WELCOME BACK dropped in third week as it grossed around 3.50 crore nett taking its business to 95.50 crore nett apprx. The drop in week three was a huge 80% plus which left with no chance of reaching 100 crore nett. The best business comparatively has come in Bihar where it will beat bigger all India grossers like TANU WEDS MANU RETURNS and ABCD 2.

HERO had a huge crash in week two grossing around 2.50 crore nett and taking its business to 31.75 crore nett in two weeks. The drop week on week is over 90%. The lifetime business of the film will be around 32 crore nett

WELCOME BACK will gross around 97 crore nett which will put it with SINGHAM (2011) and EK VILLAIN (2011) as these films also missed 100 crore nett by a very short margin. The distributor share of WELCOME BACK will be around 49 crore.

HERO has a had a fair first week of around 30 crore nett but collections came down from Monday onwards. The total is mainly due to the decent weekend collections and due to the drop from Monday the film will not add much in the second week.

The business of the film was pretty good in Mumbai, CP Berar and CI over the weekend but only CP Berar and CI held over the weekdays. The film has done reasonably well in these two circuits. a hold in Mumbai over the weekdays could have made a difference to the film as it represents a large chunk of all India business.

The film failed in North India from day one as Delhi/UP grossed around 6 crore nett and East Punjab was less than 3 crore nett. It remains to be seen how big the second week drop is but its unlikely that the film will gross much more than 35 crore nett.

HERO dropped on Monday especially in the big centres. The drop was less in places like Rajasthan, CI, CP Berar and Bihar where the drop was less than 50% in some of them. The first four day business of HERO is as follows.
Friday - 6,50,00,000
Saturday - 6,50,00,000
Sunday - 7,75,00,000
Monday - 3,00,00,000 apprx
TOTAL - 23,75,00,000

The first week will gross around 30-31 crore nett which is reasonably for this film but only if second week was to sustain which may be hard.

HERO had a decent weekend as it grossed 20.50 crore nett. The film did well in some circuits like Mumbai, Rajasthan, CP Berar, CI and Bihar while underperformed in some others. The first weekend business of HERO is as follows.
Friday - 6,50,00,000
Saturday - 6,50,00,000
Sunday - 7,75,00,000 approx
TOTAL - 20,75,00,000

Monday will decide the fate of the film as it does not have a clear run so it has to hold up on the weekdays to get ample screen time in week two.

HERO had a decent first day as it grossed  around 6.50-6.75 crore nett. The collections were better in the mass circuits with multiplex dominated areas contributing less. The collections in CP Berar, Rajasthan and Bihar were good. Mumbai circuit managed to touch the 2 crore nett mark which is pretty good.

Despite the film having newcomers it has beaten many major films this year in terms of opening day collections but Saturday is crucial as multiplex business has the potential to gain a lot of ground especially in North India. The does not have to show huge gains as the opening is decent but healthy growth would mean a good trend.

The opening day of the film is very similar to HEROPANTI released last year and that film went on to do 50 crore nett plus though it had a good window with no competition.