The sequel to the cult classic released amid heavy anticipation. Awarapan 2 worldwide box office collection day 2: Awarapan 2 has released smack in the middle of Emraan Hashmi ’s renaissance, and its effect is showing in the film’s box-office returns. The result is Emraan Hashmi registering the biggest opening of his career as a lead actor, and that too, by quite a margin.
Awarapan 2 set a new record for Emraan Hashmi by grossing over ₹ 8 crore in advance bookings alone. The film minted ₹ 22 crore net ( ₹ 26.20 crore gross) on its release day in India, and ₹ 28 crore worldwide. Awarapan 2 was a rage in tier-2 and tier-3 cities, registering up to 90% occupancy on Friday night shows in many cities. On Saturday, the film registered a huge 50% jump in domestic collections, netting ₹ 33.75 crore and taking its India collections to ₹ 55.75 crore net ( ₹ 67 crore gross) Overseas, the film did not do much, beyond a couple of centres in the Middle East and North America. However, it still managed to bring in over $650K from international territories. This gives the film a worldwide start of over ₹ 73 crore in just two days. Just how big is Awarapan 2’s start can be gauged by the fact that the film surpassed the lifetime collection of part 1 ( ₹ 13 crore) in under a day. On Saturday, Awarapan 2 surpassed the lifetime collections of other Emraan films, including Jannat 2 ( ₹ 66 crore) and Murder 2 ( ₹ 70 crore). Among films led by Emraan, only one now stands ahead of Awarapan 2: Raaz 3 ( ₹ 102 crore). Directed by Nitin Kakkar and produced by Vishesh Bhatt, Awarapan 2 brings back Emraan Hashmi in his iconic role of Shivam Pandit. Awarapan 2 clashed at the box office with Batwara 1947, but easily outperformed it.
This was, by far, the best opening of Emraan’s career. In two days, it has already become one of the highest-grossing films led by Emraan Hashmi. The sequel should easily surpass this by Sunday evening, too. The film also stars Shabana Azmi, Disha Patani, and Suvinder Vicky. The film received mixed to positive reviews, but praise for Emraan Hashmi’s performance and the overall tone.
This enabled the film to have a record-breaking start on Friday, its release day.
