Sui Dhaaga box office day 1: Varun Dhawan, Anushka Sharma’s film drives a needle through Pataakha, makes ₹8.3 crore

Sui Dhaaga, the new film starring Varun Dhawan and Anushka Sharma as a small-town couple, is off to a good start at the box office. According to trade analyst Taran Adarsh, the film opened to a healthy ₹8.3 crore on Friday.

Adarsh theorised that the Asia Cup final could have dented the film’s box office, but predicted that the film would show a big jump over the weekend and continue to do well till October 2, Gandhi Jayanti.

The ₹8.3 crore opening day gross is better than actors Varun Dhawan and Anushka Sharma’s last starring efforts. Varun’s previous film, October, had opened to ₹4.2 crore and Anushka’s home production, Pari, opened to ₹4.36 crore.

However, Varun’s box office pull remains strong. He has appeared in blockbusters such as Badrinath Ki Dulhaniya and Judwaa 2. Meanwhile, Anushka’s last role was in Sanju, which has made over ₹500 crore worldwide.

In other news, Stree, starring Rajkummar Rao and Shraddha Kapoor, continued its unbelievable run, despite competition and a loss of screens. The film has made ₹123 crore so far. This weekend’s other release, director Vishal Bhardwaj’s Pataakha, starring Radhika Madan and Sanya Malhotra, opened to ₹90 lakhs on Friday in approximately 875 screens. By comparison, Sui Dhaaga had released in 2500 screens.

Reviews for both Pataakha and Sui Dhaaga have been mixed-to-positive. The Hindustan Times, awarding Pataakha four stars out of five, called the film, ‘colourful, noisy and dazzling’. And giving Sui Dhaaga two stars out of five, the HT review noted that the film ‘feels machine-made.’

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