Bandar had a very slow start at the box office.
It failed to earn even Rs 1 crore on Day 1.
The prison drama marks Bobby Deol and Anurag Kashyap's first project together.
Bandar box office collection: Anurag Kashyap's Bandar (Eng: Monkey in a Cage), starring Bobby Deol as the lead, hit the screens on Friday (June 5), clashing with Varun Dhawan's Hai Jawani Toh Ishq Hona Hai. The gritty drama marks Kashyap and Deol's maiden collaboration. It opened to positive reviews, with critics and audiences hailing Bobby Deol for his outstanding performance. Despite the rave reviews, Bandar took a very slow start at the box office. It failed to even earn Rs 1 crore on Day 1. However, we are hopeful that the positive word of mouth will boost its collections over the weekend and in the coming days.
Bandar box office collection Day 1
According to industry tracker Sacnilk, Bandar raked in only Rs 50 lakh net on its opening day across 1,365 shows with an overall occupancy of 12.58%. Its gross collection stands at Rs 60 lakh.
The morning shows recorded 3.38% occupancy, and saw a rise of 6.31% in the afternoon. It further rose to 11.92% by evening, and 18.08% at night. Region-wise, Delhi-NCR witnessed the highest number of shows at 253, with an occupancy of 9%, followed by Ahmedabad with 106 shows but with an overall occupancy of 6%. In terms of occupancy, Mumbai recorded the highest occupancy at 15.8% across 98 screenings.
The film has performed better than Kashyap's last box office release, Nishaanchi, which had made a gross collection of Rs 25 lakh on Day 1 across 1,785 shows.
An excerpt from Outlook India review of Bandar reads: "It would be easy to interpret the film as an argument about false accusations. Yet Kashyap appears more interested in examining emotional wreckage than making a political statement."
Apart from Bobby, the prison drama also stars Sanya Malhotra, Sapna Pabbi, Saba Azad, Jitendra Joshi, Indrajith Sukumaran, and Raj B. Shetty as the supporting cast.
