Ranveer Singh's Dhurandhar 2 eyes Rs 2000 crore run, trade calls it a 'tsunami'

Dhurandhar 2 created box office history with huge advance bookings and massive footfall on day 1. Trade analysts compare its craze to Sholay and predict a massive weekend.

Dhurandhar: The Revenge, starring Ranveer Singh, opened to a historic response. From day one, the film has been a box office tsunami, with early estimates suggesting a Rs 100 crore-plus day-one haul. Backed by unprecedented advance bookings and massive footfall during the festive occasion of Ugadi and Gudi Padwa, the film has emerged as one of the biggest openers in Indian cinema.

Speaking to India Today exclusively, trade experts Taran Adarsh and Ramesh Bala share details.

Trade analyst Taran Adarsh described the film’s performance as a rare occurrence in today’s times. “The kind of response that Dhurandhar has garnered, I think, is a rarity in today’s times. It’s a phenomenon. It’s opened to a thunderous response. On day one, the film is a box office tsunami. The paid previews were historic as well,” he said, pointing to the scale of demand across the country.

The film’s momentum was visible well before release, with record-breaking paid previews and exceptional ticket sales. “It has been selling about 107K tickets per hour on BookMyShow - and I think that says it all,” Taran noted, underlining the frenzy surrounding the film’s release - one of the highest hourly ticket sale rates recorded for an Indian film.

Backing this with numbers, Ramesh Bala said, “Worldwide is about Rs 182 crore, and India is about Rs 130 (crore) or so. The paid preview collection was about Rs 40 crore,” underlining the scale of the opening.

Drawing comparisons with landmark cinematic moments, Taran went a step further, likening the craze to that of Sholay. “The craze for that film and the craze for Dhurandhar 2 are now similar. Yes, it’s the modern-day, the present-day Sholay, if you ask me. Because I have seen that era, that’s the reason I am talking about it, and I would say that with social media, of course, it gets multiplied into X number of times.”