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EXCEEDING all expectations and throwing all pre-release predictions out of the window, Ranbir Kapoor and Alia Bhatt starrer Brahmastra: Part One – Shiva has taken a thunderous start at the box office.
The film hit the marquee on September 9 amid relentless calls for a boycott and received a mixed response from critics, with some of them even calling it ‘a kingsized disappointment’. Despite all the negativity coming its way, the film managed to touch the right chord with a major segment of the audience and emerged as the biggest opener post-pandemic for Bollywood.
According to reports, the film racked up a whopping $4.5m at the domestic box office on the first day of its release, which is huge considering the fact that it was a non-holiday release. Out of the total, around $750,000 came from the various dubbed versions of the film that released in the southern part of the country. Now, the movie prides itself on being the biggest opener of 2022 amongst Hindi movies and second highest of 2022 after KGF: Chapter 2.