Maalik box-office: Rajkummar Rao’s massy actioner Maalik has started slow at the box-office as it earned Rs 3.35 crore on its first day, as per Sacnilk. Directed by Pulkit, the film also stars Manushi Chhillar, Saurabh Shukla, Prosenjit Chatterjee, Saurabh Sachdeva and Swanand Kirkire in pivotal roles.

The film saw an overall occupancy of just over 12% on Friday with morning shows amounting to 6.65% and night shows pulling in 21.88%. Rajkummar’s last theatrical release, Bhool Chuk Maaf earned Rs 7 crore on its first day which is double the amount earned by Maalik.

The actioner was released along with Vikrant Massey and Shanaya Kapoor’s romantic-drama Aankhon Ki Gustaakhiyan which earned a miniscule amount of Rs 35 lakhs on Day 1.

In Maalik, Rajkummar plays a dreaded gangster in 1990 Allahabad as he deals with his rivals and fights with a new encounter cop (Prosenjit) who has been called in to kill him. It is produced by Kumar Taurani under the Tips Films banner, along with Jay Shewakramani of Northern Lights Films.

CE’s review of the film reads, “There is little novelty in Maalik. It's just Rajkummar whacking bones and breaking bad. Writer-director Pulkit does the bare minimum in mounting the film. He merely builds on the structure that was already laid by the likes of Mirzapur (2018). If Maalik was a colouring book, Pulkit traces what’s already been drawn.”