Saiyaara box office: It is an upward sail for Mohit Suri’s romantic-drama Saiyaara as it has earned Rs 105.75 crore in four days. The film has already crossed the lifetime collection of Akshay Kumar and Ananya Panday’s Kesari Chapter 2 (Rs 92 crore) and Sunny Deol’s Jaat (Rs 88 crore).
The Ahaan Panday and Aneet Padda starrer opened at the box-office on Day 1 at a whopping Rs 21.5 crore, followed by Rs 26 crore on Day 2. It saw a marginal rise on Sunday as it minted Rs 35.75 crore which dipped a bit on Monday at Rs 22.50 crore (early estimates). It had a 41.87 % Hindi occupancy on Monday with night shows amounting for the maximum of 59.47%.
The film also recorded the highest number of screenings — 1,312 shows — in the Delhi-NCR region, which also reported the highest occupancy. Delhi was closely followed by other major cities like Mumbai, Pune, Bengaluru, and Hyderabad in terms of high turnout.
It will soon take over the lifetime collection of Salman Khan’s Sikandar (Rs 110 crore) and Akshay’s Sky Force (Rs 112 crore).
Saiyaara has achieved these numbers without its lead pair doing any promotions. Mohit claimed that like his 2013 romantic drama Aashiqui 2, starring Aditya Roy Kapur and Shraddha Kapoor, he wanted to keep the pairing of Ahaan and Aneet fresh till the film’s release. While Aditya and Shraddha had appeared in a few films prior to Aashiqui 2, Saiyaara marks Ahaan’s screen debut and Aneet’s first as a lead. Aneet was previously seen in the coming-of-age show Big Girls Don’t Cry last year and in Salaam Venky (2022).
“It was an idea that collectively came forward. My producer Akshaye Widhani and, of course, Aditya Chopra (owner of Yash Raj Films), who has mentored us through this thing, suggested that until the two actors don’t have anything behind them to talk about, the conversation will be filled with questions like ‘Who is the prankster on the set?’ or ‘How is it to work with Mohit Suri?’ It’s all redundant stuff, and I don’t think anyone has any interest in listening to all that,” Mohit said in an interview on the YouTube channel Just Too Filmy.
With Ajay Devgn’s Son of Sardaar 2 shifting its release to August 1 from July 25, Saiyaara will have a free-run at the box office for two more weeks.