After witnessing almost a five months drought, viewers will get to watch Akshay Kumar starrer “Bell Bottom” in theatres. Amidst the OTT releases, Khiladi Kumar’s movie is paving the way as it’s breaking all the odds and getting a theatrical release. Undoubtedly, for the past consecutive months, no Bollywood film was getting released on the big screens but the wait is over as the highly anticipated film featuring the biggest star has arrived. It has already been premiered on 19th August 2021 and getting positive responses from the audience as well. Let’s check its first-day box office collection.
Directed by Ranjit Tiwari, the 2021 action thriller film shows the story of an undercover agent named Bell Bottom who indulges in a mission where he has to save a total of 210 hostages who have been held by hijackers. Besides, Akshay Kumar, the movie features Huma Qureshi, Vani Kapoor, Lara Dutta, Jitendra Rai, Neelam Bakshi, Anirudh Dave in important characters. Earlier the first look and posters have garnered huge attention from the viewers where they have praised the different looks of the actors while the teaser and trailer also attracted plenty of viewers.
Bell Bottom Total Collection
Despite being released in theatres, the film will only get 50% occupancy. This will surely affect the box office collection. Though the film has started on a good note as going by the report of Box Office India, the spy thriller movie has sold almost 8,250 tickets on the first day and did an impressive business of 17 lakh while 11,500 have already been sold out for the weekends giving the film a collection of 24 lakh. However, getting smaller theatre releases where only 50% occupancy will be seen, the movie will also get fewer screens. Talking about the total screens, the movie will be releasing on 800 plus screens.
It is not the exact figure, as the said figure may also rise to 900 with Delhi NCR ruling with almost 125 screens. Presently, Bell Bottom has been a lot better than the previously released film “Roohi”, and “Mumbai Saga” as they could only manage to collect 60-65 lakh business. Speaking of the movie releasing on fewer screens, superstar Akshay Kumar stated that the entire cast and crew are feeling the pressure to find out the response of the audiences. The actor added that it was definitely a risk to release the film in the theatres but without taking risks, you can not achieve big. Well, let’s see how much the thriller movie can collect in the upcoming days.
