As usual, theaters being flooded with movie-goer and enthusiast. This week’s new release is ‘ Half Girlfriend ’ directed by Mohit Suri and ‘ Hindi Medium ’ directed by Saket Chaudhary , and both films performed averagely. Bahubali is still going strong which also is accounted reason causing low business for new releases.
Half Girlfriend , a romantic drama based on the novel titled by the same name written by Chetan Bhagat, was expected to be a crowd magnet. And also, since it is directed by Mohit Suri , who previously known for directing romantic films like Awarapan, Aashiqui 2 and Ek Villian, collectively raised hope for this film but it performing moderately, opened with 10.27 crores on Friday, 10.63 crores on Saturday, and 11.14crores on Sunday, making a weekend total of 32.04 crores in India.
Irrfan Khan Starrer ‘ Hindi Medium ,’ is a comedy drama, which depicts parent’s struggles to get their children getting the right education. Although, trade pundits didn’t expect to have a record-breaking opening but expected to earn its hit status. Despite being tax-free in Maharastra and Gujrat, the movie earned 2.8 crores on Friday, almost doubling to 4.25crores Saturday, and 5.50 crores on Sunday, making a weekend total of 12.56 crores on the domestic front.
We are yet to see how they perform this week!