HAQ jumped well on Saturday as it collected over 3.25 crore nett showing growth of around 80% from the previous day. This was a must for the film as day one numbers were low. The two day numbers are around 5.25 crore nett which means a lot of work to do. The next two days are crucial and will tell if the film is to get some sort of run or not.

Last week THE TAJ STORY jumped 35% on Sunday and HAQ needs to do something similar as normal Sunday growth will probably not be good enough.

The collections of HAQ for the first two days are as follows.

Friday - 1,85,00,000

Saturday - 3,35,00,000

THE TAJ STORY continued its good run doubling up on Saturday with business over 1.50 crore nett. Although the film is about the Taj Mahal where you would expect the Delhi / UP market to be best it is Mumbai circuit which is by far the best circuit contributing 45% of the collections. Pune and Thane are very good and so is Gujarat.

THE TAJ STORY maintained well collecting 75-80 lakhs nett on its second Friday. There is a 20% drop from last Friday which is a good hold although you would like to see the same collections as last Friday. That was unlikely as Thursday had already dropped below that number and Friday would see the release of HAQ which is competing for that same multiplex audience. The film has collected around 11.75 crore nett in eight days so far.

HAQ collected 1.85 crore nett on its first day which is low but it did pick up in the evening and night shows and it goes well for Saturday growth. The film did not look like getting to this number in the afternoon as the trend suggested around 1.50 crore nett at that time. The film is going to depend on the main metros with Mumbai, NCR and Bangalore showing best returns on he first day.

The last Emraan Hashmi film, GROUND ZERO, had collected 1.15 crore nett only. So, the film is far better than that and the potential for growth is also much more than that film. Since the film has better collections in metros, the Saturday jump will be there but what made the difference to a film like THE TAJ STORY was that it got a huge jump on Sunday as well as Saturday. Sunday in a way is even more crucial than Saturday today as very few films push higher on Sunday on the first weekend of release.