Bollywood’s Diwali release ‘Thama’ has started making waves as soon as it reached the theatres. This film of Ayushmann Khurrana and Rashmika Mandanna was also expected to be the next big film of the horror universe. The teaser and trailer of ‘Thama’ received positive response from the public. The songs also became popular but the speed of advance booking was slower than expected, which caused some tension to the film trade. But as soon as it reached the theaters on Tuesday, it surprised with a big bang. In fact, it was also told that it is going to create havoc in theatres.
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About 80 thousand tickets of ‘Thama’ were booked in advance in national chains. It was estimated that it would earn between Rs 15 crore to Rs 18 crore on the first day. But the surprise was that there was a lot of spot booking of the film and there were a lot of walk-in audiences in the theatres. The craze for ‘Thama’ was so visible in this crowd in the afternoon that the trade experts were surprised.
Sacknilk’s estimates say that ‘Thama’ has collected a net collection of around Rs 24 crore at the box office on the first day. When official information comes out from the makers, this figure may appear a little bigger. This is a much bigger opening collection than the expectations.
Biggest opening of Ayushmann’s career
The biggest opening in the career of ‘Thama’ star Ayushmann came from ‘Dream Girl 2’. It collected Rs 10.69 crore at the box office on the first day. Now ‘Thama’ has made more than double its opening with Rs 24 crores. Now ‘Thama’ is the biggest opening film in Ayushmann’s career.
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Rashmika’s smallest Bollywood opening
‘Thama’ is also a proof of how strong the Hindi film career of Rashmika Mandanna, who came to Bollywood from South, is going on. Rashmika’s Bollywood debut was a flop. The lifetime collection of her first film ‘Good Bye’ (2022) with Amitabh Bachchan also could not reach Rs 10 crore. But after this Rashmika has worked in three Bollywood films – Animal, Chhava and Sikandar.
The opening collection of all these three films has been more than Rs 25 crore. Of these, ‘Animal’ is the biggest opening film of his career with Rs 63.80 crore. Whereas her ‘Sikander’ with Salman Khan was a flop despite opening more than Rs 27 crores. ‘Thama’ is Rashmika’s first Bollywood film in the last 3 years whose opening collection is less than 25 crores.
horror universe biggest opening of
Maddock Films’ horror universe started with ‘Stree’ in 2018, which was the biggest surprise hit of that year. Since then this universe has been a continuous hit. ‘Stree 2’ released last year is the biggest opening film in this universe. ‘Thama’ has captured the second position as soon as it came. The opening collection of horror universe films is like this:
1. Stree 2 (2024) – Rs 55.40 crore
2. Thama (2025) – Rs 24 crore*
3. Bhediya (2022) – 7.48 crores
4. Stree (2018) – 6.82 crores
5. Munjya (2024) – 4.21 crores
The strong start of ‘Thama’ shows that its positive word of mouth has started forming among the public. The festive atmosphere that has been going on since the beginning of this week will work in favor of the film and it will remain solid in the middle of the week as well. Now all eyes will be on how much the strength of ‘Thama’ remains intact in the future.
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