Varun Dhawan, Janhvi Kapoor, Sanya Malhotra and Rohit Saraf starrer romantic-comedy Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari couldn’t pass the Monday test. As per early estimates by Sacnilk.com, the film’s collections dropped to more than half at the start of the week compared to a day before on Sunday from Rs 7.75 crore to Rs 3 crore. The five-day collection of the Shashank Khaitan directorial now stands at Rs 33 crore.
On Monday, Sunny Sanskari… had most number of takers in Kolkata with 24.75 per cent theatre occupancy, followed by Bengaluru at 23.50 per cent, Jaipur at 22.25 per cent and Chennai at 20.75 per cent. Mumbai and National Capital Region (NCR) had 18.25 per cent and 15 per cent occupancy respectively. Night shows had the most number of takers at 24.95 per cent, followed by evening shows at 14.48 per cent, afternoon shows at 14.17 per cent and morning shows at 8.48 per cent.
Sunny Sanskari… is trailing far behind Rishab Shetty’s Kantara: Chapter 1. Even when the latter has witnessed a 50 per cent drop in collection on Monday, the film has still managed to earn Rs 30.5 crore.
Earlier, talking about the two films clashing at the box office, Varun had told PTI, “Gandhi Jayanti and Dussehra is a very big date, two films can really do big business, and they are very different films. I don't know what is the best time (to release a film), I would love to come on a date where no film comes on...” he had said. “Also, how much can you delay it? So, unless you are this very big film, which is made at a budget of Rs 200-300 crores, you can't. We can't dictate terms or we can't find any place. Whatever our distributors felt, Karan (Johar) sir felt, they chose that date. And as actors we are doing our best (to promote the film)," he had added.
Sunny Sanskari… revolves around Sunny (Varun) and Tulsi whose exes: Ananya (Sanya) and Vikram (Rohit) are about to get married. They then decide to crash the wedding and break off the marriage and a comedy of errors ensues.
