Box Office: Half Girlfriend & Hindi Medium 2nd Day Collection, Take Jump on Saturday

2 Days Total Collection of Half Girlfriend and Hindi Medium

Despite getting mixed reviews from critics, year’s one of the much awaited romantic drama movie Half Girlfriend registered strong opening at domestic box office on Friday. With the favorable response from fans as well as audience, this offering reported fair jump in it’s footfalls on Saturday.

Arjun Kapoor and Shraddha Kapoor starrer Half Girlfriend has been released this Friday with good excitement and expectations of fans. Unfortunately it got failed to satisfy all the critics but still it is running successfully at box office. Most of the audience liked the movie and showed thumbs up for it.

On the opening day, Mohit Suri’s directorial recorded slow start with only 15-20% of occupancy, but with good acceleration in footfalls from evening shows, it registered the sixth highest opening of the year so far in Hindi cinema with 10.27 crores from 2500 screens.

On the next day i.e. Saturday being weekend, the movie showed limited jump of 3.50% and minted the amount of 10.63 crores. With this, total 2 days domestic collection of Half Girlfriend has become 20.90 crores. As per current trend, it will go past 35 crores by Sunday.

While the adjacent release, Irrfan Khan and Saba Qamar starrer comedy romantic drama Hindi Medium is receiving positive reviews from viewers as well as critics, but not attracting much audience in theaters, as most of them are diverted because of Half Girlfriend and existing Baahubali 2.

On Friday, with 10-15% of occupancy across the country on 1126 screens, it raked the opening business of 2.81 crores. On Saturday due to positive buzz, it witnessed fair jump and collected the amount 4.25 crores to make it’s 2 days domestic total as 7.06 crores.