Five days into its run, ‘Prahaar – The Ujjwal Nikam Story’ is looking like a small film that found a midweek pulse. The Rajkummar Rao-led courtroom drama earned ₹3.30 crore net in India on Tuesday, a 65% jump over Monday’s ₹2.00 crore, according to Sacnilk figures cited by The Times of India.
The day-5 arithmetic
Tuesday’s collection pushed the film’s five-day India net total to ₹14.45 crore. India gross stands at ₹17.21 crore, while overseas gross added ₹15 lakh on Day 5 to reach ₹2.30 crore. Combining the two, the worldwide gross is now ₹19.51 crore.
Show count stood at 3,294 on Tuesday, down from 4,133 on opening day. Overall occupancy improved to 24%, the best single-day reading of the run so far. Evening shows led with 41.31% occupancy, followed by afternoon at 36.92% and night at 35.31%, while morning shows lagged at 11.15%. The film logged 147,557 footfalls on Day 5, taking cumulative attendance to 640,409.
- Day 1 (Friday): ₹2.35 crore net, 13% occupancy
- Day 2 (Saturday): ₹3.15 crore, 17%
- Day 3 (Sunday): ₹3.65 crore, 22% — highest single day
- Day 4 (Monday): ₹2.00 crore, 17%
- Day 5 (Tuesday): ₹3.30 crore, 24% — up 65% from Monday
Why the Tuesday lift matters
The weekend shape was conventional: a soft Friday, a stronger Saturday, a Sunday peak, and a sharp Monday correction. Monday fell roughly 45% from Sunday, which is steep but not unusual after a Sunday high. The Tuesday bounce matters because it suggests the Monday decline was not the start of a full collapse.
That said, Tuesday’s ₹3.30 crore is still about 10% below Sunday’s ₹3.65 crore. This is a recovery, not a breakout. The improvement in occupancy—from 13% on Friday to 24% on Tuesday—against a lower show count is the more useful signal: per-show productivity is rising even as the release shrinks. At ₹3.30 crore net across 147,557 ticket buyers, the implied average collection per ticket works out to roughly ₹224 on a net basis, a quick benchmark for how efficiently the current audience converts.
For media planners and entertainment marketers, the metric to watch is not a single Tuesday bump but the second-Friday hold. If exhibitors retain or add shows after a 24% Tuesday, the film has a chance to stabilise. If show counts keep falling, the lifetime India net is likely to remain modest. The overseas contribution—₹2.30 crore gross over five days—is small, so this remains a domestic-led run with little cushion from international markets.
The film, directed by Avinash Arun Dhaware, centres on public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam and his role in cases connected to the 1993 Bombay blasts and the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
Source: The Times of India
