Shamshera has been an unmitigated box office flop. Its dismal start of failing to breach even the Rs. 10 crores mark has left everyone surprised and disappointed, for a film of this grandeur, caliber and cast was expected to draw better response. The situation was further exacerbated when critics and viewers alike began to show apathy towards the film, with almost negligible turnout despite a 4000+ screen release – which was more a sign of avoidance rather than outright rejection. It was clear as day that this movie was failing miserably.
Consequently, everyone kept a close watch on Saturday to observe if there would be any sort of astounding turnout at the theatres. An outstanding turnout would have been any leap of no less than 50%, however that would have been insignificant in the present state of affairs, considering the budget of Shamshera. However, Bollywood relies to a great extent on hope, which was entirely annihilated when the collections barely touched the Rs. 10.50 crores benchmark. These collections are extremely inadequate for the Karan Malhotra directed film, which is among the costliest ever in Bollywood.
It’s not a surprise that the movie has earned Rs. 20.75 crores. Everyone is trying to figure out if it can make it to Rs. 30 crores by the end of the weekend. This doesn’t look very likely since the film Samrat Prithviraj opened to the same amount and only ended up making Rs. 39.40 crores. Shamshera may not even reach that mark, it looks like it is a long way off.
