The highly anticipated Hindi movie of the year Mission Mangal was released on Independence Day amid the huge excitement of fans. As expected this Hindi drama got succeed to impress viewers and took a massive start at the box office. Next day, it faced a decent drop in footfalls but picked up again on its third day.
Akshay Kumar, Vidya Balan, Taapsee Pannu, Nithya Menen, Kirti Kulhari, Sharman Joshi and Sonakshi Sinha starrer Mission Mangal has successfully received golden reviews from the critics as well as the audience. As a result, it has gained a positive word of mouth nationwide and leading ahead of adjacent release John Abraham’s Batla House.
On the first day, Jagan Shakti’s directorial opened on an excellent note in the morning due to high initial buzz & a national holiday. Over the evening & night shows, it recorded a healthy growth in multiplexes and registered the second highest opening of the year so far with 29.16 crores.
With such a tremendous opening, Mission Mangal has also become the biggest opener for Akshay Kumar after broke the record of his last year’s offering Gold (25.25 crores). Next day i.e. Friday, the film witnessed a drop of 40.75% and bagged the amount of 17.28 crores.
On Saturday, Fox Star Studios’ presentation picked up again and raked the business of 23.58 crores at the domestic box office. After 3 days, the total domestic collection of Mission Mangal has become 70.02 crores nett from 3100 screens. As per the current trend, it is likely to rake around 94+ crores in the 4-days extended opening weekend.