Amitabh Bachchan’s film ‘Jhund’ struggled at the box office on the very first day of its release. The first day collection of the film has not been able to even 10 percent of the total cost of the film. ‘Jhund’ has definitely done better business than Amitabh Bachchan’s last release film ‘Chehre’, but according to Amitabh Bachchan’s films released in theaters in the last 10 years, then the first day collection of the film ‘Jhund’ is average. Much less than . From the year 2012 till now, Amitabh Bachchan’s film which managed to collect the highest on the day of release was ‘Thugs of Hindostan’. The opening of this film was Rs 52.25 crore but considering the cost of the film, the film was a super flop despite doing a box office business of Rs 151.19 crore.
Presented by T-Series and Tandav Films, ‘Jhund’ is the first English cinema release of popular Marathi cinema director Nagraj Manjule. One of his English films ‘Vaikunth’ has recently been released as a part of a film on OTT. Manjule has been raising the issues of marginalized people of the society in his cinema. The film ‘Jhund’ is also the story of some such youths who are taught the meaning of life by a sports coach and tries to get rid of the laughter and form a team for them. Due to lack of innovation in the subject of the film, this film does not seem to be getting the expected success at the box office. Apart from this, the undercurrent of Manjule’s films is also not generally successful in English speaking states. According to the initial figures, the film ‘Jhund’ has earned around 1.5 crores on the first day of release. The film is competing with films like ‘Gangubai Kathiawadi’ and ‘Batman’ at the box office and the film ‘Jhund’ looks weak in this competition too.
Talking about Amitabh Bachchan’s films released in theaters in the last decade, his lowest opening film was ‘Chehre’ during this period. Released on 27 August 2021, the film had collected only Rs 40 lakh on the first day and its total box office collection was only Rs 2.55 crore. During the last 10 years, a total of 16 films including Amitabh Bachchan’s ‘Sholay 3D’ were released in theatres. Out of them, only ‘Piku’ and ‘Badla’ could make it to the list of hits. Deepika Padukone and Irrfan Khan were also with him in the film ‘Piku’ released on 8 May 2015. Due to this, the film managed to take an opening of Rs 5.32 crore. Amitabh Bachchan also received the National Film Award for Best Actor for this film. The film also won National Film Awards for its screenplay and dialogues.
In the last 10 years, Amitabh Bachchan’s second hit film was ‘Badla’. The film released on 8 March 2019 and managed to earn a total of Rs 87.99 crore at the box office while doing a business of Rs 5.04 crore on the first day. Amitabh Bachchan’s film ‘Pink’, which released on 16 September 2016, is counted among the semi-hit films, which earned about Rs 65.39 crore at the box office with an opening of 4.32 crores. Amitabh Bachchan’s two films ‘102 Not Out’ and ‘Bhootnath Returns’ were also considered as average success films in the same period. The film ‘102 Not Out’ earned around Rs 52 crore at the box office and the film ‘Bhootnath Returns’ earned around Rs 40 crore. The names of the films that were declared flops in the films released by Amitabh Bachchan in the last 10 years are ‘Sayera Narasimha Reddy’, ‘Thugs of Hindostan’, ‘Sarkar 3’, ‘Teen’, ‘Wazir’, ‘Shamitabh’. , ‘Sholay 3D’, ‘Mahabharata’, ‘Satyagraha’ and ‘Department’.