Emergency Box Office Collection Day 1: Kangana Ranaut scores her biggest opening in 5 years with maiden solo directorial
Kangana Ranaut’s long-awaited debut solo film made its release this Friday.
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Emergency Box Office Collection Day 1: Kangana Ranaut’s long-awaited debut solo film made its release this Friday. According to Sacnilk, the movie did not perform well but managed to give Kangana her biggest release in five years after the pandemic.
Emergency closed at 2.35 crore on Friday. But, compared to Kangana’s other releases in the past 5 years, the movie opens with the most. Kangana’s earlier movie, Sarvesh Mewara’s action film Tejas (2023), made 1.25 crore on the first day in India. Rajneesh Ghai’s action film Dhaakad (2022) earned 1.20 crore on the first day.
A week earlier, a similar political biopic – AL Vijay’s Thalaivii (2021) – which follows the late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa, grossed 1.46 crore on opening day in all three languages – Tamil, Telugu and Hindi. The biggest release she had before Emergency was in January 2020, right before the pandemic closed down theatres. Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari’s sports drama Panga made 2.70 crore on its opening night.
The political drama, in which Kangana Ranaut portrays the former prime minister Indira Gandhi, chronicles 21 months of Emergency from 1975-77. Emergency, embroiled in a legal battle over its censor certificate and charges that it misrepresents Sikhs, came out nationally on Friday after a number of delays.
Last August, the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee’s (SGPC) lawyers filed a lawsuit against the film’s producers, claiming it "misrepresented" Sikh identity and heritage and demanding they remove unflattering scenes featuring "anti-Sikh" language. SGPC leader Harjinder Singh Dhami wrote on Thursday to Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, asking him to ban the film, which hit theatres across the country on Friday. Almost every movie theatre in Ludhiana, Amritsar, Patiala and Bathinda was showing Emergency as members of SGPC protested against the film. Police were stationed outside the state’s malls and movie theatres.
