Mirzapur The Movie had a bumper start at the box office on Friday and is showing growth on Saturday. Filmmaker Anubhav Sinha has noted the box office success stories of both these releases and posted on his X account. (Also read: Hanuman Ansh, tiny ₹ 2 crore film with no stars, beats Yash’s ₹ 500 crore Toxic at the box office in shock upset ) Meanwhile, in the last week, a tiny film called Hanuman Ansh has taken the box office by storm and outpaced even a big release like Toxic A FairyTale for GrownUps.
Now on its 30th day of release, Hanuman Ansh has so far collected ₹ 94 crore at the box office and will cross the ₹ 100 crore by Sunday. Made on a budget of just ₹ 2 crore, Hanuman Ansh had an inauspicious start at the box office, earning only ₹ 10 lakh on its opening day. The film shattered expectations to open at ₹ 24.75 crore on Friday in India, one of the biggest non-star-led openings ever in Bollywood history. Mirzapur’s opening day has seen it outgross recent sleeper hits such as Saiyaara ( ₹ 22 crore) and Awarapan 2 ( ₹ 21.50 crore).
Well done. Anubhav is a filmmaker who transitioned from early commercial action and romantic movies to acclaimed socio-political dramas. His films include Assi , Bheed, Thappad, Anek and Mulk. But it was after it completed three weeks in theatres that the film began to pick up. Pankaj Tripathi , Ali Fazal, Divyenndu, and Jitendra Kumar headline this film spinoff of the Amazon Prime Video series, Mirzapur. Apart from Ali Fazal, Pankaj Tripathi and Divyenndu, the film introduces Jitendra Kumar, who takes over from Vikrant Massey as Bablu Pandit. Ravi Kishan stars as a new face, while Abhishek Banerjee, Rasika Dugal, Sheeba Chadha, Rajesh Tailang, Shriya Pilgaonkar, Harshita Shekhar Gaur, and Shweta Tripathi reprise their roles from the show.
Taking to X, he said, “Congratulations Team Mirzapur!!!
