Rangoon Monday Box Office Collections

Vishal Bhardwaj’s Rangoon is a monumental disaster at the box office, the likes of which even the all-time biggest loser ‘Bombay Velvet’ did not see. The Anurag Kashyap film, which also received a disastrously poor response, managed to hold on above the 2 crore mark on Monday.

Rangoon never took off on Friday, but managed to slide down the hill over the weekend and eventually crashed out. We had to re-check the collections at several centres, because the collections at some was in triple digits for the day i.e less than thousand rupees for a film running on 4-5 shows.

The theatre we tweeted about yesterday, ended up collecting just 2,730 on Monday, with occupancy of 42 people at a theatre that had capacity to hold 1520 people over 5 shows.

#Rangoon Figures from one theatre (in Rupees): Friday 21570, Saturday 11450, Sunday 9670. Monday (2 shows) 660. Total 43650 (9% occupancy)

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Shows were cancelled and reduced at multiplexes yesterday, the older releases like Jolly LLB 2 and The Ghazi Attack had higher occupancy on lower number of shows. The occupancy today has gone further down by around 20% until noon at centres that we tracked.

There has been debate on the internet that films like ‘Rangoon’ should be made for the industry to progress, but the reality is, making a film like ‘Rangoon’ is like theatre-artists performing for a play in front of zero audience. It’s pointless. Progress is only made when the audience is willing to accept a certain filmmaker’s vision.

It’s not like off-beat films aren’t working. Pink was a major box office hit, growing after a slow start and managing to win over both the audience and critics. The reason being, Shoojit Sircar films (even though he wasn’t the director) are liked, they have an audience and it’s growing with each new film too. Here, it’s a case of audience not liking a director’s film. Vishal Bhardwaj never had an audience, he never will. Not on TV, not in theatres. Atleast not the kind of audience that is needed to recover the money that gets poured into his films.

Rangoon will finish with lifetime business of less than 20 crore. The recovery from theatrical business (share) for Viacom18 will be less than what they spent on marketing the film. The cost of production, including the actor-director fee won’t be recovered – giving the banner losses that could extend well beyond Rs 50 crore.

Rangoon Box Office Collections till date

• Friday - 4.9 crore
• Saturday - 4.75 crore
• Sunday - 4.3 crore
• Monday – 1.3 crore
• Total – 15.25 crore