'Thugs of Hindostan' tanks: Biggest day-1 grosser becomes 'biggest shocker'

The star-studded cast of Amitabh Bachchan, Aamir Khan, Katrina Kaif couldn't help pull people to the cinemas. The film minted Rs 1.33 bn in 5 days, which is way behind the Rs 3 bn budget of the film

The combination of Aamir Khan, Amitabh Bachchan and Katrina Kaif hasn't helped Thugs of Hindostan garner box office numbers after the first day. After minting a record Rs 500 million on Day 1, the multistarrer's fortunes have been in a free fall as it collected just above Rs 1.33 billion in the first five days after release.

By the time the weekend was over, the movie seemed to have gone out of favour with the audience as it struggled to notch up even a tenth of its Day 1 figures on Monday and Tuesday.

Bollywood analyst Taran Adarsh summed up the box office figures as follows:

Hindi:

Thursday: Rs 507.5 million

Friday: Rs 282.5 million

Saturday: Rs 227.5 million

 Sunday: Rs 172.5 million 

Monday: Rs 55 million

Tuesday: Rs 43.5 million 

Total: Rs 1.28 billion

Tamil + Telugu collection for five days: Rs 49 million

Grand total: Rs 1.33 billion

Adarsh called the movie the biggest shocker of the year in a tweet.

Trailer of the 'shocker'

Here's how news agency ANI had reviewed the movie's trailer:

The trailer of Vijay Krishna Acharya's "Thugs Of Hindostan" turns out to be much ado about nothing, except Aamir Khan.

The trailer opens with an interesting interlude where the mighty (Amitabh) Bachchan baritone which resonates across a skyline clearly painted with the same colours as "The Pirates Of Caribbean".

Bachchan is a pirate from the "Lagaan" era and among his rugged band of thugs is Fatima Sana Shaikh who looks determined to prove "Dangal" was no flash in the pan. But Katrina Kaif is happy with the status quo. She poses and preens as though she had walked into the "Chikni chameli" sets again.

Clearly then, the girls have very little to do in this 'maara-maari-thon'. How can they? This is an Aamir Khan film. He takes over the trailer after 30 seconds. He is the ruffian mercenary whom the horrid British colonialists want to use to tame the mutinous Bachchan.

The Khan-Bachchan confrontations may be interesting. But it all depends on how much punch the screen-printed hogging Khan packs in.

Going by the trailer, "Thugs Of Hindostan" looks like a spectacle of sound and fury signifying a shift towards a powered periodicity that boasts of many appropriations. The background score sounds like "Dhoom" remixed -- and little 'Depp'.

Free fall

On its opening day, the action-adventure film had witnessed a massive box office opening and had shattered many box office records, with being the first film in Bollywood to cross the Rs 500-million mark on day one. However, on the second day, it saw a major drop and failed to maintain the numbers minting just Rs 282.5 million.

'Thugs of Hindostan' is based on Philip Meadows Taylor's 1839 novel 'Confessions of a Thug' and is about a gang which posed a serious challenge to the British Empire in India during the early 19th century.

The film, which also features Fatima Sana Shaikh, Jackie Shroff, Katrina Kaif released on November 8.