MUMBAI: Prabhas and Pooja Hegde starrer ‘Radhe Shyam’ opening day was a mixed bag, though the performance, on the whole, was underwhelming. It grossed Rs. 42 crores approx on Friday, earning Rs. 29.50 crores approx share, which is less than half of what Saaho (Rs. 86.35 crores) opened to in 2019. The opening day numbers are ninth/tenth highest ever for a South Indian movie and twentieth/twenty-first overall depending on whether the actuals land over or under Master (Rs. 42.10 crores).

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 Now, this was mostly expected, with the film being a love-story devoid of commercial elements like action and set in a retro Europe setting which is a downer outside the urban centres. The trailers of the film were dull and the songs didn’t really work. The numbers came in Telugu-speaking hotpots due to the clout of Prabhas.

Radhe Shyam struggled in North India, with the opening day of the film being just 20 percent of Saaho. A similar case was in Tamil Nadu and Kerala, where the film only earned Rs. 1.10-1.25 crore, with a large chunk of it coming for the Telugu version in Chennai city.

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The overseas numbers of the film are still being compiled but are expected to be around $2.5-2.75 million, with $1.40 million coming from North America and $150K in Australia. That will put the worldwide total at around Rs. 61-63 crores at the end of Friday.

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