Jolly LLB 3 box office:
Akshay Kumar and Arshad Warsi starrer courtroom-comedy Jolly LLB 3 is faring well at the box office. The Subhash Kapoor directorial opened at Rs 12.75 crore on Friday and its collections jumped by 56 per cent to Rs 20 crore the next day. It’s total collection now stands at Rs 32.75 crore.
The film, the third in the Jolly LLB series which started in 2013, sees Arshad and Akshay, who played the protagonists in the previous two films respectively, try to one-up each other and finally come together to fight against a land-grabbing conglomerate. It also features Saurabh Shukla, Huma Qureshi, Amrita Rao and Gajraj Rao.
On the second day, when it comes to theatre occupancy, Bengaluru led with 46.5 per cent, followed by National Capital Region (NCR) at 45 per cent and Chennai at 44.5 per cent. Mumbai’s theatres were about 38.5 per cent full.
Since it was a weekend, night shows had most number of takers with occupancy at 55.1 per cent, followed by evening shows at 40.74 per cent, afternoon shows (32.38 per cent) and morning shows 13.65 per cent.
Jolly LLB 3 has had a similar two-day collection like its 2017 predecessor Jolly LLB 2. The sequel had made Rs 30.51 crore in two days. Jolly LLB 3 released alongside Anurag Kashyap’s crime-comedy Nishaanchi which is trailing way behind at Rs 55 lakh.
The courtroom-comedy has been produced by Alok Jain, Ajit Andhare and co-produced by Naren Kumar, Dimple Kharbanda. It was released in theatres on September 19.
CE’s review of the film reads, “The third outing in the franchise might be the most urgent and also questioning amidst a sea of either neutral or prostrating mainstream films. We hear about protesting farmers “reaching Delhi” and a certain “VM” hiding in London. Words like “superpower”, “fastest-growing economy” and “vikas (development)” slip into dialogues. The film is inspired by the 2011 farmers’ uprising in Uttar Pradesh against the corporates trying to take over land chiefly in the villages of Bhatta and Parsaul.”
