‘MOM’ and ‘Guest Iin London’ have a low start at the box office

Yesterday, two movies clashed in theatres, Sridevi-starrer ‘MOM’ and Paresh Rawal-starrer ‘Guest Iin London‘. None of the movies managed a good start at the box office.

Talking about ‘MOM’, the movie registered a low opening of Rs 3 crore nett which is low, but these numbers are better than Sridevi’s last release ‘English Vinglish’ which had an opening of Rs 2.25 crore nett in the year 2012. In fact, this year’s hit movie ‘Hindi Medium’ starring Irrfan Khan in the lead role, had a similar opening, but picked up really well later on and emerged to be a superhit at the box office. So, the opening collection of ‘MOM’ is still better than that of ‘Hindi Medium’ as that movie had tax exemption in Maharashtra from the first day itself. The movie should show a good amount of growth on Saturday, but the growth needs to be really high for the weekend to sustain.

The other release ‘Guest Iin London’ had a lower opening of Rs 1.25 crore nett, which is less than that of ‘MOM’. However, the movie managed to perform better than ‘MOM’ in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar regions due to a wider release there. The movie should show some amount of growth on weekend, but it will be really tough for the movie to march ahead of ‘MOM’ and that is going to be a loss for the movie. (Also Read: Wow! Sridevi-starrer ‘MOM’ gets the widest release in Pakistan)

Clearly, ‘MOM’ showed a better opening than ‘Guest Iin London’, but if we combine the gross opening day business of both movies together, then it is around Rs 4.25 crore nett and that’s not really a good number for Bollywood.

Prajakta Ajgaonkar

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