Akshay Kumar-headlined ensemble comedy Welcome To The Jungle has had a decent opening at the box office. The Ahmed Khan directorial, which is the third film in the Welcome franchise, made Rs 15.25 crore net in India on Friday, as per Sacnilk.com. The film already made Rs 3.75 crore net in paid previews which opened on Thursday night. The total collection currently stands at Rs 19 crore.
Welcome To The Jungle saw a theatre occupancy of 26.46 per cent across 10,892 shows – with morning shows registered at 11 per cent, afternoon shows at 26.85 per cent, evening shows at 28.85 per cent, and night shows at 39.15 per cent.
The film has opened better than Akshay’s last comedy Bhooth Bangla, which had made Rs 12.25 crore on its opening day. Welcome 3 is currently competing against Imtiaz Ali’s Main Vaapas Aaunga at the box office. It will also be in contest with theatrical releases like Alpha, Dhamaal 4, The Odyssey, and Spider-Man: Brand New Day in the coming weeks.
Raveena Tandon, who is also part of the film, recently reflected on the audience response to it. In an interview with ANI, she said, “Everybody has been calling me (after watching the film). Also, today is my son’s graduation, that’s why I took a day off. I think 26th is a lucky number for me. I’m 26th October born. So, 26th is lucky. Also, we’re getting great reviews of Welcome to the Jungle. I think it’s superb that in such a comedy where everybody is working hard, people are acknowledging the performance, which I think is terrific. What a great day.”
Apart from Akshay and Raveena, Welcome To The Jungle also stars Suniel Shetty, Disha Patani, Jacqueline Fernandez, Arshad Warsi, Jackie Shroff, Paresh Rawal, Lara Dutta, Farida Jalal, Johny Lever, Shreyas Talpade, Tusshar Kapoor, Rajpal Yadav, Krushna Abhishek, Kiku Sharda, Daler Mehndi, Aftab Shivdasani, Mukesh Tiwari, Yashpal Sharma, Kiran Kumar, Zakir Hussain, Vindu Dara Singh and Urvashi Rautela, among others.
Apart from the box office, the film has received mix reviews from critics. CE’s review of the film read: “Welcome To The Jungle is an anything-goes madcap movie which oscillates between funny one-liners and absolute brainrot. It’s a film about the making of a flop film and thus it tries to hide its stupidity behind the garb of meta-ness. It can be silly, absurd and often baffling.”
