibitors will be happy with response.

The two day numbers of FAST & FURIOUS 9 are as follows.

Thursday - 2,00,00,000

Friday - 1,50,00,000